03/22/1945

BATTLEFIELD PROMOTION to 2nd Lieutenant.

TO THE RHINE

The actual time of these photos is a guess. The division had broken through the Sigfried Line and the 179th was “motorized” as it advanced to the Rhine. The train of transport in this detail shows jeeps and civilian cars.

These photos also seem as if they were taken during the same cold weather. Behind Dad is a jeep trailer.

 

The photos above and below share the same stark quality.

03/14/1945

PROMOTED to 2nd Lieutenant. (Document confirmation 03/22/1945.)

 Baseball

03/06/1945

“March 6th 1944.
France.
This book given to the ones who were in the Anzio-Rome Drive in May. Below is the names of the men who are left and still in the platoon. 1st Platoon. Co H, 2nd Bn. 179th.
Hing”

Harvey Jones ( S/Sgt.) Ill.
Marion Baker (Pfc) Ill.
Roy H, Krall (S/Sgt) Pa.
Joe Sacotte (Cpl) Wis.
Samuel Weisberg (Sammy) Mo.
Philip H Brown.(Sgt) Pa.
Grover C.Holsey (Sgt) N.Y.

The date should read 1945, not 1944. A fully staffed heavy machine gun platoon had one officer and 35 other ranks.

03/1945

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March 1945

After being held up on the German-French border, the final invasion into Germany began in mid-March.