Never Before Seen WWII Photos (2)

A warm welcome to all you Steemit folks! Today we have some more nice quality pictures from my grandfather's collection, I hope you will enjoy them. If you are new to my blog you can check out the original post here.

Today I don’t have much information to go on for these pictures, only they are just some wonderful portraits and are taken during the last months of the war in Germany. So let us get right into it!

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From what I can tell this may be the same young man from the truck in the last series, which you can find here. Only this time he is proudly posing in front of the truck with sidearm and cigarette. I would assume that he was the assigned driver and wanted a nice photo to send back home. I would guess that he never saw this picture though, as the undeveloped film was stashed away in my grandfather's things. I spent a long time trying to figure out exactly what kind of truck this is, but no luck. I am going to take a guess and say it’s a 5 ton Dodge but I could be way off.

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Here we have my grandpa Joe, climbing out of a truck. I can tell that it is not the same truck as the first picture though, if you notice the headlight is not in the same spot and the cab is much smaller. You see what happens when you let someone else use your camera?? It’s out of focus! Too bad, but that’s okay because there are a bunch of really good shots of my grandfather still to come.

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And finally for today is this lovely German family. I am assuming they are German based on their clothes and unless some officer was allowed to bring his family with who else would they be? They seem quite happy though, yet uneasy, but my grandpa could always make people laugh. It looks like they have been through a lot. Regardless, I recognize the woman from a few more pictures so maybe she lived and worked near the base? Anyone's guess really. It is interesting to see how nicely dressed the children are. I cannot seem to keep my kids clean for five minutes let alone wear anything so fancy without ruining it right away.

Well, that concludes the first week of my WWII photos series, I hope you are all enjoying them. I look forward to writing each post and we haven't even really gotten started yet! I will be back with a few more pictures on Monday! Have a great weekend! Stay tuned this weekend I'm going to try and update my American in Germany blog.

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