

| Prince Hohenlohe of Waldenburg (Left) and Herr Rolf Meister. Herr Meister was your webmaster's guide and translator while he was visiting the Jagst/Kocher River area in June 2002 |

| T/5 Thomas Hodgetts, Hq Co 255th Infantry |

| V-Mail: Used during WWII between the US and troops overseas. Writer would complete the V-Mail form, it would be microfilmed, sent overseas and photocopied on a sheet approximately 4" x 5" and then delivered to the addressee. This letter was found only a few years ago in a barn in Jebsheim France. |

| Red Skelton pays a visit to wounded veterans in the hospital at Camp Pickett, Virginia, 1945. Sgt Edmund Hooven is in the background- A/253d |
| The next few photos are of poor quality mainly because I obtained them through scanning newspaper articles and the images were somewhat cloudy or speckled. I did the best that I could but the results weren't all that great. Please try to overlook the poor quality of this images. Thanks |

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