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Distribution of Lucky Strike cigarettes to Task Force Hogan soldiers at Soy after the Marcouray breakout, December 26, 1944
The faces behind the story

The Portraits

22 biographies · Officers, soldiers, Belgian civilians

Behind the numbers, the faces

Behind the "400" — a unit number — stand lives, faces, voices. Officers and soldiers of the 3rd Armored Division, pilots fallen over Marcouray, medics who stayed with the wounded, and Belgian civilians who sheltered them through the siege. Each portrait is the result of archival research, family testimonies, and primary sources.

22Biographies
19US Soldiers
3Belgian witnesses
400Men surrounded
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