2nd Battalion, 506th PIR
Germany and Austria
May-July, 1945


photos from Sarah Robertson, daughter of
1LT William F. Robertson (F Co, 2nd BN, 506th PIR, 1944-1945)
Berchtesgaden 1945

Berchtesgaden, Bavaria, Germany, May 1945

(L-R): PVT William E. Patterson (HQ, 2nd BN), J. D. Henderson (E Co, 2nd BN),
and CPT Lloyd J. Cox (CO, HQ, 2nd BN)


Kaprun, Austria 1945
June/July 1945: 2nd BN Officers at Kaprun, Austria, location of Battalion Headquarters

1st Row (L-R): LT Thomas A. Rhodes, Jr.; Thomas A. Peacock; CPT Joe F. McMillan; LTC Robert L. Strayer; MAJ Richard D. Winters; CPT Lloyd J. Cox; Harry F. Welsh.

2nd Row (L-R): LT J. P. O'Shaughnessy, Jr.; Robert H. Cowing; LT Ralph David Richey, Jr.; CPT Wayne P. Beardsley; CPT Phillip F. Dean; Tom L. Gibson; John A. Cadmus.

3rd Row (L-R): Francis L. O'Brien; LT Phillip J. Maher; LT Jack E. Foley; Robert A. McCutcheon; Bernard F. Staplefeld; LT William T. Allers; Elliott W. Curry; Adolf Paterson; Lee J. May.

4th Row (L-R): Louis S. Ritter, Jr.; Alexander M. Hamilton; Victor A. Schroeder; 1LT Andrew Edward Tuck, III; John L. Ghiardi; Robert E. Gage; Edward G. Thomas; John C. Williams; Holland Cromer "Crump" Oswald, Jr.; Donald J. Frary; LT William F. Robertson.

Not in Picture: CPT Ronald C. Speirs; CPT Lewis Nixon; Henry S. Jones; Ralph Cobb; Laird McNeal; Douglas Marshall; John R. Lacey; LT Edward D. Shames; Robert C. Brussat; Gerald C. McCarthy; Roy P. Gates; Leonard Jaye.



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