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GERMANY 1945
3rd Infantry Division Clubmobile
Clubmobile camp life with the 3rd Division Quartermasters and adopted dog somewhere in Germany 1945. When the troops were moving forward, the crew would live in tents moving forward constantly. It was a good day if there was a billet in a village or town.
Clubmobile crew member Bettie Walters wrote of her experience: "We lived in tents and under conditions almost as bad as his. We knew long hours in the open, in rain, snow and mud. We saw him wounded in body and mind. We saw him come from the foxhole and helped him cast off, for a while at least, the ever-present fear of the nearness of death and to forget the dirt and misery and loneliness of the infantryman's life. We saw him dirty as only an infantryman can get. We listened to his tales of combat and his worries and joys of letters from home. We looked at millions of pictures of babies, wives, sweethearts and mothers." [5]
photo: courtesy Molly Martin/Florence Wick
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