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Fox Hole Concerts on Omaha Beach
A photocopy of the 502nd Port Battalion band in Britain, sent to me by Sherwin Grannum.Photo courtesy of Robert Lessard. Just before the D-Day anniversary in June 2013 I got an email from Bob Lessard,...
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Docks in WWII Antwerp
From the collection of Theron P. Snell.Theron P. Snell shared two photos in Antwerp during WWII. They came from Maynard P. Short, who served in the 282nd Ord. Ballistic detachment. It looks like a...
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1943 ad for ALCO, maker of the M4 Sherman and M7 Priest
Schenectady helped turn the tide of at the Battle of El Alamein I recently found a 2-page advertisement that the American Locomotive Company (ALCO) placed in the May 1943 issue of the trade magazine...
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268th Port Company WWII Album
The company "chow hound" sitting on the bumper of a 2.5 ton GMC "Jimmy" truck.On eBay I recently found a WWII era scrap book which belonged to a guy who served in the 268th Port Company. My grandfather...
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A Short History of the 267th Port Company in WWII
Men of the 267th Port Company driving a 13th Port truck in Antwerp, Belgium. 1946?In the spring of 1945 Germany surrendered and their bombardment of Antwerp ended. That fall my grandfather's battalion...
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280th Port Company group photo
A couple months ago the granddaughter of Enrico "Rick" Starnadori emailed me. His 280th Port Company and my grandfather's 304th Port Company were in the same battalion. She was nice enough to scan her...
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Walter Kaplan and GIs at Club Chipper, WWII Antwerp
At Club Chipper December 16, 1945.The daughter of Walter Kaplan sent me this great photo today. It shows her dad and some friends at Club Chipper. This was an enlisted mens' club in Antwerp, which...
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1945 Groenplaats Exposition, Antwerp, Belgium
P-47 Thunderbolt from my grandfather's album.In a 2009 post I shared some photos from the 1945 Groenplaats Exposition held in Antwerp after the war. This was a display of Allied military equipment and...
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WWII Antwerp Dock Pass
A veteran of the 280th Port Company, David Cohen, sent me a scan of himself and the dock pass that he carried with him in the port of Antwerp during the war.
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In my continuing research in to WWII port battalions I requested the National Archives' historic report of the Army's African-American 494th Port Battalion. Among the papers was an October 1944 list of...
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5th Engineer Special Brigade headed to Omaha Beach
I found this color photo of members of the 5th Engineer Special Brigade in Weymouth, England. They're loading landing craft to head over to Omaha Beach, June 1944. You can lisence this image as a stock...
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US Bombers Raid Antwerp Plants, 1943
I bought a 1943 aerial photo of the Antwerp docks where my grandfather's battalion served in 1944–1946. The photo was taken by an American plane that was bombing the automobile factories that the...
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