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Stepping out of time U.S. soldiers resting
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The Library of Congress U.S. soldiers resting I claim no rights other than colorizing this image if you wish to use let me know. Title [U.S. soldiers resting among ruins of building, with soldier lying on plank in foreground, on the Siegfried Line, Rhone Valley, German Front] Contributor Names Frissell, Toni 1907-1988, photographer Created / Published [1945 Feb.] Subject Headings - World War, 1939-1945--Military personnel--American--Rh�ne River Valley (Switzerland and France) Format Headings Photographic prints--1940-1950. Genre Photographic prints--1940-1950 Notes - Title devised by Library staff. - Toni Frissell Collection (Library of Congress). - Exhibited as a digital copy in: "Not an Ostrich: And Other Images from America's Library" at the Annenberg Space for Photography, 2018; Military section. - Unprocessed in PR 06 CN 651. - Annenberg batch 13 Medium 1 photographic print. Call Number/Physical Location Unprocessed in PR 06 CN 651 [item] [P&P] Repository Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print Digital Id ppmsca 52058 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.52058 cph 3g04489 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3g04489 Library of Congress Control Number 96507844 Reproduction Number LC-DIG-ppmsca-52058 (digital file from original negative) LC-USZC4-4489 (color film copy transparency) LC-F9-02-4502-106-09 (b&w film neg.) Rights Advisory No known restrictions on publication. Online Format image Description 1 photographic print.

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::tigger3
06/24/18 11:53 PM GMT
Perfect choice on the colorization process. They sure endured hardships, as they do now, but I think it was alot rougher back in those days.
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::corngrowth
06/25/18 8:07 AM GMT
Rob, I'll provide you and other Caedes-friends with this link, not only to give you more detailed information about the Siegfried Line, but to show you too that Wiki has chosen the B&W version of this photograph as well, showing U.S. soldiers pause for a rest among the ruins of the Siegfried Line in the Rhone Valley, February, 1945.
One has to realize that in the time the photograph was taken the WWII almost was over, so these soldiers have meanwhile seen a lot of trouble and have gone through many hardships.
Your, per usual perfect and apt, way of colorization shows this better than the original version, so masterfully done again, my friend!
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::LynEve
06/25/18 12:38 AM GMT
I am now wondering what became of the man you chose to colour. I hope he returned safely to his loved ones. What total exhaustion shows on his face in this place of horror. How terrible war was and is.
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.icedancer
06/27/18 5:28 PM GMT
I also agree with Sandi on the colouring, perfectly done. Keep them coming
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::Nikoneer
07/05/18 3:00 PM GMT
I can attest to how a soldier can become so used to sleeping practically anywhere, under almost any conditions (I once fell asleep walking circles in a large foxhole... still walking, but asleep). Their bodies often adjusted to sleeping deeply for 15 minutes, then up and at 'em again, able to go for hours more until the next "nap". For these guys, they had a little under three months to go before sleep could be more substantial; Germany surrendering in early May.

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