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[Photographs in France]

Description: Two photographs taken in France. The top photo shows German positions on a hilltop at Bining, France. A building with a steeple is also visible to the right. The bottom photo shows a command post of the Division Artillery in Bettviller, France, with a French flag flying from the building to the left.
Date: December 1944
Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum

[Two Photographs]

Description: Two photographs taken in 1944. In the first photo, an M7 105mm Howitzer drives through a field at Camp Barkeley. In the bottom photo, a soldier stands outside Chateau Auffay in France, which was the first command post of the Division Artillery.
Date: 1944
Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum

[Landsberg Concentration Camps]

Description: Two photographs of the Landsberg Prison in Germany. In the first photo, the captured commandant of the concentration camp stands among the bodies of inmates. In the second photo, men from a nearby town a forced to dig a mass grave for the deceased inmates, who are lined up on the ground.
Date: 1945
Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum

[Liberated Concentration Camps]

Description: Two photographs of the Landsberg Prison in Germany. In the top photo, the corpses of prisoners are laid out, while soldiers of the 12th Armored Division dig a mass grave in the background. In the bottom photo, several people walk in front of barracks for inmates, which were partially built into the ground. A wagon to the left is piled with the bodies of deceased inmates.
Date: April 1945
Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum

[Photographs in Germany]

Description: Two photographs taken in Germany. The top photo shows a Division Artillery convoy at a rest stop in Baumholden, Germany. In the background, tanks move over the hill. The bottom photo shows a town in the German countryside on Easter Sunday 1945.
Date: 1945
Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum

[Photos from the End of the War]

Description: Two photographs taken near the end of World War II. The first photo shows houses in Murnau, Germany, the last stop the 12th Armored Division made before the end of the war. The Austrian Alps are visible in the background. In the second photo, soldiers sit in the grass outside a building watching several people standing on a stage. This was the first USO show after the end of the war.
Date: 1945
Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum

[Tanks in Germany]

Description: Two photographs of tanks in German towns. In the top photo, tanks roll through a partially destroyed town in Germany on the way to the Rhine River. In the bottom photo, tanks and ambulances pause at a rest stop on the way to the Rhine. The colonel's armored car is in the foreground.
Date: March 1945
Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum

[Tank and Half Track]

Description: Two photographs of soldiers driving vehicles during field training exercises at Camp Barkeley. In the top photo, a soldier sits in the hatch of an M7 105mm howitzer called the "Priest". In the bottom photo, soldiers drive two half-track vehicles firing 50mm machine guns at balloons to simulate aircraft.
Date: 1944
Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum

[Photographs in Germany]

Description: Two photographs taken in Germany. In the top photo, a column of German prisoners of war march through a town. In the bottom photo, a sign erected at the Danube River bridge reads: "You are crossing the beautiful blue Danube thru courtesy of the 12th Armd Division".
Date: 1945
Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum

[Convoys in Germany]

Description: Two photographs taken in Germany. In the top photo, a convoy moves through a German village in Bavaria. The pink panels on the roof of several vehicles indicate friendly troops to aircraft. In the bottom photo, another convoy moves through a German town heading for Murnau, Germany and the Austrian Alps.
Date: April 1945
Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum
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