Last week, I was again on a quick 2 days tour in Normandy with five officers from New Zeland. The weather was so crazy that I didn’t even shot a photo but, on my way back, I visited a friend (farmer) and got again (almost as usual) War Relics.
Anyone interested ? Makes offer to gunter@eucmh.com
Here is a Schmeterling Buxe (Gas Mask) Box (German) Normandy Camouflaged bla bla bla. original, need to be cleaned up and the only one camouflaged in the 8 i’ve got from my friend. I have no time to play with the other 7 and will offer them later.

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Category : Army Air Forces, Missing Personal
Tags : 1943, 1st Lt. Roy H. Mohr, 2nd Lt. Elmer F. Schultz, 388th Bomb Group(H), 560th Bomb Squadron, 6 September, B-17-42-30201, B-17-42-30203, Battery Corporal Willis S. Cole Military Museum, Chartres, Coudray, External Relations, France, French Resistance, German Air Base, Graves Registration, Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command, Missing in Action, Mrs Gisela M. Courduff, Paris, Rachel (Rae) Phillips, S/Sgt Bernard A. Becker, S/Sgt. Bernard Tuvman, Shack Up, Shedonwanna ?, Strasbourg, Stuttgart, T/Sgt. Hartzell H. Jones, Troyes, Voves, Walter Creamer, Willis S. Cole
Dear Gentle People,
I received the following email from JPAC this evening. You are all people, whom has helped with this research to date and as I promised, the purpose of this email is to let you know, the next step has begun. I realize, they will attempt to push us all aside and I promise to do as much as I can, to insure that will not take place.
Willis S. Cole, Jr. “Sam”
Executive Director/Curator
Battery Corporal Willis S. Cole Military Museum
13444 124th Ave NE – Kirkland WA 98034-5403 USA (425)823-4445
www.ww1.org – email : ww1@ww1.org
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Category : Uncategorized

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American Residential Law Group (a company that employs approved loan modification attorneys) is keeping on top of the loan modification “craze” happening in the new decade, as dishonest companies and complicated Federal Government plans prove ineffective for resolving debt.

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Category : 001st Infantry Division, Photos 1st ID
Tags : 103d Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion, 1st Infantry Division, 745th Tank Battalion, 7th Field Artillery, 90th Chemical Battalion, Aachen, Amarillo, Asselborn, Belgium, Berlin, Bliesheim, Butgenbach, Colleville-sur-Mer, D.C. Cox, El Guettar, Erft River, Eupen, Farriana, France, Frauwullesheim, Furstenberg, Gabes, George Talbert, Germany, Gladbach, Hamich, Hürtgen Forest, Jalhay, Kasserine Pass, Kreuzau, Kufferath, Lendersdorf, Luxembourg, Metternich, Michael Swinkin, Mittelscheid, Murringen, North-Africa, Paul Romanick, Rhine River, Roer River, Scharfenberg, Schneidhausen, Schoppen, Soller, Sourbrodt, Staats Forest, Stockheim, Texas, Tunisia, Weilerwist, Werhdon

SC 167571 – The 2d Battalion, 16th Infantry, that cleared the road and fields of mines, marching through the Kasserine Pass and on to Kasserine and Farriana, Tunisia. 26 Feb 1943. Photo : McGray.
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Category : Kesternich, Then & Now Photos
Someone uploaded the two photos on the web server and forgot to tell me who had to be credited. (Please let me known)

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Category : EUCMH Mails Center
Hello from Belgium.
As you will see, there is one category with American Infantry, Armored, Airborne and Cavalry Units/Division in the top of the left side bar and another one in the bottom. The top one will be the place for the archives, the photos and everything related to the unit while the bottom will only deals with the Order of Battle of the unit and the comments from visitors.
About the top category, you are all invited to comment the photos in French, English, Dutch and German (Caption) as well as add you own photos to the collection (if you have some). Please notice that the photos MUST have a size of minimum 1024 pixels.
I am only trying to get some order in the area and allow students and historians to find quickly what they are searching for.
You are all welcome to participate in this project and if you have Wartime photos from your father or grandfather, send them to me and I will see if I can ameliorate the quality (photoshop) of the generally small pictures to put them online. In every cases, please scan with a resolution of minimum 300 DPI (Dot per Inche). If you really don’t know how to do this then please send me the original and I will send them back to you (100%) as soon as they are scanned.
Gunter
I have found this George S. Patton Message on Christina Finn’s Wall on Facebook. It a great thing to be hear as the original text has been replaced by a more actual and is now addressed to the whole US Army Troops.
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Category : EUCMH Mails Center
It is with much sadness that I am writing to you. We are all struggling to deal with the loss of our beloved Col. Townsend. I want to share with you some of the events of Colonel’s last days. Last Sunday morning I met Isaac (Epps) at the hospital, and we spent the day at Col. Townsend’s bedside, in the Intensive Care Unit. We met late in the morning, and I stayed clear through until 8:00 pm, when the visiting hours are over and they ask you to leave.
Isaac had been there the day before, and had talked to Colonel and had made friends with the nurses and staff in the ICU.
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Category : Afghanistan 05-15
Tags : 27 Squadron, 340th Expeditionary Air Refueling Sq, 3rd Battalion, 509th Parachute Infantry Division, Abdul Khaliq, Afghan National Army, Afghan National Security, Afghanistan, Airmen, Altaf Qadri, AP-Photo, B Flight, Brennan Linsley, British Soldier, Canadian Soldiers, Dand, E-3 AWACS, FOB, Forward Operating Base, Gen Stanley McChrystal, Getty Images, Ghazni Province, Habsburg Septre, Hamid Karzai, Helmand Province, ISAF, Jingle Truck, Kabul, Kandahar Airfield, Kandahar Province, Kirsty Wigglesworth, Kunar Province, Lashkar Gah, NATO, Obama Administration, Omar Sobhani, Operation Tazi, Orgun-E, Oshaky, OTAN, Pakistani Border, Paktika Province, Pech Valley, PTR, Reuters-Photos, Ricky, Royal Air Force Regiment, S/Sgt Angelita Lawrence, Sgt Francisco Espinoza, Spencer Platt, T/Sgt. Efren Lopez, Taliban, Task Force 3-09, Turkish Soldiers, United Nations, US Air Force, US Army Provincial Reconstruction Team
a share from Boston.com
As the surge of 30,000 US troops continues to pour into Afghanistan, the Obama administration is now considering the possibility of reconciling with some of the Taliban, reintegrating the soldiers into society, as a way to find an end to this long conflict. The plan is supported by Afghan president Hamid Karzai, although discussions are still in the very early stages. A recent United Nations report found that violence in Afghanistan claimed the lives of more than 2,400 Afghan civilians in the year 2009. While this is the largest annual death toll for noncombatants since the US led invasion eight years ago, the report found that the majority of deaths had been caused by Taliban attacks. Collected here are images of the country and conflict over the past month, part of an ongoing monthly series on Afghanistan.

