As It Looks Today
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Photograph
As It Looks Today
ca. 1950
Gelatin silver print
Image: 18.8 x 24.6 cm (7 3/8 x 9 11/16 in.)
Paper: 20.3 x 25.9 cm (8 x 10 3/16 in.)
Gift of Vincent S. Jones
1976.0356.0030
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 340440 - AS IT LOOKS TODAY. [underlined] The people of St. Lo, France, / have set up a telephone repeater station in a blockhouse abandoned / by the Naxis [sic] during the fighting for the French town. (See / print number SC 192008 for scene taken during World War II.) / PLEASE CREDIT: "OFFICIAL DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE PHOTO."
