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Distro - "We Went Back" - David Seymour's Post-War Color Images 

David Seymour 

In the Spring of 1947 “This Week” assigned David “Chim” Seymour to photograph Europe during the second anniversary of the end of WWII. His route followed the same taken by the Western Allies during their drive toward Germany, from Normandy to Berlin.
Though the guns had long gone silent, the scars of war were still visible everywhere: damaged buildings, destroyed fortifications, and discarded tanks and airplanes. Civilians, many of which wore clothing left by the US Army, were still cleaning up and adapting to life in peace-time. It was during this trip that Seymour became concerned with children... 

David Seymour 1947

FRANCE. Normandy. 1947. Omaha Beach. 

David Seymour 1947

FRANCE. Normandy. 1947. Omaha Beach. 

David Seymour 1947

FRANCE. Normandy. 1947. Omaha Beach. Abandoned landing craft.... 

David Seymour 1947

FRANCE. Normandy. 1947. Omaha Beach. Abandoned landing craft.... 

David Seymour 1947

FRANCE. Normandy. 1947. Omaha Beach. Remains of temporary piers.... 

David Seymour 1947

FRANCE. Normandy. 1947. Omaha Beach. 

David Seymour 1947

FRANCE. Normandy. 1947. Omaha Beach. 

David Seymour 1947

FRANCE. Normandy. 1947. Omaha Beach. 

David Seymour 1947

FRANCE. Normandy. 1947. US Military cemetery above Omaha Beach.... 

David Seymour 1947

FRANCE. Normandy. 1947. US Military cemetery, Omaha Beach. 

David Seymour 1947

FRANCE. Normandy. 1947. US Military cemetery above Omaha Beach.... 

David Seymour 1947

FRANCE. Montebourg. 1947. WWI Memorial. 

David Seymour 1947

FRANCE. Montebourg. 1947. 

David Seymour 1947

FRANCE. Normandy. 1947. Woman holding a bottle of Calvados. 

David Seymour 1947

FRANCE. Normandy. 1947. 

David Seymour 1947

FRANCE. Normandy. 1947. A farmer wearing a discarded US Army... 

David Seymour 1947

FRANCE. Normandy. 1947. 

David Seymour 1947

FRANCE. Near Reims. 1947. A crashed US bomber in a farmer's field.... 

David Seymour 1947

HOLLAND. Nijmegen. 1947. 

David Seymour 1947

HOLLAND. Nijmegen. 1947. 

David Seymour 1947

HOLLAND. Nijmegen. 1947. 

David Seymour 1947

HOLLAND. Nijmegen. 1947. 

David Seymour 1947

HOLLAND. Nijmegen. 1947. 

David Seymour 1947

HOLLAND. Nijmegen. 1947. 

David Seymour 1947

BELGIUM. 1947. A destroyed German "Panther" tank. 

David Seymour 1947

BELGIUM. 1947. A destroyed German "Panther" tank. 

David Seymour 1947

HOLLAND. Margraten. 1947. US airborne cemetery. 

David Seymour 1947

HOLLAND. Margraten. 1947. US airborne cemetery. 

David Seymour 1947

BELGIUM. Bastogne. 1947. Temporary memorial for local war dead.... 

David Seymour 1947

BELGIUM. Bastogne. 1947. 

David Seymour 1947

BELGIUM. Bastogne. 1947. 

David Seymour 1947

BELGIUM. Bastogne. 1947. 

David Seymour 1947

BELGIUM. Bastogne. 1947. 

David Seymour 1947

BELGIUM. Bastogne. 1947. 

David Seymour 1947

BELGIUM. Bastogne. 1947. 

David Seymour 1947

BELGIUM. Bastogne. 1947. Discarded US Army clothing. 

David Seymour 1947

BELGIUM. Bastogne. 1947. 

David Seymour 1947

BELGIUM. Bastogne. 1947. 

David Seymour 1947

GERMANY. Near Aachen. 1947. A destroyed US tank in the Hurtgen... 

David Seymour 1947

GERMANY. Near Aachen. 1947. German grave in the Hurtgen Forest... 

David Seymour 1947

GERMANY. Near Aachen. 1947. Smashed fortification in the Hurtgen... 

David Seymour 1947

GERMANY. Near Aachen. 1947. The Siegfried Line, German-built... 

David Seymour 1947

GERMANY. Near Aachen. 1947. A young guard at the Siegfried Line,... 

David Seymour 1947

GERMANY. Berlin. 1947. 

David Seymour 1947

GERMANY. Berlin. 1947. 

David Seymour 1947

GERMANY. Berlin. 1947. 

David Seymour 1947

GERMANY. Berlin. 1947. The garden of the Reich Chancellery where... 

David Seymour 1947

GERMANY. Berlin. 1947. A German policeman points to the pit in... 

David Seymour 1947

GERMANY. Berlin. 1947. CBS reporter Bill Downs in front of the... 

David Seymour 1947

GERMANY. Berlin. 1947. An American Red Cross worker. 

David Seymour 1947

GERMANY. Berlin. 1947. 
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