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Date
1945-03-20
Creation Date
2008-06-13
Description
Black & White photograph of a section of Niederwurzbach, Germany, ablaze and a United States Army serviceman talking on a radio in the foreground, taken on March 20, 1945. On the back of the photo is typewritten, " 7A-5262/ETO HQ 45 21783 20 MAR CREDIT...U S ARMY SIGNAL CORPS PHOTOG-T/5 J RUTBERG 163 VIEW OF THE BURNING TOWN OF NIEDER-WURZBACH [Niederwurzbach], GERMANY, WITH RADIO MAN IN FOREGROUND. (D) 45TH INF DIV, 7A, NIEDER-WURZBACH [Niederwurzbach], GERMANY."
Digital Collection
Arnold Clayton Watkins World War II Photograph Collection, 1942-1945
Collection Number
SpC MS 0006
Finding Aid
https://digitalcommons.pittstate.edu/fa/3/
Object Type
Photograph
Image Format
Still Image
Location
Europe--Germany--Saarland--Niederwurzbach;
Publisher Digital
Pittsburg State University, Kansas, Axe Library, Special Collections
Rights
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Keywords
World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Germany--Photographs; United States. Army--History--Photographs; World War, 1939-1945--Germany--Photographs; Soldiers--United States--Photographs; Niederwurzbach (Germany)--History--Photographs; Buildings--Germany--Niederwurzbach--Photographs
Notes
Pittsburg State University, Special Collections, 6, Watkins, Arnold Clayton, Envelope 8, 21. Contributed by Joan F. Watkins.