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Soldiers Watching the Sky as Allied and German Planes Fight

63-536
Accession Number
63-536
8x10 inches (21x26 cm)
Black & White
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NAID 348309167
Related Collection
Redding, John M. Papers
Keywords
Fighter plane combat
Soldiers
World War, 1939-1945
HST Keywords
Germany - Cities and Towns - Puffendorf; Germany - World War II - American Soldiers; World War II - General File
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U.S. Army

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Description
Alerted soldiers of M-51 antiaircraft battery are silhouetted against a German sky streaked with vapor trails from Allied and enemy planes engaged in a dog fight. The battery is waiting to fire on an incoming enemy strafer. Left to right: Pvt. Victor R. Philips, Newton. Ill.; Pfc. William Harris, Evening Shade, Arkansas, and Pfc. Roy E. Ridings, Searcy, Arkansas. Near Puffendorf, Germany.
Date(s)
December 25, 1944