Wendell D. Rimer Papers
Scope and Contents
The Wendell D. Rimer papers are an engrossing collection of materials that chronicle Rimer’s life from 1940 when he was stationed at Camp Beauregard, Louisiana to August of 1945, shortly before he returned home from Europe. Over half of the collection consists of correspondence and the remainder consists of photos, postcards, and service medals.
Dates
- Creation: 1940-1945
Conditions Governing Access
Noncirculating; available for research.
Conditions Governing Use
This collection may be protected from unauthorized copying by the Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code).
Biographical / Historical
Mr. Wendell D. Rimer was born on August 14, 1918 in Mishawaka, Indiana. He grew up on a farm in the small town of Rimer, Ohio (named for his family) near Lima. The town of Rimer is still there today. His father, Oscar H. Rimer, lost everything during the Depression. The family had to move to his grandfather’s farm, where three families lived on his grandfather’s $80-a-month Civil War pension.
Rimer graduated valedictorian of his high school in 1935. He attended business college in Lima, which cost $25 a month. His father, who was a school bus driver by this time, gave him his total monthly income of $25 so he could attend school, which Rimer did for 14 months. He learned typing, shorthand at 120 words per minute, bookkeeping, and accounting.
In August 1940 the army was recruiting men with office skills, and a recruiter convinced Rimer to enlist. He went by bus and trolley to Fort Hayes in Columbus, Ohio, where he was assigned to office work immediately under the supervision of a General Hodges.
In October 1940 the first peacetime draft began in the United States. General Courtney B. Hodges requested volunteers for V Corps to train the National Guard in Louisiana. Rimer signed on and was promoted to staff sergeant. He drove his 1937 Ford to Alexandria, Louisiana. He was stationed at Fort Beauregard, where headquarters for some of the activities and units at Fort Polk and Camp Shelby were located. Units of the Ohio National Guard were stationed at Camp Shelby, Mississippi. At the end of World War II Rimer had been promoted to Master Sergeant with seven service stripes on his sleeve.
While stationed in Alexandria, Rimer met his wife, Faye Lott from Petal, Mississippi. They met in Sunday school class and were married after only six months on December 13, 1941. They got a small apartment, but unfortunately they were only in it for two nights before Rimer was sent to Northern Ireland. Wendell and Faye are the parents of two children. Their son, Dean, was born while Rimer was in Europe. Their daughter, Melva, was born after the war was over.
In December 1942, the U.S. Army Claims Commission was established in four sections of Britain: Chester, Edinburgh, Manchester, and London. Rimer was sent to Chester and he “enjoyed every minute” of his stay there. However, after the Normandy Invasion, the amount of work the Claims Commission had was considerably less. The four sections were consolidated into one in London and Rimer was made Chief Clerk.
In November 1944 Rimer was declared “unassigned,” and was then moved to France. While others were being handed rifles and being sent to the front, Rimer got by on his office skills. He said that his office skills “got him through World War II.” He was reclassified “Key Type Personnel” or K.T.P. and shortly after sent to Paris to work for the War Crimes Investigating Commission.
According to Rimer, the team was self-sufficient and mobile. The team consisted of Major Fulton C. Vowell, Captain Robert G. McCarty, an Army pathologist—Captain Herman Bolker—who performed the autopsies, one French interpreter, one German interpreter, Johnny Gmeineweisser who was also a cook and “good buddy” to Rimer, two drivers, a Jewish-American warrant officer, David Panitz, and other enlisted men. It was the team’s job to investigate burial sites, slave labor camps, and POW camps in Germany.
As secretary on the War Crimes Investigating Team, it was Rimer’s job to accompany team pathologist Bolker and take notes. Rimer would transcribe Bolker’s dictations while Bolker conducted autopsies. Rimer also took witness depositions.
The team investigated sites of possible war crimes in Hadamar, Augsburg, Nordhausen, and Berga-am-Elster, Germany. Berga-am-Elster was the site of a prisoner-of-war camp that housed U.S. prisoners forced to dig a bomb factory site in the side of a mountain. The investigating team also arrived at one slave labor camp near Nordhausen shortly after SS troops had barricaded the prisoners inside the camp’s barracks and set fire to the buildings.
