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
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Four men stand in front of a farmhouse in the snow at Jungholz, Austria in 1941. "Jungholz 1941 Januar". The unteroffizier (sergeant) on the far left wears a Luftwaffe uniform as well as a Fallschirmscutzen-Abzeichen (Parachute Trooper's Badge) and has been awarded the 2nd Class Iron Cross.
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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.
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Farmhouses--Austria
Snow--Austria
Soldiers--German--Austria
Paratroopers--German--Austria