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Collection Overview

Scope and Contents of the Materials

Subject/Index Terms

Administrative Information

Box and Folder Listing

Series 3: Photographs and Scrapbooks

Box 13

Folder 1: Photos loose in box, n.d.

Folder 2: 1941

Camp Polk, LA, Gen. Alvan Gillem, training, tanks (18-P)

Folder 3: Jan-June, 1942

Gen. Gillem at depot (1-P)

Folder 4: July, 1942

En route to Desert Training Center, camp life in Mojave Desert, CA (19-P, 2-K)

Folder 5: August, 1942

Desert Training Center (3-P, 2-K, 7-S)

Folder 6: Sept, 1942

45th Medical Battalion, Andrew Barr (9-P)

Folder 7: Oct., 1942

Leaving the desert (1-P, 2-K)

Folder 8: Nov.-Dec., 1942

Camp Pickett, VA (13-P)

Folder 9: 1943

45th Medical Battalion, maneuvers at Indiantown Gap Military Reservation (PA), review (28-P) Jan-July 1943.

England (12-P) Aug-Dec 1943.

Folder 10: Jan-March, 1944

Eisenhower and Montgomery visit (12-P, 3-SC)

Folder 11: April-May, 1944

May 27 aerials of St. Lo (4-P, 2-SC)

Folder 12: June-July, 1944

Burial of first dead, staff boarding plane (P, 2-SC)

Folder 13: July, 1944

Destroyed towns in Normandy, US soldiers with Nazi flag, German tanks (11-P)

Folder 14: August, 1944

Gen. Rose and Andrew Barr (Aug 26, 1944); Seine crossing (Aug 25-26, 1944) (4-P, 1-SC)

Folder 15: Roquemore (Maintenance Bn) - captured photos (95 prints) from German Anti-Aircraft Bn, ca. Aug, 1944

Includes handwritten index of photos and note

Folder 16: Liege, Belgium - Sept, 1944

Folder 17: Andenne, Belgium - Liberation, Sept 6, 1944

note on folder:  38 prints Marc (?) Smets, Andenne 23 March 1995

Folder 18: Ardennes, Belgium - Awards, 1945

note on folder:  9 prints.  Marc Smets, Ardenne 23 March 1995.  January 28, 1945.

Folder 19: Milto, J.J. - Photographs Franz Fritz Paulmen, 1940-44

German Army photos and index; note on file folder: "see J.J. Milto file, Correspondence and Recollections, for a letter explaining source of these photos 12/9/95.

Folder 20: Milto, J.J. - Berchtesgaden & ober Salzburg; Alassio & Genoa, n.d.

Includes scenic photos; SS barracks; Hitler's study

Folder 21: Barr, Dugan, et al - prints: Belgium Sept, 1944

Welcomes in Belgium, Siegfried Line, artillery & tanks at Stolberg.  Most prints are annotated; photocopies of U.S. Army photographs. (12-P; 10-SC)

Folder 22: Aerial photos - Koln Sept 28, 1944

Donated by Andrew Barr 4/15/82.

Folder 23: Oct., 1944

Tans, destruction & troops in Stolberg area (photos and photocopies of photos); (4-P; 15-SC)

Folder 24: Stolberg Nov., 1944

Stolberg, Aachen-Roer attacks, Eisenhower visit (11/10); photographs and photocopies of photographs; (14-P; 11-SC)

Folder 25: December, 1944

Gen. Rose & jeep, Geich, Ardennes; photographs and photocopies of photographs (1-P, 6-SC)

Folder 26: Bulge, Jan., 1945

Troops, action, snow in the Ardennes campaign; photographs and photocopies of photographs (7-P, 15-SC)

Folder 27: Col. John A. Smith Photos, 1945

February 1945.

Folder 28: Mauser Estate at Honnef, Marienburg, Ludwigshutte, March, 1945

(7-P, 5-SC)

Folder 29: Cologne, March 5-7, 1945

Attack, cathedral, bridge, generals (10-P, 3-SC)

Folder 30: Prints, April 1-8, 1945

Paderborn to the Weser, Gen. Rose, Weser crossing (7-P, 3-SC)

Folder 31: Nordhausen, April 11-12, 1945

(3-P)

Folder 32: April 13-30, 1945

Sangerhausen, Dessau (7-P, 2-SC)

Folder 33: May, 1945

Darmstadt, Frankfurt (10-P, 1-SC)

Folder 34: June, 1945

Darmstadt, Hickey, Barr & Sweat (4-P)

Folder 35: July, 1945

Darmstadt, Division history, Harry Truman visit (7/26); (9-P, 1-SC)

Folder 36: Aug - Dec., 1945

Ships, Aalen, Switzerland (6-P)

Folder 37: Barr, Andrew - photographs, 1944-46

portraits of Barr

Folder 38: Aerial photographs, William Dyczko, 1944-45

July, Sept, Oct 1944; February - March 1945

Folder 39: Unidentified photos of tanks, ruins, destroyed vehicles, n.d.

