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508th IN FRANKFURT |
 Albert Koch
stands outside the apartments on what appears to have been a windy day |
508th Motor Pool
in Kronberg is guarded by a lone sentry |
 [l-r]
Robert L. Kishbaugh Co I, 1st Platoon,
1st Squad and O.B. Hill, Hq 1st, lounge outside Heddernheim apartments,
Sept. 1945.
(courtesy O.B. Hill collection) |
Looking 'Manly'
[l-r] "Brownie", Gordon C.
Johnson, Henry Luhrman at Heddernheim apartments
(courtesy O.B. Hill collection) |
 Mer-Men
Nine unidentified 508ers pose at the diving board of a pool presumed to
have been in Frankfort. Anyone recognize the scene or the faces? |
Brandenburg
[l-r] Charles W. Berryhill, Harry Metcalf and John Sivetz
(courtesy O.B. Hill collection)
|
 Leo B. Purdin (OK), O.B. Hill, and (Francis
E?) Kays (IL) in Verviers, Belgium, May 25, 1945.
Verviers is in Liège province so it is possible that they were in this area to
visit the Ardennes American Cemetery in Neupré, 12 miles southwest of Liège
(courtesy O.B. Hill collection) |
 "Kays"
obviously taken within moments of the other photo.
(courtesy O.B. Hill collection)
|
 Leo
B. Purdin
was fully identified in his photo
(Courtesy O.B. Hill collection)
|
 Harry
Hudec
togged for a practice jump, Thompson in hand
[courtesy of Michel Quilez] |
 Special
Delivery!
Darrell Apple, pictured, related: "The machine the horse is hitched to is a potato digger. As the rig moves
forward a whirling blade about 3' high cuts into the dirt and throws up
potatoes which are picked up and put into a following wagon.
There were about 6 women and an old man harvesting the field. Our
medic was watching one women because she was pregnant.
Quite suddenly the harvesting stopped and the women went into a
copse. Our medic said, 'I think she's delivering!!' He took his first aid
kit and ran down to the copse of trees. A short time later our medic
came back beaming 'I delivered a baby!'
The Germans put mother and child on to the wagon and they continued
their harvesting. The medic said the girl was seventeen and it was not
unusual for the farm women to have 7-month terms and easy deliveries."
(Photo and narrative courtesy Darryl Apple, taken on a routine patrol in Germany
about Oct, 1945) |
 Galvan and Williams
is the only annotation on this photo. Note that if Galvan was a
508er he has been transferred to the 101st as he has a Screaming Eagle patch
on his right shoulder. |
 Armenacho Again?
while this photo was uncaptioned, it appears to be the same man as that
in the prior photo |
Smith, Moline, Walter Barrett, Standing [l-r] Frank Hernandez [kneeling]
The four men were billeted together in a Heddernheim apartment.
Hernandez was with Barrett in Normandy when a third member of their patrol
was killed directly adjacent to Barrett.
(courtesy Walter Barrett) |
Company C Formation
September 13, 19445 at
Kronberg, Germany |
Busman's Holiday?
Two 508ers appear to have garnered a bus to drive to Holland in this post-war
photo. Perhaps they were going to visit the Nijmegen area and/or the
American cemetery. Location of the photo is unknown. |
