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PFC Bill Lamberson
also took advantage of this popular setting for a variety of photos to send home. 		Bill Giegold
 holds a unlikely mascot, a fox dubbed as "Frenchy"
 

Postcard For The Folks Back Home
was one way the men let their families know that they were well.  This one titled "Camp de Sissonne - Caserne Et Refectoires" ("Barracks And Canteens") was brought home by Cisilio Gonzales, HQ HQ


Private's Den, Camp Sissonne
was undoubtedly a heavily patronized location

Pfc Edward M. Rusch
1944, Sissonne, France

Parisian Pass Photo
Pvt Donald Faulkner, Pfc William Lamberson and Pfc Norman Willis

Felix Lopez
Co I. (from Beaumont, TX)
(Courtesy O.B. Hill collection)
NCO Club, Camp Sissonne
Sissonne was an R&R (Rest & Relaxation) camp for the 508th on two occasions and although there was plenty of training there was also the chance for a. quiet beer with buddies.  MSgt James Smylie is 4th from the left and Leland E. Chitwood is at the far right. All other men in this shot are unidentified
(courtesy Janet Smylie Hart, daughter of MSgt. James B. Smylie)

Lt. George Miles
Sissonne Base Camp, 1945
George wrote on the back of this photo of himself, "I was undoubtedly planning a giant movement when this was taken."

 
Memorial Exercise Program
on November 25, 1944 the regiment conducted a memorial in remembrance of those who had been lost during Operation Market-Garden.  Little did they know that three weeks hence they would be heading into combat again.