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500th Armored Field Artillery Battalion Photos


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B Battery - Pawlowski, Lee, and Komelski. No wonder the krauts say Americans are kids at heart.

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B Battery - S/SGT Archie Jeardoe receiving the Bronze Star

B Battery - S/SGT Archie Jeardoe with Bronze Star

C Battery - PFC Jesse (Jack) Shiflett

C Battery - PFC Jesse (Jack) Shiflett

C Battery photo provided by the family of PFC Jack Shiflett

C Battery SGT Raymond Rouse

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C Battery - SGT Rouse and James Shannon in Germany 1945

C Battery - Emerson Botsch on end, Papturs?, Lloyd Mello, Becker?

C Battery - Richard Kapyur and James J. Shannon 'The first time they ever ate Hickory Nuts'

C Battery - SGT Rouse and Henry Mesias

C Battery - SGT Rouse and James Shannon

C Battery - SGT Rouse sitting, Michael Marincel, George Medves and Alexander

C Battery - John Pace, Oliver Brissette, Mike?,Lloyd Mello, R.J. Rouse, Emerson Botsch behind, Clarence Benkowski kneeli...

C Battery - SGT Rouse Europe 1944

C Battery - 105 mm Howlitzer blow over during fight

C Battery - Austria 1944

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C Battery - Most likely: John Pace, Oliver Brissette, Mike?, Lloyd Mello, R.J. Rouse, Emerson Botsch and Clarence Benkow...

C Battery - Most likely: John Pace, Oliver Brissette, Mike?, Lloyd Mello, R.J. Rouse, Emerson Botsch and Clarence Benkow...

C Battery - Most likely: John Pace, Oliver Brissette, Mike?, Lloyd Mello, R.J. Rouse, Emerson Botsch and Clarence Benkow...

C Battery - Most likely: John Pace, Oliver Brissette, Mike?, Lloyd Mello, R.J. Rouse, Emerson Botsch and Clarence Benkow...

C Battery - SGT Rouse New York Just got off the boat

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C Battery - Rott am Inn Germany

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C Battery - Rouse, Trent?

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C Battery - Rouse on top no other names

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C Battery - Francis Walsh and Rouse

C Battery - Henry Mesias and Rouse

C Battery - Alps

B Battery - Corporal Vincenzo “Jimmy” Falco and his mother - FEB 1943

HQ Battery - PFC Frederic Shattuck, Jr.

A Battery - T/5 John Bistoff

A Battery - T/5 John Bistoff - Marksmanship Training, Ft. Francis E. Warren, WY - Jun. 1942

A Battery - T/5 John Bistoff - Quartermaster Training Bldg., Camp Barkeley, TX 1942

A Battery - T/5 John Bistoff and others at Camp Chaffee, AR - Nov. 7, 1943

A Battery - T/5 John Bistoff and others at Camp Chaffee, AR - Nov. 7, 1943

A Battery - T/5 John Bistoff and others at Field Training at Camp Barkeley, TX - early 1943

A Battery - Charlie Dixon, T/5 John Bistoff and John 'Pappy' Bailey at Camp Chaffee, AR 7 NOV 1943

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Photo provided by the family of T/5 John Bistoff

A Battery - T/5 John Bistoff M7 Preist, Erharting, Germany - May 1945

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A Battery - Barracks where we stayed at the end of the war. A German schoolhouse.

A Battery - Barracks where we stayed at the end of the war. T/5 John Bistoff's room in the German schoolhouse.

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A Battery - John (Pappy) Bailey and T/5 John Bistoff in Germany - 1945

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A Battery - T/5 John Bistoff on pass to Paris

A Battery - George H. Hailway on pass to Paris

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A Battery - T/4 James N. (Ace) Gifaldi

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500th Armored Field Artillery Battalion Documents


158th Field Artillery
General Order 1

158th Field Artillery
General Order 1

FM 6 - 74
M7 Priest Manual

Battalion Crest

14th AD

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