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"A big shot doesn't sit down--maybe he's got a sore spot"
Content Note: Caption from writing on the reverse. Additional caption text: "See the nearest Chaplain and have your T.S. card punched I always say." Additional text from the reverse of other copies of the same image: "A super manin a not-so-super…
"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.
"A living deadman" [Buchenwald]
Content Note: Title from caption. Appears to be survivors in the same place as those in photo 06080100PHBU00WILEDE005. The former prisoners are lying on beds and covered with a blanket. Under each bed is a pair of slippers. See…
"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.
"Corpses of prisoners near the crematorium oven" [Buchenwald]
Content Note: Title from caption on reverse. A liberator poses next to a room full of the corpses of prisoners. See 06060100PHBU00WILEDE004 for the caption on the reverse of the original print. Numbered 3 on the reverse. Originally "picture B"
"Dead outside barracks" [Buchenwald]
Content Note: Title from caption on the reverse. Corpses of prisoners in a small room seen through the open door. The corpses are clothed. See 06080100PHBU00WILEDE010 for the caption on the reverse of the photo.Numbered 22 on the reverse. Originally…
"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.
"Germans a la mode"
Content Note: Caption taken from writing on the reverse. Another copy of the same image has the following written on the reverse: "A poor day's catch! They eat more C rations! Germany. " View from a distance of German prisoners of war in a field…
"Liberated and PW's in Rear"
Content Note: Caption from writing on the reverse. Convoy of open-bed trucks carrying prisoners of war. Two soldiers sit at the side of the road with their backs to the camera watching the trucks.
"Lieutenant Averil, Adjutant, 1270th [Engineer Combat Battalion]"
Content Note: Caption from writing on reverse. Additional caption text: "This I took with big camera, and then blocked out most of neg to just get Lt. on this size paper." Averil is seated at a desk. Averil chose Wile to replace the 1270th's…