BAttle in France 1940 picture query

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BAttle in France 1940 picture query

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Post by Linkagain » 17 May 2021, 05:13

In a American Heritage Book of World War II there was a picture that shows group of French soldiers disembarking off a troop carrier ad are charing toward the Germans..supposidly it was found on a dead German 1944...real picture or posed?

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Post by Orwell1984 » 17 May 2021, 15:12

Do you know the exact title of the book?
Was it the The American Heritage Picture History of World War II?
I've been trying to find this picture for a bit and couldn't remember where I saw it.
Any help appreciated.


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Post by Orwell1984 » 06 Jun 2021, 20:03

France 1940.jpg
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For those interested, this is the picture in question. Interesting image I hadn't seen anywhere else.
If anyone has more information on it, that would be appreciated.

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Post by Linkagain » 07 Jun 2021, 00:50

tHANKS THIS IS PICTURE i WAS TALKING ABOUT....of Course either the photographer was on the front lines....and didnt get shot...or it was posed.....

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Post by Linkagain » 10 Jun 2021, 14:05

Subsitite I placed this query on another website..it was pointed out that a Civilina is in the backgrund!]
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Re: Battle in France 1940 picture query

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Post by Loïc » 10 Jun 2021, 15:28

unfortunately we can't read such "remarks" the access is restricted to registred members

I can't explain why...but I feel something fake, it is not rather a movie?

the place from where the picture is supposed to be taken, this remembers me the famous picture of a French assaut in WWI...coming from a movie of the years 20'
N'est pas Robert Capa qui veut

a civilian watching passively on the left side behind a car...just waiting like that in the street right in the middle of a battle (?)
we have found the only inhabitant not concerned by the Exodus of millions of French and Belgians in 1940

the road covering...it is the Far West, the Russian campaign or a French town or simply the quality of the picture...(?)
it is quite curious, even in my small town in the mountainous back country I am not sure they had that in the years 30 for a downtown.

It will be interesting to source such picture

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Post by Linkagain » 10 Jun 2021, 22:20

Yes I remember reading that in American Heritage Book of WW I an allaeged Assault picture taken when the Germans attacked Verdum even had dead french soldier lying in a shellhole...years later I came across a article that explained although the sperons in the picture were real french and german participants in the battle,,the picture itself was from a movie still of a film made postwar....!!! Kind of like the British film first day on the Somme in which it mixed actual films of assault with one sequence of UK Soldiers going over barbed wire 3 killed...and sadly that part was a fake....In regard to the picture above in this thread it was pointed out to me that the adversmaent on left is very common..while the Hotrl on the right was near train station.....and of course the Civilian just behind the car at the left......possibly part of apropaganda sheet to the french civilains that the frnech soldiers fought bravely even suicidelly but that they were conquered ....

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Post by Linkagain » 04 Jul 2021, 19:42

was it possilb y Roger Violet Picture collection?
Also something odd the buildings are relatively modern yet the streets appear to be mud...no pavement>>>????

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Post by Linkagain » 21 Dec 2021, 16:16

What is the adveristment on the building at left mean?

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Post by Loïc » 21 Dec 2021, 20:04

above the medical optic shop it is an advertising for a tonic quinquina wine with the slogan based from the name and playing with the syllables
Dubo Dubon Dubonnet
du beau beautiful
du bon good
Dubonnet

"curiously" - again - not the only bizarre thing in this picture - there is only "du" while the first line should be DUBO
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Post by Linkagain » 21 Dec 2021, 21:18

Thanks....amy idea where it was taken?

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