Company B (Photo provided by Bill Coats’ wife, Jean Coats)
Company B (Photo provided by Bill Coats’ wife, Jean Coats)
Company C (Photo provided by Mary McNaught, daughter of Lt. McNaught)
Bill Coats (Photo provided by Jean Coats)
Lt. McNaught and Sgt. Robert “Last Name Unknown” (Photo provided by Mary McNaught daughter of Lt. McNaughter)
McEachern and other Soldiers
Soldier on tank destroyerSgt. Easley entering Nancy, France. Photo was published in National Geographic. It was also displayed in the Nancy, France town hall.
Sgt. Easley at Stanislas Place in Nancy, France on Sept 15, 1944 (Photo provided by Jerome Leclerc)
Tank among the crowd in Nancy, France on Sept. 15, 1944 (Photo provided by Jerome Leclerc)
Police and tanks in Nancy, France on Sept. 15, 1944 (Photo provided by Jerome Leclerc)
Tanks on street in Nancy, France on Sept. 15, 1944 (Photo provided by Jerome Leclerc)Tanks rolling down the street in Nancy, France on Sept. 15, 1944 (Photo provided by Jerome Leclerc)
Fossieux, France – The tank destroyer may be the one in which Sgt Easley and other soldiers were killed in Oct 1944. This story was published in The Divisionaire Jan-Feb 2002.
654th Tank Destroyer Battalion Christmas card – 1944
Sgt. Easley’s grave in Lorraine American Cemetery, St. Avold, France Died October 10,1944 Bronze Star with Oak Leaf Cluster Plot C Row 8 Grave 30