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The GI and his wife pictured about a quarter of the way through this piece are likely Ernest Kreiling and his newlywed bride Jean Vonachen, who toured post-war
by dredmorbius 2y ago
The GI and his wife pictured about a quarter of the way through this piece are likely Ernest Kreiling and his newlywed bride Jean Vonachen, who toured post-war Europe in 1947, revisiting locations he'd fought in during 1944-5. Their photography ran in Life Magazine:
<https://www.life.com/history/where-it-happened-a-former-g-i-takes-his-bride-on-a-battlefield-tour/ https://www.life.com/history/where-it-happened-a-former-g-i-...>
I suspect this is another image from the sequence of the pair on the tank: <https://static.life.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/04144747/116616346-1024x1024.jpeg https://static.life.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/04144747/...> (from the Life article above).
- openasocket 2y agoSuper niche nitpick: the photo is not of a tank. That appears to be a StuG III, which is not a tank. There is no turret, the gun is just fixed in the hull, with a couple degrees of freedom. Originally intended as a sort of mobile fire support for infantry, eventually got some anti-tank capability. They were not part of the Panzercorps by the Wehrmacht, who saw it as a specialized form of artillery.
- dredmorbius 2y agoThanks for the nitpicking!