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[Nathan Levine and Dan Melli Sledding with a French Boy]

Description: Photograph of Nathan Levine and Dan Melli with a French boy on the snowy streets of Nordheim. Levine and Melli are wearing coats and U.S. Army uniforms, while the boy is wearing a coat and newsboy cap. Melli is sitting on a sled with a the boy whom he is embracing. Levine crouches behind them. A row of snow covered buildings line the snowbanks covering the road.
Date: January 1945
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum
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Oral History Interview with Glenn E. McDuffie, January 21, 2008

Description: Interview with Glenn E. McDuffie, an Armed Guard in the U. S. Navy during World War II. He discusses lying about his age in order to join the navy at 15 and his experience in boot camp. He served as an Armed Guard on merchant ships that transported supplies across the Atlantic and remembers being in London while German bombers flew overhead. He transported German prisoners out of Marseilles and Naples shortly after the liberation of those cities. He remembers going to Times Square upon hearing … more
Date: January 21, 2008
Duration: 1 hour 16 minutes 50 seconds
Creator: Misenhimer, Richard & McDuffie, Glenn E.
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Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[Soldiers Inside a Tank]

Description: Photograph of two tanks besides buildings is Strasbourg, Germany. The foremost tank has four soldiers emerging from various hatches. Two helmeted soldiers are visible from the chest up behind the tank's turret. Two other soldiers' heads can be seen sticking out of hatches near the front of the tank. Two of the men are identified as Joseph Prendergast and Kenneth Bradstreet.
Date: January 1945
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum

[Photograph of Soldiers in Snowy Street]

Description: Photograph of a group of soldiers running in a snowy street, with a destroyed building in the background, and several other damaged buildings in the vicinity. A handwritten note on the back of the photo says "Schillerdorf, France, the 7th Army drove the Germans SS Troops out of this town in a vigorous counter attack."
Date: January 26, 1945
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum

[Photograph of French Town in Snow]

Description: Photograph of a snowy hill covered with trees, with buildings at the base. A handwritten note on the back of the photo says "I know back in Dec. I mentioned visiting a castle. This is a "shot" of it taken on a snowy day in Jan 1945. This is in the same town where I spent Christmas (You can bearly see the castle at the very top of the photo). France."
Date: January 1945
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum
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