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Self Portrait of Dennis Wile with his photographic materials
Content Note: Self portrait of Wile seated at a table with many of his photographic equipment and photo processing supplies. The bellows camera is his first camera, given to him by his mother.
"This was one of my darkrooms, Honey, some Nazi officials office."
Content Note: Caption from writing on reverse. Additional caption text: "Check my left hand, and ignore my haircut. This one I took myself just for you. Love, Dennee" Self portrait of Wile standing in a makeshift darkroom. On the righthand side,…
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…
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.