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Enroute to Class
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Conservationist Sigurd F. Olson, who was on a special military teaching assigment, took this picture of U.S. troops in Berlin marching to his lecture. Bombed buildings are visible in the background.
1946
Olson, Sigurd
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WHi 74135
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MP Headquarters
1946
Headquarters of Company C of the 793rd Military Police Battalion in post-World War II Germany. Although the location is not identified, Sigurd F. Olson, who took this photograph, labeled it as: "ta...
German Refugees
A snapshot of postwar refugees in Berlin traveling by railroad boxcar.
Food Cart
1946
American soldier purchasing something from a food cart, a scene photographed by conservationist Sigurd Olson while traveling in Europe immediately after the end of World War II.
Sigurd Olson Going Home
June 6, 1946
Sigurd F. Olson, standing, on a C-47 plane en route from Berlin to Frankfort, and then home to Minnesota.
Soldiers at Shrivenham
1946
U.S. soldiers are sitting on the ground between classes at Shrivenham. The school at Shrivenham was operated by the Army after the end of the war, and this photograph was taken by conservationist ...
Coffin Cart
1946
A coffin cart photographed by Sigurd Olson while traveling, probably in Germany, shortly after the end of the World War II.
