Photograph of members of Company A of the 17th Armored Infantry Battalion washing their mess kits after eating at Aalen, Germany.

Photograph of John Messina and Aldo Rigo posing together against a wall. There is a staircase behind them, and ads above them.

Photograph of Thomas T. Perrett standing in front of the 66th HQ building in Ellewagon, Germany. There's a sign in the window to the left.

Photograph of PFC. Castron and SSgt. Homer Hensel sitting amid debris at Wasseralfingen, Germany.

Photograph of John Messina and K. G. Warner posing together in Augsburg, Germany.

Photograph of PFC Dominick Caridi, a radio man for the 17th Armored Infantry Battalion, leaning against a wall. A set of stairs are visible behind him.

Photograph of main street in Heidenheim, Germany. There are buildings on both sides of the road, and a car is parked on the side of the road.

Photograph of Thomas Perrett guarding S.S. troops awaiting the Nuremberg trials in Germany.

Photograph of artillery commander Colonel C. R. Gildart standing in front of a building in Germany.

Photograph of soldiers of the mortar squad of Company A of 17th Armored Infantry Battalion in Germany. There is a house and a tree in the background.

Photograph of SSgt. Aldo Rigo leaning against a wall. There is a staircase visible in the background.

Photograph of Sgt. Gamache standing on the side of a road in Bavaria.

Photograph of Sgt. Ticeman posing in front of trees.

Photograph of SSgt. Hensel standing in front of a building in Wasseralfingen, Germany. He served in Company C of the 17th Armored Infantry Battalion.

Photograph of K. G. Warner standing with one foot up next to a chain link fence. There is a house in the background.

Photograph of Howard Fay and Raymond Pieterick standing together behind a high wall of a Catholic church in Dischingen, Germany. The two men are wearing U.S. Army uniforms and garrison caps.

Photographs of captured German areas. The top two images concern destroyed railroad assets in Aalen, Germany. The image on the top left is of the ruins of a railroad station. The building has been burned away to reveal brick and metal supports. A locomotive sits to the right. The top right photograph features several locomotives sitting on tracks. The third photo is of a pile of artillery shells stacked in a woodland near Ansbach, Germany. The bottom left photo is a different angle of the same shells with U.S. soldiers posing in front of them. The bottom right photograph is of Howie Philwin, Al Kobelicks, Rhodes, and Nathan Levine wearing U.S. Army uniforms and walking down a road that cuts through a forest.

Photograph of Dan Melli wearing a U.S. Army uniform and standing by a sign erected on the side of a road. The sign is printed with "You are crossing the beautiful blue Danube thru courtesy of the 12th Armd Division." A tree and shrubs are visible behind him. Short rails and posts line the road to the right.

Photograph of Lt. Couvert riding on horseback in Neresheim, Germany.

Photograph of a cement bridge that crosses the Danube at Dillingen, Germany. Trees and shrubs are visible along the distant riverbank.

Photograph of Captain Rudolph Meuser sitting in an armchair and reading a newspaper. His legs are crossed and he is holding a cigarette in his right hand.

Photographs of a swimming pool in Aalen, Germany. The top left photo shows Dan Melli and another man wearing swimtrunks and standing on a lawn around the pool. People can be seen reclining on the ground nearby. The photo in the top right shows Melli standing in front of a pool ladder. Behind him is an occupied swimming pool. The third photograph shows Lieutenant Bison, Allen, Dan Melli, Frank Ross, and Samuel Rascon wearing swim trunks and sitting in a line in front of a pool.

Newsletter published by the 12th Armored "Hellcat" Division of the U.S. Army, discussing news related to the activities of the unit and members of the division.

Newsletter published by the 12th Armored "Hellcat" Division of the U.S. Army, discussing news related to the activities of the unit and members of the division.