Richard Beckman

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

A group of United States Army soldiers ascends a mountain by cog railway at the Aare Gorge in Switzerland.

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

United States soldiers visit the top of the Aare Gorge near the town of Meiringen, Switzerland while on a leave-action trip with the military. All are unidentified.

This is a view looking west-northwest at Lucerne, Switzerland from the Schweizerhof Hotel. This is the hotel that Richard Beckman stayed in as part of a United States Army leave-action trip to 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 the Swiss countryside from a train going from Lucerne to Meiringen, Switzerland.

This is a view of the Swiss countryside from a train from Lucerne to Meiringen, Switzerland.

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

This is a view looking south-southwest from the balcony of the Schweizerhof Hotel in Lucerne, Switzerland of the Hof Church and Lake Lucerne. This is the hotel that Richard Beckman stayed in as part of a United States Army leave-action trip to Switzerland.