10-134 Garand Picture of the Day - St. Lo, France again

[Mark in Rochester]

Shell crater in town square of St. Lo is used as a foxhole to provide two American soldiers protection during their advance through Normandy in the days following the Allied D-Day landings.
Location: St. Lo, France
Date taken: July 1944
Photographer: Ralph Morse

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[paul1440]

That was quite a shell! Made the corners very angled, almost as if it was dug by hand.

[duggaboy]

no shell hole I ever saw, and /or slept in like these GI's. the hole had some bigtime help from those guys