My Uncle,  SSGT. Harry Meyers. 6th Armor Div. 3rd Army. 
General Patton's own. 

Back Home. 

Family picture on my grandfather's Italian WW1 Alpine MG unit. Granddad is in the circle, Mussolini (yes that Mussolini) in circle. 

Grandfather's Italian Alpine MG unit

Sgt Leroy Milton Potter

Georges Marcoux, WW1 veteran from Vimy and Cheresy with 22 CAN INF, he was volonter, im WW2 with canadian veteran corps he escorted German prisoners of war on boats between Europe and Canada, he died on July 28, 1992 at the age of 98

2134832 PTE Georges Marcoux, TORONTO circa 1917

here is a picture of one of my uncle (the one with red star) in maquis de l'Ain in 1944. After the War he went fight with his brother in Indochine

on of my uncle in Maquis de l'Ain in 1944

This is a photo of my uncle, Sgt. Julius Kerekes of Bedford, Ohio, taken aboard ship on his return home following the end of the war in Europe.  Today, January 23, 2017, is his 95th birthday and, although moving very slowly these days, he is still alert and able to recount his time as a sergeant on General George S. Patton’s 3rd Army headquarters staff.  My uncle worked in G3 intelligence under Col. Robert S. Allen and was responsible for mapping German positions during the night in order to prepare a detailed map for the early morning briefings conducted by Patton and his officers. He is mentioned in Allen’s book Lucky Forward, the story of Patton’s headquarters during the European campaign.  

He told me of an interesting event while still in England when he was called in the middle of the night to take notes at a high-level meeting of officers.  After a short period of note taking he was replaced by another soldier who continued taking notes while my uncle went out to type up his notes of the meeting.  He really didn’t have a sense, after such a brief involvement in the meeting, as to what was really being discussed.  He surmised that the note takers were rotated out after a brief one-time note taking session so that none of them could walk away with a full understanding of what was being discussed.  Only later, during the 3rd Army campaign through Europe, did he realize that the discussion was focused on what would have been done if the D-Day invasion had failed.


Sgt. Julius Kerekes, Bedford, Ohio

James Hanagan (Perth Regiment of Canada)

MY dad alpino ww2 taken prisoner  pow when italy surrendered went to germany  was liberated by the americans  from melegnano  milano italy  passed away 2004 sept 21 in toledo ohio usa

alpino GASTONE COLOMBO 

My uncle,  tail gunner on B-17G,  447th BG, 710th Squadron.  KIA on May 21, 1944, AAA direct hit over Laon, France on his 21st birthday.  B-17 "Lady Lorraine" was on 2nd pass over target when took the hit in the nose.  2 out of 10 survived only to be POW's remainder of war

Sgt Leroy Milton Potter, 8th AAC, Ky

My Dad, with my mom after coming home!  4th AD, became instructor at Ft Knox, Ky until 1951.  

TSgt CM Ryan, 4th AD, post WW2, Ky

My 2nd cousin, 79th Div, 313th Infantry, KIA on July 08, 1944 in Cherbourg

Sgt Hubert Potter, Kentucky

My 2nd cousin,  awarded Silver Star by General Keye.  Italian Campaign following the fall of Monte Cassino

Sgt Lunda Potter, Kentucky

italian artillery spotters my dad is the one on the  right gastone colombo ALPINO  1918-2004 i believe this was take off the coast of France early 1940s after the Italian surrender he was taken prisoner by the Germans stayed there until the end of the war was released liberated by the americans

ITALIAN ARTILLERY  spotters

Great-Grandfather

my  dad was in the italian armed forces alpine division artilley was taken prisoner by the germans sept 43 when italy surrendered  was sent to germany until the war ended may 1945  from melegnano milano italia 1918-2004

alpino GASTONE COLOMBO pow ww2 my dad

My Father- Captain Eugene J. Rupert- 38th Combat Engrs. WW2

My Father

My grandparents wedding from 1943. Caption: "Wedding during hard times".

grandparents wedding foto - 1943

My Grandfather (1915-2002), Portrait 1942
1936 "Reichsarbeitsdienst"
1937-1939 Military Service "Wehrmacht"
1939-1945 war (2x wounded)
1945-1948 POW in France
post war: painter, brick layer, post office clerk, mayor

Grandfather 1942

My father. Trained as an expert Rifleman, worked as a Mess Cook with the 70th Infantry Div, 725th Field Artillery Battalion (Trailblazers).  This photo was taken in either France or Germany in 1945 (Itinerary for 725th is on Trailblazersww2.org).  Would love to know the exact location of this photo.

Pfc. Lawrence F. Chesterton

Paddy Reid, of Balbriggan, Ireland, holds a photograph of his father and uncle, Gunners Paddy and Freddie Reid, who served in the British Army in south-east Asia through most of WW2.  They were involved in some of the war's fiercest battles, notably at Kohima, where being a Gunner did not absolve one of the necessity to defend one's life at the end of a bayonet.  Paddy Snr. (died 1987) had deserted from the Army of the Irish Free State (he had lied about his age to join it) to join the British Forces, one of 5,000 Irish servicemen to do so.  On his return to Ireland, he found himself dishonourably discharged from the Irish forces and blacklisted for public service employment - a serious disadvantage for anybody in the depressed economy of southern Ireland in the late-1940s.

The Irish Government is publishing a Bill aimed at pardoning and rehabilitating these men (announced today, 7 May, 2013).  Heroes ?  Deserters ?  Better perhaps to live in the now.  Over 65,000 southern Irishmen volunteered for and served in the British forces during WW2.  Best regards, JR.

[I have placed an entry on this in the Forum, should anybody wish to follow up on it].



Irish veterans of British Forces to be pardoned ..

SS-Obersturmführer Jensen from Norway (1921-2011). The most highly decorated Norwegian in German service during the war, being awarded both the Iron Cross and the German Cross in Gold.

Jensen fought with Division Das Reich in front of Moscow in December 1941 (where he was badly wounded), and later with Division Wiking on the southern front. Like many surviving Norwegians in the SS he had to flee Norway after being released from jail, and settled first in Sweden and later in Spain.

Norwegian SS

my father, Virgil Simpson (U.S. Army), was a cannoneer and gunner on an anti-aircraft gun in the European Campaign. 

Virgil And "Mabel"; Germany, 1945

My Grandfather home in Bavaria (Furlough)

Furlough in Bavaria (2)

this is my gramps im basically after as much info as possible as he didnt talk to much about the war i have been given lots of photos as he recently passed away he was with the signals during the war coming into germany via the rhine through holland and then stayed on in germany after the war also coloured the photo 

my gramps

My father was stationed in New Guinea during WWII.  USN SeaBee

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