Photo Gallery - 244th Field Artillery Battalion

Photo Gallery

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Pvt. N. J. Reeves photo. Battery B Street Camp Blanding Florida. Basic training

Camp Shelby Basic Training 1942 - Tec/5 B. G. Rogers Jr. Route 3, Glennville, Ga

Camp Shelby Basic Training 1942 - Tec/5 B. G. Rogers Jr. Route 3, Glennville, Ga

Pete Daley, Wm. D. Hightower, Bobby Beckner, Gentry in Flight School Pittsburg Kansas 1943

Pvt. Robert S. Joachim

TEC/5 Harold D. Metheny , Left, Wauchula, Florida, Bob Kepp at basic training

Cpl. Jasper A. Mathis, Battery B standing on the right. Camp Slelby. Cpl. Mathis was killed in the line of duty.

Training Camp Shelby Battery A men

1st. Lt. Bob Malm Camp Gordon

Bob Malm, John Duker and Early Times. 244th, Camp Gordon

Caption reads - Joseph I. Barnett at Camp Shelby

Caption reads - "Damos in Arms, Tec/5 Damos Rowe and Hubert Rickerd" 1943

Rail transport of a 155 mm M1 Long Tom

Medium Tractor M4 - Allis Chalmers

Mess Hall with pie for dessert

Buddies of Pfc. Edward H. Walsh (center) Charley Battery, Camp Gordon

Basic Training. Pvt. Norman J. Reeves

England, invasion build up of US equipment

LST 315 brings troops, equipment and supplies and takes German POW's to an internment camp.

George S. Patton and General Dwight D. Eisenhower with XII Corps Photographer

Getting a haircut. 1st Lt. Max L. Garland France 1945

10 September to 17 October. Fresnes-en-Woëvre, France. 1st Lt. Tom Marriott Headquarters Battery and the Red Cross Donut Mobile.

Verdun France Lt. Shinaberry

Headquarters in the woods Verdun France. Captain John Coyne Headquarters Battery

Enlargement of previous photo. Headquarters in the woods Verdun France. Captain John Coyne Headquarters Battery

Caption reads - "Service Battery" men

1st Lt. Wm. D. Hightower France

M4 Tractor pulls a captured German 8.8cm Fliegerabwehrkanone 36 gun to artillery ordnance for certification and then used against German Forts in the Metz France area. 1944

Two M4's with 15 cm sFH 18 (150 mm) German howitzers in tow. Scavenging the French countryside for German artillery and ammunition.

Red Cross personnel “Paula” in Nancy France. Paula preparing for wedding with Captain William U. (Doc) Savage.

November 1944 - The guns were located, as well as complete rounds of matching ammunition

November 1944 - Reconnaissance parties from the 244th, Corps Artillery Ordnance and G-4 sections were sent out to locate weapons, sights, spare parts and ammunition

On November 14th captured weapons were turned over to the 244th Field Artillery Battalion. The Artillery was to be used against the German held forts around the Metz area

The difficulty encountered early on with captured German guns was the lack of sights.

Captain William U. Savage's Jeep One Bump

No Caption - The 244th Field Artillery use a captured German 88mm gun to provide fire support for the 6th Armored Division during the battle of the Bulge 21 December 1944 National Archives

Caption reads - "A soldier from the 244th cleans off 88mm rounds prior to being loaded for firing 21 December 1944". 8.8cm German Pak 43-41 ammunition being prepared to be fired from Metz France area onto German fortifications.

Firing captured German weapon winter 1944

Firing captured German weapon winter 1944

4th from L Pfc. Wally A. Parsons Battery B Consdorf Luxembourg

Battery A Roving gun that created the Long Gun Episode in Echternach Luxembourg while firing on Bitburg 28 February 1944

Luxembourg 1944

Enlargement of Item 204 - Caption reads - "Sgt. Valley, Consdorf'" Sgt. Valley was Killed 19 February 1945, 1600 hours near Crauchten (Kruchten, Germany) The building in the background is the former Hôtel du Müllerthal, Henri Schiltz Consdorf Luxembourg.

Germany near Luxembourg

Caption reads - "The road and curve at Cruchten Germany where 1st Lt. Anderson and others were killed". At the very bottom of the photo there is a truck that marks the spot.

Winter in Luxembourg. Battery A man

Caption reads - Here are some good Germans. Good Krauts are always 6 feet underground. They have black and gray crosses for their dead. We have white

Caption reads - "On recon to Koblenz", Aeppli, Marriott, Myers, Greer, Winkworth, Brewer

Crossing the Rhine. The first 1301st Engineer General Service Regiment Rhine River Bridge looking north downstream

Germany near Luxembourg though the photo looks like a Rhine River crossinf.

