[Newspaper Article: Scenes From Recent Scrap Drive] (open access)

[Newspaper Article: Scenes From Recent Scrap Drive]

Newspaper clipping with an article about a scrap drive in Lake City, Iowa. Included are pictures of the drive and text with information about the pictures.
Date: [1941..1945]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Clipping
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of Blue Danube Sign]

Photograph of a sign which says "You are crossing the beautiful Blue Danube thru courtesy of the 12th Armd Division."
Date: [1941..1945]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of Man in Rowboat]

Photograph of a man sitting in a boat on a pond. A handwritten note on the back of the photo says "My chief, Passero."
Date: [1942..1945]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of NCO Training Session]

Photograph of a large group of soldiers sitting on benches outside of a building, facing a man at a podium. Text below the photo says "Sergeants get told in one of the class sessions preparing them for their job of telling the rookies when they arrive for training. These men, of the 493rd Armored Field Artillery Battery, are ones upon whom the punching power of the division will have to depend." The building is labeled "kitchen."
Date: [1942..1944]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of Officer and Captain]

Photograph of an officer receiving a new rank insignia from a captain, with both of them standing inside of a house.
Date: [1942..1945]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of Three Soldiers]

Photograph of three soldiers standing together outside of a house.
Date: [1942..1945]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Elevated View of Camp Campbell Buildings]

Photograph of Camp Campbell as seen from an elevated position. This offers a clear view of many of the wooden buildings in the area, including a church near the center of the image.
Date: 1943
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Jasper Arbuckle and Rudolph Meuser at Camp Barkeley]

Photograph of United States officers Lieutenant Jasper Arbuckle and Captain Rudolph Meuser standing together on a field at Camp Barkeley in Texas. Small buildings are visible behind them.
Date: 1943~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Soldier Holding a Mess Kit Beside a Tank]

Photograph of uniformed soldier standing beside a tank while holding a mess kit by a strap. The tank is the last of a row of several tanks.
Date: 1943~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Studio Photograph of Carold W. Bland]

Photograph of Carold W. Bland wearing his uniform and garrison cap and posing for a photograph in a studio setting. An image painted with images of flours serves as a background.
Date: 1943~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Tank Equipment Spread Out on Sheets]

Photograph of four sheets of tank equipment laid out for inspection. A tank's track is partially visible on the lower right.
Date: 1943~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Albert Winder on the Hood of a Half-Track]

Photograph of Albert Winder crouching atop the hood of a half-track vehicle. An unknown soldier wearing a helmet is manning a machine gun behind Winder.
Date: 1944~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Five Soldiers on a Jeep]

Photograph of five soldiers posing on a Jeep. One soldier leans against the hood, two are seated in the vehicle, and one sits on the back while embracing the fifth who stands at the rear. The men are identified from left to right as Beckman, Elliott, Petrik, Kjellberg, and Czeiner. The group is situated in front of long ground-level buildings.
Date: 1944~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Jake Porciello by German Street Sign]

Photograph of Jake Porciello wearing a United States Army uniform and standing next to a German street sign for "Kaiser Strasse." Trees, a pedestrian, and a building are visible behind him.
Date: 1944~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Soldier Leaning on a Car Door]

Photograph of a soldier leaning against an open car door on a residential street. The soldier is wearing a garrison cap, uniform jacket, and tie. Rows of houses and vegetation line both sides of the street.
Date: 1944~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Vincent Konieczki Posing by Merkel, Texas Sign]

Photograph of Vincent Konieczki wearing an army uniform and garrison cap while standing beside a sign for Merkel, Texas. He is extending his thumb in a hitchhiker-like manner. The reverse side of the photo indicates that he is from La Salle, Illinois, and that he is close to Camp Barkeley, Texas.
Date: 1944~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Half-Track in Mud]

Photograph of a half-track vehicle partially submerged in a pool of mud. A helmeted soldier can be seen with his hand on the open driver-side door.
Date: Summer 1944
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Anti-Aircraft Artillery Piece]

Photograph of an anti-aircraft artillery emplacement. Several soldiers can be seen in a trench to the right of the gun.
Date: 1945
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

["C" Building in Neubozheim]

Photograph of a pair of two story buildings located by a paved road and an ivy-covered tree. The building on the right has larger windows on its second story. The building in the background has a large grate of window panes on its second story, with smaller windows along its ground level.
Date: 1945~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Carl C. Morgan Standing by Temporary Quarters]

Photograph of Carl C. Morgan wearing a jumpsuit. He has his hands stuffed into his pockets and looks off to the side. Morgan is standing among rocks in front of a temporary quarters that has a sign bearing the names "Capt. Wilson, Lt. Meuser, Capt. Morgan." A man stands in the doorway behind Morgan and holds a picture above his head.
Date: 1945~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Five American Soldiers Posing Before a House]

Photograph of five uniformed United States Army soldiers standing together in front of a house. The names Weigel and Thompson are written along the bottom of both sides of the photo. The reverse side contains a handwritten description of how the group was returning from somewhere and that a "bunch of Russians" had been sent home.
Date: 1945~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Four Tank Crew Members Beside a Tank and Carrying Submachine Guns]

Photograph of four uniformed United States Army tank crew members standing next to a tank. The three men on the left are holding M3 submachine guns. The reverse side of the photo identifies the men from left to right as Paul Thomas, Otto Nelson, Archie Palmer, and Frank Huetig.
Date: 1945
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[German Soldiers with a Nazi Flag]

Photograph of four German soldiers wearing uniforms and standing with a Third Reich flag. Three of the men are wearing diagonally-crowned caps suggesting that they're officers. The flag, left, bears a swastika that radiates vertical and horizontal bars. An "iron cross" is visible in the upper left quadrant of the flag. Buildings and an industrial crane are visible in the background.
Date: 1945~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of Canal in Neu Bolheim]

Photograph of a canal in Neu Bolheim, Germany, with a bridge running across it.
Date: 1945
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History