Photo taken by Sanders.
Location: Headquarters Building
Bamberg, Germany
1946
Ed Bowley hanging posters.
I don't have any
documentation on Walter
Sanders arrival, but it was sometime after Gen. Harmon relocated in our
Headquarters building...Major Hay was our PRO at the time...and he
introduced
me to Sanders....I didn't have a clue who he was, except he took photos
for Life and they were going to do a spread for the magazine back
home...I
later found out that he was a photographer
extroadinaire in the ETO..during the
war..
The session took less than
two days
and he was gone...the man worked very
fast...I don't recall how I got the
four prints he made of me in the
office..with the poster..but they are
from his negatives, I'm sure..This
session is the one they want to charge
me lOO bucks a print from the
archives...
I did not contribute any
input except
to answer questions and show him around
where ever he wanted to go. You
must remember it has been 55 years..and some of this is a little
foggy..If
only I could see a contact sheet of his
prints..it would bring back many
memories..but
they would want an arm and a
leg for this I'm sure...
Sanders has passed away ...He
must have
been in his
80's as I am...since I recall him as
a young man...
Ed.
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To the best of my knowledge, they were American cycles ..
Gen. Harmon made the inspection...
The photo of this motorcycle
inspection is my work...out of the top floor of the
building...I used an Argus 35
mm, a Kodak Speed Graphic 3.5 with film packs.
ED