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    Feb 04, 2020 2 minutes

    Curators at The National World War II Museum solve readers’ artifact mysteries

    My father served with the 808th Tank Destroyer Battalion during the war. This photo was among his possessions. It shows several German soldiers with what I believe are Senegalese Tirailleur prisoners of war. Can you confirm that?

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