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Battlefield Cross
Photographer: Barry Swackhamer
Taken: April 2, 2016
Caption: Battlefield Cross
Additional Description:
When a serviceman or woman is lost in the battlefield, it has become customary to arrange their boots, rifle and helmet in the configuration you see before you. The surviving members of their squad will gather around this 'Battlefield Cross' to memorialize their fallen comrades.

Submitted: April 7, 2016, by Barry Swackhamer of Brentwood, California.
Database Locator Identification Number: p348871
File Size: 0.168 Megabytes

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