Military Photo: Sewing Clothes Is Just Like Replacing A Track

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Posted: 01/01/2017

January 23, 1945, Sgt. William Phelps of San Antonio, Texas, a tanker of the 42nd Tank Battalion, mends his combat clothes in Steinbach, Belgium. He uses a sewing machine in front of tank and snow covers the ground.

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