After he returned from Augsburg, Rimer was sent home. The trip home included stops in Casablanca and Miami and included a ride on a cattle train that Rimer called “the longest ride of my life.” He was discharged at Camp Shelby, where he met his three-year-old son for the first time.
After the war Rimer returned to Petal, Mississippi. He worked for Gulf Oil and the Merchants Company. He retired in 1982. Faye Rimer worked in the University of Southern Mississippi Post Office until she retired. Both of their children graduated from William Carey College in Hattiesburg—Dean in 1965 and Melva in 1970. Melva also earned her Masters Degree at Mississippi College in 1980.
Extent
.90 Cubic Feet : MC2.D15
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
The collection has been divided into two series.
Series I: Wendell Rimer’s Service in Louisiana (1940-1941), contains materials relating to Wendell Rimer’s service prior to being sent to Northern Ireland after the attack on Pearl Harbor. The series includes Rimer’s correspondence to his family in Ohio and photographs taken near Alexandria, Louisiana.
The photographs are mostly of the camp, the enlisted men, and inductees. There are also photographs of tanks. In Rimer’s correspondence, he writes about friends in his unit as well as the many trips he took off the base. Through these letters the reader also finds Rimer’s growing interest in his future wife, Faye. The letters are happy ones. Rimer’s time spent in Louisiana seemed to be a peaceful, fun time for him.
Series II: Wendell Rimer’s Service in Europe (1942-1945), contains the bulk of the collection of correspondence from Rimer to his family in Ohio. Rimer’s letters to his family show much enthusiasm over receiving letters and gifts from family and friends. His humor comes through as he often writes jokes or teases his family members. His love for his wife is ever-apparent. She is often the most written about topic in his letters. As the correspondence progresses, Rimer shows a growing desire to return home to his family. The letters do not talk a lot about the war. He often wrote about where he had been traveling on leave, whom he had visited, and how much he missed his family. The letters went through a censor and any sensitive information was blacked out.
Series II also contains a number of photographs documenting Rimer’s time in Europe, including group pictures taken of the men with whom he served, and pictures of the homes and cities he visited. Many of the pictures are of disturbing images, which portray Captain Bolker performing autopsies on the dead found at the burial sites, slave labor camps, and prisoner-of-war camps investigated by the War Crimes Investigating Team. For example, there are a series of photographs that document the situation at a concentration camp near Nordhausen, Germany. The victims in the photographs died after having been burned alive in buildings that been barricaded by SS guards. One photograph in this series depicts the only Italian soldier that survived the camp.
In addition, Series II contains picture postcards that Rimer collected as well as his service medals. Rimer also donated a German children’s book, "Mein Tierbilderbuch". It was removed from this collection and transferred to the de Grummond Collection.
Provenance
Materials in this collection were generated and/or collected by Mr. Wendell D. Rimer and donated June 27, 1996.
Existence and Location of Copies
For Digitized Materials from this collection, see: EXTERNAL DOCUMENTS link at bottom of page.