Caption reads - "Joseph G. Hamilton Fort Bragg" N.C. 1941

Unknown, but good friends

Caption reads - "Lt. Hightower and 1st Sargent William A. Faulkner, Maginot Line" 1944

Caption reads - "Two days prior to going into the Siegfried Line". Camouflaged 244th 155 mm Long Tom. February 1945,

Caption reads - "hunting jack rabbits with his Burp Gun". 1st Lt. Hightower with his "Burp Gun". The "Burp Gun" is either a Sturmgewehr 43 or 44. Also known as the MP 43 and MP 44 (Maschinenpistole 43 and 44)

Caption reads - "Pfc Wally A. Parsons, Consdorf, 27 December" Luxembourg

Lt. Hightower, Zittig Luxembourg 1944

Battery A Long Tom in Luxembourg winter

Battery A men in Luxembourg

Luxembourg winter Battery A man

Baker Battery, No. 4 Gun Section. February 1945, two days prior to going into the Siegfried Line

Baker Battery, No. 1 Gun Section. February 1945, Two days prior to going into the Siegfried Line

1st. Lt. Tom Marriott showing his Bronze Star with Oak Leaf cluster and silver battle stars on the European, African, Middle Eastern Campaign Ribbon (EAME). The 244th earned all five battle stars in the ETO. The five bronze battle stars are replaced with a single silver star which represents five battles.

Baker Battery, No. 3 Gun Section. February 1945, two days prior to going into the Siegfried Line

Baker Battery, No. 2 Gun Section and Jody the Dachshund picked up in Luxembourg. February 1945, two days prior to going into the Siegfried Line

TEC/5 Harold D. Metheny Wauchula, Florida. Somewhere in Germany

Captain W. U. Savage, Richmond Va., Battery A. Doc's German staff - reconnaissance car, the Schwimmwagen was an amphibious all-wheel-drive vehicle

Caption reads - Simmern, Germany"

Luxembourg winter. Battery A gun crew

Luxembourg winter. Battery A gun crew

Caption reads - Pfc. Ernest M. Mayo, Pfc Henry J. Butcher, Pfc Ray P. Augustino, Battery B, Themar, Germany

Caption reads - "Captain James R. Winkworth", HQ

Caption reads - "Captain Victor M. Torres", Battery Commander Battery B, Dewey, Oklahoma. Somewhere in France

Caption reads - "Harold D. Metheny" Germany

Caption reads - "Harold D. Metheny sitting" left

Caption reads - "Lt. Col. John J. Davis, Major Robert G. Humphrey" Germany 1944

Caption reads - L to R - "Pfc. Edward A. Wantke, Pfc.. Robert A. Coble, Pfc. Stanley G, Girdvainis" all Baker Battery

Caption reads - "Lt. Hightower Toul" France 1944

CAption reads - "Tech/5 Harold Metheny"

Caption reads - "Ermsdorf" Capt. W. U. Doc Savage, Battery A. Luxembourg

No caption - Ridding on the breach of the Long Tom

Caption reads - "Major Humphries", HQ

No caption - Major Clark at forward position with infantry .50 cal. Browning, Luxembourg.

No caption - Battery A men

No caption - Ammunition transfer from M4 Tractor to gun position

No caption - Third Army is clean-shaven

Gun crewman Battery A

50 cal. AA mount manned by Battery A

50 cal. AA mount manned by Battery A man

Gun crewman Battery A

Battery A men with 95 lb. 155 mm rounds

Dinner, Battery A man

Battery A man with 95 lb. 155 mm round

Battery A man and M4 Tractor

1st Sgt. Raymond Cormier, A battery

Battery A man with M14 powder canister

Caption reads -"Hotel accommodations anywhere in Germany" with bathtub

Battery A gun crew

Self-explanatory, Battery A man

Anywhere in Germany. Battery A man Photo

Self explanatory, Battery A man

1 February 1945, two days prior to going into the Siegfried Line. Battery A gun.

Battery A man with Jagdpanzer IV, Sd.Kfz. 162 tank destroyer with a 7.5 cm KwK 42 main gun

Battery A Man with German Kubelwagen

Bath time, Battery A men

Photo of Battery A men

Photo of Battery A M4 tractor and taken by Battery A man

Battery A 155 mm Long Tom In action

Caption reads - L to R - "Rogers, Churchman", unknown, unknown

Metheny, Harold Dean

Cologne Cathedral practically untouched. City badly damaged. Sign reads: Sight Seers Keep Out Fighting Men

Caption reads - "Waiting for artillery to soften", Germany

Battery A photo

Caption reads - "Pfc. William J. Roesler, Pfc. Robert B. Eubanks" Headquarters Battery 1945

Caption reads - "Kitchen crew"

Caption reads - "Battery B kitchen crew". L to R - Harold D. Metheny, Bob Kepp, S/Sgt. Floyd R. Williams

No caption - Gun crew and M4 Tractor

Hunting Tiger - Panzerjäger Tiger Ausf. B; Sd. Kfz. 186, with a 12.8 cm Pak 44

Battery A gun crew

Able Battery's last gun emplacement looking east to west. The building in the background is Kostel sv. Vavřince. Kostel sv. Vavřince is the locatin of the 244th Memorial Plaque. The farm field the four Able Battery guns were located in was owned by Mr. Miloslav Vesely.

