I'm sure you Vets will relate to this.
Pictures of my Dad show him getting thinner and thinner -
through N Africa, Italy, and France. He'd say: "I look like a DP" (I know
you guys know what that means).
Didn't the army feed you? or were you burning it off too fast to keep
up?
Here's two photos of Dad. One with army helmet and pistol holder -
France? Italy? don't know. Looks like there was something on his helmet that was falling off, worn off? The other was taken in Italy (Anzio?)
and made into a postcard to send home (Yikes! his mother must've
fainted when she saw it!). Note the 6 Corps badge on the wall to the right.
This picture always scares me, besides looking like a skeleton, my father's
eyes look "wrong" (not like him, not sad exactly, but - I don't know
what.)