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- IDNO:
- 041176
- Title:
- U.S. Soldier in Tent 'Dark Room' in European Theater of Operation
- Date:
- ca. 1945
- Description:
- The soldier is most likely Raymond Young, infantry man and combat photographer, United States Third Army. Young is using his tent as a photo lab to develop film while on the front lines.
- IDNO:
- 041177
- Title:
- German Civilians Greet U.S. Troops With Flags, Weilheim, Germany
- Date:
- ca. 1945
- Description:
- information on back of photo reads: "Smiling civilians of the Bavarian town of Weilheim, Germany, greet troops of the 12th Armored Division, Seventh U.S. Army, with American, British, and Bavarian flags April 28, 1945."
- IDNO:
- 041179
- Title:
- United States Army Infantryman Raymond M. Young of Oak Hill, W. Va.
- Date:
- ca. 1945
- Description:
- Young was also a combat photographer and attached tothe 361st Engineers Special unit and at times attached to Third Army commanded by George Patton during the push into Germany. Note the friendly dog sitting next to Young is a German Shephard.
- IDNO:
- 041180
- Title:
- Wrecked German Church
- Date:
- ca. 1945
- Description:
- Information on back of photo reads: "Debris litters the interior of a ruined church in Germany, one of the many buildings destroyed during the bitter fighting which marked the Allied thrust into the Reich."
- IDNO:
- 041181
- Title:
- Raymond M. Young on Communications, European Theater of Operations
- Date:
- ca. 1945
- Description:
- Young, from Oak Hill, W. Va. served with 361st Engineer Special as an infantryman and combat photographer.
- IDNO:
- 041182
- Title:
- Soldier Playing With Dog Wearing Official U.S. Army Photographer Jacket
- Date:
- ca. 1945
- Description:
- The photograph was taken during the Allied advance against the Nazis in Europe.
- IDNO:
- 041183
- Title:
- U.S. Soldiers Walking With Small Children
- Date:
- ca. 1945
- Description:
- The photograph was most likely taken in Holland, which had been under Nazi control for several years until portions of the country was liberated by the Allies in the Fall of 1944 during Operation Market Garden.
- IDNO:
- 041184
- Title:
- Hamburg, Germany in Ruins
- Date:
- ca. 1945
- Description:
- A large port and industrial center that includied u-boat pens and oil refineries was bombed throughout the war. An air attack in July 1942 created one of the largest firestorms of WW II, killing 42,600 civilians, wounding 37,000 and practically destroying the city.
- IDNO:
- 041185
- Title:
- Civilian Medical Worker and Armed Soldier in Germany
- Date:
- ca. 1945
- IDNO:
- 041188
- Title:
- Civilians of Captured German Town, Neuss, Germany
- Date:
- ca. 1945
- Description:
- Information on back of photo reads: "German civilians sit with their children outside of a house in a Reich town captured by troops of the Ninth U.S. Army advancing to the Rhine River. The civilians have been lined up for questioning by an American officer. Units of the Ninth Army reached the Rhine March 2, 1945, when they captured Neuss opposite the industrial center of Dusseldorf."
- IDNO:
- 041189
- Title:
- German WAC Captured, Germany
- Date:
- ca. 1945
- Description:
- Information on back of photo reads: "Private Thomas H. Olsen of Chicago, Illinois, checks over the baggage brought by one of the German Army women to the prisoner-of-war enclosure of the 83rd Infantry Division, Ninth U.S. Army. The women surrendered after receiving leaflets. Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force reported May 1, 1945, that nearly three million German prisoners had been taken by the Allies in the West since "D-Day" (June 6, 1945)."
- IDNO:
- 041190
- Title:
- Allied Officers Attend Show Given By Freed Russians, Lippstadt, Germany
- Date:
- ca. 1945
- Description:
- Information on back of photo reads: "Colonel H.A. Forlong (left) of Pontiac, Michigan, Surgeon of the 18th Corps, Ninth U.S. Army, sits beside a Russian Army officer at a stage show given in Lippstadt, Germany, May 20, 1945, by liberated Russian soldiers and former slave workers. Lippstadt is 70 miles northwest of the Rhine River city of Duisburg.