T/5 Bernard Beckman 12185277, Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 254th Infantry Regiment.

 

Troops approaching a pillbox in the German West Wall (Siegfried Line) March 45. Right photo shows German equipment abandoned on the battlefield.

Troops approaching a pillbox in the German West Wall (Siegfried Line) March 45. Right photo shows German equipment abandoned on the battlefield.

Remains of a concrete fortification of the Sigfried Line. March 1945.

Soldiers in this photo are not identified, however since the photo was one of T/5 Beckman’s photos it is assumed that these soldiers are from Hq Co, 1st Bn 254th Inf Regt. Germany 1945

L-R: T/5 Bernard Beckman 12185277 and Cpl John Sontag 33609613, Hq Co 1st Bn, 254th Inf Regt in Blaufelden, Germany, 1945

Photo on the left was taken near Camp Oberhofen, France. Soldiers in the photo are not identified. On the right, L-R is T/5 Bernard Beckman and Pfc Elmer F. Bryant, Hq Co, 1st Bn 254th Inf Regt on guard duty near Camp Oberhofen, France Dec 1944

 

T/5 Bernard Beckman, Pfc Anthony P. LePore and an unidentified soldier in Ribeauville, France, Jan 1945. Hq Co 1st Bn 254th Inf Regt

Left photo- L-R: Pfc Anthony P. LePore and T/5 Bernard Beckman, Hq Co, 1st Bn, 254th Inf Regt on guard near Camp Oberhofen, France, Dec 44. Right photo. Members of Hq Co 1st Bn, 254th Inf Regt boarding a “40 and 8” rail car for movement from Marseilles, France to Camp Oberhofen, France. Dec 44

 

Remains of a Siegfried Line pillbox used as shelter one evening by T/5 Bernard Beckman and his buddies during the 254th Infantry Regiment’s attack on that fortified line. March 45. Hq Co 1st Bn 254th Inf Regt

 

Left Photo. Remains of a structure used by T/5 Bernard Beckman for shelter during the battle for Jebsheim, France. Right Photo of two soldiers including Pfc Joseph Dolin 13122436, Hq Co 1st Bn 254th Inf Regt who was killed in action on 16 April 1945. Position of each soldier not identified