Donated in 1993 at Indianapolis exhibit.

Folder 40: Captured photo - Hagen, Germany, 1941

Folder 41: Duplicate photographs and proof prints, Signal Corps negatives, n.d.

June 2008:  no proof prints in folder.

Folder 42: Fuhrman, Edward Wesley, 1943-1945

Pictures taken by Edward Fuhrman, a T5 in the First Battalion Headquarters Company of the 36th Armored Infantry Regiment

Folder 43: Garrett, Lee M., [n.d]

Pictures taken by Lee Garrett Company D, 32nd Armored Regiment.

Folder 44: Gilder, Carl - Camp Polk, 1941-42

photographs

Folder 45: Gilder, Carl - Desert training, July - Oct., 1942

photographs

Folder 46: Gilder, Carl - Camp Pickett Nov - Jan, 1942-43

photographs

Folder 47: Gilder, Carl - Indiantown Gap, PA Jan-July, 1943

photographs (1 loose)

Folder 48: Gilder, Carl - England, Redlynch Estate Sept - June, 1943-44

photographs and postcards

Folder 49: Gilder, Carl - France July - Aug., 1944

photographs

Folder 50: Gilder, Carl - Belgium Sept, 1944

photograph

Folder 51: Gilder, Carl - Germany - Stolberg Oct - Dec, 1944

photographs

Folder 52: Gilder, Carl - Belgium, Ardennes Dec - Jan, 1944-45

photographs

Folder 53: Gilder, Carl - Holland, Germany Feb, 1945

photographs

Folder 54: Gilder, Carl - Germany Cologne March, 1945

photographs (1 loose)

Folder 55: Gilder, Carl - German Political Prisoner Camp, Nordhausen April, 1945

photographs

Folder 56: Gilder, Carl - Germany: Sangerhausen, Dessau April, 1945

photographs

Folder 57: Gilder, Carl - Darmstadt, Germany May-June, 1945

photographs

Folder 58: Gilder, Carl - Germany, France, Holland June-Aug, 1945

photographs and postcards

Folder 59: Gilder, Carl - New York September, 1945

photographs

Folder 60: Gilder, Carl - Captured photos, n.d.

