011besanconxxa copy.jpg Besancon, France

Flower Child circa-1945	An M.P. with a monkey poses north of Vesoul at Pomoy. With the fall of Vesoul on Sept. 12, VI Corps logged 400 miles in less than 28 days since the beachhead landings and positioned a great army at the foothills to the Lower Vosges Mountains. Photo courtesy of Denis Toomey www.dogfacesoldiers.org
"Time Out! This is how I found a fresh egg!"	bh993x.jpg Engineers laying "Burma" road, near St. Die, France
bh992x.jpg Two 3rd Division GI's  admiring ammunition belt of a French resistant, Aix-en-Provence, France. The place is call "la Rothonde". This near the "cours Mirabeau". The French resistant is from the FTP ("Francs Tireurs Partisans").	bh991x.jpg Two Japanese embassy personnel, captured by the 3rd Infantry Division in Germany, being exchanged for the release of General Wainright.
bh101015.jpg	bh990xx.jpg GI's in Winter camouflage gear, advancing in Colmar Pocket, France-January 1945
bh989x.jpg Infantry putting up smoke screen as they're moving forward near Cisterna, Italy	1bh009.jpg Contribution of Joachim von Ribbontrop of the German High Command

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Bill Mauldin Drawings  from the book: 'Up Front'   ©1945 Henry Holt & Co. © 1944 United Feature Syndicate, Inc.	Click Here www.3idstore.com
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