A neat little set of 3 early postwar postcard size official 'Arnhem AFPU (Army Film and Photo Unit)' photographs published by the MOD (Ministry of Defence) in 1945

This is a perfect little set, comprising of 3 official published so called 'Arnhem' photographs taken by 2 of the 3 War Correspondents who were attached to the Public Relations team of the 1st Airborne Division and were tasked to film and photograph the fighting during the Battle of Arnhem. Just after the war, August or September 1945, the British MOD (Ministry of Defence) published a serie of photographs consiting of around 58 (exact number unknown) photographs taken by 2 of the 3 War Correspondents, Sergeant Dennis Smith and Sergeant Mike Lewis. Sergeant Norman Walker, a AFPU (Army Film and Photo Unit) member as well took only some cine images with his 35mm Bell & Howell. The idea of the MOD was that public could buy these photographs as a sort of momento. The 3 photographs I'am offering for sale were taken by Smith and Lewis. The first one is showing 2 jeeps driving on the Utrechtseweg opposite the Hartenstein Hotel were now the Airborne Memorial is. The second photograph is of a group of lucky ones who came back after crossing the river. This one whas taken at the back of the girls college located at the Groesbeekseweg in Nijmegen. One of the man showing on this photograph is Sergeant J.W.Denning, HQ Platoon 9th Field Company, Royal Engineers (the man left of the 2 Engineers). The third photograph is showing Corporal Ron Mills of the 181st Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps kneeling beside the field grave of Trooper William Edmond who was a member of Number 9 Section, C Troop of the 1st Airborne Reconnaissance Corps. Edmond was one of the man who was wounded in the ambush of C Troop by SS Battalion Krafft on the sand tracks along side the railway line just east of Wolfheze on the first day. The field grave was located in the garden of a house on the Duitsekampweg in Wolfheze. The 3 photographs are voided of any writing beside there original BU numbers. This little set of original photographs are post card sized 13.8 x 8.4 cm and are hard to find these days.

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