US Airmen from the 340th Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron prepare to refuel an E-3 airborne warning and control system (AWACS) aircraft Jan.15, 2010, over Afghanistan. (Staff Sgt. Angelita Lawrence – US Air Force)
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Category : Paid Advertizing
This could be a very interesting information for you if you are about to start the process of Buying your First Home. A friend on Facebook told be as follow : ‘Every Little bits helps’. So, why not take a look ?
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- There may be no future extensions, so all qualified homebuyers are urged to act and have a written, binding contract by April 30, 2010 (close by June 30, 2010)
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Category : Paid Advertizing
Tags : Pyramid Air Guns
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Category : Veterans Taps
Tags : 194th Glider Infantry, Air Medals, Bronze Star, CG-4A Glider, Civista Hospital, Danbury, Decatur Community High School, Delbert Townsend, Distinguished Flying Cross, Kansas, Kansas State College, Kansas State University, Korea, La Plata, Legion of Merit, Maryland, Norcatur, Oberlin, Ogallala, Pentagon, Purple Heart, Red Willow, Rhine River, Silver Star, Townsend Scholarship Program, University of Nebraska, Vietnam, World War Two

Col. Delbert L. Townsend dies at 88 on Tuesday, January 26, 2010.
La Plata, Md. The Danbury-Norcatur native who helps fund the college dreams of Red Willow and Decatur county high school graduates has died. Col. Delbert L. Townsend, the benefactor of the Townsend Scholarship Program, was 88 years old when he died late Tuesday afternoon in Maryland.
Col. Townsend was born in Norcatur, Kan., on April 6, 1921, and grew up on his family’s farm near Danbury in Red Willow County, where he attended elementary school and part of high school.
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Another message from Rachelle, Oklahoma, USA.
As you all know one of our classmates Lory Poteet-Box, was recently diagnosed with Leukemia, and will be soon starting treatment in St Louis, Missouri, to try and beat this disease. Lory contacted me to see if I could help get her daughter, Devon, home from Germany in order to help Lory, Gary and their four younger children. Devon’s husband is active duty Air Force. I have contacted the Red Cross and they do not deem Lory’s condition a life and death emergency, however, that does not mean I have given up there, that only means I have talked to one person and I have my call list for Wednesday, I have a few contacts and trust me I will use them to the best of my ability. I have also talked to couple of people within the Air Force and will be contacting the Family Emergency Group in Germany, to see if they can help get Devon home in that manner. However, if none of these plans follow thru, we all need to help Lory and her family.
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Category : Colors, US Photos
From the collection of eucmh.com (version 1998 & 2001) I have on this disk a nice group of World War Two as well as pre-war color photos.
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Another Group of US Army Photos shot during the Battle of Bastogne and the surrounding of the 101st Airborne Division. The photos were done part inside the city as well as in different spots in the entire perimeter.
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US Army Signal Corps Photos from Bütgenbach during the Winter 1944/45 or during the Battle of the Bulge.
When I will find other photos from the city I will add them to this archive.
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This small photo collection were shot in Bruxelles, Belgium during the occupation ans shows Leon Degrelle’s Troops of the Belgian Waffen SS who (no joke) are still counted today as one of the best SS Combat formation in Russia during World War Two.
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A great thanks to Thomas Holland for the photos showing his father Wartime Uniform (1SG Thomas A Holland Co E 11 INF/ 5th Div) he send to me for the website.
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Category : Gas Mask M-9A1, Militaria for Sale
Militaria for Sale. 1st Class Condition (Unissued) Militaria from the US Army. I have here about 200 items for sale in an almost ‘miracleous’ condition : each item into a sealed metal container, then into a cardbox package, then into the olive drab carrying bag. The Item itself is untouched and smell even still rubber since 1950.
It’s not a World War Two item but a true Militaria Collector item. Especially for those who are studying and collecting Military Gas Masks. See the pictures and read bellow for informations on how to buy.
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