General Discussion

As far as those locations, I just don't know. I found these slides with other family slides and have been in the process of scanning them and correcting the images. Other slides show three guys who were probably with him. I have found no written accounts of his war experiences. The location could very well be in the states during training. He might not have hauled a 35mm camera around when in combat.

I just have my memories of the stories he told when I was a kid. I remember he talked about the Howitzer and being in Italy, France and maybe Germany and the Battle of the Bulge. He was wounded and spent the rest of the war recovering in the large estate (chateau) of a French family. The French family kept in touch with Christmas letters up until my dad's death.

I asked if they ever shot anything with the cannon and he said once that a German plane was forced down during a battle and they blew it up. He didn't like talking about the war much. Of course now I wish I had gotten him to tell me more about it.