Olin Dows photographs, 1944-1945.

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Olin Dows photographs, 1944-1945.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/47770361

Contains prints from the Army Signal Corps and the Army Pictoral Service, as well as photographic prints of some Olin Dows sketches that were used in the S.L.A. Marshall book titled Bastogne: the story of the first eight days in which the 101st Airborne Division was closed within the ring of German forces.

154 photographs : Black and white ; 8 x 10 in.

University of Texas at El Paso

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SNAC Resource ID: 7584655

University of Texas at El Paso

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