WWII - 1945, Brig Gen Culin Awards Commissions; Civilians On Snow Covered Highway; 101st AB, 10-12Jan45

WWII - 1945, Brig Gen Culin Awards Commissions; Civilians On Snow Covered Highway; 101st AB, 10-12Jan45 LIB 2136 Slate: Camera Abrams, o/c Lt. E. Moore. Date: ?? 44. Libramont, Belgium. Still photographer taking picture of four enlisted men / soldiers receiving field commissions standing on snow, handshake & pinning by Brig Gen Frank Culin, Jr, CG 87th Div. CUs. 11:21:12 Slate: Camera Breedlove. same ceremony. Pinning bar on shoulder. Removing Sgt. patch. 11:22:11 LIB 2137. Slate: Aachen 12Jan45 Evacuee’s on Road Sgt. Dieves. Four oxen pull large covered wagon, civilian women walk bicycles, w/ children flee front lines; jeep in opposite direction on snow covered road. GOOD. 11:23:26 Slate: same. Similiar w/ oxen, wagons, walking on hillside road. 11:24:29 Lib 2138. Slate: 101 Airborne Det. A, 290 Sig Co. 10Jan45 Bastogne camera: J. Walker. 101st Airborne digging in in snow-covered field w/ forest behind near Foy, Belgium. Shells handed to soldier in foxhole. Dead body beside road, jeep passes. 11:25:37 Slate: same. US soldiers standing under snow covered trees, radioman on phone, small fire. Brig General Higgins, Dep. Div Commander of 101st talks to officers, w/ map & gesturing. 11:26:44 Slate: same except camera: A.J. Mancuso. Infantry w/ native w/ rifle along snowy lane & road. MCU officers looking at maps.