U.S. soldiers link up Paris Rome cable. High up in the Maritime Alps, in southern France, a U.S.

U.S. soldiers link up Paris Rome cable. High up in the Maritime Alps, in southern France, a U.S. Army Signal Corpsmen swings over former German defense positions whil clipping part of the last link of the international cable between Paris and Rome to an overhead guideline. This section of the cable replaced an older section at the frontier between Modane in France and Susa in Italy which had been blown up by retreating German forces.