As It Looks Today
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Photograph
As It Looks Today
ca. 1950
Gelatin silver print
Image: 19.5 x 24.1 cm (7 11/16 x 9 1/2 in.)
Paper: 20.7 x 25.4 cm (8 1/8 x 10 in.)
Gift of Vincent S. Jones
1976.0356.0024
Inscriptions verso (typed in purple): FOR RELEASE AFTER JUNE 3, 1950 / WORLD WAR II LANDMARKS REVISITED. [underlined] / Six years have passed since American forces hit the beaches / at Normandy. The successive campaigns through France, Belgium, / Holland and Germany will long be remembered by the millions / of veterans who served in Europe during World War II. Many / changes have taken place abroad, since the cessation of / hostilities; and Army cameramen have revisited some of these / landmarks to show them as they appear today. The photographers / have duplicated a series of ten famous combat shots made in / St. Lo, France; Bastogne, Belgium and Frankfurt and Cologne, / Germany. / SC 340444. AS IT LOOKS TODAY. [underlined] The little hardware store / in Bastongne [sic], Belgium, where General Maxwell D. Taylor made / his historical reunion with the men of the 101st Airborne / Division has been restored by its original owners who were / present on the occasion of the General's return from the / United States. (See print number SC 226804 for scene taken / during World War II.) The sign shown at the upper left of / the window carries the inscription "Place General MacAuliffe" / honoring the great hero of Bastogne. / PLEASE CREDIT: "OFFICIAL DEPARTMENT OF DEFENCE PHOTO."
