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This is what you look like after 3 months of combat!!

Found out Krauts were using REAL BULLETS. I could have been hurt(LOL)

Me on the right. Other two Kaput.

Ages left to right at photo time 19-20-19!!!

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And you thought we were having fun!!!

Sgtleo

You have no idea how much I miss those two. (Both Kaput)

We may look young there but we were really very old men!!

age 19 actually = felt like 200+.

Found this other photo taken at our palatial quarters in Germany. You can see the

Army went to NO EXPENSE to provide the best. Some units actually had houses.

That is my Orderly Room(Co. HQ) behind me, it was where I lived,worked ,ate, slept

and the Co. Clerk was also in there. It was also the office for the Co. CO.

Took a carton of cigarettes to have the Krauts put a wooden floor in along with the

heating system. Look up at the pipe through the top of the tent. You could fry your

face while freezing your *** off with that stove

Notice my personal change with the war having ended and I was back to being

good looking again. Oh!! The good old days when I was 22 years old(LOL)

Sgtleo

Wow Sarge, great photos. Thanks a million! You handsome devil.

Your friends, did they survive the war?

Brooke

NO!!(enough said)

Sgtleo

 

You have no idea how much I miss those two. (Both Kaput)

 

We may look young there but we were really very old men!!

age 19 actually = felt like 200+.

 

 

Found this other photo taken at our palatial quarters in Germany. You can see the

Army went to NO EXPENSE to provide the best. Some units actually had houses.

 

That is my Orderly Room(Co. HQ) behind me, it was where I lived,worked ,ate, slept

and the Co. Clerk was also in there. It was also the office for the Co. CO.

 

Took a carton of cigarettes to have the Krauts put a wooden floor in along with the

heating system. Look up at the pipe through the top of the tent. You could fry your

face while freezing your *** off with that stove

 

Notice my personal change with the war having ended and I was back to being

good looking again. Oh!! The good old days when I was 22 years old(LOL)

 

Sgtleo

Nice pic. Sgtleo only thing I didn't see was mud on your boots and half way up your legs. Rocky

Rocky:-

First Picture was after we had a Portable Shower Unit service us in

a rest area and we were then issued new (cleaned up) uniforms.

Have no idea where original uniform was by then.

Second picture is after the war and Patton had us wear clean uniforms

every day or else!

Believe me, I went through my share of mud,slush and snow. I was NOT

a REMF. Hope that wasn't your point??

Sgtleo

I'm sorry about your friends, Sarge.

Thanks again for sharing those photos.

Hugs,

Brooke

Having shown you my Military photos I thought you should see

what I loooked like in the earlier days of my youth!!!!!!!!

Sgtleo

Hello Sarge!

You seem to have had much experience dealing with the Wehrmacht after they surrendered so I will pose this question to you. Were they (the krauts) ordered to remove all nazi insignias from their uniforms or was that something they decided to do themselves?

Thanks in advance!

Jim