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