Infantrymen of the 2nd Bn, VI Corps, 255th Inf. Regt., move down a street in Waldenburg to hunt out the Hun after a recent raid by a 63rd Div., US Seventh Army – Antique Photo Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Infantrymen of the 2nd Bn, VI Corps, 255th Inf. Regt., move down a street in Waldenburg to hunt out the Hun after a recent raid by a 63rd Div., US Seventh Army comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Infantrymen of the 2nd Bn, VI Corps, 255th Inf. Regt., move down a street in Waldenburg to hunt out the Hun after a recent raid by a 63rd Div., US Seventh Army
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Waldenburg, now Wałbrzych in southwestern Poland, was then a German industrial town in Silesia, and this Army Signal Corps photograph shows its streets in April 1945. Infantrymen of the 2nd Battalion, 255th Infantry Regiment, move down a street in the town to search for enemy soldiers after a recent raid by the 63rd Division of the U.S. Seventh Army. The picture was made during the final months of the European fighting, when American units advanced deep into Germany and its eastern territories. The title's wording, which refers to "the Hun," reflects the wartime language of Allied press and official captions.
| Created / published | 1945 April 16. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1940-1950. |
| Notes | Official U.S. Army photograph. No. SC 205778. |
| Subjects | World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns & battles--Poland--Walbrzych. World War, 1939-1945--Destruction & pillage--Poland--Walbrzych. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,252 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-170129 |
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