897th Ordnance Heavy Automotive Maintenance Company
Picture taken by Signal Corps 6/24/1945 at Bismarck School, Nurnberg, Germany.
Names recorded by Howard Hammond.

[Click on the photo for the full size, 536K image.]

Row 1 (front): Elmore Felton, Elvin Box, Edward Oesterle, Willmer Bechdol, Harold Granger, Harold Albright, Henry Grygiel, Al Carfora, Julian Gocek, Edward Vander Wal, Robert Thompson, John Chessler, Milton Dornburg, Victor Fresl, Floyd Ensien, Fred Miller, Marco Civitello, Ray Myers, Thomas Edwards

Row 2: John Metts, Mike Mrosko, John Bielusiak, Shelby Kiper, William Bacon, William Anderson, James Hudson, Wallace Taylor, John Deusner, Ray Chamberlain, Charles Jonas, Waldo Pietila, Arthur Thienel, Frank Grugnale, Harry Suszko, Stanley Brown, Herb Schultz, Unknown, Carl Crist, Charles Kinney, Howard Sears, William Craven, Seymour Tabachnick

Row 3: Joseph Erachek, Elmer Wright, James Kosup, Ray De Carlo, Jose Moreno, Walmer Thomas, Clifford Jenson, Joshua Stockstille, Danny Lenwell, Nolan Jackson, William C. Klockow, Art Grochowski, Alex J. Cegan, Walter E. Snyder, William H. Kemnitz, William E. Lake, Clay Huff, Gilbert Pence, Joseph Kloc, Harold Erwin, Harold Crandall, Vernon Kincaid, Arnold Donohue, Cecil Craft

Row 4: George L. Killineer, Angelo Ferrara, Toivo Kuivila, John Kovl, Herman Wright, Walter Limbacher, Al Myska, Felix Balcerek, John Brankin, Richard Dietz, Charles Ataras, John Rolence, Robert Wright, James Ryan, Johnny Richardson, Park Bumgarner, William Hanna, Earl Leach, Fred Eggleston, William Roberts, Jimmy Brown, Orther Blevins, Frank Durst, Walter Goodner, Howard Hammond, Howard Moser, William Crytser, Bliss Stevens, Unknown, Unknown

Row 5: Louis Pullen, Unknown, Lawrence Wynne, Ned Lewis, Alex Koester, William Heilman, Carl Folk, Charles Fishback, Bradley Creech, Clint M. Dyett, Carroll Manning, Wade Moon, Joseph Davis, Edward Zielinski, Dallas Featheroff, Joe Valenick, Nick Miller, Tony Panarello, Henry Ash, Gus Painas, Unknown, Louis Plavec, Lowell Elliott, Axel Swanson, Robert Wells

Row 6: Morris Forman, Theodore Fritz, Archie Chenevy, John Sabol, George Thomas, Harry Kahagka, Victor Lukasiewicz, Charles Gaulke, Miles Kesler, Melvin Millmaker, Robert Jackson, Truman Rutterbush, Charles Gray, George Price, Silas Howerton, Harold Bias, David Lewis, Tolefus Lowery, George Crawford, Unknown, Fred Lecrone, Ben Petro, Earl Winkler, Charles Moore, Roy Carpenter

Row 7: Ralph Neer, Ora Kosier, Thomas E. Thomas, Solon Thomas, William Franklin, John Maska, Anthony Bortko, Edward Myers, Nick Appleman, Charles Trump, Jim Mendias, William Leslie, Lee Skelton, John Eberhard, Thomas Enright, Ben Noster, Bruce Comrie, Troy Goss, Paul Colter, Leonard Gillies, James Hollingshead, Earl Schultz, Kermit Radke, Norman Kron, Harvey Wambold, Charles East, Michael Swirsky

Editor's note: Wow, sometimes we get lucky and a soldier manages to not only drag himself through Europe and North Africa and back to the USA, but he manages to drag an 8x10 photographic print with him. (Well, I assume that's what happened; it's possible that the print was mailed to the USA, or that it was printed in the USA and given to the family.) Note the women in the windows at the top of the photo. I am satisfied with this scan of the print, so if your father's face is fuzzy, it's fuzzy on the print and I couldn't help it.

1978 reunion, Fairfax, OH