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[American Tank Crossing Pontoon Bridge at Over the Rhine River]

Description: Photograph of an American tank crossing a pontoon bridge that spans the Rhine River. Soldiers can be seen on top of the tank and walking along the bridge. Remnants of a stone bridge can be seen in the river to the right. These piles of rubble lead up to an ornate bridge archway. The stone archway has a damaged roof and two turrets that would have framed the bridge.
Date: March 27, 1945
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum

[General George S. Patton on the Rhine]

Description: Photograph of United States Army General George S. Patton standing on the edge of a pontoon bridge that spans the Rhine. Several soldiers are standing alongside a truck to the right, with the foremost man bearing a triangular patch over the side of his chest and holding a camera. All are wearing helmets and uniforms. Two houses are visible on the bank in the background. The reverse side bears the caption, "Patton on the Rhine."
Date: March 24, 1945
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum

[Letter from Lt. Col. O. W. Hartwell to Captain Charles R. Griggs, March 31, 1945]

Description: Letter from Lieutenant Colonel O. W. Hartwell to Captain Charles R. Griggs discussing different battalions and regiments; Hartwell has had his battalion for a while and had recently been pulled out of the line. Hartwell also says he has seen only "one of the old gang" in Chris Daley; there is also indecision on who will go to Rucker and "who would go on the list."
Date: March 31, 1945
Creator: Hartwell, Lt. Col. O. W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: Pioneer City County Museum

[Military Vehicles Between Two Houses]

Description: Photograph of jeeps and tanks located around two half-timbered German houses. One jeep is coming through a fence to the left. Between the two homes, two jeeps are parked in a row and another tank is parked beside them. Helmeted soldiers can be seen standing around or on top of the right tank. A forested hill rises behind the two houses on the right. The reverse side of the photo has a note that indicates that the group was in combat.
Date: March 29, 1945
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum

Oral History Interview with Carlton J. Killgo, March 23, 1972

Description: Interview with Carlton J. Killgo, a Army Air Corps WWII veteran and POW from Slocum, Texas, who was shot down and captured by German forces. Killgo discusses enlisting in the Air Corps before the war, training and becoming a B-17 crewmember, deployment to England, his missions, getting shot down, capture by German civilians, transfer to Stalag Luft #4, experiences in internment there, liberation by the Soviet Army, and return to the United States.
Date: March 23, 1972
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Killgo, Carlton J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with George Bernard, March 19, 1976

Description: Interview with George Bernard, a printer and U.S. Army veteran (Company E, 1st Battalion, 334th Infantry, 84th Division), concerning his experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Germans during World War II. Bernard discusses his capture and interrogation in November 1944, Stalag 12-A, Limburg, Germany, civilian hostility, Stalag 3-B, Furstenburg (1944-1945), the forced march to Stalag 3-A, Luckenwalde (1945), and his liberation by Russian troops.
Date: March 19, 1976
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Bernard, George, 1911-
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

[Photograph of Clarence Whitefield in Deidesheim, Germany]

Description: Photograph of Clarence Whitefield standing in an alley between two buildings. A handwritten note on the back of the photo says "The 'mansion' where we lived in Deidesheim in March 1945 just before crossing the Rhine. The place didn't look like much from the outside. This is the place which had the huge wine cellar I described to you in one of my letters. Champagne flowed like water!"
Date: March 1945
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum

[Photograph of Mounted Soldiers on Street]

Description: Photograph of a long line of soldiers riding horses through an empty city street. A handwritten note on the back of the photo says "A street in Deidesheim Germany. March 1945. During our dash to the Rhine hundreds of horses were killed or captured from the Germans. Some wandered loose for days and were finally rounded up by GI's."
Date: March 1945
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum

[Photographs and a Note from a Former Prisoner of War]

Description: Photographs and a handwritten note from James Turner. The top left photograph is of the side of a school building in Mühlhausen, Germany. The top right photograph features two young Dutch women, Emily and Patricia, wearing floral print dresses. These photos are taped to a note wherein Turner inquires about this area where he was a prisoner of war during World War II.
Date: March 1944
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
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
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum
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