Skylighters, The Web Site of the 225th AAA Searchlight Battalion: Photo of the Week -- 14 June 1999

The World War II Photo of the Week
for 14 June 1999

GERMAN POWs (67 K)

POWs on the Run

German POWs run down a road as a Sherman "flail" tank advances outside of St. Lo, France, July 1944 (note the chains mounted on the front of the tank that are visible beneath it; these chains were spun at high speed and "flailed" the roadway in order to explode mines) [NLR-PHOCO-65638(207)]. Picture reproduced courtesy Franklin D. Roosevelt Library (NLR), 511 Albany Post Road, Hyde Park, NY, U. S. National Archives.

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