Heavy Armaments Back Up Soldiers
Photograph
Heavy Armaments Back Up Soldiers
Berlin – Facing East
1961
Gelatin silver print
Image: 6 5/16 × 9 5/16 in. (16 × 23.7 cm)
Paper: 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
Gift of Time-Life Books
1968.0184.0058
Inscriptions Typed in black ink on applied label on verso BC: 9/16 170 HEAVY ARMAMENTS BACK UP SOLIDERS. The Allied sectors \ of Berlin echo with the rumble of military hardware such as these \ rocket launchers. Meanwhile these British Tommies lounge and eat \ before returning to "alert" readiness. \ Credit: Rene Burri © 1961 MAGNUM PHOTOS
