.....recently got a fancy schmancy new scanner that does fantastic job on negatives and slides and tiny pics....I've slowly been digitizing my father in laws WW2 pics that no one even knew existed-and that he never spoke of while he was around.......many of these are only 1 1/2"x2 1/2"...like contact prints,but the scanner does a wonderful job pulling out the small details....he has many of his buddies taken in theater beside other photos that are great shots of equipment and life in combat conditions-but this one caught my eye when I zoomed in....previously I'd thought it was just him with some of his buddies-but look closer and tell me what you think of the other guys-father in law Ed is in the middle....
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...I know that at the end of the war his Tank Destroyer Battalion who went all the way thru Italy from Salerno past Naples,Rome,Monte Cassino,then swung to the northeast and ended up chasing the Germans to the Austrian border and capturing many prisoners in the last days accoring to unit records...czech out the outfits-specially the caps-the camo pants...one looks like he has a rope for a belt(there are other pics) ....are these guys German soldier POW's???
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....and the unit didnt cross INTO Austria,they stayed in Italy just outside the Austrian border...he was attatched to the Reconaissance Company of the 804th and they were set up at Sillian according to official records(mind you-it took me years of digging to find all this info since he never told anyone other than a few general details).....other parts of his battalion were in other nearby towns of Candido,Cortine D' Ampezzo,and Vicenza in early May of 45
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