eBay, from the estate of Günter Schlosser, 29th Panzer Grenadier. Resized to 1200 dpi and auto-sharpened to post here. Dave [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
First photos I had seen of boats carrying German troops to or from Messina, July or August 1943. eBay, from the estate of Günter Schlosser, 29th...
Sicily or Anzio. eBay. "From the estate of veteran of the army Obergefreiter Günter Schlosser. "1941 training as Kradmelder at d. III....
French light tank, WW II. Resized to 1200 dpi and auto-sharpened to post here. Dave [ATTACH]
Why are you interested in him, Mark? Dave
I won this on eBay. I thought it was a pretty cool photo. [ATTACH] Resized to 1000 dpi and auto-sharpened. Dave
I am puzzled that a soldier who enlisted in 1940 was still a private in 1945....
Lucchini is not listed in the 3 January 1944 roster of L Company. So we do not know when he was assigned to the 157th. Dave
He enlisted 16 September 1940 in Camden, New Jersey. He is listed in the 157th Adjutant's Notebook as a PVT when he was killed. Curiously, I did...
The damage to the turret in the Wikipedia photo of Normandie/Lorraine (#97) appears to match the damage in my photo. 97 NORMANDIE Dave
The only French tank I have found that resembles this is the Char 2C, the super-heavy tank of which ten were built. What do you think? Is this...
Hello, Ron. I belong to ww2talk, but it was easier to create a Facebook Group to upload the photos since they don't have to be resized. Dave
[ATTACH] Scott, How do you know that he joined the regiment prior to Reipertswiller? I found his CIB award, as expected, in G.O. 9, HQ,157th,...
14 July 1943, a black day for the United States Army 45th Infantry Division. Seventy-five years ago today, 14 July 1943, SGT Horace T. West, A...
"Max Fuchs was a rifleman in the First Infantry Division when it came ashore at Omaha Beach, the bloodiest sector of the D-Day invasion of...
"PHILADELPHIA — Marion Lane discovered the faded photograph after her stepmother died, crammed in a closet with her stepmother’s Sunday dresses....
Quite right, Tom. Minimizing glare was the biggest issue for me. Dave
"The design for the first national monument to Native American veterans in Washington came to Harvey Pratt in a dream. "Pratt, a 77-year-old...
I visited the U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, yesterday and viewed the "Photographic Record of 1st United States...
"Each Saturday, before Bob Dole sets off on his latest vocation, he has cornflakes, a little sugar on top, and a bottle of chocolate Boost. "It...
