Category Archives: photos

995th Field Artillery Battalion #3

Posted on November 3, 2019 by Lone_Sentry_Admin

Marty Factor and Harold “Jim” Dillon of the 995th Field Artillery Battalion. See also: 995th Field Artillery Battalion Photo Album. (Collection LoneSentry.com)

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995th Field Artillery Battalion #2

Posted on November 3, 2019 by Lone_Sentry_Admin

S/Sgt. Tex Roberson photographed with an 8-inch howitzer of the 995th Field Artillery Battalion. See also: 995th Field Artillery Battalion Photo Album. (Collection LoneSentry.com)

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995th Field Artillery Battalion #1

Posted on November 2, 2019 by Lone_Sentry_Admin

8-inch howitzers of the 995th Field Artillery Battalion. See also: 995th Field Artillery Battalion Photo Album. (Collection LoneSentry.com)

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407th Raiders Football Team

Posted on October 24, 2019 by Lone_Sentry_Admin

407th Raiders football team from the U.S. 407th Infantry Regiment Headquarters souvenir Thanksgiving Menu for the headquarters staff. At the time, the 407th Infantry Regiment was based in Coburg as part of the 102nd Infantry Division. 407th RAIDERS Our Football … Continue reading →

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Destroyed Railyards in Metz, France

Posted on October 10, 2019 by Lone_Sentry_Admin

Three small photographs from an unknown U.S. soldier of the destroyed railyards in Metz, France after the city’s capture by Allied forces.

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Ferry Operations

Posted on August 22, 2019 by Lone_Sentry_Admin

Taken from a photo album from an unidentified U.S. medical unit, this photograph shows a pair of military vehicles being transported across a river on a twin-pontoon ferry.

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M6 High-Speed Tractor

Posted on July 16, 2019 by Lone_Sentry_Admin

This photograph shows an M6 High-Speed Tractor, the heaviest of the U.S. artillery tractors, from an unknown artillery unit equipped with the 240mm howitzer. M6 High-Speed Tractor

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Post-war Bremen

Posted on June 12, 2019 by Lone_Sentry_Admin

A Sherman tank dozer does construction work on the golf course at the U.S. military base in Bremen in 1945 during the U.S. occupation. (Source: Bremen Port Command’s “GI Paradise”, February 1946.) Major General H. B. Vaughan, Jr., former Commanding … Continue reading →

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GI Style Center

Posted on May 21, 2019 by Lone_Sentry_Admin

The June 15, 1945 issue of Onaway, the official newspaper of the 76th Infantry Division, published in Germany described the rules for the three GI uniforms—service, field, and fatigue. Here Are Latest Tips From GI Style Center – What To … Continue reading →

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Captured Cars

Posted on May 5, 2019 by Lone_Sentry_Admin

Two photographs of German automobiles captured by the U.S. during WWII: the top photo is from an unknown U.S. unit and labelled “Howard Slova, 1st Cook, Germany, ’45 June”; the bottom photo is from an unknown unit of Ninth Air … Continue reading →

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