GI with smiling German POW's Cherbourg

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These Germans seem pleased with their situation, they probably had a long sea voyage to North America followed by nothing more dangerous than the boredom of a POW camp. For Pvt James Fergusen of Wortland, Kentucky, the future was not so certain.

Picture taken 26 June 1944.