Sources
Case file
Contents of the collection
Correspondence with Wendell D. Rimer
Photograph Log
M394-2 Soldier doing laundry in South Louisiana 2 ¾” x 2 ¼” B &W 1940 (Box 1, Folder 4)
M394-3 Soldier doing laundry in South Louisiana 2 ¾” x 2 ¼” B &W 1940 (Box 1, Folder 4)
M394-4 Soldier doing laundry in South Louisiana 2 ¾” x 2 ¼” B &W 1940 (Box 1, Folder 4)
M394-5 Soldier doing laundry in South Louisiana (Box 1, Folder 4)
M394-6 Soldier washing clothes 2 ¾” x 2 ¼” B &W 1940 (Box 1, Folder 4)
M394-7 Hanging Laundry 2 ¾” x 2 ¼” B &W 1940 (Box 1, Folder 4)
M394-8 Group of soldiers 2 ¾” x 2 ¼” B &W 1940 (Box 1, Folder 4)
M394-9 Soldiers waiting in line for food 2 ¾” x 2 ¼” B &W 1940 (Box 1, Folder 4)
M394-10 Soldier eating 2 ¾” x 2 ¼” B &W 1940 (Box 1, Folder 4)
M394-11 Soldier eating 2 ¾” x 2 ¼” B &W 1940 (Box 1, Folder 4)
M394-12 Building steps 2 ¾” x 2 ¼” B &W 1940 (Box 1, Folder 4)
M394-13 Soldier standing in field 2 ¾” x 2 ¼” B &W 1940 (Box 1, Folder 4)
M394-14 Two soldiers 2 ¾” x 2 ¼” B &W 1940 (Box 1, Folder 4)
M394-15 Soldier with tanks 2 ¾” x 2 ¼” B &W 1940 (Box 1, Folder 4)
M394-16 Soldier with tanks 2 ¾” x 2 ¼” B &W 1940 (Box 1, Folder 4)
M394-17 Soldier in window of building 2 ¾” x 2 ¼” B &W 1940 (Box 1, Folder 4)
M394-18 Building 2 ¾” x 2 ¼” B &W 1940 (Box 1, Folder 4)
M394-19 Soldiers and building 2 ¾” x 2 ¼” B &W 1940 (Box 1, Folder 4)
M394-20 Building 2 ¾” x 2 ¼” B &W 1940 (Box 1, Folder 4)
M394-21 Soldier shaving 2 ¾” x 2 ¼” B &W 1940 (Box 1, Folder 4)
M394-22 Soldiers and truck 2 ¾” x 2 ¼” B &W 1940 (Box 1, Folder 4)
M394-23 Soldiers hanging a sign 2 ¾” x 2 ¼” B &W 1940 (Box 1, Folder 4)
M394-24 Road 3 ½” x 3” B &W 1940 (Box 1, Folder 4)
M394-25 Claims Commission-enlisted men (Rimer in front row, 3rd from left), North Ireland/England 5” x 4” (framed) B & W 1942 (Box 2, Folder 6)
M394-26 Claims Commission-officers, North Ireland/England 5” x 4” (framed) B & W 1942 (Box 2, Folder 6)
M394-27 Claims Commission-enlisted men (Rimer in front row, 3rd from left), North Ireland/England 5” x 4” B & W 1942 (Box 2, Folder 7)
M394-28 Claims Commission-officers, North Ireland/England 5” x 4” B & W 1942 (Box 2, Folder 7)
M394-29 Rec room in stable of mansion (Rimer at bottom left; blond man at small white table is “Al” from New Orleans), Belfast, Ireland 5” x 4” B & W Jan-Dec, 1942 (Box 2, Folder 7)
M394-30 Rimer’s office (Rimer in middle), Northern Ireland 5” x 4” B & W 1942 (Box 2, Folder 7)
M394-31 Rimer’s office (Seated at desk-Sgt. Erle Wilson; standing-Cpl. Lynwood Dolan; typing-Rimer), Northern Ireland 5” x 4” B & W Oct. 20, 1942 (Box 2, Folder 7)
M394-32 Group photo on visit to Luxembourg (Rimer 4th from left; team pathologist Capt. Herman Bolker 4th from right; Lt. __ 2nd from right immigrated to Israel after the war) 5” x 4” B & W 1945 (Box 2, Folder 7)
M394-33 Group photo on visit to Luxembourg (Rimer 4th from left) 5” x 4” B & W 1945 (Box 2, Folder 7)
