Soldiers of the U.S. 82nd Airborne Division. Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte, France, June 16, 1944. Photo by Robert Capa.
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This will, sadly, be the last photo I post for quite a while. I may be able to scan one more group of photos from my collection, but my scanner/photos are at another location and I am starting graduate school this month, so I can’t really give an end date for this hiatus. I will keep checking this blog and reblogging relevant articles/images from time to time, so don’t hesitate to drop something in the ask box! Also, I would recommend looking through the archive, if you’re new to this blog.
Thanks so much to those of you who have been here since the beginning or joined along the way. This blog has been a wonderful learning experience for me and I’ve very much enjoyed sharing my grandfather’s pictures with the tumblr community!
hotdamnhellyeah asked: It looks like your grandfather had a hell of time in his day. You've probably answered this at some point, but which armor division did he serve with?
20th Armored Division, 27th Tank Battalion. I had to dig through a lot of paperwork (that was 60+ years old!) and squint at a lot of pictures to get all of the information! You can track their path through Europe on various websites, including Wikipedia. The only thing I’ve had trouble teasing out is his exact involvement in the liberation of Dachau; most accounts do not place his tank battalion there, but it seems obvious from his photos and what I’ve heard from relatives that he definitely was involved. I also found this and this.
