post rhine river crossing

**j3rdinf** · #1 (**permalink**) June 1st, 2008, 11:14 PM

Now that I seem to be a accredited member for posting and my 1 photo came out good I will try to add to the forum. About 2 or 3 days after the Rhine River crossing one of our squad "liberated "a Kraut camera with film in it and shot some pics of us, 2 of which had me i n them. I am posting one of them (hopefully) in that time period. A kinda dirty group of 3 of us. Me on the left. in the center is John Morreal from Rockford Ill. and on the ri ght is Sgt. Ed Garrow our Sgt. from Phila PA. . Yea, we are kinda beat and dirty
but thats normal. It was go go go from there on with few rest stops till wars end. Luckily, all 3 of us from that company survived the war.

macrusk · #2 (**permalink**) June 2nd, 2008, 12:02 AM

Thank you, J3rdinf, for sharing this photo of you from those days of war. Glad you all made it home! Something we've discussed in a couple of other threads lately was the state of exhaustion and not getting to be clean for the fighting men.

krieg · #3 (**permalink**) June 2nd, 2008, 12:40 AM

thankyou
for showing us your photo of that day
cheers krieg

Slipdigit · #4 (**permalink**) June 2nd, 2008, 01:20 AM

Thanks for posting the picture. Do you have more?

What was your opinion of the Thompson you are holding?

May we know your first name?

Martin Bull · #5 (**permalink**) June 2nd, 2008, 08:00 AM

A very warm welcome here J3rdinf, and many thanks for sharing your photo with us. Such personal snapshots are often very much more interesting than the the standard, 'official' photos which are over-used in many books.

( And yes, it makes me feel like a kid asking 'what'll she do, mister?'

but I'd quite like to hear your views on the M1 Thompson as well.....)

Kai-Petri · #6 (**permalink**) June 2nd, 2008, 11:14 AM

Thanx alot for sending the pic!

Pics with stories are priceless!

bigfun · #7 (**permalink**) June 2nd, 2008, 04:33 PM

Hey j3rd!
Good to hear from you again! That's a great pic! I love your pose with the Thompson! Looking forward to hearing and seeing more!!

Thanks!!!

**j3rdinf** · #8 (**permalink**) June 2nd, 2008, 11:01 PM

Thank you guys for a warm welcome to a new member. It is certainly appreciated by me. That Thompson is a Mi-A1 and a great piece of work and stood by me well. Long story how I ended up with it though and managed to keep it as not T.O.E..
Hated to get rid of it at wars end but had to go back to the Infantry T.O.E.. Will sit back and slow down posting as I have only one more wartime pic. Others are post ETO war pics while waiting to go home. ( only cameras with film were l"iberated" then tossed aside and the film kept in hopes.) Except for CERTAIN worthwhile cameras like Robots and Zeiss Icons. Some of these were kept by some. Once again th anks for the replies guys. "I will return"/////

Slipdigit · #9 (**permalink**) June 2nd, 2008, 11:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by j3rdinf

That Thompson is a Mi-A1 and a great piece of work and stood by me well. Long story how I ended up with it though and managed to keep it as not T.O.E. ..."I will return"/////

Tell us the story, if you would.
Return---I hope so,

bigfun · #10 (**permalink**) June 3rd, 2008, 01:18 AM

Yeah, I'm certain everyone here will want to hear the story!

diddyriddick · #11 (**permalink**) June 3rd, 2008, 02:16 AM

Welcome aboard, J3! I'm looking forward to your stories.