M394-34 Group photo on visit to Luxembourg (Rimer 3rd from left) 5” x 4” B & W 1945 (Box 2, Folder 7)
M394-35 Group photo on visit to Luxembourg (Rimer 2nd from left) 5” x 4” B & W 1945 (Box 2, Folder 7)
M394-36 Group photo in front of Hotel Vauban (Rimer 5th from left) 5” x 4” B & W 1945 (Box 2, Folder 7)
M394-37 Team entering Germany (Rimer 1st from left) 5” x 4” B & W 1945 (Box 2, Folder 7)
M394-38 Team in office (Rimer Back row, 2nd from left; Bolker Bottom row, 3rd from left) 5” x 4” B & W 1945 (Box 2, Folder 7)
M394-39 Group photo (Full list of names on back of photo; Rimer 2nd from right) 5” x 4” B & W 1945 (Box 2, Folder 7)
M394-40 House, Location unsure 5” x 4” B & W 1945 (Box 2, Folder 7)
M394-41 Mansion where team was billeted, Augsburg, Germany 5 ½” x 4 ¼” B & W 1945 (Box 2, Folder 7)
M394-42 Statue of dog on grounds, Augsburg, Germany 5 ½” x 4 ¼” B & W 1945 (Box 2, Folder 7)
M394-43 Rhine River behind mansion, Augsburg, Germany 5” x 4” B & W 1945 (Box 2, Folder 7)
M394-44 Rhine River behind mansion, Augsburg, Germany 5 ½” x 4 ¼” B & W 1945 (Box 2, Folder 7)
M394-45 Two team members walking behind mansion, Augsburg, Germany 5” x 3 ¾” B & W 1945 (Box 2, Folder 7)
M394-46 Major Fulton C. Vowell’s 40th birthday party (L to R-Rimer 2nd; Bolker 4th; Vowell 6th; German interpreter, cook, and Rimer’s friend-Johnny Gmeineweisser 7th; Capt. Robert G. McCarty 11th; Seated at right- Jewish-American Warrant Officer David Panitz), Augsburg, Germany 5 ¼” x 4 ¼” B & W 1945 (Box 2, Folder 7)
M394-47 Major Vowell’s 40th birthday party ( L to R- Front row: Capt. McCarty; Bolker; Vowell cutting cake; Back row: Gmeineweisser 2nd; Rimer 3rd), Augsburg, Germany 5 ¾” x 4” B & W 1945 (Box 2, Folder 7)
M394-48 Major Vowell’s 40th birthday party (L to R-Gmeineweisser 2nd; Rimer 4th; McCarty 5th; Vowell 6th; Panitz 7th), Augsburg, Germany 7” x 4 ½” B & W 1945 (Box 2, Folder 7)
M394-49 Team pathologist, Capt. Herman Bolker 2 ½” x 2 ¼” B & W 1945 (Box 2, Folder 7)
M394-50 Nurse that gave lethal injections to slave laborers who were worked to exhaustion, Hadamar, Germany 5” x 4” B & W 1945 (Box 2, Folder 7)
M394-51 “Half-wit” that buried the bodies at Hadamar and later assisted the team . He is seen here using a saw on a skull, Hadamar, Germany 5” x 4” B & W 1945 (Box 2, Folder 7)
M394-52 Dr. Bolker performing an autopsy, Hadamar, Germany 5” x 3 ½” B & W 1945 (Box 2, Folder 7)
M394-53 Dr. Bolker performing an autopsy, Hadamar, Germany 5” x 4” B & W 1945 (Box 2, Folder 7)
M394-54 Dr. Bolker performing an autopsy, Hadamar, Germany 5” x 4” B & W 1945 (Box 2, Folder 7)
M394-55 Dr. Bolker performing an autopsy, Hadamar, Germany 5” x 4” B & W 1945 (Box 2, Folder 7)
M394-56 Insane asylum that was the site of the mass murders, Hadamar, Germany 5” x 3 ½” B & W 1945 (Box 2, Folder 7)
