Hill City Man Found Undeveloped Film in Gutted WW2 German Kiosk

As Bob Drew of Hill City fought his way across Europe through the Battle of the Bulge and across the Bridge at Remagen as part of the US Army’s 90th Infantry Division, he remembers stumbling into the bombed out ruins of a camera shop, only to find some undeveloped film in the rubble.

        After later developing the photos, pictures of daily street life in a not-yet-defeated Germany began to emerge, showing local soldiers in happier times. He says that the “The pictures of Nazi activity were found as undeveloped film in a small photo studio (camera shop) in Sulzbach-Rosenburg, Germany, so another GI and I, assigned to develop some other film, found it and developed it on June 6, 1945, two weeks after the war.”

      He shared other personally-taken photos from the European front with the Black Hills Veterans Writing Group at one time.   His photo collection captures him throughout the war zone.  Others reveal more leisure-time looks at a soldier’s life when not actually fighting.

       Pushing on into the Sudetenland, Drew was among those liberating the SS Flossenburg Prison Camp there.