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 four person crew of German soldiers in a field with an Maschinengewehr 08 (MG 08 heavy machine gun), probably in Germany, on an unknown date. The soldier on the front right is an Obergefreiter and the crw is possibly undergoing training.
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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:
Deutschland
Latitude:
51.500
Longitude:
10.500
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Machine guns--German--Germany
Soldiers--German--Germany
Military training--Germany