M394-57 Basement contained prisoners clothes, Hadamar, Germany 5” x 4” B & W 1945 (Box 2, Folder 7)
M394-58 Graves of the slave laborers dug by locals, Hadamar, Germany 5” x 4” B & W 1945 (Box 2, Folder 7)
M394-59 Very orderly array of graves with wooden crosses at the head of each. Graves hidden behind a14-foot wall at left. 481 graves, but over 5,000 buried, Hadamar, Germany 5” x 4” B & W 1945 (Box 2, Folder 7)
M394-60 Team disinterring bodies for autopsies, Hadamar, Germany 5” x 4” B & W 1945 (Box 2, Folder 7)
M394-61 Team disinterring bodies for autopsies, Hadamar, Germany 5” x 4” B & W 1945 (Box 2, Folder 7)
M394-62 Team disinterring bodies for autopsies, Hadamar, Germany 5” x 4” B & W 1945 (Box 2, Folder 7)
M394-63 Disinterred bodies, Hadamar, Germany 4 ½” x 3 ½” B & W 1945 (Box 2, Folder 7)
M394-64 Disinterred bodies, Hadamar, Germany 4 ½” x 3 ½” B & W 1945 (Box 2, Folder 7)
M394-65 Disinterred bodies, Hadamar, Germany 4 ½” x 3 ½” B & W 1945 (Box 2, Folder 7)
M394-66 Disinterred bodies, Hadamar, Germany 5” x 4” B & W 1945 (Box 2, Folder 7)
M394-67 Dr. Bolker performing autopsies, Hadamar, Germany 5” x 4” B & W 1945 (Box 2, Folder 7)
M394-68 Concentration camp, near Nordhausen, Germany 4 ½” x 3 ½” B & W 1945 (Box 2, Folder 7)
M394-69 Burned body at camp, near Nordhausen, Germany 5” x 4” B & W 1945 (Box 2, Folder 7)
M394-70 Burned body at camp, near Nordhausen, Germany 5” x 4” B & W 1945 (Box 2, Folder 7)
M394-71 Burned bodies at camp. Guards barricaded prisoners in buildings and set them on fire when they heard U.S. guns approaching. Bodies found all over camp, near Nordhausen, Germany 5” x 4” B & W 1945 (Box 2, Folder 7)
M394-72 Dr. Bolker examining body of an Italian soldier at camp (Man in center was only surviving Italian soldier at the camp), near Nordhausen, Germany 5” x 4” B & W 1945 (Box 2, Folder 7)
M394-73 Body of Italian soldier with passport, near Nordhausen, Germany 4 ¼” x 3 ¼” B & W 1945 (Box 2, Folder 7)
M394-74 Dr. Bolker examining bodies, near Nordhausen, Germany 5” x 4” B & W 1945 (Box 2, Folder 7)
M394-75 Dr. Bolker performing an autopsy, near Nordhausen, Germany 4 ¼” x 3 ¼” B & W 1945 (Box 2, Folder 7)
M394-76 Dr. Bolker performing an autopsy, near Nordhausen, Germany 5” x 4” B & W 1945 (Box 2, Folder 7)
M394-77 Soldier’s body on fence, near Nordhausen, Germany 5” x 4” B & W 1945 (Box 2, Folder 7)
M394-78 Burned body at camp, near Nordhausen, Germany 5 ¼” x 4” B & W 1945 (Box 2, Folder 7)
M394-79 Concentration camp, Nordhausen, Germany 2 ½” x 2 ¼” B & W 1945 (Box 2, Folder 7)
M394-80 Concentration camp, Nordhausen, Germany 2 ½” x 2 ¼” B & W 1945 (Box 2, Folder 7)
M394-81 Bodies in concentration camp, Nordhausen, Germany 2 ½” x 2 ½” B & W 1945 (Box 2, Folder 7)
M394-82 Ovens with human remains in concentration camp, Nordhausen, Germany 5” x 4” B & W 1945 (Box 2, Folder 7)
M394-83 Dr. Bolker examining corpse of U.S. airman buried by locals after his plane was shot down, Germany 5 ½” x 3 ½” B & W 1945 (Box 2, Folder 8)
