[Combat Engr. tossing out a grappling hook to pull barbed wire loose and thereby set off any booby traps before the Bangalore torpedo man go to wire on the wire. 7th Engr. BN., 5th Inf. Div., near Dundrum Co. Down, Nothern Ireland]

[Combat Engr. tossing out a grappling hook to pull barbed wire loose and thereby set off any booby traps before the Bangalore torpedo man go to wire on the wire. 7th Engr. BN., 5th Inf. Div., near Dundrum Co. Down, Nothern Ireland]

Photograph

Lt. Mark A. Freeman

Maker
American, 1912–2005

[Combat Engr. tossing out a grappling hook to pull barbed wire loose and thereby set off any booby traps before the Bangalore torpedo man go to wire on the wire. 7th Engr. BN., 5th Inf. Div., near Dundrum Co. Down, Nothern Ireland]

February 11, 1944
Gelatin silver print
4 × 5 in. (9.9 × 11.7 cm)
Gift of Peter, Nancy, and Stephen Freeman in memory of their father, Mark A. Freeman
Inscriptions Inscribed on negative recto BLC: ETO-HQ-44-1433
Stamped in black ink on verso TLC: 563
Inscribed in black ink on verso TRC: 194
Printed in blue ink on verso LC: ETO-HQ-44-1433 FREEMAN 11 FEB 44 \ COMBAT ENGR. TOSSING OUT A GRAPPLING HOOK \ TO PULL BARBED WIRE LOOSE AND THEREBY SET \ OFF ANY BOOBY TRAPS BEFORE THE BANGALORE \ TORPEDO MENT GO TO WORK ON THE WIRE. \ 7 ENGR. BN., 5 INF. DIV., NEAR DUNDRUM, CO. [line partially redacted and edited with blue grease pencil] \ DOWN, NOTHERN [sic] IRELAND
Stamped in red ink on verso BC: CONFIDENTIAL \ until reclassified by censor.
Stamped in purple ink on verso BC: [all within an oval border] REVIEWED & PASSED AS CENSORED \ UNITED STATES ARMY \ 17 FEB 1944 ....... \ PRESS CENSOR \ ** E.T.O.U.S.A.**
Inscribed in blue grease pencil on verso BC: [illegible initials]
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