Archival images from the last weeks of World War II, taken by an American Army combat photographer during a push across eastern France into southern Germany
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Three U.S. soldiers sit together on a wall during World War II.

Photographing the Final Days of World War II in Germany

Archival images from the last weeks of World War II, taken by an American Army combat photographer during a push across eastern France into southern Germany

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