Photography Collections

While many World War II photographs were taken by U.S. Army Signal Corps photographers, some soldiers from the 103rd also captured photos with their own cameras. While these personal cameras often produced relatively low quality images, they offer a personal and immediate view of the soldier’s time in the 103rd. Like keeping a written diary during combat, carrying a personal camera and taking photographs in enemy territory was against Army regulations. Because of this official ban, many of the following photographs date either from the training phase (1942-1944) or the post-combat occupation duties (post-May 1945) of 103rd Infantry Division’s story. As such, they often highlight locations such as Camp Claiborne, Camp Howze, or the occupation area around Innsbruck, Austria. Featured below are photography albums that contain not only collections of photographs, but in many cases labels noting which individual 103rd soldiers were featured in the images.

This page will be updated to include more personal 103rd Division photo albums in the future, as well as a collection of individual photographs. In addition to these digitized albums, there are also many other photographs that are part of the archival 103rd Infantry Division Collection, housed at the University of Southern Mississippi’s Department of Special Collections. If you have a 103rd photo album or individual photos (or a single photo), we would greatly appreciate any and all donations; we can accept original albums or photos or high quality scans. If you have any photographs or scans that you would like to donate to the 103rd Infantry Division Digital Humanities Project, please see our donation page for more details or contact us via the form on the bottom of this page.

Flynn Twin Photo Album (409th)

Vol. 1 │ Vol. 2 │ Vol. 3 │Vol. 4 │ Vol. 5

Wayne Peer Photo Album (410th)

Vol. 1 │ Vol. 2 │ Vol. 3 │Vol. 4