M394-84 Dr. Bolker examining corpse of U.S. airman buried by locals after his plane was shot down, Germany 9 ¼” x 7” B & W 1945 (Box 2, Folder 8)
M394-85 Negative of Major Fulton C. Vowell at POW graves, Berga-am-Elster, Germany 3” x 2 ½” B & W May 30, 1945 (Box 2, Folder 8)
M394-86 Major Fulton C. Vowell at POW graves, Berga-am-Elster, Germany, May 30, 1945. 5” x 4” B & W May 30, 1945 (Box 2, Folder 8)
M394-87 Graves of American POWs, Berga-am-Elster, Germany 5” x 4” B & W May 30, 1945 (Box 2, Folder 8)
M394-88 Major Fulton C. Vowell (right) and Capt. Robert G. McCarty inspecting barracks which housed U.S. prisoners, Berga-am-Elster, Germany 4 ½” x 3 ½” B & W 1945 (Box 2, Folder 8)
M394-89 U.S. POW camp, Berga-am-Elster, Germany 5” x 4” B & W 1945 (Box 2, Folder 8)
M394-90 Scene of hill, River Elster, and entrances to 17 tunnels where American POWs worked, Berga-am-Elster, Germany 5” x 4” B & W June 1, 1945 (Box 2, Folder 8)
M394-91 U.S. POW camp, Berga-am-Elster, Germany 5” x 4” B & W 1945 (Box 2, Folder 8)
M394-92 U.S. POW camp; bomb factory in side of mountain, Berga-am-Elster, Germany 5” x 4” B & W 1945 (Box 2, Folder 8)
M394-93 Site of the construction planned for an underground gasoline refinery, Berga-am-Elster, Germany, 1945. 5 ½” x 3 ½” B & W 1945 (Box 2, Folder 8)
M394-94 Bomb factory in mountain, Berga-am-Elster, Germany, 1945. 5” x 4” B & W 1945 (Box 2, Folder 8)
M394-95 Bomb factory in mountain, Berga-am-Elster, Germany 4 ½” x 3 ½” B & W 1945 (Box 2, Folder 8)
M394-96 One of the tunnels U.S. POWs worked in (L to R-Private Robert Custer and Master Sgt. W. D. Rimer), Berga-am-Elster, Germany 4 ½” x 3 ½” B & W June 1, 1945 (Box 2, Folder 8)
M394-97 Local Nazi party leaders at work exhuming bodies of U.S. POWs. All POWs buried there died of pneumonia (rock dust in lungs), Berga-am-Elster, Germany 5 ½” x 3 ½” B & W June 4, 1945 (Box 2, Folder 8)
M394-98 Body being examined, Berga-am-Elster, Germany 4 ¾” x 3 ½” B & W 1945 (Box 2, Folder 8)
M394-99 U.S. POW camp, Berga-am-Elster, Germany 9 ¼” x 7” B & W 1945 (Box 2, Folder 8)
M394-100 U.S. POW camp, Berga-am-Elster, Germany 9 ¼” x 7” B & W 1945 (Box 2, Folder 8)
M394-101 American prisoners worked in 17 of these tunnels until liberated by U.S. troops (Rimer at left), Berga-am-Elster, Germany 9 ¼” x 7” B & W 1945 (Box 2, Folder 8)
M394-102 U.S. POW camp, Berga-am-Elster, Germany 9 ¼” x 7” B & W 1945 (Box 2, Folder 8)
M394-103 Former Nazi party leaders digging up U.S. soldiers just outside of cemetery, Berga-am-Elster, Germany 9 ¼” x 7” B & W June 4, 1945 (Box 2, Folder 8)
M394-104 U.S. POW camp, Germany 5 ½” x 4” B & W 1945 (Box 2, Folder 8)
M394-105 Inside barracks at U.S. POW camp, Germany 5” x 4” B & W 1945 (Box 2, Folder 8)
M394-106 Bunks in barracks of U.S. POW camp, Germany 5” x 4” B & W 1945 (Box 2, Folder 8)
