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[Scrapbook Page: Rüsselsheim]

Description: Photographs of scenes from around Rüsselsheim, Germany following the American occupation. The top photo features Dan Melli sitting on a low brick wall in front of a dispensary with Thomas Walsh leaning through a window. The next photo features men identified as Magnani, Technical Sergeant Nelson, Ferdinand Caravelli, and Captain Brookshire standing together in front of a row of homes. The final picture has Dan Melli standing next to the provocatively posed Technical Sergeant Nelson.
Date: August 22, 1945
Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum

[Dan Melli Scrapbook, Page 1]

Description: Photographs of Dan Melli in and around the envirions of Blaubeuren, Germany. The image on the top left shows an American military parked by a Blaubeuren sign at a railroad station. The top right image shows Dan Melli sitting by a medical truck that has "Louise" written on its covering. The center picture features a blurry soldier standing in front of a captured German train with piles of open crates nearby. Dan Melli poses with a wrought iron fence on the bottom left, and with two young Germ… more
Date: 1945~
Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum

[Scrapbook Page: Men beginning to be discharged!]

Description: Photographs of soldiers preparing to be discharged and leave Germany. The first photo involves a First Sergeant calling out while holding a paper. Soldiers mill about to the right, with Ferdinand Caravelli looking towards the camera. The middle-left photo shows Joe Hurt carrying a full sack over his back and standing in a street. The middle-right photo shows Nathan Levine standing in front of a German theater. The bottom photo is a close up of Dan Melli and a man named John. They are smiling, s… more
Date: September 3, 1945
Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum

[Scrapbook Page: Russian Soldiers who visited our station]

Description: Photographs of Russian soldiers who visited Dan Melli's station in Rüsselsheim, Germany. The first photo shows a mustached man standing at the corner of a building. A sign indicating the dispensary points forward near his head. The photo on the bottom left shows eight uniformed Russian soldiers standing together and posing for the camera. The final photo shows Russians gathered around a vehicle. The three men to the left are looking into the vehicle, while two men on the right look toward the c… more
Date: August 20, 1945
Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum

[Scrapbook Page: Opel Factory]

Description: Photographs of the Opel automobile factory in Rüsselsheim, Germany, before and after American bombing operations. The first photo shows the factory with the word "Opel" written across its front and two large smokestacks rising from its roof. The second photo shows an American soldier standing amidst rubble and the shells of wrecked rooms. The third photo shows a collapsed ceiling, broken frames, and assorted rubble. The fourth photo shows a pile of rubble to the left and a relatively intact fiv… more
Date: 1945~
Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum

[Scrapbook Page: Rüsselsheim - September 1, 1945]

Description: Photographs of two locations around Rüsselsheim, Germany. The first two photos are of a house where Wolfgang Mozart composed music. One uniformed soldier poses nearby in the first photo, while Joe Hurt and Technical Sergeant Nelson stand near the building in the second. The image to the bottom left contains an ivy covered castle gate tower. The structure is conical and built of crumbling stone and has several thin windows. In the fourth photo, Don Melli and a soldier named Nelson pose in front … more
Date: September 1, 1945
Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum

[Scrapbook Page: Aalen's Swimming Pool]

Description: Photographs of a swimming pool in Aalen, Germany. The top left photo shows Dan Melli and another man wearing swimtrunks and standing on a lawn around the pool. People can be seen reclining on the ground nearby. The photo in the top right shows Melli standing in front of a pool ladder. Behind him is an occupied swimming pool. The third photograph shows Lieutenant Bison, Allen, Dan Melli, Frank Ross, and Samuel Rascon wearing swim trunks and sitting in a line in front of a pool.
Date: June 1945
Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum

[Scrapbook Page: Rüsselsheim, Germany, August 22, 1945]

Description: Photographs of scenes from around Rüsselsheim, Germany following the American occupation. The top image shows homes along Wagner Strasse, with an "x" drawn over the house where Dan Melli was billeted. The second image shows a close-up of the home in which Melli was billeted, with an "x" drawn under the room where he stayed. The third image shows Dan Melli standing with Captain Brookshire and his dog, Rolph. The bottom photo is a picture of Captain Brookshire standing alone by a bridge's railing. more
Date: August 22, 1945
Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum
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