Richard Beckman

An unknown United States soldier on a leave-action trip with the United States Army to Switzerland sits on stone railing outside of Chillon Castle on Lake Geneva in Montreux, Switzerland.

A horse drawn carriage is parked in the street in the town of Interlaken, Switzerland.

This is an exterior View of the Hotel Victoria in Montreux, Switzerland.

This is a view of Hotel Beau Sejuir against the Swiss Alps taken from the train from Interlaken to Montreux, Switzerland.

An unknown Swiss soldier rides on horseback in Meiringen, Switzerland.

This is a view from the train as United States soldiers on a leave-action trip in Switzerland head to the Aare Gorge.

View of Lake Lucerne from the balcony of the Schweizerhof Hotel in Lucerne, Switzerland. This is the hotel that Richard Beckman stayed in as part of a United States Army leave-action trip to Switzerland.

A cable car descends down the track from Glion to Montreux, Switzerland.

The Aare Gorge is a section of the river Aare that carves through a limestone ridge near the town of Meiringen, Switzerland.

This is a view of Lake Geneva from Hotel Victoria in Montreux, Switzerland