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From Al
Kloess' photo album |
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This FW 190
surrendered to us on VE
Day,
Tuesday,
8 May 1945,
in Lippstadt. |
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close up reveals Al
Kloess and Bob Heath in the
190's
cockpit. |
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412th
Ordinance Group:
Al Kloess, Bob
Heath
Lum Rawlins, Roy
Devaney, Red Yeage, Bob Colangelo
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Bob
Colangelo in Lippstadt, 1945. |
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Lum
Rawlins and Bob Colangelo in France, Sept 1944. |
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Train of displaced French and Belgium
civilians - June
1945, Illesheim, Germany. |
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The old
"40-8" German boxcar, so called because it
could accommodate either 40 men or 8 horses, seen
here ready to take us home from where we were 10 miles
outside of Nuremberg, Germany - June 1945. |
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July 1945
in Reims, France - waiting for a German train to pull
out and take us home. |
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July
24, 1945 - The USS West Point pulls into
Southampton, England. The next day we departed via
the West Point for our home in the U.S.A. Europe had
been freed of the Nazi regime.
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