Photos Photos of the US Army in the ETO

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Pictures of the 261st Field Artillery Battalion, at the end of the war in Germany. These are all US Army Signal Corps photos. EDIT: I must have mislabeled the folder with these pics! They are obviously from different Field Artillery units.)

 

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Goodness, those are great pictures mate I didn't want it to end! Keep them coming!

 

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There are some interesting pictures in the previous posts, for once some of the M36 TDs have overhead armour plates, these were added as field modifications. Another interesting detail, the German AT ack-acks are main guns for the "Jagdpanther" that were jury-rigged onto poured concrete bedding. My educated guess would be that they were taken from a factory where production had been halted for what reason whatsoever.

Regarding the identification of the units shown in the pictures it seems as if I have buggered up the content of several folders. The 261st Field Artillery Battalion was a non divisional 155mm howitzers battalion, and one of the M4 High-Speed Tractors has the markings of that unit. So the better part of the pics must be of other units. It looks as most belonged to the 5th Armored Division, some can be identified by vehicle markings as the vehicle 24 of the HQ Coy., 15th Armored Infantry Battalion of the 5th Armored Division on a Halftrack, a trailer and a Half-Track are from Coy. C of the 46th Armored Infantry Battalion of the 5th Armored Division. One of the M5 High Speed Tractors has 9th Army markings, another trailer seems to have markings of the 9th Army and 557th Field Artillery Battalion.

 

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The M5 tank has German markings to fool the German gunners...didn't work that much as German anti-tank optics were excellent at long range and gunners knew their opponents.

 

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I'm not sure but it might also be a "Beutepanzer" that had used by the Wehrmacht. The GIs seem to be inspecting the vehicle, they don't really look like the regular crew of teh tank-

 

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I'm not sure but it might also be a "Beutepanzer" that had used by the Wehrmacht. The GIs seem to be inspecting the vehicle, they don't really look like the regular crew of teh tank-

Would also be a war crime, not to mention stupid. Most of the army couldnt tell the difference between a spitfire and an me109.....