Germaine KANOVA (Germaine Sophie Osstyn, aka - 1902-1975 - first female military war photographer). American anti-aircraft post deployed near the destroyed Mannheim bridge (World War II). Circa 1945. Period silver print. On verso, typescript annotations: "Between Ludwigshafen and Mannheim, the bridge over the Rhine was destroyed, and within 10 hours the Americans had erected another bridge. In the foreground, a D.C.A. quadruple machine gun (...) Photo S.C.A. Correspondante de Guerre Germaine Kanova". Visual size approx. 18.2 x 18 cm. Format with bottom margin approx. 24 x 18 cm. Traces of handling and marks on front and back.