the artifacts

 

wpe3.jpg (338273 bytes) this is a page from an HFCSD dictionary, 1939 edition. A student had meticulously kept track of the nations as they entered and left the Second World War. This anonymous student quite probably fought as well. Click on it to see his observations. 

 

John Webster's field photos for the Normandy Landings, June 6, 1944-Omaha Beach-

 

Art LaPorte's Iwo Jima notebook

 

Photos from concentration camp train liberated in Germany, April 13th,1945

 

wpe9.jpg (48676 bytes) Al Cohen's Nuremburg War tribunal security ID

Tophat now belonging to Richard Marowitz- seized 4-30-1945  from Hitler's Munich apartment-note gold embroidered initials

"What the GIs saw-"Al Cohen's photos, taken by GIs-viewer discretion advised

Dead Japanese soldiers...

Browning Automatic Machine Gun

Phil Marino's Chesterfield Cigarettes

Pages from B-17 Pilots logbook

D-Day Invasion Currency

"OVERPAID, OVERSEXED, AND OVER HERE"

A Letter from Sledgehammer

(L-R)Tuskegee Airmen Clarence Dart, Elwood Driver, Hebert Houston, Alva Temple discuss kill of ME-109, summer, 1944, Italy

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