Soldiers
Found in 58 Collections and/or Records:
At an English Officers Training School in Northern France, 1918 March 16-22
Typewritten transcribed letters from DU alumni Lieut. E. E. Odom to his wife, Olive, sent by Olive to Chancellor Buchtel in April 1918. Odom describes the experience of finishing officer training in France during World War I, especially the uncertainty of not knowing where he would be transferred. Odom details rumors that he heard about atrocities committed by German soldiers, and an attack by German soldiers on the trenches where he was stationed in Amiens.
Box 377, 1918
Framed black and white group photo of American soldiers during World War I.
Capture of a German Soldier, c. 1940s
A pen and ink work depicting a scowling soldier carrying a suitcase and a bag with boots.
Cards Aboard Train, c. 1940s
A pencil on paper drawing of a soldier sitting on a stool smoking and playing cards, darkly rendered in a soft leaded pencil, titled lower left.
Ernest Loeb - US Army - WWII, circa 1944
Photograph of Ernest Loeb and five other soldiers in uniform. Ernest is the man on the lower right, squatting. The back of the photograph reads "I'm ready to take a shit! (Don't send this picture home.)". Photograph is in black and white and was most likely taken around 1944.
First Corps Artillery Park, Truck Unit Two During World War I, 1918-1919
American soldiers in the First Corps Artillery Park, Truck Unit 2, Third Army Corps of the American Expeditionary Forces posing for a group photograph in Europe. The photograph shows 26 members of the unit. Two soldiers stand near house on right side of photograph. Another soldier stands to the rear on the left side of the photograph. There are three houses behind the unit. On the back of the photograph is hand-written ''2nd row--4th from left--Syd.'' Syd refers to Sidney Israelski.
Four Men for the Gross Glockner Ski Meet, 1945 May
A pen and ink illustration of British participants at the Gross Glockner ski Meet with a skier visible in the background, all figures standing in an alpine landscape with an extreme downward slant.
General Hayes, c. 1940s
A detailed portrait of General Hayes in uniform, smiled and offset by a dark background.
George Fuge, A Soldier, c. 1940s
A portrait of 10th Mountain Division member George Fuge sitting next to his gear.
German Guard with Skeletons Smelling an Edelweiss, 1945
Two drawings of the same composition, a sinister scene rendered in the manner of Goya’s “Disasters of War” etchings depicting a smiling German guard sniffing an edelweiss flower standing in front of dead and dying skeletal prisoners.