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| On this page, you'll find images contributed by the late Joshua Snook, a former member of A Battery (the photos were kindly forwarded by his widow, Annabelle). 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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Lt. William ("Clyde") Faulkner, center, of A Battery, holds a huge diamondback rattlesnake which he played a major role in capturing in the woods around Burgaw, NC, Summer 1943. With Faulkner are some of his battery mates, some of whom participated in the successful hunt. The snake was defanged by Capt. Louis Goldman, the battalion medical officer.
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Battalion CO J. B. Terrill poses with a king snake that he adopted for a pet while in bivouac near Burgaw, NC, Summer 1943.
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These members of the 225th Searchlight Battalion's Battery A aren't worrying about the temperature of the water — as long as it's wet! That's all that matters to these boys, sweltering on bivouac near Burgaw, NC, during July 1943. Doing the pouring is Sgt. Hugh Kehrman. On the receiving end are (left to right) Privates Sidney Ovsay and James Combey, Corporal Bob Armstrong, and Private George Kenney.
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This is "Victory Square" in the bivouac area of Battery A, near Burgaw, NC, July 1943. In the midst of arduous training maneuvers, the lads have found time to build stilts for their shelter tents so they can stay high and dry when a sudden shower strikes and turns the ground into a quagmire (the stilts also make the tents secure from the many poisonous snakes native to the area). At right, Joe Simone keeps his barbering skills sharp.
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The "PX" — furthest outpost of the Camp Davis Camp Exchange System — facetiously christened the "Monte Carlo Tap Room" by the boys of A Battery, somewhere in the wilderness ten miles from Burgaw, NC, Summer 1943.
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The 225th's searchlights are used over the 7th Army front to light up the battlefield. On dark, moonless nights, light reflected from low-hanging cloud banks illuminate enemy positions and aids in the direction of artillery fire.
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A group of the 225th stand in front of the Burgerbrau Keller ("citizens' beer cellar"), where Hitler staged his infamous putsch in 1923.
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A Battery commander Capt. Jacob W. McGrew sits on the rear stabilizer of a German Heinkel (He111) bomber at Camp Rattle, Summer 1945.
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Sgt. Ed Krylowicz of A Battery poses on a Munich street, Summer 1945.
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T-5 Lundy Howard (A Battery) on the same street, Summer 1945.
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If you know who this fellow is (the unit is Battery A, the location is Munich, during the Summer of 1945), send a note to the Webmaster.
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If you know who this lieutenant is (the unit is Battery A, the location is Munich, during the Summer of 1945), send a note to the Webmaster. A Battery had six "louies": Jack C. Berry, Bon Burt, Clyde W. Faulkner, Jr., Irwin R. Heilbronner, Nicholas Sparks, and Robert H. Winters.
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