Photograph of a school house in Wasseralfingen, Germany, which served as the command post for the 17th Armored Infantry Battalion in 1945.

Photograph of a school house in Wasseralfingen, Germany, which served as the command post for the 17th Armored Infantry Battalion in 1945.

Photograph of a school house in Wasseralfingen, Germany, which served as the command post for the 17th Armored Infantry Battalion in 1945.

Photograph of Staff Sgt. Troy Criss, who served in Company A of the 56th Armored Infantry Battalion, posing in uniform in Gerstetten, Germany. There is a typed description of the photograph on the back.

Photographs of soldiers preparing to be discharged and leave Germany. The first photo involves a First Sergeant calling out while holding a paper. Soldiers mill about to the right, with Ferdinand Caravelli looking towards the camera. The middle-left photo shows Joe Hurt carrying a full sack over his back and standing in a street. The middle-right photo shows Nathan Levine standing in front of a German theater. The bottom photo is a close up of Dan Melli and a man named John. They are smiling, standing in front of a wall, and wearing shirts and ties.

Photograph of a crowd standing in the bleachers watching a baseball game in the 12th Armored Division Ball Park in Heidenheim, Germany. One or two players are visible in front of the bleachers.

Photograph of Louis Lapinski holding a carbine standing in a group of German civilians next to a train.

Photograph of Herbert Schaff wearing a U.S. Army uniform and garrison cap while standing on a cobbled road. He has his arms around two young German girls. The girl wearing the ribbon and black dress on the left is Helga, and the girl wearing a floral print dress and jacket is Inga. People, a boy on a bicycle, and two-story buildings can be seen in the background.

Photograph of Herbert Schaff wearing a U.S. Army uniform and garrison cap while sitting on a jeep's front bumper. He has his arms around two young German girls. The girl wearing the ribbon and black dress on the right is Helga, and the girl wearing a floral print dress and jacket is Inga. Another jeep is parked to the left. A fence and trees are visible in the background.

Photograph of an aerial view of buildings in Schnaitheim, Germany.

Photograph of John Papile and Bob Semptner sitting on the wheel well of a truck. Papile looks toward the camera, while Semptner leans over the open hood of the truck.

Photograph of men, women, and children milling in a residential street, with a large home in the background. A handwritten note on the back of the photo says "'Black Market' trading in route Germany to LeHavre."

Two photographs of William F. Hill. In the photo to the left, he stands next to a truck while another unidentified man blows a trumpet. In the photo to the right, he stands at attention in front of a fence, with a house in the background.

Photographs of two locations around Rüsselsheim, Germany. The first two photos are of a house where Wolfgang Mozart composed music. One uniformed soldier poses nearby in the first photo, while Joe Hurt and Technical Sergeant Nelson stand near the building in the second. The image to the bottom left contains an ivy covered castle gate tower. The structure is conical and built of crumbling stone and has several thin windows. In the fourth photo, Don Melli and a soldier named Nelson pose in front of the tower.

Photographs of Dan Melli in Rüsselsheim, Germany. The first photograph shows Melli holding a needle over a cream carafe in a shadowy room. Jars and equipment lie on a covered table to the left. A stethoscope hangs on the wall behind Melli, and a small china hutch sits to the right of him. The bottom photograph features Melli standing in front of the dispensary with a young German girl named Hannala.

Photograph of William Hahn wearing a jacket and cap while standing in a field surrounded by a wooden fence. A wheeled trailer sits behind him a few paces. Houses and a church are visible in the background.

Photograph of William Giannopoulos standing on top of a tank turret while holding a .30 caliber machine gun. He is wearing glasses and a U.S. Army uniform. The reverse side of the photo has a handwritten note from Giannopoulos regarding his living situation.

Photograph of a German field that has several parked American Army trucks.