M394-107 Red Cross packages, Germany 4 ½” x 3 ½” B & W 1945 (Box 2, Folder 8)
M394-108 Bunks at U.S. POW camp, Germany 5” x 4” B & W 1945 (Box 2, Folder 8)
M394-109 Bunks in barracks of U.S. POW camp, Germany 5” x 4” B & W 1945 (Box 2, Folder 8)
M394-110 Bunks in barracks of U.S. POW camp, Germany 9 ¼” x 7” B & W 1945 (Box 2, Folder 8)
M394-111 Dr. Bolker performing an autopsy, Germany 5” x 4” B & W 1945 (Box 2, Folder 8)
M394-112 Dr. Bolker performing an autopsy, Germany 5” x 4” B & W 1945 (Box 2, Folder 8)
M394-113 Dr. Bolker performing an autopsy, Germany 5” x 4” B & W 1945 (Box 2, Folder 8)
M394-114 Dr. Bolker performing an autopsy, Germany 5” x 4” B & W 1945 (Box 2, Folder 8)
M394-115 Building, Germany 9 ¼” x 7” B & W 1945 (Box 2, Folder 8)
M394-116 The Team (L to R-Unsure, Elmore L. Martin, John Gmeineweisser, David Panitz, W. D. Rimer, Robert G. McCarty, Fulton C. Vowell, and Unsure), Budeshedt (Spelling?) 5” x 4” B & W 1945 (Box 2, Folder 8)
M394-117 Hitler’s residence (trip organized by Major Vowell), Berchtesgarten, Germany 5 ½” x 3 ½” B & W July 4, 1945 (Box 2, Folder 9)
M394-118 Hitler’s residence, Berchtesgarten, Germany 5 ½” x 3 ½” B & W July 4, 1945 (Box 2, Folder 9)
M394-119 Hitler’s residence (Rimer 3rd from left), Berchtesgarten, Germany 5 ½” x 3 ½” B & W July 4, 1945 (Box 2, Folder 9)
M394-120 Hitler’s residence (Rimer last on the right), Berchtesgarten, Germany 5 ½” x 3 ½” B & W July 4, 1945 (Box 2, Folder 9)
M394-121 Hitler’s residence, Berchtesgarten, Germany 5 ½” x 3 ½” B & W July 4, 1945 (Box 2, Folder 9)
M394-122 Hitler’s residence, Berchtesgarten, Germany 5 ½” x 3 ½” B & W July 4, 1945 (Box 2, Folder 9)
M394-123 Mountains, view from Berchtesgarten, Germany 5 ½” x 3 ½” B & W July 4, 1945 (Box 2, Folder 9)
M394-124 Valley, view from Berchtesgarten, Germany 5 ½” x 3 ½” B & W July 4, 1945 (Box 2, Folder 9)
M394-125 The Team with Russian soldiers (Rimer Back row, 6th from left), Germany 5 ½” x 3 ½” B & W July 8, 1945 (Box 2, Folder 9)
M394-126 The Danube River from autobohn bridge, Ingelstadt, Germany 5 ½” x 3 ½” B & W July 8, 1945 (Box 2, Folder 9)
M394-127 The Team (Front row: Rimer 3rd from left; Back row: Panitz 1st, McCarty 3rd, Vowell 5th, Bolker 7th), Germany 5 ½” x 3 ½” B & W 1945 (Box 2, Folder 9)
M394-128 Postcard depicting a large house or castle 5 ½” x 3 ½” B & W 1945 (Box 2, Folder 9)
M394-129 Tracks or possibly a dam, Luxembourg 5 ½” x 3 ½” B & W 1945 (Box 2, Folder 9)
M394-130 Tracks or possibly a dam, Luxembourg 5 ½” x 3 ½” B & W 1945 (Box 2, Folder 9)
M394-131 Postcard depicting a castle 5 ½” x 3 ½” Color 1945 (Box 2, Folder 9)
M394-132 Postcard depicting a castle 5 ½” x 3 ½” Color 1945 (Box 2, Folder 9)
- Title
- Wendell D. Rimer Papers
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Historical Manuscripts and Photographs Repository
118 College Drive - 5148
Hattiesburg MS 39406-0001
601.266.4345
