The Men: Photos

The 111th Men at Fort Dix, NJ, June 1943
Art Brooks has identified the officers and a few of the men in the center front row. Find the four men in front center wearing the darker jackets with belts; then move to the second man to the left of the first officer on the left to start the identifications: the large man is Tech Sergeant James Roush; First Sergeant Bill Mayo; Lt. Dante Vezzoli (who soon left the 111th to go to Army Intelligence because he knew Italian; he retired a full colonel); Cpt. Lionel Malsbury, the CO at the time; Lt. Art Brooks; Lt. Perry Witt; Master Sergeant Frank Gomez, and Sgt. Harold Goerges. My dad, Edward “Pinky” Johnson is in the front row, ninth from the right, and on his left is his buddy John Andrews. On the back row, third man to the right of the man holding flag–only the flag stick shows (and counting the man holding the flag) is John Raisler, and to his immediate right is his buddy, Joe Sedlacek. To Sedlacek’s right is Leroy Faehling. Also on the back row, 20th man from the left, is Severt “Sy” Stroberg.

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Stanley Carlson and buddy, Camp Shilo, Canada, February 1943

Supply section warehouse and office crew Camp Shilo Feb 1943

Unangst on left and Carlson in Germany Feb 1945

Center man is Stanley Carlson in front of church

Stanley Carlson on right Fort Dix possibly

Carlson on right perhaps Fort Dix

Carlson in center standing, others unknown, Fort Dix maybe

Stanley Carlson, leaving home in 1943

Unangst and Carlson on bike built for two Germany probably

Carlson and wife, Lolly, reuniting, late 1945

Leroy Brannon, one of the 111th’s cooks, probably at Fort Dix, NJ, in spring 1943

Gen Karl in truck

Gene Karl in train, buddies below

Gene Karl

Gene Karl and buddy, Aberdeen, MD, 1942

MSG Frank Gomez

111th Supply Section, Albro Castle, Wales, 1944

Gene Karl, possibly at Aberdeen, MD

Curt Vozs’ fiancee or wife, Aberdeen, MD, 1942

Leroy Brannon

Gene Karl at Albro Castle with gun

Men working at Albro Castle, Wales, 1944

Art Brooks taken outside quarters, Brake, Germany, summer 1945

Bob Raymer

On right, Ed and Patricia Newmeyer; other couple unknown

Ed Newmeyer top row left–who are others?

Ed Newmeyer on right–who are other two?

Ed Newmeyer top left and friends–who?

Ed Newmeyer and buddy, perhaps France?

Taking a shower, probably France 1944

Ed Newmeyer and friends

Ed Newmeyer and friend

Ed Newmeyer, right, on ship

Ed Newmeyer in Canada

Ed Newmeyer and buddies clowning around

Ed Newmeyer

Ed Newmeyer

Ed Newmeyer, back row on left, with buddies–who are they?

Ed and buddy perhaps Texas

Roger Rickon

Lt. Perry Witt, Automotive Officer, Belgium, 1944

Lt. Fred Kent, Armament Officer, Belgium, 1944

Gen Karl in truck

Lt. Errington, Lt. Witt, 2Lt Goessel, Germany, May 27, 1945

Constantino Navarra, Bill Kirkmayer, Bill Mayo, and Harry Riley

MSG Frank Gomez shows actor Brian Ahearn an instrument in Heerlen, Holland, winter ’44-45

Charles Dickerson on right, with his brother

Charles Burns, Bill Campbell, and Robert Mauer

Curt Vosz, Aberdeen, MD, Nov. 1942

Unidentified soldier

Warrant Officer Hall, 1944

Lt. Errington, Belgium, 1944

Lt. Errington on the Eiffel Tower, Paris, 1944

CPT Malsbury

George Legg and his D-Day beard

Major Dante Vezzoli, May 1945; he had been a Lt. with the 111th in 1942-3

Lt. Perry Witt, Automotive Officer, Belgium, 1944

Lt. Fred Kent, Armament Officer, Belgium, 1944

Payday at Camp Shiloh, Canada: L to R: First Sgt. Mayo, Sgt. Nelson, Lt. Brooks, Cpt. Malsbury

On right, Ed and Patricia Newmeyer; other couple unknown

Ed Newmeyer top row left–who are others?

Ed Newmeyer on right–who are other two?

Men in front of the Recreation Center–Germany?

Ed Newmeyer top left and friends–who?

