With the exception of the one photo I mentioned, this is the rest. There are more of Al with several girl friends, some are professional portraits. Those remain with us.

1. It was always told to us by Vi, Al's first wife (died 1994) that her daughters were named after Al's three girl fiends in Europe…might be a good deal of truth in that. …..

In the Company F photo Al is front row, 5th from the left. None of us were aware he had this photo until this past Friday. I took it to their local CVS and had it scanned in. The processing did some fine tuning of the picture.

In the state side training photo Al is back row center. I think from there folks can pick him out. In that photo he did remember the man back row from the left was Pasani (sp), next to him Fabrizio (sp), then Al. Knelling at the far right is a man whose name he doesn't remember but Al was with him when he was killed in action. Al did tell me how but that's of no importance to his photos. I'm not sure I mentioned it but Al was a BAR operator in his squad. The person that was killed, among other duties, was Al's ammo bearer. Al lost three such soldiers while in action.

I will be going back to Al's home to be there until the end. He is failing and he expressly wanted me to be back soon, and back to stay. Jan told me this morning when she got there he was unable to get out of bed.

I'm not sure how good my access to email will be. If you need to get hold of me, my cell phone is (802) 233-4523 my home phone is (802) 893-8589. I'll be forwarding my home number to my cell so either number should work to get me.

Thanks for your help with this; if it makes the website while he can still appreciate it, I do my best to get access where he could see it. I know he'd be thrilled. If not, at least he knows it's there. I've reviewed the pictures with him and he knows they're going to the archive.

Al was billeted in Kornhaus. I've found a present day picture of the building and have included it for completeness. I'm still looking for the church in Kempten where the Company photo was taken.

Al has given me his war mementos. I built a shadow box for those elements, along with a photo of him at Kornhaus and a downloaded picture of the unit patch. I brought it down last weekend. He was thrilled.

Jim

I think I forgot to mention Al believed the parade was in Pilsner Germany. I found none, but did find Plisen Czech. He said he believed that was right. I've found no information on the web to indicate where parades took place.

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