After he was drafted in April 1941, Harvey Weber, a New York photographer, became a first lieutenant in charge of the 166th Signal Photo Company assigned to the Third Army. Landing at Utah Beach on June 14,1944, with the 79th Infantry Division, he ended up a year later with the V Corps in Czechoslovakia. “We roamed about freely within the boundaries of our division or corps,” Weber recalls, “and if you kept your nose clean, it was really possible to get around.” Now retired as director of photography at Newsday, Weber recently dug through his files to unearth this impressive personal record of the European war that ended forty years ago this May. Nearly all of these photographs, reproduced with Weber’s own captions, are published here for the first time.
