Category: The Black Star Collection
Object Type: photograph
Photographer: DAVIS, Griffith J. "Griff"
Agency: ATLANTIC
Event Date: 1944-1946
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.123817

Inscriptions:
Verso, handwritten [in pencil]: 2nd W.W. / Norway / German / A; typed [on adhered label]: [German Inscription] / 4078// [struck through] / On the advance march to the northern polar-circle. / Since several days they are marching from combat to combat / [struck through]. But fights and combats become / scarce in the Norwegian mountains without trees and covered / with heath. And sometimes during the march one finds time / to read the newspapers from the home country. / KG / [German Inscription]; stamped: [star shape] / Credit: / ATLANTIC / from BLACK STAR / GRAYBAR BUILDING, NEW YORK; handwritten [in pencil]: H.

Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: WWII / WWII-NORWAY
Retouching: N