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[Photograph of Colonel Nicholas Novosel]

Photograph of Colonel Nicholas Novosel wearing a helmet and coat while smoking a cigarette. The arm of Captain Butler is partially visible to the left.
Date: January 1945
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Soldiers at the Maginot Line]

Photograph of Stan Folkman and Marv Lilly standing at the Maginot Line in France.
Date: [1941..1945]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Soldiers in a Snowy Copse]

Photograph of John Bernier, Stephen Dulleba, and Peter Garofolo standing together in a snowy copse of trees. The men are wearing U.S. Army uniforms, with Dulleba and Garofolo wearing white armbands bearing crosses. Bernier props himself up against the snowy half of a tree trunk.
Date: 1945~
Creator: Jones, Zane E.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Soldiers in Boxcar Doorway]

Photograph of soldiers, including one identified as Jake and Leonard M. Kornman, standing in the open doorway of a boxcar on the way to the port of Le Havre.
Date: September 1945
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Present Day Herrlisheim]

Photograph of houses on a street in Herrlisheim. A couple of vehicles are visible in the background.
Date: 2009
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Street in Herrlisheim]

Photograph of a muddy street in Herrlisheim after a battle in January 1945. Some of the houses are in ruins, and tanks are visible in the background.
Date: January 17, 1945
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Carl Von Czoernig Standing by a Wall]

Photograph of Carl Von Czoernig holding a tin cup in his right hand and his helmet under his left arm. He stands against a stuccoed wall that obscured a covered ambulance. A building rises in the background.
Date: 1944
Creator: Jones, Zane E.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Nurse with Two Soldiers]

Photograph of J. F. X. Hennessey, nurse Lt. Ava Jane Biggerstaff, and Ralph Smith standing at a railing at the U. S. Army 3rd General Hospital in Marseille, France.
Date: January 1945
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of Zane Jones]

Photograph of Zane Jones wearing a coat and smiling for the camera. "Paris 1945" appears in a sunburst on the lower left portion of the photo. "Just call me Curly" is written in faded marker across Jones' collar.
Date: 1945
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Members of 2nd Platoon]

Photograph of members of the 2nd platoon of Company C of the 56th Armored Infantry Battalion, posing in the snow at Rouffach, France. A French girl stands with them.
Date: [1943..1944]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Soldiers near a Cement Building]

Photograph of three uniformed United States Army soldiers and two men in dark civilian clothes near the foot of a multi-story cement building. One soldier, Frank Lussiana, is sitting in a chair backwards. A truck bearing the image of a cross on a white field is behind a fence to the left.
Date: 1944
Creator: Jones, Zane E.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Rue du General Reibel]

Photograph of the view down the Rue de General Reibel in Herrlisheim, France. Cars are parked along the road, and there is a restaurant to the right.
Date: 2009
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Half-Track in a Ditch]

Photograph of soldiers standing around a half-track stuck in a ditch at Rouffach, France. Houses are visible in the background.
Date: [1944..1945]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Three Soldiers in Riem]

Photograph of John Thomas, Victor Perry, and Jack Blanche posing together in Riems, France.
Date: 1945
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photographs of E. J. Simons and Others in Various Locations]

Four scanned photographs featuring E. J. Simons and other uniformed American soldiers at various locations in Europe. The original photos were taped onto a sheet of paper along with captions. The photo on the top right features soldiers identified as Joe, Ucyroski, and E. J. "Spike" Simons sitting on a bench in Paris, France. A stone wall, trees, and a statue are visible behind them. The next photo features Simons standing between two soldiers and a view of the Eiffel Tower in the background. The third photo has soldiers named Armstrong and Tummons sitting with Simons in a room in Germany. An open window and overhead fixture provide light. Armstrong sits on a sofa to the left, Tummons sits on a dressing table in the center, and Simons sitting to the right. The bottom photo shows two soldiers and Simons standing in front of the American Red Cross' Rainbow Corner club in Paris, France.
Date: {1945~,1945-06-06}
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Truck on Point]

Photograph of the rear of an Army vehicle leading the way down a snow-covered road in the Vosges Mountains in France. There are trees and other foliage on both sides of the road.
Date: 1944
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Girl Posing With Gun]

Photograph of an unidentified girl posing with a German 88 anti-aircraft gun near Herrlisheim. Another gun is visible in the background.
Date: July 1945
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Three Soldiers Sitting in Furst Chateau's Doorway]

Photograph of three uniformed American soldiers sitting together in the entryway of a brick building called Furst Chateau. The seated men are John Vitolo, Nathan Levine, and Murray Davis. The men wear white armbands with images of crosses.
Date: February 21, 1945
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Soldiers in France]

Copy print of five soldiers in France. The three in the rear are Russell Spencer, Ricky Staub, and Roy Strange. Bill Collins and James Czarnecki kneel in the front row.
Date: February 1945
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Check-In at Paris]

Photograph of pedestrians and cars outside a building used by the U.S. Army as a check-in place for a three day pass in Paris.
Date: [1943..1944]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Madrill Flora and the Maginot Line]

Three copy photographs taken in Europe during World War II. In the first photograph, Madrill Flora sits on top of a tank. The second photograph is top half of the tank in the first photo. The last photograph shows a cave on the Maginot Line.
Date: 1945
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Men Standing in a Hotel Park in Grasse, France]

Photograph of several men standing in a hotel's park in Grasse, France. Three men stand in the foreground. Longoni, a bald man wearing spectacles and a sports coat, stands to the left. Two uniformed U.S. Army soldiers, Dan Melli and Ed Feron, stand next to Longoni. Another soldier is walking in the background under palm trees. A hotel building with multiple balconies and ivy growing up its side is visible to the left.
Date: 1945
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Scrapbook Page: Staging Area - Calas]

Photographs of the Calas staging area in France. The top image shows soldiers identified as Bernikow and Nathan Levine standing on an earthen field in front of a row of tents. The second picture, labeled "Our billet," is of a tent structure that with an open entryway. The bottom two photographs feature groups of two and three soldiers posing together in front of the tent billets.
Date: 1945-11-10/1945-11-22
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Museum Display]

Photograph of a museum display of a 40+8 French boxcar. Several mannequins are posed in the boxcar, and two more stand outside it.
Date: 2009
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History