Darkness Visible

Charles Eugene Sumners, a still photographer in the 166th Signal Photo Company, offers his memories - some sad, some life-changing, some happy, but many horrendous - of World War II in this work. With the aid of hundreds of his photographs, he remembers Camp Crowder, Missouri, the trip overseas, England, the events at Saint Lo, Nehou, Avranches, Paris, Reims, the Battle of the Bulge, Saar and the Moselle Triangle, refugees, Germany under Hitler, General Patton at the Rhine, conflicts in Germany, the 6th Armored Division, labor camps, POWs, graves registration, souvenirs, the end of the war, going home, and going back to Europe after the war.