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Caption:
Belleau Wood Marine Memorial | Additional Description: This photograph, courtesy of the Marine Corps History Division photographic archives, shows the area prior to World War II. The buildings, an early war museum, did not survive the second German occupation of these woods.
Note also the central flag pole and cross shaped memorial to the right. That original memorial read:
In Memory of
50 and more American Heroes
Whose resting places
in this Wood
Are still unknown.
Submitted: August 6, 2015, by Kevin W. of Stafford, Virginia.
Database Locator Identification Number: p320189
File Size: 0.578 Megabytes
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