Transit camp : Members of the "Hell on wheels" 2nd US Armoured division awaiting shipment home

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Members of the 2nd US Armoured Division "Hell on wheels" in a Cherbourg transit camp awaiting shipment home after the end of the war. Picture taken on the 28th of May 1945.

They are identified by the unit badge on the left shoulder

Badge: a triangle divided into three equal parts blue (infantry), yellow (cavalry) and red (artillery) with, stitching on the whole, in black, of the caterpillars and a gun crossed by a flash red with the division number (2) over it. Under the triangle, the nickname " Hell on wheels"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2nd_Armored_Division_(United_States)