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Description Maginot Linie Public Domain ARC Identifier: 292568 American soldiers standing at battery 8 location that is one of the 75 mm gun batteries of the Hackenberg fortications of the Maginot Line nea Metz France. This battery was used by the Germans to shell the advancing American 3rd Army of General Patton.
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This media is available in the holdings of the National Archives and Records Administration, cataloged under the National Archives Identifier (NAID) 292568.

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This is not block 8. Having just been there it differs from the actual site. It also differs from the picture shown on the Ouvrage Hackenberg site in Wikipedia.

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current13:54, 4 October 2011Thumbnail for version as of 13:54, 4 October 20112,379 × 2,945 (1.23 MB)Cobatforlarger version
10:29, 15 April 2005Thumbnail for version as of 10:29, 15 April 2005487 × 600 (96 KB)MschlindweinMaginot Linie Public Domain Quelle: http://www.archives.gov/research_room/arc/ ARC Identifier: 292568 American soldiers at the Maginot Line , 1944

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