Smoke rises from a roadside in France as Army engineers explode German mines in June 1944
U.S. Navy Official photograph, Gift of Charles Ives, from the Collection of The National World War II Museum
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482.Photograph. 'File No: 59412 June 9, 1944 'Sappers' Clear the Way Smoke rises from a roadside in France as Army shore engineers explode Nazi land mines to clear the path for advancing Allied forces racing ahead to extend beachhead holdings.' 9 June 1944
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The Charles Ives Collection consists of 719 photographs from the Pacific Theater of WWII. Many of the photographs were taken between 1944 and 1945. Mr. Ives inherited the photographs from a friend from Marblehead, Massachusetts who served as an aviator in the Army Air Corps and discharged as a Major in 1945.
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France
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46.000
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2.000
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Explosions--France
Roads--France
Trucks--American--France
Mines (Weapons)--France