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Jones and Dennis Wile in front of darkroom tent
Content Note: Jones and Wile squat behind camp stove in front of darkroom tent in the woods. They had just crossed the Rhine River. Wile is holding a rifle. A similar photograph in a scrapbook is labeled "Deer fry" and identifies the man on the…
Double Bailey bridge over a river, construction of a fixed wooden bridge next to it
Content Note: Soldiers build a fixed wooden bridge alongside the temporary Bailey bridge over a river. (The construction is in the foreground and the Bailey bridge is in the background. Taken from the level of the wooden bridge construction.) …
View of construction of a fixed wooden bridge from the top of a double Bailey bridge
Content Note: View of the construction of the abuttment for a fixed wooden bridge from the top of the temporary double Bailey bridge it will replace. See 06080100PHBU00WILEDE024 for another view of the same site.
"Building bridge under bridge"
Content Note: Caption from writing on the reverse. Side view of a fixed wooden bridge being constructed under a temporary Bailey bridge.
"A bridge under a bridge. Night and day we build them."
Content Note: Caption from text on the reverse. Soldiers building a fixed wooden bridge under a temporary Bailey bridge at night.
Bridge "built by A Company 1270th Engineer Combat Battalion and 678 Engineer LE Company. "
Content Note: Caption from writing on reverse of photograph. Additional caption text: "Nuremberg, Germany, April 27, 1945. Built By A Company 1270th Engr Combat Battalion and 678 Engineer LE Company. Be Gay Now, You GI Slave, Your CBI Bound, Use…
Bunker at the firing range used during training in England
Content Note: Soldiers used Allied and German weapons to learn to distinguish the weapons used by the enemy. Three soldiers stand on top of the hill overlooking the bunker.
"E.T.O. [European Theater of Operations] venison before the billets"
Content Note: Caption from writing on the reverse. Soldiers stand around a deer carcass hanging from a pole between two trees.
Computer used to genetically match German couples
Content Note: An International computer used to make appropriate genetic matches between young German couples. It was housed in a Catholic school in attempt to protect it from bombing. Two soldiers are visible in the background. See also…
Room in convent used as office for genetic matching
Content Note: A soldier named Derby inspects the computers and other equipment used to genetically match young German couples. The equipment was housed in a Catholic school in attempt to protect it from bombing. See also 06080100PHBU00WILEDE031.