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Hotel de Nemours
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View across cobblestone street of a military jeep (marked "PRESS") is parked in front of the Hotel de Nemours, Rennes, France. Driving the jeep is Corporal Sidney Levine of Brooklyn, New York and the passenger is Private Fred Davis, Jr. of Pine Bluff, Arkansas. A woman on the sidewalk is standing at an open window behind them. Robert Doyle notes that the hotel had been "taken over by PRO (possibly Public Relations Office) for correspondents." This is where he stayed while in Rennes.
August 28, 1944
Doyle, Robert J., 1914-1995
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