Two American servicemen posing in a war-damaged railroad yard, 1945

Gift of Ronello Brown, from the Collection of The National WWII Museum
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Photograph. Technical Sergeant Hogan and Master Sergeant McCarthy posing on the tracks of a war-damaged railroad yard; damaged railroad cars are in the background. Personal caption on reverse: "T/Sgt. Hogan / M/Sgt. McCarthy / Note destroyed railway cars in back ground. / Sept. 1945." Presumably Germany. September 1945

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1945-09-
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Items from the service of Ronello Brown, who fought with the 197th Antiaircraft Automatic Weapons Battalion in Normandy, Northern France, and central Europe. Mr. Brown received the Good Conduct Bronze Star and the French Croix de Guerre.
Geography: 
Deutschland
Latitude: 
51.500
Longitude: 
10.500
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials: 
Soldiers--American--Europe
Railroad shops & yards--Europe