Folder 61: Gilder, Carl - Post-war and negatives, 1946

Box 14

Folder 1: Katz - Camp Polk, LA, July-Aug 1941

Folder 2: Katz - Camp Polk, LA, Sept 1941

Folder 3: Katz - Camp Polk, LA, Oct 1941

Folder 4: Katz - Camp Polk, LA, Nov 1941

Folder 5: Katz - Camp Polk, LA, Feb 1942

Folder 6: Katz - Camp Polk, LA, March 1942

Folder 7: Katz - Camp Polk, LA, April 1942

Folder 8: Katz - Camp Polk, LA, May 1942

Folder 9: Katz - Camp Polk, LA to Desert Training Center, CA, July 1942

Folder 10: Katz - New Orleans trip, Sept 1941

Folder 11: Katz - Natchez MS trip, Easter, April 1942

Folder 12: Katz - Beaumont, TX, May 1942

Folder 13: Katz - California desert, July 1942

Folder 14: Katz - California desert, Aug 1942

Folder 15: Katz - California desert, Sept 1942

Folder 16: Katz - California desert, Oct 1942

Folder 17: Katz - California desert, Nov 1942

Folder 18: Katz - Los Angeles, Aug 1942

Folder 19: Katz - San Bernardino and Riverside, CA, Oct 1942

Folder 20: Katz - Washington DC, Nov-Dec 1942

Folder 21: Katz - Camp Pickett, VA, Dec 1942

Folder 22: Katz - Camp Pickett, VA, Jan 1943

Folder 23: Katz - Indiantown Gap, PA, Feb-March 1943

Folder 24: Katz - Indiantown Gap, PA, April 1943

Folder 25: Katz - Indiantown Gap, PA, May-June 1943

Folder 26: Katz - Cucklington, England, Feb-March 1944

Folder 27: Katz - Cucklington, England, April-May 1944

London - Joe Louis fight

Folder 28: Katz - Cucklington, England, May 1944

Radio equipment

Folder 29: Katz - Cucklington, England, June 1944

Folder 30: Katz - St Jean de Daye, Normandy, France, July 1944

Folder 31: Katz - France, Aug 1944

Folder 32: Katz - Mons, Belgium - POWs, Sept 1944

Folder 33: Katz - Walheim, Germany, Oct-Nov 1944

Folder 34: Katz - Spa, Belgium and Aachen, Germany, Dec 1944

Folder 35: Katz - Vieuxville and Havre, Belgium, Jan-Feb 1945

Folder 36: Katz - Stolberg, Germany, Feb 1945

Folder 37: Katz - Rhine crossing, Honnef, Germany, March 1945

Folder 38: Katz - Frechen Germany, March 1945

Folder 39: Katz - Alterkirchen, Germany, March 1945

Folder 40: Katz - Cologne, Germany, March 1945

Folder 41: Katz - Maurice Rose, March 1945

Folder 42: Katz - Kelbra to Dessau, Germany, April 1945

Folder 43: Katz - Darmstadt and Weissensee, Germany, May 1945

Folder 44: Katz - Paris, France, May 4-7, 1945

Folder 45: Katz - Darmstadt, Germany, June 1945

Folder 46: Katz - Heidelberg, Germany, June 6, 1945

Folder 47: Katz - Frankfurt and Mainz River, Germany, June 1945

Folder 48: Katz - Bad Nauheim Synagogue, Germany, June 1945

Folder 49: Katz - Darmstadt, Germany, July 1945

Folder 50: Katz - On the way to Nuremburg, Germany, July 1945

Gross Ostheim, Wurzburg, Frankfurt

Folder 51: Katz - Vernichtungslager, 1945

(6 photo postcards of German death camp)

Folder 52: Katz - Augsburg and Darmstadt, Germany, Aug 1945

Folder 53: Katz - On ship; on way home, Sept 1945

Folder 54: Mischnick - France: Lizon and Les Oubeaux, June 1944

Folder 55: Mischnick - France: Neuilly, Airel, St. Fromond, St. Jean de Daye, July 1944

Folder 56: Mischnick - France: Cherence Le Heron, Ranes, Fromental, Aug. 7-19, 1944

Folder 57: Mischnick - France: Brie Comte Robert, Ponault Combault, Roissey, Pontcarre, Betz, Braye en Laonois, Ardon Soux Laen, Chivres, Marle, Avesnes, Aug 27-Sept 2, 1944

Folder 58: Mischnick - Germany: Stolberg, Nov 3-Dec 10, 1944

Folder 59: Mischnick - Belgium: Barvaux, Dec. 25, 1944

Folder 60: Mischnick - Belgium: Havelange, Werbomont, and Hebronval, Jan 1-19, 1945

Folder 61: Mischnick - Belgium: Chateau Petite de Somme, Jan 22-Feb 4, 1945

Folder 62: Mischnick - Germany: Stolberg Castle, Feb 8-14, 1945

Folder 63: Mischnick - Germany: Stolberg, Arnoldsweiler, Feb 15-26, 1945

Folder 64: Mischnick - Morschenich, Eschweiler, Duren, Niederauseum, Cologne, Feb 27-March 12, 1945

Folder 65: Mischnick - Germany: Cologne, March 9-12, 1945

Folder 66: Mischnick - Germany: Cologne, awarding of medals ceremony, March 18, 1945

Folder 67: Mischnick - Germany: Bonn-Remagen, Honnef, March 22-24, 1945

Folder 68: Mischnick - Darmstadt, May 7-21, 1945

Folder 69: Mischnick - Germany: Darmstadt, Mulheim, Hanau, May 28-29, 1945

Folder 70: Mischnick - Germany: Darmstadt portraits, May 29-31, 1945

Folder 71: Mischnick - Germany: Darmstadt "Chaos of 1945" show, May 30, 1945

Folder 72: Mischnick - Germany: Darmstadt, Heidelberg, June 15-17, 1945

Folder 73: Mischnick - Germany: Heidelberg, Darmstadt, June 17-19, 1945

Folder 74: Mischnick - Darmstadt: officer portraits, A-Y, June 28-29, 1945

Folder 75: Mischnick - Darmstadt: enlisted men's portraits, B-W, June 28-July 4, 1945

