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from the Italian Front A View of the Soldier's
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Return to At The Front Photo at right was taken of the 36th
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My website began with a simple page of photos that my father took with a captured German camera. Since then I've had many veterans and families contact me and donate photos from their collection. Some photos were purchased and some are news photos that were sent to the States for publishing. CONTENTS: These photos are very general subjects and you will not find anything rresembling a real combat photo. Why? The Army censors excluded many subjects that you were allowed to photograph. If you photographed a subject that was not authorized, they would confiscate the negatives during development. You could not take photos of US troops or equipment for security reasons. That went also for enemy equipment. You could not take photos of enemy prisoners or dead, as it was against Geneva Convention to use that for publicity. So, what subjects were allowed? Photos of GI's eating chow or taking baths. A silly pose with a chicken on your head. A display of captured German souvenirs. Sightseeing in The Eternal City. A GI holding a doll found in rubble of a building. A shot of a German artillery gun with a note that a dead German was lying 10 feet behind the gun. QUALITY: Sgt. Cole's camera used large 120mm format film, but during the war the photos were developed in small 2.5 X 2.5-inch paper. Since most of the negatives didn't survive, I had to scan these images from the small, 50-year old photos. Therefore, the quality isn't as good as it could be. This is true for many of the photos found in veteran's scrapbooks. The large, high resolution photos are usually photos taken by the US Army Signal Corps and stored in the archives.
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Group Photos: Battery
B, 328th FA - A
group photo of Battery B, taken at Fort Dix, NJ just prior to departure
for North Africa on December 24, 1943.
HeadQuarters Battery, 328th FA - A group photo of Battery HQ, taken at Fort Dix, NJ. The officers are wearing combat fatigues and helmets. Provided by Bonnie Cheeseman, daughter of PFC Clarence Mills. HeadQuarters Battery, 328th FA - A group photo of Battery HQ, taken at Fort Dix, NJ. The officers are wearing combat fatigues and helmets. Provided by Bonnie Cheeseman, daughter of PFC Clarence Mills. Company C, 310th Engineers - A group photo of a company of Combat Engineers taken at Camp Shelby, MS in February 1943. Provided by Al McCloud. Company D, 377th Infantry Regiment - A group photo of Company D, 377th Regiment taken in Belluno, Italy after the end of the war. Provided by William Sarokin. |
Forward
Observers on Mount
Porchia,
south of Cassino.
Note field
phone to the
right and sand-bagged observation post.
Chow time for the
328th Field Artillery Battalion.
Near Lucca in November or December 1944.
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Death Cards are rememberance cards of German soldiers killed in Italy.
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