I can do you one better; how about a REAL member of the 157th. A very dear friend of mine, Harold Whiting. In fact I just attended their reunion a couple of months ago. It was only a few miles from our engineer reunion in Lebanon, PA. So Harold dropped by ours on Sat and Sun, and then my daughter and I went with him, and attended the 157th's later on Sun and Mon. Great opportunity!
Am sending you his private information via email. Also sending four or five other names of sons and daughters. Barbara ran the reunion this year, and should be able to supply you with more veteran contacts etc.
As far as places, the 540th, 36th etc., were also in many of those same areas, so we may have photos to share with you too.
Regards,
Marion
Well Marion, you should remember me cuz I was there too! If you remember the fella with the video camera, that was me. I have been researching dads service with the 157th since then and have just about everything except a picture of the Joshua B. Lippencott which was the ship that took the unit from Southampton to Utah beach on 25 June, 1944. I have put together a movie for him outlining his journey from the home town through Austria. I found the Time Life magazine web site that had archived photos of the war. Tryiing to use the National Archives is too confusing for me. I can never get to what I am looking for. If I knew how to use their web site that would be nice. Too many drill down menu's and the use of key words must be exact. So I gave up with them. I did find a person who has a picture of that ship I mentioned and have asked him to send me a copy. I'm still wiating for it. I cant find much photo stuff after Munich. The Army War College at Carlisle really helped me alot. They had photos and a real good history with battle maps and all. So thats where I got most of my information. There was a web site in England that had all the aeiral recon photos ( 5 million of them) on line but they have taken that down and all the photos are now in Scottland and they are charging for each photo. None of them are on line. You need to supply them maps and dates and all sorts of stuff. Screw them too!!!!! There are only 3 photos that I would like. One of the ship, one of Tidworth England and one of Chipping Norton England. Any photos would be welcomed. I was awed by the death and devistation he saw. I served during Viet Nam and never saw that much.
Any how, I was at the Hershey reunion. So now you know who you are talking to!
Bill