World War II photographs - Gardner in Belgium, Buchenwald prison and crematorium ovens; Officers. 110th AAA Gun Battalion; liberated young prisoners, 1942 - 1945 Digital Version Available
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5. Buchenwald. May 1945. View of S.S. administration building from top of Main gate (I worked daily in the main office at left, April - June 1945). 11:15a
6. Buchenwald. Partially buried bodies in the crematory. Gen. Patton had ordered that things be left as they were the first week. This is the way they were on our arrival, a week after the camp's liberation. In two days we cleaned up all this horrible stuff.
8. Buchenwald May 1 1945. A celebration of May Day by over 15,000 of the just-liberated prisoners, held on the central "roll call" area at the camp.
9. April 1945. A monument erected by the prisoners themselves to the 51,000 who died at Buchenwald. KLB = Konzentration Lager Buchenwald
11. Buchenwald. May 1945. Young men from Weimar spading the lawn in front of the camp's main gate.
12. Buchenwald May 1945. View of the camp from top of Main Gate.
19. Clinton Gardner. Probably about October 1944 in Spa Belgium
30. Officers. 110th AAA Gun Bn. [Battalion] (Mbl) Sept. 1943. 1: Capt. Goldsmith, Capt. Reiver, Capt. Denton, Major Doten, Col. Curran, Capt. Born, Capt. Silverman, Capt. Chase. 2: Sisson, Kosar, Shubert, Ryan, Knollman, Phillips, Doctor Fegley, Salidas, Gardner. 3: Breck, Wilson, Noel, Forman, Conners, Eddy, Klein, Sokoloff, Borman. 4: Congdon, Amato, Veir, Maness
31. Einruhr, on the Roer River. Rhineland. Feb 1945. Front is only a few miles behind.
32. A Btry [battery] position at Spa Defending First Army headquarters. Feb 1945. Spa, Belgium
33. A thousand French leaving Wetzlar DP Camp on way back to France (the trucks volunteered to help us). April 1945.
34. April 1945. Polish Displaced Persons holding infantry drill at Wetzlar camp.
Dates
- 1942 - 1945
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From the Collection: English
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