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"Wile and Anderson room, the Cairo Hotel, Room 58, [Weston-Super-Mare,] England"
Content Note: Caption taken from writing on reverse of photo. Additional caption text: "21 November 1944. " Five men in Army uniforms sit on a cot. Front row, left to right: Brandli, Curren, colonel's driver. Back row, left to right: Wile,…
American soldiers relax around a piano at a Red Cross Center in Weston-Super-Mare, England
Content Note: Five men and a woman stand around a piano at a Red Cross facility. Arthur Goldberg is plays the piano while the others watch. Taken during training in England.
"Not to Happy" [leaving England to go to France]
Content Note: Caption from writing on the reverse. Wile leans against the railing of the ship during the trip to Le Havre, France, after completing training in England.
Self Portrait of Dennis Wile [photo of wife in background]
Content Note: Self portrait of Wile seated at a desk. A portrait of his wife is visible in the background.
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.