Folder 76: Mischnick - Darmstadt, Frankfurt, Eberstadt, June 29-July 18, 1945

Folder 77: Mischnick - Darmstadt: portraits, July 6-18, 1945

Folder 78: Mischnick - Darmstadt: portraits, July 19-24, 1945

Folder 79: Mischnick - Darmstadt: Bob Hope show, July 24, 1945

Folder 80: Mischnick - Germany: Frankfurt, Darmstadt, Harry Truman, July 26-Aug 2, 1945

Folder 81: Mischnick - Germany: Darmstadt, Jack Benny, Ingrid Bergman, Larry Adler, Aug 2, 1945

Folder 82: Mischnick - Germany: Darmstadt; France: Paris, Aug 2-8, 1945

Darmstadt: 8/2-6; Paris: 8/7-8.

Folder 83: Mischnick - France: Paris (8/9-10); Germany: Kirrlach; Metz, Reims, LeHavre, Aug 9-Sept 21, 1945

Folder 84: Mischnick - Atlantic Ocean, New York, Sept 27-Oct 3, 1945

S.S. Marechal Joffre (9/27-10/1); New York: Camp Shanks (10/2-3)

Folder 85: Clarence T. Stone Photographs, 1941-45

War Photographs taken by Clarence T. Stone, a member of the 36th Armored Infantry Regiment Company C.

Folder 86: Texarkana, Texas, 1941

5 prints.

Folder 87: Schuit - Training, Merryville, LA, 1941-42

Schuit, Lawrence. 24 prints (2 loose prints)

Folder 88: Schuit - Camp Polk photo album (LA and CA), loose pages, 1941-42

Schuit, Lawrence.  No photos, loose pages with annotations from a scrapbook

Folder 89: Schuit - California desert maneuvers, July-Dec 1942

Schuit, Lawrence. 77 prints

Folder 90: Schuit - California to Virginia, Dec 1942

Schuit, Lawrence. 10 prints

Folder 91: Schuit - Camp Pickett, VA, Nov. 28, 1942

Schuit, Lawrence. 7 prints

Folder 92: Schuit - Port Arthur, TX leave, 1942

Schuit, Lawrence. 12 prints

Folder 93: Schuit - Indiantown Gap, PA, Feb. 2, 1943

Schuit, Lawrence. 8 prints

Folder 94: Schuit - Bruton, Somerset, England - Redlynch House, Apr-June 1944

Schuit, Lawrence. 5 prints

Folder 95: Schuit - Isigny, France, June 24, 1944

Schuit, Lawrence. 6 prints

Folder 96: Schuit - St. Lo, ca. July 14, 1944

Schuit, Lawrence. 2 prints

Folder 97: Schuit - Stolberg, Prym House, Sept 21-Dec 19 and Feb 7-24, 1944-45

Schuit, Lawrence. 17 prints

Folder 98: Schuit - Aachen and Kornelimunster, Sept-Dec 1944, Feb 1945

Schuit, Lawrence. 7 prints. Aachen Sept-Dec 1944; Kornelimunster Feb 1945

Folder 99: Schuit - Ardennes, Dec 20, 1944-Jan 14, 1945

Schuit, Lawrence. 14 prints

Folder 100: Schuit - "A" scrapbook, 1944-45

Schuit, Lawrence. 53 photos (not a scrapbook)

Folder 101: Schuit - Brown scrapbook, 1944-45

Schuit, Lawrence. 67 prints (not a scrapbook)

Folder 102: Schuit - "R" scrapbook, 1944-45

Schuit, Lawrence. 30 prints (not a scrapbook)

Folder 103: Schuit - "W" scrapbook, 1944-45

Schuit, Lawrence.  79 prints (not a scrapbook)

Folder 104: Schuit - Equipment and tanks, disabled and abandoned, 1944-45

Schuit, Lawrence. 19 prints

Folder 105: Schuit - Heerlen, Netherlands, Feb 1945

Schuit, Lawrence. 8 prints

Folder 106: Schuit - Jurlich, Feb 25, 1945

Schuit, Lawrence. 2 prints

Folder 107: Schuit - Koln, March 7-16, 1945

Schuit, Lawrence. 12 prints. (Cologne)

Folder 108: Schuit - Honnef, Rhine crossing, and Mauser Estate, March 22-24, 1945

