Original 1947 Associated Press wire photo showing the U.S. Army Transport Joseph V. Connolly departing Antwerp, Belgium, carrying the first American World War II war dead from the European Theater to be returned to the United States for burial. The original AP caption is mounted below the photograph on black archival paper. Overall mounted size is approximately 8⅝ x 9 inches. Light handling wear, scattered surface marks, minor edge and corner wear, and light age toning consistent with age. From the archive of a Pittsburgh area newspaper.
