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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…
"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.
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.
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…
"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.
"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.
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.
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.) …
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…
Kusiak and Arthur Goldberg in makeshift film drying room
Content Note: Kusiak and Goldberg examine photo negatives in a makeshift film drying room in Frankfurt, Germany. Strips of film hang from a string along the wall to their left. Kusiak and Goldberg are identified in a scrapbook with another copy of…