Uncle Chuck 1945 : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Uncle Chuck 1945 / Mike Tewkesbury
| ライセンス | クリエイティブ・コモンズ 表示-改変禁止 2.1 |
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| 説明 | Notice at the top of the photo: Battered Bastard of Bastogne. Six months after the Allied invasion of Europe the American soldiers were somewhere in the Ardennes Forest area of France, near the borders of Belgium and Luxembourg. On 16 December 1944, the Germans launched a counter-offensive with 250,000 men along an 85-mile front pushing 50 miles behind the American lines, thus began the famous Battle of the Bulge. In the middle of this was Uncle Chuck with the US 101st Airborne Division, the Screaming Eagles, whose sector included the town of Bastogne on what proved to be the Southern shoulder of the Bulge. I can only imagine what he experienced as a member of the 101st Airborne Division coming into some of the fiercest fighting of the entire war. I know he was in with a group that was surrounded and ordered to surrender by the Germans. But these guys didn't surrender. Today he is living in Florida. |
| 撮影日 | 2008-05-12 15:12:51 |
| 撮影者 | Mike Tewkesbury |
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