US Troops in An English Village- Everyday Life With the Americans in Burton Bradstock, Dorset, England, UK, 1944 D20141

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US Troops in An English Village- Everyday Life With the Americans in Burton Bradstock, Dorset, England, UK, 1944 D20141

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US Troops in An English Village- Everyday Life With the Americans in Burton Bradstock, Dorset, England, UK, 1944
Master Sergeant Edward White (of 991 S.San Antonio Street, Pomona, California) examines a horseshoe given to him by blacksmith R Burton in the blacksmith's workshop in Burton Bradstock, Dorset. Sgt White and his colleagues Sergeant R J Baier (of 125 Park Avenue, Canandaigna, New York) and Corporal David Roberts (of RR4 Albia, Iowa), accompanied by several local boys, have "come to beg horseshoes for a game at the camp".

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