Scrapbook from the service of Robert G. Riegle : Scrapbook 1941-1945.

Format:

Book

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Summary:

Description: Brown cover with a coat of arms in gold and red color. The scrapbook contains the following Photographs: portrait Photograph of Robert G. Riegle-"Bob" 1941; Mr. Riegle wearing the cap and gown and standing next to his wife Kay on a street "Commencement June 1941 Ohio State University"; similar picture entitled "The Lawyer and His Wife 1941"; Photograph of two servicemen posing at "Camp Seibert [Sibert near] Gadsden, Alabama May-1943" [Riegle stands on the left]; Technician Fourth Grade/T4 Riegle in his uniform sitting on the stairs "On Overseas Furlough March 20, 1944"; Photograph of Mr. and Mrs. Riegle "’Bob and Kay’ R 1944"; Photographs from Riegle’s time stationed in "England 1943"; group photo of servicemen standing in the country "Longcross [a small village in Surrey,] England"(T4 Riegle stands second from left); view of a courtyard "Priory [in] Shepton Mallet [in South West] England"; view of country side in "Shepton Mallet [in] England-1944"; Photograph of the Priory in Shepton Mallet "Barracks of 192nd Chemical Co. [Company]"; "1944 [street] scenes [from] England: Bob on pass in London [in front of] a bombed building"; Photographs from the time spent in "Flirey [in north-eastern France] 1944"; Photograph of monument dedicated to the American divisions "World War I Monument [in] Flirey 1944"; view of cemetery with crosses "French Graves-4800-World War I Flirey 1944"; a soldier shaving in the field "Al Fertig-Dust Bowl Flirey 1944"; side view of a monument dedicated to the American Expeditionary Force in Flirey (notice the U.S. military road signs); the ruins of a bombed house "Avaranches [Avranches"]-France-1944"; decontamination spray tanks with hoses near a tent and 2 ½ ton 6x6 cargo truck parked next to them "Inspection Tent-Dust Bowl [camp] 1944 [in] Flirey"; pictures from "Luxembourg 1945"; soldier sitting on a log writing a letter "Tom Gannon" (notice the 3rd Army shoulder insignia); an American 4 ton 6x6 wrecker truck with the swinging boom towing the Panhard 178 a French reconnaissance 4x4 armored car in German markings; two soldiers sitting in front of a tent with a dog; group of five soldiers eating Ritz crackers in front of a tent (T4 Riegle is first on the right, notice the Cleveland Post with the title "Reds Begin Battle for Warsaw" below the crackers box); group of eight soldiers goofing around in winter landscape (notice the S/Sgt. with 3rd Army shoulder patch first on the left); Photographs of interior and exterior of temporary barracks from "January 1945"; Photograph with soldiers and winter scenery from their time spent in Hombourg-Budange area in the Moselle department in Lorraine region in north-eastern France: front view of Chateau Hombourg with marked window "Chateau-Homberg, France X=my room Dec 1944"; picture of destroyed German 88mm anti-aircraft gun with bogies wheels on side of a road "German ‘88’-Homberg [Hombourg, France] 1944"; view out of a window from Chateau Hombourg at tanks on a winter field "Homberg France 9th Armd [9th Armored Division"] Tanks in Foreground Scene From Chateau toward ["] H at Abincourt [Aboncourt] Dec 1944"; picture of two soldiers standing next to a row of railroad cars "’Steve’ Lenczowski’ & ‘Les’ Miller RH["]-Abincourt [Aboncourt in the Mossell department in France]"; T4 Riegle kneeling with another soldier in the snow in front of a stone house "Bob Riegle [and] Al Fertig [in] Homberg [Hombourg] France Dec 1944"; view at bombed corner house in a city "Thionville [in the Mossell department in France] 1944"; two soldiers in winter field uniforms standing in front of the American Red Cross Clubmobile truck "Bob Riegle [and] Dick Chisholm"; soldier with a pipe in his mouth at the train station at Lorentzweiler in Luxembourg; a child at the window "Lorentzweiler, Luxembourg