Original WWII Snapshot Photo NAMED 748th TANK BATTALION Writing Letter Desert 20

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ORIGINAL WWII PHOTO - ORIGINAL TO THE TIME - NOT A COPY, SCAN, OR REPRO
QUANTITY: 1 - See the other original WWI & WWII photos that I have listed.
ITEM: Original WWII Large Snapshot Photo of the 748th TANK BATTALION in DESERT TRAINING, 1943. Red Russell writing a letter home from the California desert, 1943. Named on the back.
The 748th Tank Battalion ("The Rhinos") trained at Camp Rucker, Alabama (1942); Camp Bouse, Arizona (1943), and in the California desert. They later landed on Utah Beach on D-Day, June 6, 1944 and then fought across Europe in Patton's 3rd Army.
Photo is from Corporal Frederick Charles Stoddard of Lewis, New York. S/N 32663701. He trained with the 748th Tank Battalion for 2 years but was transferred to the 7th Armored Division before the 748th Tank Battalion landed on Utah Beach. In the 7th Armored Division Stoddard was in the HQ Company of the CCR (Combat Command Reserve) which absorbed men of the 9th Armored Group to form a third front line combat command within the 7th Armored Division along with the CCA and CCB. The CCR included the 814th Tank Destroyer Battalion and the 203rd AAA BATTALION. Stoddard and his outfit in the 7th Armored Division saw heavy fighting in the Breakout From Normandy, The Battle of the Bulge, St. Vith, and the Battle of the Ruhr Pocket. He returned home on the SS Wheaton Victory in December 1945.
SORRY. I WILL NOT SELL OR SHIP THIS ITEM TO RUSSIA, AFRICA, OR SOUTH AMERICA DUE TO PROBLEMS WITH POSTAL SYSTEMS.
DATE: WWII - photo does not glow under a black light.
SIZE: 3.75" x 5.75"
CONDITION: Very Good; See scans..
BACK: Has descriptive note written on period Velox photo paper; See last scan.
SOURCE: From the archives of the World War History & Art Museum (WWHAM) in Alliance, Ohio. WWHAM designs and delivers WWI and WWII exhibits to other museums. Our traveling exhibits include Brushes With War, a world class collection of 325 original paintings and drawings by soldiers of WWI, and Iron Fist, an HO scale model of the German 2nd Panzer Division in 1944 with 4,000 vehicles and 15,000 men.
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