Camaraderie
shows as [l-r] Capt William Nation, CWO Arthur Hamelin and Lt Joseph Shankey share a laugh.  Hamelin was the only one to survive the war.   Nation was KIA in Belgium when an 88 shell hit the building he was in.  Shankey was captured on D-Day and killed when Allied aircraft mistakenly strafed the rail car he and other POWs were in.
(Courtesy Bill Nation)

Boys From Co F

[back] Miles, C.; Filer, John M.; Blower, James L.; Moss, James H.; Elash, James M., Bell, Glenn; Hall, Donald E.

[front] Lanham, James W.; Jackman, James A. ; Broderick, Robert J.; Wright, Donald P,  & Chestnut, William R.
(photo by Don Wright)

Pvt Robert W. Speers
Hq 2nd, shows off his jump uniform while training at Camp Mackall

Spare Me, Don't Spear Me
Bill Goudy (r) pleads for his life while in horseplay with Wendel M. Short outside one of Camp Mackall's tarpaper-covered barracks.  Both men were in Hq 1st.

Sgt Robert Shields, Hq 1st may be wearing earliest known image of the Red Devil Diablo patch
(courtesy Liz Farrell)

Lt Henry Lefebvre
carrying what appears to be track shoes

Lt Gerard Ruddy
and other 'commo' men in the pine woods of Camp Mackall during a training exercise. Note the tall thin mast of the Eureka  unit.  The mast peaked with a unique triangular prong [out of picture]

Eureka Radio Set was a highly classified device.  508th troops trained to actuate the set upon landing. The Eureka's homing signal would be activated by a Rebecca unit installed on incoming aircraft to guide troop transports into an LZ.

H Co Officers
[l-r] 2nd Lts Hal Creary, Victor Grabbe, John Quaid, Russell Wilde, Denver Albrecht, Robert Moss and Ralph DeWeese line up

Suited and Chuted
Lt Moss [far right] is joined by 3 others not specifically identified. Lt Grabbe may be first on left followed by Wilde and DeWeese.
Note the rectangular Griswold rifle packs tucked behind the reserve chutes.
( courtesy of Robert C. Moss family)