Paratroopers get final instructions before leaving for Normandy. "Deo Vindice"

Paratroopers Get Final Instructions

60-inch searchlight overlooking the Franklin Roosevelt Bridge over the Rhine River, Germany, April 1945.



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Arnold E. Samuelson commanded a unit of Army Signal Corps photographers during the Allied advance into Europe. He and his men took many of the Signal Corps photos featured on this site. "The brave ones shoot bullets, the crazy ones shoot film."