WWII ERA

WWII ERA

A Battery - 1943-45 Italy, Germany (Photos courtesy of Walter (Jack) Larson)

B Battery - 1941 Fort Bragg, NC (Photos courtesy of David Stoddard)

C Battery - (Photos courtesy of Judy Ramirez who is the granddaughter of PFC David Madrid Jr. who served with Battery C, 17th Field Artillery Battalion. Enlisted in1941and discharged in August 1945.)

17th Artillery WWII - (Photos courtesy of Walter (Jack) Larson)

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Battery A, 5th Section, May 1943, Mateur, Tunisia
German Wreckage, Messina, Italy	Battery A, 5th Section, Messina, Italy
(L-R) Pvt Ed Vincent, French Moroccan Soldier, T-5 Walt Larson	Sgt Herb Hobbs (Right Front) Sicily
Knocked out 170mm German Gun, Messina, Italy	Gun Section Battery A, Italy 1944
Battery A sign as 17th entered Hirschlhal, Germany, 1944 (L-R) Walt Larson, Lewis Roznosky	Cpl Gibson and SSgt Burns (Roebuck Hunting, Germany 1945)
(L-R) Sgt Herb Hobbs, Pvt Ed Vincent, Casssino, Italy 1944	Battalion Sign, Hirshchlhal December 1944
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These three pictures are from David Stoddard; whose brother (Charles) served with Battery B, 17th Field Artillery Regiment 1941-1943 as Motor Sergeant.

Pictures were taken in 1941, at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.

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Battery B, 2 1/2 ton Truck.

Truck Park, 17th Field Artillery Regiment

SGT Charles L. Stoddard poses with one of the Regiment's 155mm Howitzers

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Battery C, 17th Field Artillery Battalion

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105 Gun crew - PFC Madrid back row second to the right	Battery 1st SGT at work
Battery C truck broken down	155MM Towed Gun crew Battery C
chow line	chow line
PFC David Madrid Jr.	Unloading ammo
PFC Madrid standing	PFC Madrid - center playing the accordion
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