IMAGE
Liberated prisoners of war greeting United States soldiers - Photograph taken by Lee Hill
- Date
- 13 April 1945
- By
- Hill, Leighton McLeod, 1907-1952
- Reference
- 1/4-069779-F
- Description
A jeep from Combat Command B of US 3rd Armoured Division enters the yard of the farm at Wimmelburg on 13 April 1945, where Allied prisoners of war from Oflag IX A/Z had been billeted by their German guards. The guards had abandonded them on the previous evening. Photograph taken by Lee Hill.
Source of descriptive information - Library client
Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative 6 x 9 cm
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Part of
- New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency / World War 1939-1945 Official negatives
- Format
- 1 b&w original negative(s), Negatives, Cellulosic film negative 6 x 9 cm
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