Mounted motorcycle messenger at signpost, France, 1944
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Photograph. Camouflaged, mounted motorcycle messenger at signpost reading: "Danger/Low Flying Aircraft." Translated German caption from photo reverse: "A Brief Tour of the Invasion Front. (Picture Preview) The way forward is in the sights of low flying aircraft. There is only one way to traverse it: to be more observant than the fighter plane, to use the features of the landscape, to get through open country quickly and carefully, to slip through sunken roads and side roads and to take cover in seconds. 18 exposures with 21 Pictures, Picture 12, Normandy, 12/7/44." Normandy, France. 12 July 1944
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07/12/1944
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Collection consists of 270 photographs from Germany, taken as propaganda photos to demonstrate the might of the German military.
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Motorcycles--German--France