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Tuesday, March 05, 2013

Prepping a Rogers' Raider

Not a minstrel show but a night patrol across the Roer impels Pvt. Ed Diamond of Rogers' Raiders to put on lamp-blacking.  This job's a lot different from his Army studies in engineering at Purdue ASTP.

Photo by Sgt. Reg Kenny

YANK 11 March 1945 Continental Edition
Posted by Dana at 12:52 PM
Labels: War in Europe, War in Germany
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