Private George Glenn of Holly Pond, Alabama.
File Name
Q46244
Order Form
http://www.archives.alabama.gov/photo_order_form.pdf
Use Agreement Form
http://www.archives.alabama.gov/referenc/use_agreement_form.pdf
Item Title
Private George Glenn of Holly Pond , Alabama .
Description
"There were two Southern girls in the USO musical Infantryman Pfc . George Glenn , Holly Pond , Ala. , saw when he was a patient in the 25th General Hospital in the Pacific . 'They made New Guinea seem like home, ' he said . Wounded in Luzon January 25 , 1945 , by fragments from an artillery shell , Glenn was evacuated to New Guinea , where he had seen action the preceding summer . The battle experience that is most prominent in his memory took place at Wake Island off the northern coast of New Guinea , during June and July of 1944 . His outfit , the Sixth Infantry Division , was supposed to take a well-fortified , rocky point infested with Japs dug into caves and armed with mortars and machine guns . Of the 35 men who were sent on reconnaissance patrol to size up the installation , only three returned . Glenn , who manned a machine gun , stayed at the front 38 days , during which time the Americans pushed forward 100 yards . But the persistent Yanks finally took the point after two months of constant fighting . 'We could really appreciate a USO show , movie or dance after battles like that one, ' Glenn reported. "
Date
1945 circa
Time Period
1940-1949
Photographer
Northington PRO , Tuscaloosa , Alabama .
Subject
Glenn, George Soldiers--Alabama World War, 1939-1945--Military personnel World War, 1939-1945--Veterans
Type
Still image
Format
Photographs
Collection Creator
Alabama. State Council of Defense (1941-1946)
Collection Title
Administrative files
Location
SG019896
Folder Number
17
Folder Title
Photographs, Alabama servicemen
Catalog Record
http://archives-alabama-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/01ALABAMA:default_scope:01ALABAMA_ALMA216299160002743
Repository
Alabama Department of Archives and History, 624 Washington Avenue, Montgomery, Alabama 36130
Language
English
Rights
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Original Size
3 by 4.6 inches
Digital Format
600 PPI TIFF
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