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  • Collection: Charles "Chuck" Morrison WWII Photographs & Records

NCA 01.v.1998.01_WWIIPhotos_01.jpg
This photo has no description. Believed to be a person Morrison was in the service with.

NCA 01.v.1998.01_WWIIPhotos_11.jpg
On the back of this photograph, Chuck Morrison writes:

A statue erected by the Germans with a large German eagle on the top, it is now in an enclosure for "DP's" this one being the Polish camp.

The statue reads "DIE TREUE IST DAS MARK DER EHRE"…

NCA 01.v.1998.01_WWIIPhotos_12.jpg
On the back of this photograph, Chuck Morrison writes:

This is the dock area in the city of Roen France, all these vehicles were destroyed by allied bombers and later strafed. In the background can be seen the large cranes that unload cargo from…

NCA 01.v.1998.01_WWIIPhotos_13.jpg
On the back of this photograph, Chuck Morrison writes:

This is a picture of the bridge at Remagen, Germany, after it had collapsed. This was the best of the photos, so had it enlarged. We lost quite a number of men here, as you well remember.

NCA 01.v.1998.01_WWIIPhotos_06.jpg
On the back of this photograph, Chuck Morrison writes:

Engineers on Omaha trying to get things going so they can build the first strip to evacuate the wounded. Jerries long range shells keep them moving.

NCA 01.v.1998.01_WWIIPhotos_05.jpg
On the back of this photograph, Chuck Morrison writes:

Omaha Beach again, very quiet just now, this was taken on top of a tank I was riding on. Up the hill side from the beach.

NCA 01.v.1998.01_WWIIPhotos_08.jpg
On the back of this photograph, Chuck Morrison writes:

A good view of the beach from one point from the bluff, the tank in the foreground never got ashore. underwater obstacles can be seen all along the shore line.

NCA 01.v.1998.01_WWIIPhotos_07.jpg
On the back of this photograph, Chuck Morrison writes:

Omaha Beach, or St Laurent su Mer, the barrage ballons are to keep the jerries from strafing us. The valley you see in the center of the picture is where we first stormed ashore, it was mined…
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