• Damage from a mine east of St. Lo, 20 July 1944.
On a small road in the grove. Two 4 x 4 tried to make munitions to a battery. The first vehicle was destroyed by a mine and immediately called the Genie. The second vehicle stopped, waiting for a sapper with the detector, has cleared the road laying that other soldiers squatted dig the ground with their daggers around the truck destroyed.
In the background a convoy stopped on the left side. Many GIs are present including a Medic
Reference page 213 of the book First US Army, Heimdal, 2004.
Didier Lodieu in Dying for Saint-Lô (pages 94 and 95) Histoire & Collection, 2007; makes the following interpretation:
The pitfalls are many on the road to St. Lo, as Germanicon engineers are experts in my field.
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