206th Photographs

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wedding of a 206th Engineer Combat Battalion soldier and an English girl.  All unidentified except 1st Lt. John G. Graham on back row, far right.

Aerial photograph of the Rhine River.  The smaller river running into the Rhine is likely the Moselle River.

Row of Sherman tanks in England.

The Ernie Pyle Bridge across the Rhine River. Caption on back of photograph reads, "Ernie Pyle Bridge taken from east side of river. River three to four hundred yards wide here."

More Sherman tanks stockpiled in England waiting for the D-Day Invasion.

1st Lt. John G. Graham taken at Erfurt, Germany, mid-April 1945.

1st Lt. John G. Graham somewhere in France or Germany.

Officers of Company C.  From left to right: 2nd Lt. Frederick H. Goldstein, 1st Lt. John R. Richards and 1st Lt. John G. Graham.  Photo taken near Company C Command Post, Erfurt, Germany, mid-April 1945.

1st Lt. John G. Graham in same location as previous photograph.

Photograph taken inside the Buchenwald Concentration Camp near Weimar, Germany. Caption on back of photograph simply says, "Weimar, Germany."

1st Lt. Thomas S. Hammack. Notice the Third Army patch on his field jacket, the 30 cal. carbine and the "3A-20" on the jeep's bumper, which is a part of "3A-206E", Third Army, 206 Engineers.

1st Lt. John R. Richards, Company C, in Regensburg, Germany.  This photograph was made either 28 or 29 April 1945.

1st Lt. Thomas S. Hammack

This photograph was identified by Dr. Alfred L. Lopez, the Battalion Dental Officer, as Capt. Marion H. Patterson, Company Commander of Company C. Taken in Regensburg, Germany on 28 or 29 April 1945.

Unknown Tec 5

1st Lt. John G. Graham in Regensburg, Germany. This and the other photographs taken in Regensburg were taken a day or two prior to the 206th building a bridge over the Inn River, the last bridge the battalion built in the war.

Blown bridge over the Saar River. The caption on back of this photograph reads, "This is why we have so much work to do. The Boche blew them all. Bridge over the Saar."

Regensburg, Germany. Pictured front row left to right: 1st Lt. John G. Graham & 1st Lt. Thomas S. Hammack.  Back row left to right: Capt. Alfred L. Lopez & 1st Lt. John R. Richards.

Two unknown soldiers in a demolished German town.

1st Lt. John G. Graham (left) with an unknown Captain at Linz, Austria. This Captain is pictured standing next to my father in the English wedding photograph above.

A demolished industrial site somewhere in Germany.

1st Lt. John G. Graham.  Photograph made in Paris, France in early May 1945 shortly after the German Surrender