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[Army Photos at a Gas Dump]

Description: Photographs of veterans at a gas dump near Victoria, France. The photos on the first page are identified as "Left: At gas dump near Verona France. Top right: Summfrour. Bottom right: Me still the best shot in the outfit." and those on the second page "Left: Reims Cathedral near Paris. Right: Cemetery near Paris".
Date: 1943/1945
Creator: Partain, Douglas Wise
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Angelina County History Center

[Collage of Buildings and Softball Team]

Description: Collage photograph showing different buildings, people and a softball team. The photo on the top left is Baggae and Martin old castle which was built 100 to 1311 AD Thatch Roof. The top right photos shows a softball team-Meighan, Giavando, Cook, Bastle, Ane, Jekyell, Byrd Hoihard, Zuzamil, Mccorkil. The bottom right shows a mansion where Roxie Crews lived in.
Date: 1943/1945
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Angelina County History Center

[Collage Photo of a Restaurant, Trailer & Statues]

Description: Collage photographs described as "Left: Joe’s place, the home of good hamburgers and cold beer. Painted on their trailer by Lorton. Top right: kids feeding pigeons on Metz. Bottom right: funeral precession in Metz. Note, mourners walk." The photos on the second page are identified as "Left: German Siegfried lime – dragon teeth tank trap between Metz and Saarbrücken Germany. Top right: statue in Metz. Bottom right: statue in Saarbrücken."
Date: 1943/1945
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Angelina County History Center

[Collage Photos of a Palace and Aircraft]

Description: Collage photographs of a palace and aircraft taken in the mid 1940s. The photos on the first page are identified as "Left: Park in Brussels Right: Part of the palace in Brussels." and the photos on the second page are identified as "Left: Crashed B-17 between Liege and Brussels. Top right and bottom right: The crew had bailed out."
Date: 1943/1945
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Angelina County History Center

[Collage Photos taken in the Mid 1940s]

Description: Photos of people taken in he mid 1940s, some of them were in France. The photos on the first page are identified as "Left: Byrd with a pooch. Top right and top left: Frenchman with his grandchildren." and the photos on the second page are described as "Left: How about that “kraut” with WWI helmet. Bottom right: Dedricksen and me with new fatigue jackets. Top right: Two wheel wagon cart."
Date: 1943/1945
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Angelina County History Center

[Ike's Headquarters and City Hall in Frankfurt]

Description: Photographs taken in Frankfurt, Germany. The photos on the first page are identified as "Left: S.H.A.F. Ike’s headquarters in Frankfurt. Top right and bottom right: bombed out building in Frankfurt. Note poles holding up walls on right of building walls." and the photos on the second page are identified as "Top left: City Hall Frankfurt. Bottom left: Next door to City Hall. Top right and bottom right: More bomb damage. Still the krauts would not give up."
Date: 1943/1945
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Angelina County History Center

[Men on a German Bomb Crate]

Description: Photographs of men in an army camp, posing with a German bomb crate and drilling holes in it with an awl. The people are identified as "McCoy & Me" (right and left) and "McCoy & Lorton" (center). Handwritten text says: "At St. Quintin, north eastern France - near Belgium. Making a 'four-holer' - outdoor toilet - made from German bomb crate. We were here only a few days."
Date: [1943..1945]
Creator: Partain, Douglas Wise
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Angelina County History Center

[Muse River Scenes]

Description: Collage of photos taken in Belgium in the mid 1940s. The photos on the first page are identified as "All three pictures: Scenes along Muse river in Liege, Belgium. Five of our group were here about half way between Liege Belgium and Aachen Germany. From here visited Brussels and Aachen Germany. We were supplying an engineering group building and air strip. We didn’t stay very long. The Germans began the battle of the bulge from Aachen coming our way. We and the engineers loaded up and went back… more
Date: 1943/1945
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Angelina County History Center

[Photos of Roxie Crews in Germany]

Description: Photographs of Roxie Crews in Frankfurt, Germany. The photos on the first page are described as "Top left: Summfrour and me. Top right and bottom left: We brought our trailer “office” on to Frankfurt. Sometimes we got our gas in barrel easier to handle. We used the hanger for the cans out of the weather.". The photos on the second page are described "Left: Me and a large bicycle factory was here. Top right: Me and the masur, Summfrour, flags at half-mast the day Roosevelt died. Bottom right: Me… more
Date: 1943/1945
Creator: Partain, Douglas Wise
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Angelina County History Center

[Roxie Crews Photos in France]

Description: Photographs of Roxie Crew when he visited France. The photos on the first page are described as "Left: Summfrour on arc of triumph. Top middle: me near the Eiffel Tower. Top right: French taxi Bottom right: tomb of the unknown solider at the arc of triumph. After war is over w are now back near Paris in Leon at R staging area waiting for orders. We got them. Go to Japan but after we got as far as Marseille France the war in Japan was over and we came home." and the photos on the second page are… more
Date: 1943/1945
Creator: Partain, Douglas Wise
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Angelina County History Center

[Trucks in the Snowy Weather]

Description: Photographs of several men standing next to trucks in the snowy weaher. The photos on the first page are described as "Left: Convoy of trucks on the way to get gas. Middle: German bomb shelter near our gas dump. Right: French farm with load of grain." and the photos on the second page are identified as "All three pictures: Men unloading the trucks after our return."
Date: 1943/1945
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Angelina County History Center

[Veteran Photos in France, Belgium and Germany]

Description: Photograph of several veterans in Belgium, France and Germany around 1943. The top left photo shows Summfrour and a paratrooper up on St. Pauls Cathedral. The towers of St. Paul Cathedral are shown on the top right and the bottom right is a photo of London from St. Pauls. On the second page,the top left photo is of Giavando Didriksen in front of an old church, the top right photo shows a plane crash near camp, and the bottom right is of a plane headed to London
Date: 1943/1945
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Angelina County History Center
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