Military - WW11 Photos
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Camp Swift 1943

            Typical 1940's troop train

 
Below -  Leaving Texas - November
1943



                 WW11 Liberty Ship


              The French 40 & 8 train


British lurury liner converted for troop movement.
 

 From the mother ship to the LSI

                      Right - Omaha Beach June  17, 1944
82nd  bridges at St. Lo



      Drome River Bridge - August 2, 1944

        City of Vire liberated August 7, 1944

Left: B Company truck - from a French
publication - at the Seine River


  Vire -  the result of heavy bombing and artillery


         Seine River bridge - August 28, 1944

          St. Lo - a destroyed city


28th Division march in Paris August 25, 1944

113th Cavalry takes a hit in Belgium -September 1944

82nd assembling bridge at the Albert Canal
September 13, 1944


             Bridge reaches far shore

         Bridge collapses from damaged section

             Dozers work to retrieve bridge


Albert Canal bridge - Repaired and relaunched 
Sept 15th 1944

        Roer River footbridge - February 23, 1945
 
                Preparing the site at the Roer


         Roer River bridge - February 23, 1945

  Dortmund Ems Canal bridge - March 30,1945
Left:  Crossing the Rhine - March 23. 1945


Above:  Treadway over the Weser River
April 6, 1945

Left:  Battalion dispatched a patrol to secure
prisoners upon arrival at the Weser River


   Elbe River bridge-later destroyed by artillery fire




Omaha beach June, 1944


      Germany surrenders - May 8, 1945
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