Ed Newmeyer and friend

Ed Newmeyer and friends

Ed Newmeyer and buddy, perhaps France?

Taking a shower, probably France 1944

Ed Newmeyer, right, on ship

Ed Newmeyer in Canada

Ed Newmeyer and buddies at Fort AP Hill, VA, clowning around

Newmeyer and pals–who are they?

Ed and buddy perhaps Texas

Ed Newmeyer

Ed Newmeyer

Ed and Patricia Newmeyer

Ed Newmeyer, back row on left, with buddies–who are they?

Floyd Wetterburg and Bill Strickland

Paul Glynn, Roy E. ‘Pop’ Bower, Joe Kelly

Jim Roush, Basil Dixon, Bob Raymer Jan 1944

Bob Raymer and others in Paris, August 1944

Bob Hax, Bill Stadler, Herbert Hyde

Bob Hax, Bill Stadler, Julius Turner

Bob Raymer, Maastricht, Holland

Bob Raymer in front of the 111th building, January 1944, probably Barry, Wales

Bob Nelson, Peter Patrick Jr, James ‘Doc’ Mason, Everett Auten

Peter Patrick, Jr.

Patrick Creswell, Brema House, Germany, 1945

Patrick Creswell, near Camp Bowie, TX

Patrick Creswell, Camp Bowie, TX

Barton Keeler and John Andrews, on their way home on the SS Sea Robin, November 1945

Bunks on the SS Sea Robin, November 1945

Alvin Hamburger on the SS Sea Robin

On the Atlantic, the SS Sea Robin heading home

Loading the Sea Robin, November 13, 1945, France

Roland Unangst, center, and two buddies, location unknown

Constantino Navarra in Wales, 1944

Patrick Creswell and his accordion at Camp Bowie, Texas, 1942

Patrick Creswell in Cardigan, Wales, 1944

Joe Sedlacek

Joe Marro, Germany, July 20, 1945

The men at Camp Bowie, Texas, 1942

Illinois boys–Lavergne Stanhaus, John Raisler, Joe Sedlacek, Lawrence Durree, on the Empire State Building, New York City, Nov. 1943

Joe Sedlacek with the axe, Camp Shiloh

Leo DeLaGarza, Frank Gomez, Matt Ottea at Camp Shiloh

The men at Camp Bowie, Texas, 1942

John Raisler, Frank Sossi, Gene Karl, Joe Sedlacek, Matt Ottea, at Times Square, New York City, Nov. 1943

Leaving Camp Shiloh, Canada, 1943

Sedlacek in Canada

The 111th at Camp Shiloh, Canada, 1943

Joe Sedlacek with the axe, Camp Shiloh

Sgt Murvel Saucier

“Frenchy” Saucier

Sgt. Saucier at Camp Shiloh, Canada, 1942

Many faces need to be identified; if you can help, please contact us through the “Comments” section of the blog.

Panorama photo of the 111th at Fort Dix, NJ, June 1943

John Raisler in unfinished German Submarine

Pete Patrick in foxhole, Normandy

L-R Sgt Nelson, Cpl Raisler, Sgt Ottea, Kneeling. Sgt Sedlacek

Showering in Cerisy Forest – John Raisler at pump, Louie Soutier showering

With pipe Matt Ottea from Instrumentation section, drilling is John Andrews, 3rd guy is Bob Hammer Gun is 105 Howitzer, Munchen-Gladbach GE

Barracks 17, Room 2 Rear Row – Webber, Gomez, Clauson, Kent, Goerges. Front row, Vaughan, Raisler, Tyler, Boufford, Savage

Leroy Faehling, (John Raisler and Leroy went to Brussels together)

Focker Wolf 190 at Salzwedel Airport, their location on V-E Day. Cliffie Graham, John Andrews, Leo De La Garza

Matt Ottea in his foxhole in Normandy

While in quarantine, we got beer. L-R unknown, 2 . Stanhaus, 3. Raisler, 4 Ray Ludwigsen

Gun is German 88, L to R Raisler, Goerges (section chief), Lt from 83rd Div, We fired against Germans with this gun, Along the Rhine

Just before crossing Rhine, Driver Matt Ottea, Ass’t Frank Sossi, backseat L- Sedlacek, R – Raisler, standing 1Sgt Mayo and company clerk

John Raisler Apt in Friedrichshorst, Germany, last stop on way home, Sept. or Oct. 1945

John Raisler at German pub

Going home, convoy break on way to port, late Sept. 1945

Marion Bodiford of Dallas, TX, 1945, Munchen-Gladbach

Robert Raymer of McKeesport, PA, on left

Lt. Fred Kent demonstrates his design for an automatic carbine rifle to actress Betty Brewer, Heerlen, Holland

Hubert (Slim) Mathis

Peter Patrick

In front of Albro Castle, Wales, early 1944

Matthew Ottea?