Caption reads - "Pfc. Robert A. Coble and Cpl. Joseph F. Campbell" Battery B

Able Battery gun - Mr. Jakub Vesely son of Miloslav Veselý who's field Able Battery guns were located. Tedražice 40, Hrádek, Czechia.

Charley Battery's last gun position of the war, just across the road from Kostel sv. Vavřince and up the hill in the field.

Caption reads - L to R. "Tec/5 Earl E. Keener, Cpl. Dudley J. Chandler, Miff, Grepe, 1st. Lt. Jacob W. Shinaberry, and Eto the dog" Tedražice Czechoslovakia

Caption reads - "Bob, Pfc. Curtis H. Smack, Jr. and Blimp", Battery B

No caption - Lt. Marriott, his jeep and driver are surrounded by towns people outside Zámek Hrádek, Headquarters of the 244th in Hrádek u Sušice

No caption - Lt. Marriott outside 244th HQ, Zámek Hrádek, with Hrádek u Sušice towns people May 1945

Caption reads - "Tec/4 Leuois C. Blizzard", Headquarters Battery

No caption - Looking west to east the last four gun emplacement Battery B Tedražice Czechoslovakia 8 May 1945

Caption reads - "No. 3 Battery B' gun and crew atop Rough House celebrating VE Day. Tedražice Czechoslovakia

Caption reads - "No. 4 gun Section Battery B and ETO the dog", V-E Day, Tedražice Czechoslovakia

No caption - Packing up and ready to move to the Cham Germany.

Caption reads - "Photos with buddies in Europe". Right Tec/5 Willner Beach

Caption reads - "TEC/5 Harold D. Metheny" Wauchula, Florida, Cham Germany 1945

Caption reads - "Tec/4 Louis C. Blizzard and Tec/5 Harald D. Metheny" Cham Germany

No caption - Photo of "Doc" Savage and Battery A man

No caption - Cham PW enclosure looking generally west to east just below Obere Regenaner St2146.

Caption reads - "Capt. John Duker, Lt. Bill Hightower, Lt. Bernard Kaylor" volleyball at Cham Germany

No caption - Regen River looking upstream from the Biertor or Castle Gate Bridge Cham Germany

Caption reads - "Bill Morris, B.G. Rogers"

No caption - Battery A man Cham German Airfield

Caption reads - "TEC/5 Harold D. Metheny, PFC. Joseph P. Moosey," June 1945, Cham Germany

Caption reads - Rogers & Ammons

Caption reads - "Must've been scratching a mosquito bite." One dot over Capt. Brener, two dots over Capt. Torres.

At attention and waiting for General Patton and the rain

244th Color Guard

Lt. Hightower receiving the Silver Star, Gen. G Patton presenting,

Caption reads - "Major Carey A. Clark, Major Robert G. Humphries, and Capt. Nathaniel H. Soloman presenting Bronz Star"

Enlisted members receiving awards, Major Carey A. Clark, Major Robert G. Humphrey presenting

Caption reads - "SS PW troops reburying dead. Germans Cham Germany

Caption reads - "SS PW troops reburying dead"

Caption reads - "SS PW troops reburying dead" Germans

Caption reads - "Ten minute break" on the way from Cham to Le Mans France

No caption - 7 August 1945, waiting dockside to board the ship in the background on the way to England.

Caption reads - "Lt. Kaylor Battery C, Capt. Duker HQ Battery, Capt. Savage" Battery B,

George S. Patton jr., "To The Officers And Men of The 3rd Army HQ"

No caption - Charley Battery Firing 155 mm

No caption - Charley Battery Firing 155 mm

No Caption - Charley Battery Firing 155 mm

Location unknown - Left Tech/4 Kilby H. Hoyle and Pvt. Joseph I. Barnett

Caption reads - Tech/4 Kilby H. Hoyle in Germany on bridge

Caption reads - "Tec/4. Willner Beach (right) with" buddies. Vacha, Germany

Caption reads - "Tec/4 Willner Beach in Shirt" Vacha, Germany

Caption reads - "Pvt. Willner Beach and Hoyle at Fort Gordon." L to R Pvt. Kilby H. Hoyle and Tec/5 Willner Beach

No Caption - Boy on bike. Location unknown

Caption reads - "April 10, 1945 Vacha", Tec/4 Willner Beach Germany

Caption reads - "Joseph I. Barnett" in Germany

Caption reads - "Willner Beach on River Bridge" Germany

Private Marriott with the Ill. National Guard 122nd F.A. Battalion 1941