Brest, August-September 1944. A Russian who escaped a Nazi labor battalion in Brittany wears crossed cartridge belts and carries hand grenades as he talks with U.S. soldiers and members of the French Forces of the Interior. Russian soldiers, captured during the enemy drive on Moscow in 1942, broke out of German labor camps and joined the French resisters when U.S. troops closed in on Brest, the beleaguered port on the trip of Brittany Peninsula.
U.S. Army Signal Corps photograph
National Museum of the U.S. Navy