Company A initiating a fly boy into the 45th. Communication Sergeant Arnold Mach pins a Thunderbird patch on a man from the Air Corps who holds a souvenir he was lucky to find. Some men, as an exchange, went on bombing missions. (See "World War II...
Danube crossing. The plan was to transport men and jeeps across the Danube river by DUKWS. Here a jeep is hoisted up for loading. (See "World War II as Viewed from My Foxhole" by Jasper Louis Crawford, p. 118)