68th Armored Infantry Battalion

68th Armored Infantry Battalion History

Battalion History

Now It Can Be Told

The Fourteenth Armored Division

Medical Detachment History

B Company History by S/SGT Loveland

C Company - Dear Mrs. Dunn

68th Armored Infantry Battalion Photos

B Company, Bob Davies' Squad. Davies at top, John Garrett Lower Left and Chet Green just below Davies

Left side is Don Kunz, Colonel Edward's Driver

Left: Lab Right: SGT Carter HQ Radio and Code guys

The Famous Four: L-R Jim Smith 47th Tk Bn, Elton Ross 48th Tk Bn, Phil Snoberger 68th A.I.B. and Ken Baugh 68th A.I.B.

L-R: SGT Vandusing and Phil Snoberger

Maritime Alps near Pera Cava

SGT Jim Kolius Mortar Squad, 2nd Platoon, Company C. Walter Lake back left and Leame Schillo back right

Sospel, France HQ 19th Infantry. The 68th laid a commo wire 8 kilometers to Pera Cava for the 68th's HQ. Italy and the Germ...

Batzendorf Alsace in February

PFC Ray F. Lohof, B Company, 68th AIB, being helped off a tank after the battle of Ober-Otterbach, 18 December 1944.

3rd Platoon of the 68th AIB on the March in France (Alsace). PFC Ray F. Lohof right side and others unknown

Oberhoffen 6 Feb 45 B Company

Gen. Albert Smith

Buchloe, Germany

Three 68th AIB medics at Camp Home Run, Le Havre, October 1945. From left to right: Richard Berkey, Norman Eliasson, Allan Go...

Earl Kempke (center) with two unknown soldiers, location is also unknown

Earl Kempke (center) with 11 unknown soldiers, location is also unknown

Soldiers and location unknown

Earl Kempke on right side, other soldier and location unknown

Soldiers and location unknown

Soldiers getting haircuts, soldiers and location unknown

Soldiers and location unknown

S/SGT Glen Loveland is on the far left and Earl Kempke, second from the right in the front row in this B Company photo.

PVT Earl Converse, WIA 12 JAN

PFC George W Burchell Jr KIA 22 MAR 1945

HHC - PFC David Garringer

B Company T/SGT Edward Sparks

HQ Company - PFC Korzie

B Company - Earl Kempke

A Company - PFC Albert Hamlet

HQ Company - Garringer and unknown soldiers

Flaherty, Doebler and Cox

B Company - PFC Charles Lowe

B Company - 1st Lieutenant Perrie Waters, 68th AIB
Contributed by Donald Waters, the son of LT Waters

B Company - 1st Lieutenant Perrie Waters, 68th AIB at an Airfield near Ampfing
Contributed by Donald Waters, the son of ...

B Company - Bavaria
Contributed by Donald Waters, the son of LT Waters

B Company - Mass Grave of 7000 slave workers near Ampfing
Contributed by Donald Waters, the son of LT Waters

B Company - Rhine River - WWII - East of Karlsrhue -
Contributed by Donald Waters, the son of LT Waters

LTC Bob Edward, 68th AIB Commander - Ampfing, Germany- June 1945

B Company - 3rd Platoon Leadership
Left to Right: S/Sgt Rudolf Gonzalez - Squad Leader , S/Sgt David Kennedy - Squad L...

B Company - Band Squad March 23,1945

B Company - Before Nov 16, 1944 Piersma,Hewes,Mantle,Chinkovich,Loveland,King,Phillipps,Brillowski,Goldstein _Doc_,Curfman

B Company - Bowlegs.1

B Company - Bowlegs

B Company - Brillowiski, Kempke

B Company - Brillowiski on Bowlegs

B Company - Brillowski, Hewes June 3, 1945

B Company - Brillowski the barber March 23, 1945

B Company - Entrance to Stanislaus Park

B Company - Evenson March 23,1945

B Company - flat tire June 25, 1945

B Company - French Band at Stanislaus Square

B Company - German Planes _F.B._

B Company - Hewes, Piersma

B Company - Hitler_s House _Boch_ and _Stephans_ on stairs

B Company - Jensen

B Company - Jensen,Brillowski,Zivatkauskas,King,Parker,Piersma,Kempke,Loveland

B Company - Jensen, Evenson

B Company - June 25, 1945

B Company - Kempke

B Company - Kempke, Brillowski

B Company - Kempke July 4, 1945

B Company - B Company - Kempke

B Company - B Company - Kempke July 5, 1945

B Company - Kempki,Brillowiski

B Company - Kermpke,King,Jensen

B Company - Kermpke,Piersma,Jensen

B Company - King, Piersma, Jensen

B Company - Loveland, Bennett

B Company - Loveland July 4, 1945

B Company - Loveland,Kempke

B Company - Loveland, Kempke baseball

B Company - Loveland,Kempke playing baseball

B Company - Loveland on motorcycle July 25, 1945

B Company - Lt. Hood

B Company - March 23, 1945

B Company - May 1, 1945

B Company - Piersma

B Company - Piersma, Brillowski July 4, 1945

B Company - Piersma July 4, 1945

B Company - Piersma, Loveland June 27, 1945

B Company - Schuler

B Company - squad july 4, 1945

B Company - Super Highway near Betzenstein_plane down

B Company - Tanner,King June 7, 1945

B Company - Tanner _Squad_ Worchester

B Company - the 45th Div. crossing the Rodack with the 14th AD. near Gompers-Housen

B Company - Top of underground factory at Ampfing

B Company - Underground factory at Ampfing

68th Armored Infantry Battalion Documents

14th AD

Map 1

Map 2

Snoberger
French Legion of Honor

Snoberger
Bronze Star

Unit Citation

Attack on Hatten
S2 / S3 Journals and maps

Armor School report on Hatten

68th AIB Battalion Crest

Battalion Commander Farewell pg. 1

Battalion Commander Farewell pg. 2

Silver Star
2nd LT Robert Billhymer

GO 11 pg 1

GO 11 pg 2

CWO Norman Wemple KIS

A Company PVT Raymond Cerwinsky

Medical Detatchment - RF Benson
Awarded Silver Star

Special Orders 12
27 FEB 1945

Unit History, DEC 1944

Unit History, JAN - FEB 1945

Feb '45 Defense of Saessolsheim

Feb '45 S/2 & S/3 Journal Ringeldorf, France

March '45 S/3 Report

April '45 Part I

April '45 Part II

April '45 Part III

JAN '45 S/2 & S/3 Journal (partial)

Unit Commendation

Document from the archive of: 1st Lieutenant Perrie Waters, B Company, 68th AIB

Contributed by: Donald Waters, the son of LT Waters

B Company Morning Reports
Oct '44 - Sept '45

68th AIB History Book
Zipped file

S3 Reports
March 1945

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68th AIB Publication

From your Battalion Commander

VOL 1 NO 8
23 MAY 1945

VOL 1 NO 13
29 MAY 1945

VOL 1 NO 14
30 MAY 1945
Issue Contributed by Donald Waters

VOL 1 NO 14
30 MAY 1945

VOL 1 NO 22
9 JUNE 1945

VOL 1 NO 35
25 JUNE 1945

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