Cpl Perkins P. Cochran of Senatobia, Mississippi

Edward “Pinky” Johnson on the train to Camp Shiloh

Lieutenants Arthur Brooks, Deal, NJ; Stanley Errington, Stapleton, NY; and Frederick Kent, Glen Rock, NJ; in a captured enemy trailer taken in Falaise, Aug. 1944), converted to mobile quarters.

Johnson washes his truck, Munchen-Gladbach, Germany

Back row: William Strickland, San Antonio, TX; Kenneth Hancher, Columbus, TX; Edmund Ziemba, Gary, IN; George Haff, Springfield, MA. Front row: Ralph Gehret, Temple, PA; Percy Ackert, West Park, NY; Edward “Pinky” Johnson, San Antonio, TX; and Donald McGowan, Sodus, MI. In Heerlen, Holland, winter of 1944-45.

Johnny Raisler, Maastricht

Johnson with kids and pets, France

The officers of the 111th: Back row: Captain Goode, Lt. Frederick Kent, Glen Brook, NJ; Lt. Arthur Brooks, Deal, NJ; WO Gilbert Goessel, Milwaukee, WI; Lt. Stanley Errington, Stapleton, NY; Lt. Perry Witt, San Antonio, TX, and postwar, Baltimore. MD. Probably France, 1944.

Roland Unansgt at far right, others unidentified, Germany 1945

Unknown

Lt. Gene Lewenthal

Could this be Roush at Albro Castle?

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An Army “captain”! But who? Confiscated motorboat in Germany

Top row is cut off; bottom row: Hueni, Gene Karl, Unangst, Zito

Curtis Vosz, in Brake, Germany

Vosz and a burned-out German ship, Bremen

Courtyard, Albro Castle, May 1944: Back row, Roland Unangst, Lt. Errington, Sgt. Dickerson. Front row, Gene Karl, Constantino Navarra, Ed Ostertag

On railing: Matt Ottea, Lavergne Stanhaus; Joe Sedlacek. Seated: Leo DeLaGarza, unknown man. Virginia Beach, Virginia, 1943, while the men were at Camp A.P. Hill, VA.

Ottea on right; Joe Sedlacek, center. Camp A.P. Hill, Virginia USA summer 1943

The prize: Ottea is third from left; others?

“111th Road Test”; Johnson, top left, joking around; McGowan bottom right

Edward “Pinky” Johnson and Edmund Ziemba, Camp Shanks, NY, 1943

Osborne Eastwood, in Germany, 1945

Lt. Errington and John Andrews, on their LCT going to Normandy

The 111th’s officers: Goessel, Kent, Witt, Brooks, Goode, Lewenthal, Errington, in Normandy summer 1944

“A Sunday hike in Wales before number 7 came along,” Johnson wrote. Two men left and center are unidentified; master sergeant on right is Frank Gomez; 1944

Frank Sossi

“Our First Sergeant.”: William Mayo, Ft. Worth, TX

Clockwise: Andrews, Buggert, Hancher and McGowan (seated), in Germany

Ackert, Johnson, Hancher in Maastricht, Holland, 1944

Doing business in Heerlen, Holland, winter 1944-45; Roland Unangst on far left

Lt. Perry Witt, San Antonio, TX, and Baltimore, MD, probably Normandy, 1944.

Sgt. Joseph B. Apple, Jr., and his wife, Margaret, 1941

Roland Unangst, April 1944, Wales

Unangst wrote, “Our swimming pool.” Brake, Germany, 1945

Roland Unangst on left

George T. Vaughan

M. Frank Turner and buddy with German soldier

We have learned from Roger Rickon, one of the five known “survivors” of the unit and pictured here, front row, far left holding cigarette, that this photo was taken on V-E Day, May 8, 1945, as some of the men of the 111th celebrated the end of the war in Europe at their favorite bar, in Neubeckum, northern Germany. Directly behind and to the left of Rickon is Stanley Carlson. Other names: man in center, corporal stripes and hat tilted to our left, is Frank Turner; back row, fifth man from left, below man standing, is Joe Sedlacek; man in front middle with lower face in shadow is Roland Unangst.

