O.K. people. Hopefully this is anoher pic. Taken about the end of Aug. '45 of 4 of us in
Austria. All 7th Reg. 3rd Bn members who had finished the ETO war. Notice the smiles.
Not the dead pan looks. At wars end within 2 weeks we were supplied complete new uniforms. NEW ONES. The house in the background was one of the houses we were billited in prior to moving to the Bliedorn Kaserne in Fulda Germany while waiting for our
"points" to come up for shipment home. Only thing was, we had to go back to our TOE
of weapons. My "illegal" Thompson along with many other of our weapons had to be turned in. Also anthing not in line with the Inf. company's TOE equiptment was gone.
We were back to civilized soldiers again, I guess. However the benifits were great.
No more casualties, 3 hot meals a day, great to be living in a house. Plenty of free time. I guess they tried to civilize us. Ofcourse the time in Fulda Gap was a little worse
but still not wartime conditions. We just waited to be sent to Le Harve France and home
for discharge. In the pic I am second from the left, Stan Manross is 3rd from the left.
Cant recall the other 2.
