90th Infantry Division Pic of the Week: Elsdorf, Germany
February 7, 2011
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Hope all went well for you this weekend. More snow here in the Midwest. Time to get back to work, and to the 90th Infantry Division Picture of the Week.
I absolutely love this photo. For whatever reason, I think there’s a common misconception that foxholes were these nicely sculpted, plenty deep, often times timber-lined force fields capable of neutralizing any dangers that may have come calling. In talking with war vets from all conflicts, this romanticized version of a foxhole appears far from reality. Time typically did not permit it. Instead, the common thread running through most descriptions was that a foxhole simply be deep enough to get your body below the surface. Maybe we can blame it on the movies.
90th Infantry Division soldiers dig foxholes outside of Elsdorf, Germany - February 1945. (U.S. Army Signal Corps Photo, Courtesy National Archives)