Title

Members of the Maquis receiving arms training, France, World War II, c1940-c1944. Artist: Unknown

Caption

Members of the Maquis receiving arms training, France, World War II, c1940-c1944. The Maquis were bands of Resistance fighters who waged a guerrilla campaign against the Germans and their Vichy allies in rural France during the occupation in World War II. They played an important role in hampering the German mobilisation to counter the D-Day landings.

Date

1950

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Keystone Archives

Reference

HRM19D84_193

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

30,2Mb (1,4Mb) / 12,4in x 9,4in / 3731 x 2826 (300dpi)

Keywords

countryside holding people male learning training man men hat country French France guy occupation watching listening clothes weapon weapons gun guns dress rustic war location century explaining occupied soldiers soldier wartime concept beret B&W 1940s MONOCHROME warfare Forties World War II World War two WWII black & white black and white B W weaponry world war 2 20th century civilian civilians rural decade French Resistance guerrilla rural life Second World War TGN WW2 Maquis photograph Keystone Archives 2nd World War Unknown photograph