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Laundry in the Desert
- Creator
- Cobb, John Candler, II, 1919-2016
- Creation Date
- 1943/03
- Who
- WWII driver
- When
- WWII
- Where
- North Africa
- license
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We had plenty of gasoline, brought by ship; but water was very scarce. Here, "Fox" Edwards is boiling his clothes over a desert stove, a fire of gasoline poured on the sand. Harry Hopper is hanging his clothes on a line between ambulances.
Location: Marble Arch, Libya.