244th Eng Combat Dn Photo Page

PHOTOS	Click on the picture to enlarge




Bomb damage VW plant -initialed by BJW 19 April 1945			Doc Kaufman is second from left and Pfc. Wilbur Carter is in the center, and has his initials and an arrow over him. The other GIs are not ID'd, but all are sitting in Doc Kaufman's new Kublewagen

Dud bomb at VW plant initialed by BJW 19 April 45		Portable bathhouse Germany May 1945	German PoWs VW plant Fallersleben 1945

Felton Smith	The bridge at the Elbe river Taken 30 April 1945 at 1100 ( Courtesy of Richard Alvord )	This is T-5 Mitchell G. Kirkcaldy , one of the B Co men KIA at Fallersleben 20 Apr 45.	Sgt George Nofel, Co A, 244th Engr Cbt Bn, Camp Chicago, 1945

Sgt George Nofel, Co A, 244th Engr Cbt Bn, Camp Chicago, 1945
The following photos are from the wartime collection of T-5 John Ward, of the 244 Engineers "B" Co. 3rd Platoon The captions are his original descriptions on the reverse of the photos, if available.
Entertaining. Me on the fiddle	John Ward on the left	The boys at the German border	Jerrie gun - knocked out
John left, Libby seated in my jeep	From Left to Right " Libby, Pare, Maurice, Harlow, Doc "	Elbe River - Floating Bailey	Bridge over Auto-Ban highway between Rhine and Elbe rivers . Thats my jeep"
Jerrie plane wreck on the bank of the Elbe	destroyed jerrie 109's	Chasing snipers in a town	Near the Rhine just took Jerries out of this building with my Tommy Gun
Couple of the boys by a blasted building at the Rhine	Boys taking five-long day

		"Grease gun"	John Ward in middle with friends
John Ward on left with friend
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