HQ, 3rd Battalion
Light Machine Gun Platoon
Fort Bragg, NC - Summer, 1943

photo from Kim Frasquillo {granddaughter of
1LT Robert C. Machen, Sr. [HQ (LMG), 3rd BN, 506th PIR, KIA D-Day]}

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Front Row (L-R): George Dwyer; 1LT Robert C. Machen, Sr. (KIA D-Day); SGT Thomas A. Simms (Battlefield Commission; transferred to A Company); SGT Charles L. Easter (KIA Holland)

2nd Row (L-R): Martin W. Clark; CPL Clarence J. Kelly (died while POW, Normandy); Fayez Handy; Audrey Lewallen (Lewellyn); Al Fabec; PFC Dean E. Winner (KIA Normandy); Thomas Bucher; PFC Earl F. McGrath (KIA Normandy)

3rd Row (L-R): CPL Ralph D. Fischer (KIA Normandy); Charles Cartwright; Donald Gallagher; PFC John Pinchot (KIA D-Day); John S. Hermansky; Richard Stockhouse; Eugene Darby; PVT Robert A. Boehm (KIA D-Day)

4th Row (L-R): SGT Garland W. Collier (KIA Holland); PVT Philip D. Germer (KIA D-Day); ______ Cowherd; John S. Mihalko; Joseph Mielcarek; Neil Lewis; CPL Andrew T. Bryan, Jr. (KIA Holland); Bob Rommel

5th Row (L-R): Floyd H. Wierback; unknown; PVT Steve Radovich (KIA D-Day); John E. Robbins; Dewey Rex; Darvin Lee

Not pictured: Elmer Goff and Nathan M. Bullock

Names from Robert R. Webb, Jr. [son of the late Robert R. Webb, Sr. (SSG, HQ, 3rd BN, 506th PIR, 1942-1945 and author of Freedom Found)]

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