Cpl. Marcus Frank Turner, of Merriam, KS (1921-2011); his son, Dan, sent this photo and the two above and the one below.

M. Frank Turner with buddy in Monaco

Roland C. Unangst (1922-2007) of Hanover, Illinois, taken in 1942.

John Raisler sent us this photo: Leo De La Garza, Joe Sedlacek, and Raisler, in front of their “home” in Munchen-Gladbach, Germany, early 1945

Standing, from left: James Tindall, Waco, TX; Peter Patrick, Jr., Binghamton, NY; Marion Bodiford, Dallas, TX; James
Mason, Tupelo, MS; Leroy Faehling, Big Falls, WI. Bottom row: Basil Dixon, Wichita Falls, TX; Matthew Ottea, San Antonio, TX; William Grady, Pittsburgh, PA. Taken winter of 1944-45, Heerlen, Holland

Back row: Leroy Faehling, Big Falls, WI; Louis Soutier, Alma, IL; Joseph Stefanek, Cleveland, OH; Tillmon Yelverton, Enterprise, AL; Raymond Goodhart, St. Louis, MO; Glenn Cobb, Peoria, IL; Hubert Mathis, Leesville, LA; Raymond Buggert, Grantsburg, MS.
Bottom row: Robert Mauer, St. Louis, MO; Everett Auten, Tuscalo, IL; Leslie McAtee, St. Louis, MO; Abner Boyd, Jefferson, GA; Edmund Ziemba (standing), Gary, IN; Edward “Pinky” Johnson, San Antonio, TX. At Camp Shanks, NY, waiting to go to Europe, Nov. 1943

The ever-present poker game, while on convoy from France into Belgium

Harold Goerges, San Antonio, TX, in his zootsuit, Camp Shiloh, Manitoba, Canada, 1942.

John “Andy” Andrews, San Antonio, TX. Probably Camp Shiloh, Manitoba, Canada, 1942.

John Andrews

“The three redheads”: Evert Clauson, Chicago, IL; Charles Burns, Nahant, MA; and Edward “Pinky” Johnson, San Antonio, TX. In Wales, 1943.

“Off to see Doc with plenty of company,” in Wales

Frank Gomez, San Antonio, TX; William “Gus” Welty, Ft. Worth, TX. On the train to Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD, 1942.

Matthew Ottea, San Antonio, TX; and Peter Patrick, Binghamton, NY. In Heerlen, Holland, 1945.

The automotive section guys: Walter Bradley and Joe Powers, Heerlen, Holland, 1944-45

Camp Shanks, NY, 1943. Standing: Faehling, McGowan, Goodhart, Buggert, Kneeling: Mauer, McAtee, Stefanek, Ziemba

Ackert, Johnson, Hancher in Maastricht, Holland, 1944

“Our First Sergeant.” Mayo

Waiting in line for C rations, Normandy, June 1944

Goodhart and Buggert, Belgium, Sept. 1944

Small arms repair team

Ray Buggert and Pinky Johnson, location unknown

Master Sergeant Frank Gomez, of San Antonio, TX

Ralph Gehret test-firing machine gun, Heerlen, Holland, 1945.

Unidentified French boy the unit picked up in Normandy and took with them for six months.

John “Johnny” Raisler, Clarendon Hills, IL. In Maastricht, Holland, 1944.

George Legg of Abilene, TX, and his D-Day beard, Munchen-Gladbach, Germany, 1945. He later was told by a new commander to shave it off.

Lieutenants Arthur Brooks, Deal, NJ; Stanley Errington, Stapleton, NY; and Frederick Kent, Glen Rock, NJ; in a captured enemy trailer converted to mobile quarters, France, 1944.

Back row: William Strickland, San Antonio, TX; Kenneth Hancher, Columbus, TX; Edmund Ziemba, Gary, IN; George Haff, Springfield, MA. Front row: Ralph Gehret, Temple, PA; Percy Ackert, West Park, NY; Edward “Pinky” Johnson, San Antonio, TX; and Donald McGowan, Sodus, MI. In Heerlen, Holland, winter of 1944-45.

Joe Sedlacek, Glen Carbon, IL; and Louis Soutier, Alma, IL; try for a little fresh milk, Normandy, France, summer 1944.

