Group photograph of the 1st Platoon, 634th Clearing Company of the 6th Engineer Special Brigade in December 1944
1.Photograph. Group photograph of the 1st Platoon, 634th Clearing Company of the 6th Engineer Special Brigade. 25 December 1944. The unit had helped to operate Omaha Beach from 6 June 1944 to 24 December 1944. "634 Clearing Company. 1st Platoon. December 25, 1944. 'France.' Landed in France on June 6, 1944. Reading from left to right: First Row: Magness, Wm [William] B. - Ohio; Barker, Glenn - Missouri; DeFelice, Carlo - Indiana, Inpls. [Indianapolis]; Wallace, Tom - North Carolina; Lego, Charles - West Virginia; Kovalick(?), Philip - Ohio; Kidd, Frank J. - West Virginia; Oary, Harry W. - Illinois; Klein, Bertrand D. - Indiana, Liberty; Zehagen, Theodore - Ohio; Swaim, Gene M.; Goldsmith, Fred - Kentucky; Warren, George A. Kentucky; Snidaker, Robert - Ohio. Second Row: Robinson, Albert L. - Rockport, Indiana; Sharp, Bernard - Wisconsin; McGrath, Frank - Ohio; Seib, Joseph - Indiana; Jackson, Vern - Illinois; Shotwell, Clifford - Ohio; Chamberlain, Jack - Calif - West Virginia; Schilling, Lawrence - Missouri; Myers, Clarence - Indiana; Gardiner, Edwin T. - New Jersey; Lowry - Washington; Izzo, Edward Pennsylvania; Dieter, Warren - Michigan; Graham, Wm. [William] R. - California. 3rd Row: Butner, Charlie O. - Ohio, Shiloh; Schulte - New York; Leghart - Ohio; Strutt, Woodrow - Ohio; Muehlenbein, Delbert - Indiana; Ganss, Ralph - Ohio; Kepp, Carl Ohio; Handleman - New York; Pulfer - Ohio; Flake, Eugene J. - Illinois; Hildenbrand, Carl - Indiana; Greenwald, Sol R. - Michigan; Thomas - West Virginia; Newsom, Edgar - Ohio; Pavson, Ben J. - New York; Fahey, Raymond - New York. 4th Row: Lester, Chester, Kentucky; Trogdon, Darrell - Missouri; Evans, Jimmie - Texas; Howland, Charles - Ohio; DiLorenzo, Patsy - West Virginia; Hacker, Carl P. - Ohio; Hughes, Lawrence - Ohio; Braasch, Walter F. - Illinois; Harrison, Eston - Georgia; Belden, Lawrence Indiana; Burton, Clyde L. - Kentucky; Fahey, Ricard D. - Illinois; Robert L. - Tennessee." 25 December 1944
Donor file: Reprint photographs of Swain; reprint photograph of memorial to members of the 6th Engineer Special Brigade that landed on Omaha Beach on D-Day