Photos from D Company 254th Infantry Regiment 63rd Infantry Division

 

Photo supplied by Walter Schurig, D/254: D Company men- Rear (left to right) Walter Schurig, Sgt George Murchio, ?, Sgt Amos. Front Row(Left to Right) Sgt Bumpus ,Pfc Edward Bionda, Ralph Lhotka

Select group from D Company 254th Infantry after the Siegfried Line battle, Mar 45

 

 

The next 14 photographs and images were furnished by Cpl Bill Pink, D Company 254th Infantry Regiment

L-R: S/Sgt George L. Parnell, Cpl Raymond Wise and Pfc Anderson, D Company 254th Infantry Regiment, Germany 1945

Hang out for 63d Infantry Division veterans who were assigned to Berlin’s Office of the Military Government, United States

Stars and Stripes announces the movement of 122 63rd Infantry Division veterans to Berlin in 1945 to staff OMGUS (Office of the Military Government, United States)

Members of D Company 254th Infantry Regiment in Germany 1945- Not identified

L-R: Top Row: ?????, Cpl Bill Pink, Pfc Clement Fox, S/Sgt Walter Gragert. Front- ??????- D Company 254th Infantry Regiment, Germany 1945

Back: Cpl Raymond Wise and Front- Cpl Bill Pink, D Company 254th Infantry Regiment, Germany 1945

L-R: Cpl Raymond Wise, Cpl Bill Pink and Cpl Irving Speck, D/254th Inf veterans in Berlin, 1945

Pfc Ray Aldred, D Company 254th Infantry Regiment Germany 1945

Sgt Bill Pink (D/254th veteran) on duty as Charge of Quarters, Berlin 1945

Veterans of D Company 254th Infantry Regiment gather in Berlin 1945- L-R: Carmikal, T/Sgt Maurice Etcheson, Pfc Clement Fox, Pfc Armstrong, Pfc Earl E. Pickett, Cpl Raymond Wise, Cpl Bill Pink and Pfc Raymond Aldred. Kneeling_ Left- unknown and right- Pfc Edward B Hamowitz

Pfc Anderson, D Company 254th Infantry Regiment Germany 1945

Pfc Clement Fox, D Company 254th Infantry Regiment, Germany 1945

German bus for OMGUS military Personnel, Berlin 1945

M/Sgt Walter “Pop” Gragert, D/254th Inf Germany 1945 This photo will be post 1945 due to the rank on his sleeve

 

End of photos from Cpl Bill Pink

 

 

S/Sgt John L. Wilson, D Company 254th Infantry Regiment. Photo submitted by his daughter Nancy Jensen.

S/Sgt John L. Wilson, D Company 254th Infantry Regiment. Photo submitted by his daughter Nancy Jensen.

First Sergeant Donald Gulmon, D Company, 254th Infantry Regiment- Dates of photos unknown.

First Sergeant Donald Gulmon, D Company, 254th Infantry Regiment- Dates of photos unknown.

 

 

Sgt Tony Vitek, D Company 254th Infantry Regiment in Germany, April 1945

 

Pfc Fred Clinton’s 81mm Mortar Squad, D Company 254th Infantry Regiment- April 1945- somewhere in Germany. Left to right in the photo- Driver Pfc Howard Loucks (?), in the rear- Pfc Carl Armstrong, sitting on the rear of jeep- Pfc Leonard Motyka, in the rear-right side of the photo on the left- Pfc Wilson E. Frutchy and on the right Pfc Jerry or James Harrison (they were twins)

 

Pfc Fred Clinton’s 81mm Mortar Squad, D Company 254th Infantry Regiment, in action- April 1945. Somewhere in Germany

Pfc Darrell D. Richards, D Company 254th Infantry Regiment. Germany 1945

 

Captain Frank Piontek, CO, D Company 254th Infantry Regiment somewhere in Germany-1945

Members of D Company, 254th Infantry Regiment take a break along with their pet dog- Germany 1945

Captain Frank Piontek, CO, D Company 254th Infantry Regiment somewhere in Germany 1945

Unidentified member of D Company 254th Infantry Regiment in Germany 1945

 

Mortar Section, D Company 254th Infantry. Center figure, kneeling is Bill Pink. Standing in the background on the left is Company Commander Captain Piontek. 2 Jan 45- Kaysersberg, France