This is the first of the 20 or so pages of notes that Vandivert typed up for LIFE’s editors back in New York, describing not only the pictures that were taken on each roll of film, but also the mood and the atmosphere pervading his experience of examining Hitler’s bunker and the Reich Chancellery grounds. (An example of Vandivert’s terse, vivid notations: “… view of chancellery palace … This is completely bombed, burned, and shelled to hell.”)

(Source: TIME)

This is the first of the 20 or so pages of notes that Vandivert typed up for LIFE’s editors back in New York, describing not only the pictures that were taken on each roll of film, but also the mood and the atmosphere pervading his experience of examining Hitler’s bunker and the Reich Chancellery grounds. (An example of Vandivert’s terse, vivid notations: “… view of chancellery palace … This is completely bombed, burned, and shelled to hell.”)

(Source: TIME)