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[Station Hospital at Camp Barkeley, Texas]

Description: Photograph of Camp Barkeley's station hospital and it's courtyard. The one story building has several pairs of windows along its side and is topped by three metal chimneys. A stone pillar topped by a stylized statue of an eagle bears a relief of a caduceus. Three trees stand around this pillar. A fenced-in pool has a raised statue of a stylized bull at its center.
Date: January 30, 1944
Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum

[Liberated Polish Soldiers and Prisoners of War]

Description: Photograph of twelve liberated Polish prisoners of war by a wrought iron fence. Two men stand off to the left, while ten others pose for the camera. They are wearing a mixture of military uniforms and civilian clothes. A tree and half-timbered houses are visible behind them.
Date: May 1945
Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum

[Scrapbook Page: Rüsselsheim - August 31, 1945]

Description: Photographs of Dan Melli and John and Joe Hurt in Rüsselsheim, Germany. The top four photographs show the men consorting with two very young girls identified as Hannala and Greshia. The picture on the top left has the two blonde children standing alone by a picket fence. The image to the top right has Melli kneeling between them and embracing them. The second image on the left has Joe Hurt embracing the girls. The second photo on the right shows both Hurt and Melli sitting with the girls on the… more
Date: August 31, 1945
Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum

[Scrapbook Page: Rüsselsheim River Main]

Description: Photographs of street scenes in Rüsselsheim, Germany. The top photograph shows a narrow street with houses on the left side and a riverbank on the right. A caption points out that Wolfgang Mozart lived in the first house. The second photo features Captain Brookshire and First Sergeant B. Kasidlo standing in the middle of a street near an army truck. A dog named "Rolfe" stands between them, and a girl rides a bicycle near houses on the left. The bottom photo shows Brookshire and Lieutenant Samon… more
Date: 1945~
Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum

[John Vitola and Another Soldier]

Description: Photograph of John Vitola and another soldier standing together in front of the plywood wall of a quarters. The men are wearing U.S. Army uniforms and garrison caps. Vitola drapes his left arm over the other man's shoulder.
Date: June 6, 1944
Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum

[Six Soldiers Posing by Tents]

Description: Photograph of six uniformed and helmeted soldiers posing together in front of two tents. Four men stand behind two crouching men. Three of the men are identified as Dan Melli, Irving Denemark, and Nathan Levine.
Date: 1943
Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum

[Scrapbook Page: Rüsselsheim]

Description: Photographs of scenes from around Rüsselsheim, Germany following the American occupation. The top photo features Dan Melli sitting on a low brick wall in front of a dispensary with Thomas Walsh leaning through a window. The next photo features men identified as Magnani, Technical Sergeant Nelson, Ferdinand Caravelli, and Captain Brookshire standing together in front of a row of homes. The final picture has Dan Melli standing next to the provocatively posed Technical Sergeant Nelson.
Date: August 22, 1945
Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum

[Dan Melli Scrapbook, Page 1]

Description: Photographs of Dan Melli in and around the envirions of Blaubeuren, Germany. The image on the top left shows an American military parked by a Blaubeuren sign at a railroad station. The top right image shows Dan Melli sitting by a medical truck that has "Louise" written on its covering. The center picture features a blurry soldier standing in front of a captured German train with piles of open crates nearby. Dan Melli poses with a wrought iron fence on the bottom left, and with two young Germ… more
Date: 1945~
Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum

[Three Soldiers Together in a Woodland]

Description: Photograph of U.S. Army soldiers Dan Melli, Bernikow, and Irving Denemark standing together in a woodland. They are wearing army uniforms. Melli and Denemark are carrying bedrolls on their backs. Other soldiers are visible in the background to the right.
Date: 1943
Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum

[Soldiers Lined Up Beside a Medical Station]

Description: Photograph of nine helmeted U.S. Army soldiers standing in a row beside a medical station. The station, left, is a structure with a single visible window and the image of a dark cross on a white square. The soldiers are visible from shoulders up. They are identified as Addock, Ewing, Lieutenant Ray, Nat, Leone, Dan, Quillman, Thomas, and Captain Halpern.
Date: November 1944
Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum

[Soldiers Gathered Around a Maintenance Truck]

Description: Photograph of several United States Army members gathered around an army maintenance truck. Some sit at the truck's side, inside its open doors, on its covered trailer, and against the stone wall of a half-timbered building. The blurry image of a running boy is visible to the left of the trailer.
Date: 1945~
Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum

[Scrapbook Page: Rüsselsheim - October 18, 1945]

Description: Photographs of Dan Melli and Nathan Levine taken around Rüsselsheim, Germany. The top photograph features Dan Melli playing a bass drum while Nathan Levine sits to the right. Covered mess hall tables appear on either side of the picture. The second photo shows Melli and Levine walking together outside of a half-timbered building. The third photo shows Melli and Levine in a dark room. Melli holds a Coca-Cola bottle, and three other bottles stand on a shelf between the two men.
Date: October 18, 1945
Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum

[Scrapbook Page: Men beginning to be discharged!]

Description: Photographs of soldiers preparing to be discharged and leave Germany. The first photo involves a First Sergeant calling out while holding a paper. Soldiers mill about to the right, with Ferdinand Caravelli looking towards the camera. The middle-left photo shows Joe Hurt carrying a full sack over his back and standing in a street. The middle-right photo shows Nathan Levine standing in front of a German theater. The bottom photo is a close up of Dan Melli and a man named John. They are smiling, s… more
Date: September 3, 1945
Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum

[Scrapbook Page: September 1945, Dispensary - Rüsselsheim]

Description: Photographs of Dan Melli in Rüsselsheim, Germany. The first photograph shows Melli holding a needle over a cream carafe in a shadowy room. Jars and equipment lie on a covered table to the left. A stethoscope hangs on the wall behind Melli, and a small china hutch sits to the right of him. The bottom photograph features Melli standing in front of the dispensary with a young German girl named Hannala.
Date: September 1945
Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum
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