As It Looks Today
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Photograph
As It Looks Today
ca. 1950
Gelatin silver print
Image: 18.9 x 24.6 cm (7 7/16 x 9 11/16 in.)
Paper: 20 x 25.8 cm (7 7/8 x 10 3/16 in.)
Gift of Vincent S. Jones
1976.0356.0026
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 330445. AS IT LOOKS TODAY. [underlined] St. Lo, France was the / scene of some of the bitterest fighting in World War II. / Following the cessation of hostilities the citizens of the / French town set about clearing the mountains of debris and / rebuilding their homes and public buildings. (See print / number SC 192284 showing the town shortly after the bitter / weeks of fighting.) / PLEASE CREDIT: "OFFICIAL DEPARTMENT OF DEFENCE PHOTO."