The officers of the 111th: Back row: Captain James T. (Doc) Goode, Dallas, TX; Lt. Frederick Kent, Glen Brook, NJ; Lt. Arthur Brooks, Deal, NJ; Lt. Eugene L. Lewenthal, San Antonio, TX. Front row: WO Gilbert Goessel, Milwaukee, WI; Lt.  Stanley Errington, Lt. Perry Witt, San Antonio, TX, and postwar, Baltimore. MD. Normandy, France, 1944.

Back row: James Mason, Tupelo, MS; Leroy Faehling,Big Falls, WI; Matthew Ottea, San Antonio, TX. Bottom row: James Tindall, Waco, TX; Edward “Pinky” Johnson, San Antonio, TX; Charles Burns, Nahant, MA. In Sully, Wales, UK, 1943

Sergeants Werner Hueni, Houston, TX; and Matthew Ottea, San Antonio, TX. Heerlen, Holland, 1945

John “Andy” Andrews (back) and Pinky Johnson, both from San Antonio, TX; Camp Shiloh, Canada

Kenneth Hancher, Columbus, TX; and Percy Ackert, West Park, NY. On the Eiffel Tower, Paris, Liberation Day, Aug. 29, 1944

Edward “Pinky” Johnson, San Antonio, TX; and Raymond Buggert, Grantsburg, WI, visiting Harlech castle, North Wales, 1943.

Peter Patrick, Jr., satisfied with his foxhole, Normandy, France, 1944.

Edward “Pinky” Johnson, San Antonio, TX; John “Andy” Andrews, San Antonio, TX; Raymond Buggert, Grantsburg, WI. In Winnipeg, Canada, winter of 1942-43.

Standing, from left: James Tindall, Waco, TX; Peter Patrick, Jr., Binghamton, NY; Marion Bodiford, Dallas, TX; James
Mason, Tueplo, MS; Leroy Faehling, Big Falls, WI. Kneeling: Basil Dixon, Wichita Falls, TX; Matthew Ottea, San Antonio, TX; William Grady, Pittsburgh, PA. Taken winter of 1944-45, Heerlen, Holland

Dad and Donald McGowan, outside the Abbey Cerisy la Foret, Normandy

McGowan, Johnson, Ziemba, at Camp Shanks, NY, waiting to ship to Europe, Nov. 1943

Kenneth Ladd Hancher, Columbus, TX, in Wales, spring 1944.

Raymond Goodhart, St. Louis, MO; and Donald McGowan, Sodus, MI; at Cerisy-la-Foret, Normandy, France, 1944.

John “Cappy” Cox, Pottersville, MI; Normandy, France, 1944.

William “Gus” Welty, Ft. Worth, TX; on top of the Empire State Building, New York City, Nov. 1943 while waiting for ship to Europe at Camp Shanks, NY

Alton “Catfish” Bailey, Caledonia, MS, the unit’s cook, sipping coffee in the Three Fields Area, Normandy, July 1944.

Perry Witt, San Antonio, TX; Raymond Goodhart, St. Louis, MO; Frank Sossi, Cleveland, OH; Patrick Osborne, San Antonio, TX; Percy Ackert, West Park, NY; in Maastricht, Holland, 1944.

Lawrence Durree, Streator, IL; and Frank Sossi, Cleveland, OH

Percy Ackert, West Park, NY, in Munchen-Gladbach, Germany, 1945.

Blankenship, Muehle and Stadler, Camp Sully, Wales

Lt. Perry Witt, third from right; Bob Raymer, second from right; rest unknown

Bob Raymer

Floyd Wetterburg and Bill Strickland

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Bob Hax, Bill Stadler, Julius Turner

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Basil Dixon, Camp Sully

Bob Nelson, Camp Sully, Wales

Roy “Pop” Bowers

George Weiderhold

Supply section warehouse and office crew Camp Shiloh Feb 1943

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Roger Rickon

Bob Raymer

Bob Raymer and Roger Rickon

Robert Pinskton and bride

Packebush and Raymer

Woodrow Corn

Pappy Patton and Doc Mason and Rubin Lee Koehl, Camp Sully, 1944

John Vargo and friend

Abner Boyd, Joe MacDonald, William J Quinn and Joe Wolfe, Camp Sully, Wales 1944

Victor Jones and Bob Nelson at Camp Sully, Wales

Warrant Officer Hall, 1944

CPT Malsbury

George Legg and his D-Day beard