A soldier digs out a hole in preparation for a telephone cable Engelsdorf, Germany on 5 December 1944
Gift in Memory of Allan Voluck
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A soldier digs out a hole in preparation for a telephone cable. Note that the location has been stricken in the caption. Official caption: "ETO HQ 44 28526 5 Dec. Credit...US Army Signal Corps. Photog-Pvt. G. LaMond 167. Pvt. Myron Suagosa, Patterson, N.J., a Ninth Army signal man, cleans out a furrow near Englesdorf [sic], Germany. A German plow was used to make the furrow, in which a telephone cable from the unit command post to the town will be laid. (D). 29th Sig. Bn., 29th Div., 9th US Army. Confidential." Passed for publication as censored on 8 December 1944; passed for publication without censorship restrictions by SHAEF Field Press Censor on 12 April 1945.
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"1944-12-05"
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Photographs from the service of Allan Voluck, who served as a photographer with the 3908th Signal Service Battalion in Europe.
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Engelsdorf
Latitude:
51.333
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12.483
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Soldiers--American--Germany
Digging--Germany
Mud--Germany