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Soldiers Cutting Barbed Wire
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Two male soldiers wearing fatigues cutting barbed wire during a training exercise at Rio Hato Infantry Artillery School in Panama. The men are on their backs on the grass with barbed wire above and around them. One man is holding a wire cutter and a rifle is on the ground next to him.
1942
Chapelle, Dickey, 1919-1965
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