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Do you know this soldier?

The Rescued Film Project stumbled across 31 rolls of film shot by a U.S. Army soldier apparently in Western Europe during the latter part of WWII. While a lot of the pictures didn’t come out, and others are in poor shape, they have a really great collection of images including this German Army marked French Renault FT.17 Tank (we called them the M1917).

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The same soldier shows up in many of the images, and its speculated that he may have been the shutterbug

Anybody's grandpa?

Anybody’s grandpa?

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