Schuit, Lawrence. 16 prints

Folder 109: Schuit - Nordhausen, April 11, 1945

Schuit, Lawrence. 3 prints

Folder 110: Schuit - Lingenau, April 14-24, 1945

Schuit, Lawrence. 11 prints

Folder 111: Schuit - Sangerhausen, April 25-May 11, 1945

Schuit, Lawrence. 23 prints (1 loose)

Folder 112: Schuit - Darmstadt, May-July, 1945

Schuit, Lawrence. 18 prints

Folder 113: Schuit - Truck convoy to Paris, Summer 1945

Schuit, Lawrence. 5 prints

Folder 114: Schuit - Return to U.S., Sept 1945

Schuit, Lawrence. 38 prints

Folder 115: Schuit - Midlothian, G-2 halftrack, 1945

Schuit, Lawrence. 6 prints

Folder 116: Schuit - Buddy and Lady, 1945

Schuit, Lawrence. 9 prints

Folder 117: Schuit - Postwar and reunions, 1945-85

Schuit, Lawrence. 38 prints (1 loose; not all years in range)

Folder 118: Loose photo, undated

Box 15: Frank J. Sanders and Frank Miller, ca. 1920s-1947, 1992

Realia, photographs, documents, and scrapbook description

Folder 1: Realia - cap and bag, ca. 1941-45

Folder 2: Realia - patches, medals, dog tags, lighter, scrapnel, ca. 1941-45

Folder 3: Second Chemical Warfare Service Enlisted Men;s Course, April 20-May23, 1942

24 prints. 2 group photos with names of each person.

Folder 4: Photographs of France, Belgium, Germany, 1944-45

24 prints

Folder 5: Photographs: Frank J. Sanders at 3AD monument (Desert Training Center, CA) Dec, 1992

2 prints

Folder 6: Military documetns, certificates and correspondence, 1941-47

Folder 7: Photocopies: Passes, letters, certificates and memos, 1942-45

Folder 8: Photocopies: Bulletins, memos, commendations, citations, 1943-45

Folder 9: Photocopies: Stars and Stripes, Le Tomahawk, pamphlets and maps, 1944-46

Folder 10: Sanders, Frank J. - Scrapbook, ca. 1920--30s, 1942-45

photos of Army service in CA, TX, OK (1942); Germany (1945)

Folder 11: Frank Miller - photograph and photo copies, 1942

Photographs and photo copies of pollcards.

Folder 12: Frank Miller - Scrapbook Descriptions, [n.a.]

Item 13: Photograph of 36th Armored Infantry Regiment, 1942-43

Box 16: John K. Walker Photograph Albums, 1943-45

Albums include numerous shots of personnel and activities of the 486th Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion.  Reference should be made to Walker's correspondence in Series 1 and to Walker's map collection (oversize series); also book Walker edited, Anti-Anything: the 486th Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion.  (See old finding aid Box 49 for item level description of each photo in each album.)

Folder 1: Photograph albums finding aid, 1943-45

Folder 2: Letters re scrapbook donation, 1996

Folder 3: Album 1 - loose photos, 1943-45

Folder 4: Album 2 - loose photos, 1943-45

Folder 5: Album 3 - loose photos, 1943-45

Folder 6: Album 1, 1943-45

Folder 7: Album 2, 1943-45

Folder 8: Album 3, 1943-45

Box 17: Rogister, Sanders, Gilder, Schuit Scrapbooks, 1941-45

Item 1: Rogister, Henri Scrapbook, 1944

The liberation of Liege, September 7-8.

Item 2: Sanders, Frank J. Scrapbook, 1920s-30s, 1941-45

Scrapbook of photos from Army service in CA, TX, and OK, 1942-Germany 1945.  Also includes childhood photos, 1920s-30s.

Item 3: Gilder, Carl Scrapbooks, 1941-45

Scrapbook pages with mounted photos.

Camp Polk, 1941-42 Desert training, July - Oct.  1942 Camp Pickett, Nov. 1942 - Jan. 1943 Indiantown Gap, Jan. - July, 1943 England, Sept. 1943 - June 1944.

Item 4: Schuit, Lawrence Scrapbook, 1941 - 45

"Camp Polk, LA Service Album" 182 prints.

Box 18: Frank Miller Scrapbook, 1942-45

Photocopy of 90 page scrapbook on service with 703 Tank Destroyer Battalion.