Ship Repair News newsletter from the U.S. Naval Repair Base on Okinawa and 68 German photographs
Gift of Craig Rogers & Harold Bierbower, from The Collection of The National WWII Museum
Description:
A group of German soldiers cleaning and servicing their weapons at an unknown village on an unknown date. Several sledge mounted (schlitten 08) Maxim MG08s (Maschinengewehr 08) are visible in the picture. Possibly Ukraine.
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Harold Bierbower was born in Pennsylvania on 27 November 1911. He enlisted on 3 June 1942 at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in the U.S. Army and served in the 502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division. Bierbower served in the ETO in Belgium, Holland, and France.
Geography:
Ukraina
Latitude:
49.000
Longitude:
32.000
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Machine guns--German--Ukraine
Soldiers--German--Ukraine