Dennis Wile - Combat Photographer H & S Company

Wartime Brussels - by Dennis Wile
Dennis E. Wile was the official photographer for the 1270th Engineering Combat Battalion. He was one of many photographers ordered to Buchenwald to pictorially document the camp for all those that come after; Wile toured and photographed Buchenwald extensively, and his descriptions of his photographs reveal the conditions he found in all areas of the camp. His photos were exhibited in a show called The Blur of War: Images of World War II by Combat Photographer Dennis E. Wile, sponsored by the Fred Roberts Crawford Witness to the Holocaust Project, the Emory Archives and the Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library. The exhibit ran from Saturday, June 3, 2006 to Sunday, Oct. 15, 2006. After the war, Wile was a senior environmental assistant with the Environmental Protection Agency's Noise Program.






Self portrait of Wile seated at a desk. A portrait of his wife is visible in the background.
Bouchy Family in Paris - Published Resistance Newspaper - Voix du Maquis
U.S. Soldiers traveling from the United States to England aboard the liberty ship SS Sea Owl.
Back row, left to right: Hobson, Anderson, and Wile.
Front row, left to right: Punch, Kusiak, and Thumler.
Wile and Anderson's room, the Cairo Hotel, England, 1944
Soldiers relax around a piano at a Red Cross Center, England, 1944.
Views of the Cairo Hotel - W-S-M - Joseph Rothenbach sitting in front of Cairo Hotel
Soldiers at the Criterian Bar - W-S-M
Civilians listen to announcement of the end of the war, Family in Brussels Womens, Womens Land Army in England
Kitchen Staff - Cairo Hotel - W-S-M