WWII U.S. soliders signatures from abandoned bunker

[woodsman]

 

 

We were out for exploration in an old WWII bunker in France last weekend and found some writings on the wall, that were made by U.S. soliders back then in 1944 and 1945. They left their names and origin there. I thought it would be nice to photograph them and post the pics here for the search engines, maybe someone will g**gle for their grandfathers names and then will be able to find it.

 

PM me for more info. Cheers

 

TOM BLAKE
CUMBERLAND MARYLAND USA
Oct 28 44

JOHN ELCO
PHILADELPHIA PENNSYLVANIA USA
10-28-44

ROBERT C. SMITH
TOLEDO OHIO USA

WILBURI SMITH
CHERRYVILLE N.C.

JOHN MEURS
WORTHINGTON MINNESOTA
6/21/45

 

[KySoldier]

Cool !!!!

[USdog]

That's awesome!

[Jack's Son]

Good luck with you project.

[woodsman]

to correct myself, i just used g**gle and maybe one of the names is not WILBURI SMITH, it is WILBUR I. SMITH ? cheers

[USdog]

to correct myself, i just used g**gle and maybe one of the names is not WILBURI SMITH, it is WILBUR I. SMITH ? cheers

Defiantly looks to be Wilbur I. Smith... Just has a lower case "I" for the middle name.

[USCapturephotos]

Oh my gosh. I love this. German prisoners of war left their signatures on the walls of Fort Delaware. Thanks for sharing these.

Paul

[1944]

An Amazing Find for sure Thanks for sharing it with us

 

any info on the Location of this Bunker?

[Bugme]

Now that is way beyond cool! Almost worth the price of an Airline ticket to go and see!

[arclight]

No Kilroy?

 

That's really very neat. Thanks for showing those.

G

[woodsman]

Found some more, about 10km north of the town of Thionville, Lorraine, in a very small flanking bunker with just 2 pill-boxes for machine gun fire and a couple of rooms beneath surface.

 

NOV 11 1944, MIKE SKOWRONSKI, CHICAGO and VINCENT KOLECKI, PHILA PA. very interesting, seems like signatures from troops in bunkers are very common, if you take a closer look.

 

[1944]

EXCELLENT PHOTOS !!

[TRR]

That is cool! Hope someone recognizes some names.

[katieony]

^{Very interesting finds! Thanks for posting!}

 

^Mike

[m1ashooter]

Thanks for the postings. How come the bunkers are in great shape?

[woodsman]

actually most of the abandoned bunkers are in a pretty bad shape. humidity everywhere, all remaining metals are rusty, concrete stairs begin to crumble away, even some bunkers are partly flooded by groundwater.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maginot

[Nuts]

Very cool!!!

[woodsman]

We visited another huge WWII bunker this week and found some more signatures dated back in 1945.

I had the feeling, that these soliders had put their names up their to the walls to be recognized and not to be forgotten in the future, so I think its a good thing to post them here, aslong as this thread has become some kind of a small documentary. =)

Unfortunately most of the signatures were crossed with graffiti and became unredable, but a few were still clear and here they are.

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Check fb for the full picture set of this bunker exploration:

https://www.facebook.com/tawny.porto/media_set?set=a.930237693668607.1073741876.100000471546104&type=1

 

 

 

[woodsman]

IRVIN KATSKEE, 1st US ARMY HGS, OMAHA NEBRASKA
WILLIE WATTS, 519 ORD HAM CO
JOHNNY TOWNSEND, MAINE

[Jeeper704]

501 ORD HAM CO stands for 501st Ordnance Heavy Automotive Maintenance Company.

This guy could be a tank mechanic/repairman or a heavy truck driver who hauled damaged and knocked out tanks from the battlefield.

 

Erwin

[doyler]

IRVIN KATSKEE, 1st US ARMY HGS, OMAHA NEBRASKA

WILLIE WATTS, 519 ORD HAM CO

JOHNNY TOWNSEND, MAINE

Look LIKE Watts was from Hazard Kentucky ?

[doyler]

 

 

 

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