Feb. 1945"; small Photographs of the Adolphe Bridge in Luxembourg City; T4 Riegle’s Photographs from his "Furlough in Paris [in] July 1945"; T4 Riegle in uniform standing on the stairs of La Madeleine Roman Catholic church in Paris "Good Friday-April 5, 1945" (notice the camera on his M1943 jacket); small Photograph of Dodge WC-54 Ambulance on a street in Paris "Paris 1945"; small Photograph of a Jeep and 2 ½ ton 6x6 on a Parisian street "Paris 1945"; probably dead bodies covered with a blankets on dirt ground "Massacre scene Ohrdruf Concentration Camp-Gr. [Germany] 1945" [the first Nazi concentration camp liberated by the U.S. Army on April 4, 1945]; Photograph of American soldiers and German civilians near the hanging rack "Hanging Rack Ohrdruf, Gr. [Germany] Concentration Camp 1945"; picture taken from side of an army truck at wagon on a dirt road "Refugees between Regensburg & Hemau [in Bavaria, Germany] 1945"; view at the country side "Scene toward Bayreuth Depot Area [in Bavaria, Germany] 1945"; American soldiers leaving the gate of the Ohrdruf concentration camp; dead bodies lying on the ground and being inspected by American troops "Slaughtered Victims Concentration Camp Ohrdruf, Germany 1945"; German civilians digging graves to bury the victims; Photograph of American soldier looking at two dead bodies in civilian clothes, the back reads "This was the S.S. commander and his assistant. They were murdered by the prisoners when they caught them back in camp in civilian clothes"; a Jeep passing ruins of street houses "Nurnberg [Nuremberg in Bavaria, Germany] 1945"; view of damaged Ludwigstor also known as the Spittlertor part of the Nuremberg’s city wall from a Jeep "Nuremberg wall"; picture of the Zeppelintribune part of the Nazi party rally grounds in Nuremberg "Stadium Nurnberg 1945"; a soldier washing a Jeeps with a hose on a street "Hemau [in Bavaria, Germany]After V-E day"; picture of upper left side of the Our Lady of Reims cathedral in Reims, France; soldiers looking at houses by the side of the Danube River in Regensburg (notice the M-1 carbine on soldier’s left shoulder), Bavaria; picture of tower with the clock at the south end of the medieval Regensburg Stone Bridge with tramway arch to the right and damaged Salt Store to the left; Photographs from Riegle’s time spent in France and on the French Riviera: T/4 Riegle wearing sunglasses and posing in front his tent "Bob Riegle Camp Boston" [Camp Boston was one of the city camps of Reims in France]; a girl is posing with American soldiers at lookout point "Claudia or Marie-Guide on trip to Monte Carlo [in Monaco] Roddick-Campbell"(notice the 3rd Army shoulder patch on shirt of the soldier wearing the sunglasses); view at the American Red Cross building near the shore "Red Cross Cassino Club [Palais de la Mediterranee] Built by Jay Gould [Frank Jay Gould] - Nice [on the French Riviera]"; view at a medieval hill town ""ze [on the French Riviera]-Rd [Road] to Monte Carlo where Dante [Alighieri] wrote Divine Comedy Built 400 B.C."; view of the mountain and the shore from water "Boat shot- [French] Riviera"; view of Monte Carlo from the Grand Corniche road "Monte Carlo [in Monaco]"; T/4 Riegle standing between two agave plants "Bob Riegle [in] Grass [on the French Riviera]"; a view of a coastal town "Antibes [on the French Riviera]"; an American soldier standing with a girl in front of the American Red Cross Casino Club in Nice on the French Riviera; a rare Photograph of captured German helicopter Focke-Achgelis Fa 223 Drache/Dragon (notice the white star) parked on an airfield next two unidentified aircrafts; Sgt. Riegle in uniform kneeling in front of a car on a street (notice the 3rd Army and Sergeant patch on the right sleeve and the WWII honorable discharge patch above the right breast pocket on his Ike jacket); Robert Riegle’s wife Kay holding a baby in her arms.

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