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Executed Man
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Executed man laying on ground as the final bullet is delivered. The execution was somehow bungled by the firing squad and this coup d'grace was required to be done by the battalion's guest, a headquarters colonel. Algeria.
1957
Chapelle, Dickey, 1919-1965
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Execution by Firing Squad
1957
Members of the Algerian National Liberation Front form a firing squad and execute a man who claimed to have killed innocent men, women, and children in Algerian villages to aid the French.
Chapelle and FLN Rebels
1957
Dickey Chapelle sits and drinks coffee with the FLN Scorpion Battalion Rebels in the Atlas Mountains in Algeria.
Algerian FLN Training
August 1957
Algerian National Liberation Front members doing push-ups in the desert near boulders.
