Nearly 900 WWII Photos Donated to Library of Congress
Nearly 900 WWII Photos Donated to Library of Congress Veterans, Active Duty, and Military Families
of (Left) Remains after the Battle of Monte Cassino. (Right) Celebrations in Sicily after it was liberated in 1943. of (Left) Destroyed German plane in Sicily, Italy. (Right) An English tank knocked out at Monte Cassino, Italy , during the Winter Line offensive. of French resistance fighters celebrating the liberation of a town as the Allied forces move up the Rhone River valley during the fall of 1944. of A war cemetery in Monte Cassino, southern Italy. of Chamberlain, on the right, alongside fellow soldiers identified as Sgt. Price and Sgt. Hale, before boarding a train to Marseilles to return home in 1945. of Soldiers aboard a troopship on their way back to the U.S. in the fall of 1945. Anyone with information on the movements of the 334th Quartermaster Depot Supply Company (aerial resupply) unit from April 1944 through September 1945 , including families of servicemen who may have appeared in the photo collection , may contact Mike Chamberlain at . Chamberlain is not affiliated with AARP. Aaron Kassraie writes about issues important to military veterans and their families for AARP. He also serves as a general assignment reporter. Kassraie previously covered U.S. foreign policy as a correspondent for the Kuwait News Agency’s Washington bureau and worked in news gathering for USA Today and Al Jazeera English.
Images From the Battlefield World War II Through a Soldier s Eyes
Nearly 900 photographs recently donated to Veterans History Project at Library of Congress
Courtesy the estate of D. Carl Chamberlain 2021 Carl Chamberlain’s tour of duty during World War II took him across Europe and included the allied invasion of Italy, an operation known as Avalanche, the invasion of Sicily (Operation Husky), the amphibious assault at Anzio (Operation Shingle) and the invasion of southern France (Operation Dragoon). His unit also supported the 7th Army in pursuit of the Germans up the Rhone River valley to the .How to Get Involved With the Veterans History Project
Browse the collections: How to participate: Participants may be a veteran, interviewer or person donating a veteran’s collection. . Throughout his deployment, Chamberlain, a Staff Sgt. in the Army, carried his camera with him. By the time he was discharged in 1945, he had developed and printed nearly 900 photographs in the field. Recently, his son, Mike Chamberlain, donated the images to the run by the Library of Congress. AARP is the founding corporate sponsor of the Veterans History Project, which is dedicated to collecting and preserving the personal accounts of Americans who served in every U.S. war since 1914. The Chamberlain photos make up one of the largest collections donated to the project since it was created in 2000. Carl Chamberlain died in 1993, but the images he captured will live on so future generations can experience a firsthand perspective of war through a soldier’s eyes. Here are a few of the images recently donated to the Veterans History Project. of (Left) A tank used by U.S. forces moving up the Rhone River. (Right) Chamberlain, on the left, with soldier Bill Robertson in Chartres, France , in June 1945. of Soldiers hold up a fallen bomb with a wrecked Nazi plane in the background. of (Left) Carl Chamberlain at Red Beach during the invasion of southern France. (Right) Group celebrates the arrival of Allied troops in Dole, France. of Carl Chamberlain (second from right) with fellow service members on patrol in Alsace, France.of (Left) Remains after the Battle of Monte Cassino. (Right) Celebrations in Sicily after it was liberated in 1943. of (Left) Destroyed German plane in Sicily, Italy. (Right) An English tank knocked out at Monte Cassino, Italy , during the Winter Line offensive. of French resistance fighters celebrating the liberation of a town as the Allied forces move up the Rhone River valley during the fall of 1944. of A war cemetery in Monte Cassino, southern Italy. of Chamberlain, on the right, alongside fellow soldiers identified as Sgt. Price and Sgt. Hale, before boarding a train to Marseilles to return home in 1945. of Soldiers aboard a troopship on their way back to the U.S. in the fall of 1945. Anyone with information on the movements of the 334th Quartermaster Depot Supply Company (aerial resupply) unit from April 1944 through September 1945 , including families of servicemen who may have appeared in the photo collection , may contact Mike Chamberlain at . Chamberlain is not affiliated with AARP. Aaron Kassraie writes about issues important to military veterans and their families for AARP. He also serves as a general assignment reporter. Kassraie previously covered U.S. foreign policy as a correspondent for the Kuwait News Agency’s Washington bureau and worked in news gathering for USA Today and Al Jazeera English.