The Snapshots in Time Collection
Imst Railway Station, Tyrol, Austria — WWII 44th Infantry Division Photograph
The railway station at Imst, in Austria's Tyrol region, photographed by a soldier of the 44th Infantry Division during the closing weeks of World War II in Europe or the subsequent occupation, spring 1945. The 44th Infantry Division advanced into western Austria in the final days of the war, and personal snapshots like this one document the Alpine towns American GIs encountered far from the front. Project: 218403