Keywords: people Lot-916-11: Operation Avalanche, September 1943. Hearing The German’s Story. Two captured members of a German panzer division that made it hot for the Americans at Salerno tell an American army officer and a Coast Guardsman what the battle looked like from the German side. The Americans are Captain James H. Whitman, (left), and Coast Guardsman Philip E. Mannheimer, second from left. The Coast Guardsman participated with the Navy in manning combat transports and landing craft. Official Coast Guard Photograph, RG-G-1999. Photographed through Mylar sleeve. Courtesy of the Library of Congress. (2016/05/19). Lot-916-11: Operation Avalanche, September 1943. Hearing The German’s Story. Two captured members of a German panzer division that made it hot for the Americans at Salerno tell an American army officer and a Coast Guardsman what the battle looked like from the German side. The Americans are Captain James H. Whitman, (left), and Coast Guardsman Philip E. Mannheimer, second from left. The Coast Guardsman participated with the Navy in manning combat transports and landing craft. Official Coast Guard Photograph, RG-G-1999. Photographed through Mylar sleeve. Courtesy of the Library of Congress. (2016/05/19). |