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[Pillbox with a Turret on Top]

Description: Photograph of a concrete military pillbox fortification that is topped with a cylindrical turret. The structure is built into the earth. The small figures of two people can be seen standing to the far right.
Date: [1943..1945]
Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum

[Homer Petross with a Captured Anti-Tank Gun]

Description: Photograph of Homer Petross standing to the right of a captured German 7.5 cm Pak 40 (Panzerabwehrkanone 40) anti-tank gun. Petross is wearing glasses and a U.S. Army uniform. The gun is on a wheeled carriage and has a steel shield at its base. Two wooden buildings stand in the background.
Date: [1943..1945]
Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum

[Homer Petross Hugging a Young Girl]

Description: Photograph of Homer Petross kneeling beside a young blonde girl and hugging her. Two boys can be seen behind them sitting near a pond. Two young ducks are located on the ground in front of Petross. Three houses can be seen across the pond in the background.
Date: [1943..1945]
Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum

Advance into Nazi City

Description: Photograph of military personnel and armored vehicles traveling down a German street. Damaged buildings line the street, and piles of rubble are located on either side of the street in the foreground.
Date: 1945
Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum

[Willard Pottenger and Unknown Soldier]

Description: Photograph of Willard Pottenger standing to the left of an unidentified man. Both wear helmets, Pottenger wears a full Army uniform, and the unknown man wears a sleeveless shirt and dog tags. They are standing in front of a two-story building white building with shuttered windows.
Date: [1943..1945]
Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum

Blasting Resistance, Austria

Description: Photograph of a smoke covered town in Austria. White smoke covers most of the buildings and winds up under the treeline of a nearby hill. Two tanks and three trucks can be seen on a road that winds to the right.
Date: 1945
Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum

[Homer Petross with Another Soldier]

Description: Photograph of Homer Petross standing to the right of another soldier. They each have an arm around the others' shoulder. They are standing outside to the left of a tent that is mostly out of frame. A young blonde boy wearing shorts stands near a hedge behind them.
Date: [1943..1945]
Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum

[Two Soldiers Standing by a Truck Named "Angela II"]

Description: Photograph of two uniformed and helmeted U.S. soldiers standing next to a truck. "Angela II" is painted upon the lower portion of the truck's open door. The two men are identified as Homer Petross' squad leader and his truck driver, Willard Pottinger. A two story building stands behind them.
Date: [1944..1945]
Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum

[Ruined Building in Germany]

Description: Photograph of a bombed-out German building that stands behind a railroad track. Most of the walls that would be facing the track normally are now gone. Rubble is piled up around the building's bottom level.
Date: [1944..1945]
Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum

[German House and Woodshed]

Description: Photograph of two German buildings. The leftmost building is an open woodshed with boards piled at its sides. The stone house in the background is two stories tall and has double windows spaced regularly along its side.
Date: [1943..1945]
Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum

[German Farmhouse and Barn]

Description: Photograph of a German barn where Allied trucks were stored. A man and three women stand at the wide open door of the barn while holding long-hafted tools. Wooden framed carts stand in the foreground. A half-timbered farmhouse is visible to the left. The note on the reverse side of the image say that American soldiers stayed here during the final push of the European theater of World War II.
Date: [1944..1945]
Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum

[Homer Petross and His Driver Standing with a Truck]

Description: Photograph of two uniformed and helmeted U.S. soldiers standing next to a truck. "Angela II" is painted upon the lower portion of the truck's open door. The man wearing glasses and a garrison cap is Homer Petross, and the helmeted man is his truck driver. A shuttered window is visible behind the truck.
Date: [1944..1945]
Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum
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