The Snapshots in Time Collection
Gallery: Part 4
Soldier-taken photographs follow the 101st Airborne Division through Normandy orchards, forest encampments, and forward observation posts, with anti-tank gun crews, chow lines, and engineer-built bridges among the scenes recorded. The collection captures the ordinary rhythms of airborne life between the division's major engagements in Europe.
American Soldiers Manning a Field Observation and Firing Position, WWII
Aircraft/Glider Wreckage in a Plowed Field Near a European Village
Paratroopers at Rest in an Orchard, Normandy, 1944
Military Convoy Crossing Engineer-Built Timber Bridge Over Canal, WWII
101st Airborne Troopers in a Chow Line, European Village
Three American Soldiers Posed Outside European Billet, WWII
U.S. Soldiers with Anti-Tank Gun in Forest Encampment, WWII European Theater