The still photograph shows the main entrance gate of the US headquarters in Berlin, presumably taken in summer 1955. Behind a white barrier gate, a broad access road opens onto a representative two-story administrative building, above which the American flag waves in the wind. Two uniformed soldiers secure the entrance; in the foreground stands a VW transporter (Type 2, first generation), illustrating the vehicle traffic at the facility. The grounds, set among trees with well-maintained buildings, embody the institutional and military presence of the United States in the western part of the divided city. As an Allied headquarters, this site in 1955 was a central symbol of the Western protective power’s function in Berlin during the Cold War.