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Great pics, BZ. Here are a few more.
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The SS Morgantown Victory is launched at Fairfield, Maryland on February 5, 1945.
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The SS Morgantown Victory is launched at Fairfield, Maryland on February 5, 1945.
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Soldiers believed to be with the 83rd Infantry Division pose with a captured German tank. Date and location unknown.
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Most of these pics I am posting now are from the West Virginia University holdings.
Am American soldier poses with a captured German Armored Fighting Vehicle. Date and location are unknown.
Am American soldier poses with a captured German Armored Fighting Vehicle. Date and location are unknown.
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Troops of the Third U.S. Army crouch low as enemy fire opens during their crossings of the Rhine in assault boats at Oberwesel, Germany. The Army first crossed the river March 22, 1945. Some of the soldiers with M1 rifles have rifle grenade launchers attached.
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Soldiers of the 7th Armored Division check out the area near destroyed German trucks. Date and location unknown.
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The caption reads "A wrecked 105mm gun stands by the side of a road near Manhay, Belgium, where troops of the 83rd U.S. Infantry Division are advancing against the northern flank of the Nazi wedge. Manhay was wrested from enemy control December 28, 1944, by Allied forces driving toward the German St. Vith-Laroche supply road which was severed in several places by January 8, 1945, when 15 miles of the vital highway was under U.S. and British control. The Germans were thus left with only one major supply highway into their salient." (U.S. Signal Corps)
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Engineer of the 184th Infantry Regiment of the 7th Infantry Division, Walter Kuhn, is clearing the road with the SCR-625 mine detector with knocked out Type 95 Ha-Guo in the background on the island of Leyte, Philippines. 24th Dec 1944
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Douglas A-20G-30-DO Havoc "Tobias the Terrible" serial number 43-9477 of the 89th Bomb Squadron, 3rd Bomb Group, 5th Air Force, pulls out after skip bombing Taiei Maru off Wewak on 19 March 1944
Pilot Lieutenant John Soloc's engine was shot out as he came around to attack; losing power, he elected to continue the attack. As he delivered his bomb amidships, his wingtip and propeller struck the ship's mast. The hydraulics were shot out and the bomb bay doors could not be closed. Unable to gain altitude or speed, the A-20 crashed a few miles away. Soloc survived; his gunner, John L. Bradley, went down with the plane. After seventeen hours in the water, he was spotted by Lieutenant John P. "Jock" Henebry of the 90th Bomb Squadron. A US Navy Consolidated PBY-5 Catalina flying boat picked him up. Soloc was given a week's leave and returned to combat; he flew 61 missions by the end of the war.
After 5 years with the Air Force, he spent 15 years with the Reserves before retiring as a Major. He passed away in 2011, aged 90
Pilot Lieutenant John Soloc's engine was shot out as he came around to attack; losing power, he elected to continue the attack. As he delivered his bomb amidships, his wingtip and propeller struck the ship's mast. The hydraulics were shot out and the bomb bay doors could not be closed. Unable to gain altitude or speed, the A-20 crashed a few miles away. Soloc survived; his gunner, John L. Bradley, went down with the plane. After seventeen hours in the water, he was spotted by Lieutenant John P. "Jock" Henebry of the 90th Bomb Squadron. A US Navy Consolidated PBY-5 Catalina flying boat picked him up. Soloc was given a week's leave and returned to combat; he flew 61 missions by the end of the war.
After 5 years with the Air Force, he spent 15 years with the Reserves before retiring as a Major. He passed away in 2011, aged 90
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A rifleman of the 70th Division batters down a house door in a sniper search in the town of Wingen, France. German troops infiltrated American lines after the town was first captured, then they were driven out a second time. 17 January 1945.
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