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[Two Soldiers Standing by a Truck Named "Angela II"]

Description: Photograph of two uniformed and helmeted U.S. soldiers standing next to a truck. "Angela II" is painted upon the lower portion of the truck's open door. The two men are identified as Homer Petross' squad leader and his truck driver, Willard Pottinger. A two story building stands behind them.
Date: [1944..1945]
Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum

[Ruined Building in Germany]

Description: Photograph of a bombed-out German building that stands behind a railroad track. Most of the walls that would be facing the track normally are now gone. Rubble is piled up around the building's bottom level.
Date: [1944..1945]
Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum

Evicting Hitler, Berchtesgaden

Description: Photograph of the burnt ruins of Adolf Hitler's Berghof, a residence in Berchtesgaden, Germany. Smoke curls behind a barren tree which stands in front of a earthen slope. The house stands to the right and has blackened walls and broken windows. A soldier can be seen standing near a brick wall in front of the building.
Date: [1944..1945]
Creator: Petross, Homer
Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum

[German House and Woodshed]

Description: Photograph of two German buildings. The leftmost building is an open woodshed with boards piled at its sides. The stone house in the background is two stories tall and has double windows spaced regularly along its side.
Date: [1943..1945]
Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum

[German Farmhouse and Barn]

Description: Photograph of a German barn where Allied trucks were stored. A man and three women stand at the wide open door of the barn while holding long-hafted tools. Wooden framed carts stand in the foreground. A half-timbered farmhouse is visible to the left. The note on the reverse side of the image say that American soldiers stayed here during the final push of the European theater of World War II.
Date: [1944..1945]
Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum

Advance into Nazi City

Description: Photograph of military personnel and armored vehicles traveling down a German street. Damaged buildings line the street, and piles of rubble are located on either side of the street in the foreground.
Date: 1945
Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum

[Willard Pottenger and Unknown Soldier]

Description: Photograph of Willard Pottenger standing to the left of an unidentified man. Both wear helmets, Pottenger wears a full Army uniform, and the unknown man wears a sleeveless shirt and dog tags. They are standing in front of a two-story building white building with shuttered windows.
Date: [1943..1945]
Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum

[Two Soldiers Standing by a Truck Named "Angela II"]

Description: Photograph of two uniformed and helmeted U.S. soldiers standing next to a truck. "Angela II" is painted upon the lower portion of the truck's open door. The two men are identified as Homer Petross' squad leader and his truck driver, Willard Pottenger. A two story building stands behind them.
Date: [1944..1945]
Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum

[Homer Petross in Front of His Home]

Description: Photograph of Homer Petross standing in front of his home in Brownwood, Texas. He is wearing a khaki U.S. Army uniform, garrison cap, and spectacles. His house is lightly colored horizontal clapboard with vertical slats and brick near the bottom.
Date: [1942..1945]
Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum

[Ruins of Dunkirk, France]

Description: Photograph of ruined buildings in the city of Dunkirk, France. Rubble litters the foreground, and most of the photo contains the decrepit shells of ruined buildings. A tall belfry building stands intact in the center of the background.
Date: 1940
Creator: De Meester, J.
Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum

Blasting Resistance, Austria

Description: Photograph of a smoke covered town in Austria. White smoke covers most of the buildings and winds up under the treeline of a nearby hill. Two tanks and three trucks can be seen on a road that winds to the right.
Date: 1945
Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum

[Four Children Holding Hands in Front of a House]

Description: Photograph of four children standing in a row and holding hands in front of a two-story house. The three girls and one boy are wearing warm clothes, and snow can be seen on the ground and wooded hill behind them. The notes on the reverse side of the photo indicate that this image was taken from a border in the Alps between Germany and Austria.
Date: [1944..1945]
Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum

Advance Thru Coburg, Germany

Description: Photograph of an armored Allied vehicle moving down the dusty road of Coburg, Germany. A helmeted soldier stands beside the vehicle. Tall buildings line the street, and rubble can be seen in the foreground.
Date: [1944..1945]
Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum
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