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| Photo #2 Before shipping out to England. Sergeant Arnold is front row center, holding a puppy. Standing in back row, right to left: Cecil Knight, James Hurney, Charles Pauley, unidentified, Donald P. Brown, George Boheler, unidentified. Kneeling right to left: unidentified, John E. Ryan (on elbow), Midday Delfonte (in helmet), Paul Suffridge, unidentified, James Romano, W. L. Arnold, Frank Baron (in front), John Balistere (behind Baron), unidentified (in back), William Schwartz, others unidentified. |
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| Photo #8 Neuss, Germany, March 1945. Sergeant Arnold is on far right. Back of the photo lists names, from left to right: Iavannica, Canine, Romano, Hunter, Busa, Phillips, Arnold. This is the gun that was destroyed by the Germans at the Elbe River in April 1945. |
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| Photo #11 After the war in Deggendorf. This photo was taken in July, 1945. During this period, the 83rd was stationed near Deggendorf, going through maneuvers in preparation for assignment in the Pacific. |
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| Dad brought dozens of pictures home from the war. He had hundreds more, but most were destroyed with his truck at Walternienburg in April, 1945 (see his memoirs for details). Here are a few in his collection. |
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| Photo #1 Frank Heatley and Dad at Camp Breckinridge, Ky, January, 1944. |
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| Photo #3 Dad (left) with his mother, and brothers Andrew and Hogan. Andrew was wounded at Metz and Hogan served in Burma. Another brother, Cecil, was an MP in the occupation army, stationed in Heidelberg. He stood honor guard at Patton's bier in December, 1945. |
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| Photo #4 Showing off uniforms for the family. Back row from left: Sisters Pauline, Louise, and Francis. Front row from left: Andrew, Drennan, Dad, and Hogan. |
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| Photo #5 This photo was taken while the 83rd was in Luxembourg, October or November, 1944. This is Midday Delfonte on the bench with the children. See Dad's memoirs for the story of Delfonte's death in December during the Battle of the Bulge, and the narrative of our return trip to Europe in 1999 . |
| Photo #7 Dad (left) with his friend Sergeant Robert W. Fuhrman in the Siegfried Line, Western Germany around Christmas, 1944. |
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| Photo #6 Showing off new sergeant stripes. Luxembourg, 1944. |
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| Photo #9 From right: Dad, Lawrence Coldangelo, Carl Staycheff, and George Boheler. |
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| Photo #10 Dad and his friend Coldangelo in Deggendorf, 1945. |
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| Photo #12 Deggendorf, July 1944, posing with a German 88-mm Anti-tank gun. |
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