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| On this page, you'll find images contributed by Elmer Knapp, a former member of Battery C. Technical note: If your browser supports JavaScript, you can view a larger version of each photo by clicking on the "Enlarge the Photo" button; otherwise, just click on the smaller image to load a larger one. Any former members who can add to the captions are invited to send information to the Webmaster. |
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Battery C's officers pose for a group shot at an unknown location. Too bad we can't read the sign behind the cooks at left.
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Diving off a railroad bridge into a swimming hole four miles north of Atkinson, NC, July 1943.
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Cooling off near Atkinson, NC, July 1943.
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Sgt. John Ryan (center) and unidentified soldier with M2 .50-caliber water-cooled machine guns (on M3-style mounts), Camp Davis, North Carolina, Summer 1943.
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Four 225th members test-drive an outdoor latrine, July 1943. The man on the left is wearing the antiaircraft patch on his left shoulder (a white circle ringed in red, with the letters "AA" in red).
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Elmer Knapp poses next to an SCR-268 radar. Note the branches used as camouflage. A battery mate is perched on the unit itself.
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Sgt. Paul J. Schultz of C Battery rests his aching feet in the woods near Burgaw, NC.
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Elmer Knapp "models" the latest in AAA fashion: a belt of .50-caliber machine gun bullets.
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C Battery mates Adolf Hartman and John Ryan stacking M2 ammunition chests for the .50 caliber mounts in the background.
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Branches from the woods around Burgaw, NC make good camouflage for an SCR-268 radar.
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C Battery's Section 12 is a motley but caring crew, as a Mr. Carr of Burgaw finds out, Summer 1943.
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