doyler Posted July 7, 2022 Share #426 Posted July 7, 2022 “Lt. Col. Ward R. Betz, head of the 100th Infantry Division Chemical Warfare Section and Sgt. William C. French, inspect a new type German flamethrower captured by the 398th Infantry Regiment. It is simple, efficient, and easy to manufacturer. It is operated by single lever on barrel. Ignition is accomplished by the firing of a blank cartridge. Chemical Warfare Section, 100th Infantry Division, 7th Army. Butten Area, France. March 1, 1945. Photographed by T/5 Francis E. Lane, 163rd Signal Photographic Company”: (from menofthe100th web page) Lt.Col Betz wearing Camo painted helmet with rank, jump boots and a 45 in shoulder holster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doyler Posted July 7, 2022 Share #427 Posted July 7, 2022 Another of Lt.Col Betz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
12thengr Posted July 7, 2022 Share #428 Posted July 7, 2022 U.S. Paratroopers, training jump? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted July 8, 2022 Share #429 Posted July 8, 2022 Some GI of the name J. T. Mills. Know nothing more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doyler Posted July 11, 2022 Share #430 Posted July 11, 2022 Liberation of La Haye-du-Puits Normandy - July 1944 LIFE Magazine Archives - Ralph Morse Photographer Medics 8th infantry division patch seen. Medics bag and suspenders used for a pillow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doyler Posted July 11, 2022 Share #431 Posted July 11, 2022 Liberation of La Haye-du-Puits Normandy - July 1944 LIFE Magazine Archives - Ralph Morse Photographer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doyler Posted July 11, 2022 Share #432 Posted July 11, 2022 German Prisoners in La Haye-du-Puits Normandy - July 1944 LIFE Magazine Archives - Ralph Morse Photographer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doyler Posted July 11, 2022 Share #433 Posted July 11, 2022 US General Hugh J. Gaffey near La Haye-du-Puits Normandy - July 1944 LIFE Magazine Archives - Ralph Morse Photographer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doyler Posted July 12, 2022 Share #434 Posted July 12, 2022 FSSF Italy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted July 16, 2022 Share #435 Posted July 16, 2022 Is there another talk on these, these helmets with the Red 13 on a Yellow square in Italy? Troops examine a destroyed Marder of the 71st Infantry Division's 171st Anti Tank Battalion May 1944 . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doyler Posted July 20, 2022 Share #436 Posted July 20, 2022 The GI's "steel pot" had many uses, apart from protecting his head! Here, a GI of the 8th "Golden Arrow" Infantry Division is using his M1's shell to bathe his foot....good foot-care was a must for all infantrymen. Photographed during the US Army's advance towards Avranches, Normandy - July 1944. Original Caption by the late Ian Phillips LIFE Magazine Archives - Ralph Morse Photographer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
12thengr Posted July 20, 2022 Share #437 Posted July 20, 2022 Marines on Saipan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doyler Posted July 20, 2022 Share #438 Posted July 20, 2022 Cesar Romero. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burning Hazard Posted July 21, 2022 Share #439 Posted July 21, 2022 On 7/15/2022 at 9:25 PM, patches said: Is there another talk on these, these helmets with the Red 13 on a Yellow square in Italy? Troops examine a destroyed Marder of the 71st Infantry Division's 171st Anti Tank Battalion May 1944 . I remember those helmets, a couple of originals popped up on eBay some time ago, I know some forum members own some of them. Pat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thrifter_01 Posted July 22, 2022 Share #440 Posted July 22, 2022 A tanker and his tank, wearing the helmet to boot. Taken somewhere in the Pacific theatre. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted July 22, 2022 Share #441 Posted July 22, 2022 Francis Currey in the Ardennes Forest when he was a Private or Private First Class, 120th Inf 30th Inf Div, wearing what looks to be a cut up vehicle net on his pot, you all know who Francis Currey is right! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhscott Posted July 22, 2022 Share #442 Posted July 22, 2022 6 hours ago, patches said: Francis Currey in the Ardennes Forest when he was a Private or Private First Class, 120th Inf 30th Inf Div, wearing what looks to be a cut up vehicle net on his pot, you all know who Francis Currey is right! Sure do. Met him at a reunion and got him to sign the MOH GI Joe likeness of him….got a picture of him doing it too. My treasure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doyler Posted July 27, 2022 Share #443 Posted July 27, 2022 2nd Lieutenant Rita G Hall and several Army nurses behind her wave farewell at Cape Gloucester, New Britain, August 1944. South Pacific Theater. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doyler Posted July 28, 2022 Share #444 Posted July 28, 2022 US Marine with his dog during the Battle of Guam - July 1944 LIFE Magazine Archives - W. Eugene Smith Photographer Note dog tags have the silencers on them. Helmet chin strap has the rivet securing it to the helmet . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doyler Posted July 29, 2022 Share #445 Posted July 29, 2022 German Prisoner taken during the advance to Coutances Normandy - July 1944 LIFE Magazine Archives - Ralph Morse Photographer Medic attending wounded German prisoner Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doyler Posted July 29, 2022 Share #446 Posted July 29, 2022 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted July 31, 2022 Share #447 Posted July 31, 2022 A Ordnance Corps Branch marked steel helmet on I guess an officer, Alsace late Fall of 1944, as he's talking to Maj Gen Roderick R. Allen commander of the 12th Armored Division, then perhaps he is in the 134th Armored Ordnance Maintenance Battalion of this division, maybe even it's commander whoever he was then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doyler Posted August 2, 2022 Share #448 Posted August 2, 2022 US MP cleans a captured German G41(W) rifle at the crossroads in Étienville France - July 1944 LIFE Magazine Archives - Ralph Morse Photographer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doyler Posted August 5, 2022 Share #449 Posted August 5, 2022 Liberation of Miniac-Morvan in Brittany France - August 4, 1944 LIFE Magazine Archives - Ralph Morse Photographer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikie Posted August 5, 2022 Share #450 Posted August 5, 2022 9 hours ago, doyler said: Liberation of Miniac-Morvan in Brittany France - August 4, 1944 LIFE Magazine Archives - Ralph Morse Photographer Interesting picture. Any story behind it? Mikie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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