Lieutenant Sam Sloan

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July 1944, Road to Cherbourg, knocked out German AA gun

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Sept 1944, Prosnes France: Captured German airfield built up to a fighter strip by US. (German FW 190 shown)

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Sept 24 1944: Maginot Line. (massive French fortress system built in the 1920s to defend against any future German attack. In 1940, the Germans went around the defenses and the fighting was over in 40 days.)

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Sept 1944: French military cemetary on M44 outside of Rheims

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Oct 3 - Dec 30, 1944: Morfontaine France, Headquarters on left.

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Oct 3 - Dec 30 44: Looking into Germany from Mortontaine.

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May 1945: Germany Trip for 438th Signal Bn. Knocked out American 1/2 tracks and tanks. (438th Signal: a cable communication unit in support of Army Air Force medium bomber group.)

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M4 Sherman tank main gun and side blown out.

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Autobahn superhighway Germany, May 1945.

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Rhine River, Mainz, May 1945: on the way to Bad Kissingen. Longest, widest, highest fixed military bridge in the world.

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West bank of Rhine at Mainz Germany, 1945. On way to Bad Kissingen, longest mil bridge.

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May 1945: Released German soldiers on way home via foot, roads full of them.

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Mainz, May 1945: on way to Germany post at Bad Kissingen.

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Both Norbert Ruckel and Irwin Ritter identified this building as the main Protestant Church in Bad Kissingen. In the foto, note the English language signs and barbed wire, part of the fencing off of the central part of the town when the American Air Force units moved in. Also note the free mingling of the Germans and US troops.

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Bad Kissingen Germany, May 1945: Taken from the hospital, Draper Sanatorium on left.

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Oct 1945: close up of the Bulletin Board in Bad Kissingen. (There were two such fotos, the second showed a distant view of the bulletin board. In German, all we could translate was the large type " Proklamation Nr 1 - From the military government - Control Area of the Central Command ... ". Probably the US military command outlining rules and regulations to the German citizens in the first days of the occupation.)

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Oct31, 1945: Kassel Germany, Abe in from France prior to my leaving.

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Oct 1945: Kassel, Chaplain Miema.

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Nov 4 - 10 1945: German PWs, must have been 20 grand.

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Nov 45: US tanker destroyer unit loads out.

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Nov 1, 1945: Railyard at Kassel, Germany. (These certainly appear to be Army Air Force personnel getting ready for departure. In chalk, they joke about their "point" status, the system used to determine who went back to the USA first.)

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Captured Photo ... sitting on top of the world. ( A German war era foto picked up by Lt Sloan.)

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Aryan superhuman type. (another picked up photo)

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Captured Photo: "conquerors".

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(Norbert Ruckel was able to identify this building as the Wilhelmshohe Schloss built by Kaiser Wilhelm in Kassel. There a few fotos of the buildings and grounds in the collection.)

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(The reverse of a Sloan foto showing both his caption and the US Army Censor stamp. Three types of soldier fotos were confiscated by the inspectors as troops processed through the ports to board ships bound for the US: images of "secret" US equipment, images of dead or wounded US troops and pornography.)