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Hürtgenwald Posted November 17, 2013 Author Share #127 Posted November 17, 2013 This is one of my favorites. On page 71 of "Patton's GI photographers" Sgt. William Tomko describes three fourteen year olds in a photo. Possibly this photo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Hürtgenwald Posted November 17, 2013 Author Share #134 Posted November 17, 2013 Reverse of the photo above. This one has "Radio" stamped on it. All of the stills went throught the censors and were used for various publication. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hürtgenwald Posted November 17, 2013 Author Share #135 Posted November 17, 2013 Bill Cummings is in the foreground at right. This photo is an 8 x 10. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Hürtgenwald Posted November 17, 2013 Author Share #137 Posted November 17, 2013 Looting. Another of my favorites. 8 x 10 with great detail. Bill had a big dagger and pistol collection after the war. He had sold it off bit by bit and had nothing left in the 1990s. He told me that at the end of the war in Czechoslovakia they had filled a Kubelwagen full of pistols and drove to an empty house, got drunk, and unloaded all of them into the walls of the house. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hürtgenwald Posted November 17, 2013 Author Share #138 Posted November 17, 2013 In early April 1944 the 89th Division and 4th Armored came upon the Orhdruf camp. The following eight photographs were the first ones taken by detachment #5 of the 166th Signal Photo Corps. On April 12th Patton, Eisenhower, and Bradley toured the camp and it was highly publicised. About a week later Buchenwald was found and Ohrdruf was mostly forgotten. Bill Cummings was there both times. I have a friend who is going to help me get these to the Holocaust museum and I want to have these seen as a reminder of what happened. It is part of Bill's story and it greatly affected him and his buddies long after the war was over. This is a photograph of the Ohrdruf camp guard tower. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Hürtgenwald Posted November 17, 2013 Author Share #149 Posted November 17, 2013 Reverse of above photo. Bill was 26 when these photos were taken. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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