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Here lies just a little of the cost of this war. (Lloyds handwriting).
| Lloyd and Louise before deployment.
| Before Normandy.
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Traveled to Glascow Scotland on the Queen Elizabeth (Public Domain Photo). Arrived June 28, 1944.
| Arived at Utah Beach, Normandy July 8, 1944. Fought in the Hedgerows/Bocage (Public Domain Photo by US Army).
| Wounded during Operation Cobra on July 27, 1944 as part of the 90th division, 357th Regiment (Public Domain Map by US Army).
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Hospital in England after Normandy.
| Recovering with friends.
| Hospital friends.
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Physical therapy with a fiddle got his left hand working again. He had too much shrapnel in him to return to the infantry.
| B-26 Maurader and Private Apperson in Beauvais France. He was transferred
to the Army Air-corps to repair aircraft.
| B-26, "Jest a Tool". He built aircraft (P-38s etc.) before he enlisted so it was a easy transition to fixing them.
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Lloyd and a B-26.
| Group photo with repair crew
| Fiesler Storke at A-89 airbase Le Culot, Belgium.
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With a buddy.
| A-26 with broken nose gear.
| B-26s in the twlight.
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Buddies on the line.
| Captured HE-219 with us markings.
| Crews.
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B-26 he worked on plus formation.
| JU-290.
| JU-290.
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Students from the George W. Ferris School in Highland Park Michigan support the war effort.
| A P-38. Lloyd help build these before enlisting along with his mother and father-in-law Dyxie and Charles Forbes.
| P-47 and support.
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Victory parade.
| Victory parade cowboys and cossacks
| Martyrs square in Brussels Belgium.
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Illesheim train station.
| Winter train near Illsheim.
| R-10 airbase in Illesheim, Germany.
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Captured Mistle bombers JU-88 + FW-190.
| Mistle bomber JU-88 + FW-190.
| Captured ME-262.
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On top of the hanger.
| R10 in germany.
| Hunting for deer near R10.
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Trucking
| Near ilbling germany.
| On the road to nuremberg.
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Horrors of war.
| Sees destruction.
| Nuns in the rubble.
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Buddies see horror of war.
| Nuremberg zeppelin field.
| Hillbilly band at furth germany.
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Arch de Triomphe.
| German prisoners of war.
| Eiffel tower.
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Notre Dame.
| At the movies.
| Gifts for Carol.
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Things Lloyd brought back.
| Home on the SS Cape Cleare (A very unpleasant trip with 60 foot waves).
| First day back home with Louise and baby Carol.
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