Sign signaling halfway point between Southern France landings and Berlin

Photograph

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Oklahoma National Guard Museum

Name/Title

Sign signaling halfway point between Southern France landings and Berlin

Entry/Object ID

1979.081.501.2

Description

Negative of a sign erected by 120th Engineers signaling halfway point between Southern France landings at Saint-Tropez and Berlin

Photograph Details

Type of Photograph

Negative

Subject Place

City

Epinal

Department

Vosges

Region

Grand Est, Western Europe

Country

France

Continent

Europe

Context

45th Division News Vol. V No. 13 " This sign should be encouraging to Thunderbirds. It's already behind the division and marks the halfway mark of the 45th's drive up from the southern coast of France. It took less than two months to get this far. Engineers put up the sign."

Made/Created

Artist Information

Artist

George F. Tapscott

Role

Photographer

Date made

Nov 1, 1944

Time Period

20th Century, World War Two

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Tertiary Object Term

Negative, Sheet Film

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Negative

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Photograph

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Graphic Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials

Signs, Rivers, Bridges