American Soldier Conversing with Small French Girl Traveling
American Soldier Conversing with Small French Girl Traveling

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American Soldier Conversing with Small French Girl Traveling,

1944

Bert Brandt
1995-6
This charming photograph, taken by one of the many Acme photojournalists who supplied American newspapers with images, captures the moment when Private Leon Pawinski of Gary, Indiana, made a gift of a piece of candy to a young French girl. It was taken one week after the first of the Allied troops stormed the beaches in Normandy and began advancing through France to complete its liberation from Nazi Germany.

Information

Title
American Soldier Conversing with Small French Girl Traveling
Dates

1944

Maker
Bert Brandt
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
20.7 x 15.3 cm. (8 1/8 x 6 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Howard Greenberg
Object Number
1995-6
Inscription
Stamped verso, sideways: PASSED FOR PUBLICATION/ 102/ DATE: 13 JUN 1944/ NAME... No.../ SHAEF/ FIELD PRESS CENSOR Printed on label, verso: THE INVASION: AMERICANS ADVANCE INLAND./ Pte. Leon Pawinski, of Gary, Ind:/ finds a piece of candy a sure way/ of making a friend of the shy/ little French girl in a liberated/ village./ 4A) Pool: Brandt, Acme. 10/6/44. PN./ Censor No.326789. Handwritten below: BRA726633WP/ 726633/ [illegible inscription].
Culture
British
Type
photographs, black-and-white photographs
Subject
soldiers, girls, men, portraits

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