499th Armored Field Artillery Battalion

By Skill and By Force

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SGT Norm Shetley Memoir
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499th Armored Field Artillery Battalion Photos


499th Armored Field Artillery Battalion

Siegfried Line

Hatten Alsace France

Hatten

B Battery Medic

Hitler's Eagles Nest

Dachau, entrance to the crematorium

Dachau, entrance to the gas chambers

Dachau, dog kennels

Downed Jet in Erding

Norm Shetley in the downed jet

B Battery Wire Patrol - Shetley, Mac and Dolan

A and B Battery wire crews

Mac and Shetley

S/SGT Donald R Sowell

S/SGT Donald R Sowell - Sailer Hausen, Germany about 15 APR 1945

L-R: LT Drake, S/SGT Donald R Sowell, Cpl Pittrone, PFC Meyers, SGT Steinbach, Cpl Raney, SGT Bals, LT Courier, Sgt Brom...

L-R: Pittrone, Meyers, Sowell, Williams and LT Drake

L-R: Pittrone, Meyers, Sowell, Williams and LT Drake

L-R: Standing: Meyers, Sgt Sowell, LT Drake Reclining: Pittrone and Williams at Side: Sgt Bals

This medic is dressing the wounds of a German Soldier that we shot.

LT Drake, Sgt Sowell, Sgt Hembach and Lt Lliybass

SGT Sowell in German plane, notice the bullet holes

SGT Sowell

SGT Sowell

B Battery: SGT Werner Wirth

Medical Detachment including T/4 Richard Jacoby

Medical Detachment - T/4 Richard Jacoby

B Battery

PFC George Turner receiving the Medal of Honor from President Truman

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A Battery - SGT Weeks photo of train station in Hatten

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499th Armored Field Artillery Battalion Documents


SGT Norm Shetley Memoir
PDF Format

FM 6 - 74
M7 Priest Manual

Battalion Crest

14th AD

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