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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. …

"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…

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…

"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…

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…

"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…

"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…