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[William Giannopoulos Crouching Beside a Tank]

Photograph of William Giannopoulos crouching beside the machinery of a tank's treads. Two other soldiers can be seen talking to each other on the other side of the tank behind the gun.

Date: September 4, 1944

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum

[William Giannopoulos Standing on a Tank with a Machine Gun]

Photograph of William Giannopoulos standing on top of a tank turret while holding a .30 caliber machine gun. He is wearing glasses and a U.S. Army uniform. The reverse side of the photo has a handwritten note from Giannopoulos regarding his living situation.

Date: September 4, 1944

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum

[William Giannopoulos Sitting on an M4 Tank]

Photograph of William Giannopoulos sitting on the hood of an M4 tank. Giannopoulos wears a soft cap and U.S. Army uniform. The tank's gun is aimed over his left shoulder.

Date: August 26, 1944

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum

[William Giannopoulos with a Brockway B666 Bridge Erector Truck]

Photograph of William Giannopoulos standing to the side of a Brockway B666 bridge erector truck. Giannopoulos is wearing a soft cap, glasses, and a U.S. Army uniform. He extends his right hand to hold onto one of the erector parts. A shovel and pickaxe hang on the side of the truck.

Date: August 26, 1944

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum

[Richard Mauger and William Giannopoulos on an M5 Tank]

Photograph of Richard Mauger and William Giannopoulos on an M5 tank. Mauger sits on the hull of the vehicle while Giannopoulos stands up from within the driver's hatch. Giannopoulos leans an arm over the tank's gun while wearing a helmet and goggles.

Date: August 25, 1944

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum

[William Giannopoulos Firing a Carbine]

Photograph of William Giannopoulos kneeling on the ground and aiming a carbine to the right. He is wearing a soft cap and a U.S. Army uniform.

Date: August 25, 1944

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum

[William Giannopoulos Leaning on a Half-Track]

Photograph of William Giannopoulos leaning against the hood of a half-track. He wears a soft cap, glasses, and a U.S. Army uniform. It is parked over a piece of concrete labeled HQ-1.

Date: August 25, 1944

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum

[William Giannopoulos Leaning on a Half-Track]

Photograph of William Giannopoulos leaning against the hood of a half-track. He wears a soft cap, glasses, and a U.S. Army uniform. It is parked over a piece of concrete labeled HQ-1. The reverse side of the photograph contains a note "to Kay" regarding Giannopoulos' displeasure at driving half-tracks.

Date: August 25, 1944

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum

[William Giannopoulos on Top of an M4 Tank]

Photograph of William Giannopoulos on top of an M4 tank. The uniformed man is standing out of the turret hatch and is leaning on a hatch door. in the background, several trucks can be seen around a building on the lower left portion of the photo.

Date: August 25, 1944

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum

[William Giannopoulos Sitting on a Half-Track's Track]

Photograph of William Giannopoulos sitting on the track of a half-track. Giannopoulos is wearing a soft cap and a U.S. Army uniform. The vehicle has a bag hanging near its front and a square and star painted on its side.

Date: August 25, 1944

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum

[Francis Lesniak and William Giannopoulos Crouching by a Cactus]

Photograph of Francis Lesniak and William Giannopoulos kneeling together by a cactus beside a drainage ditch. A truck is driving on a road to the right, while a person can be seen on a dirt path near camp buildings to the left.

Date: August 22, 1944

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum

[William Giannopoulos with a Bazooka]

Photograph of William Giannopoulos holding a bazooka while standing next to plywood hutments at Camp Barkeley, Texas. A truck can be seen on a dirt road to the right of Giannopoulos. A handwritten note on the reverse side of the photo discusses the bazooka.

Date: August 22, 1944

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum

[William Giannopoulos with Prime Mover Truck]

Photograph of William Giannopoulos standing on the ground beside a 7 1/2 ton prime mover truck. He is wearing a U.S. Army uniform, glasses, and a helmet while holding a carbine in his right hand. The truck contains tank treads and gas cans and carries an M4 tank on a trailer. Giannopoulos explains the picture in a handwritten note on the reverse side of the photograph.

Date: August 22, 1944

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum

[William Giannopoulos Saluting in Front of a House]

Photograph of William Giannopoulos standing in front of a dark brick house and saluting toward the camera. He is wearing a khaki uniform and glasses.

Date: July 30, 1944

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum

[Richard Mauger and William Giannopoulos on a Tow Truck]

Photograph of Richard Mauger and William Giannopoulos on the back of a ten ton tow truck. The two men are wearing caps and u.S. Army uniforms. Mauger stands beside the cab while Giannopoulos leans against the boom winch. A building and three more trucks are visible behind the tow truck.

Date: June 24, 1944

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum

[William Giannopoulos and Richard Mauger in a M5 Light Tank]

Photograph of William Giannopoulos and Richard Mauger standing up out of hatches on an M5 light tank. The two men are wearing uniforms and helmets, while Giannopoulos also wears goggles. The tank's 37 mm cannon is pointed between the two men. Another tank is visible to the right and buildings of Camp Barkeley, Texas, are visible in the background.

Date: June 24, 1944

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum

[12th Armored Division Sign for a Danube River Bridge]

Photograph of a sign that stands beside houses, a telephone pole, and in front of a tree. The sign reads "You are crossing the beautiful blue Danube thru courtesy of the 12th Armd Division." The lower right portion of the sign features a triangle.

Date: [1944..1945]

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum

[American Soldiers on a Sidewalk]

Photograph of uniformed American soldiers walking on a sidewalk to the right of a road. Buildings loom over both sides of the road, and a jeep drives nearby.

Date: [1944..1945]

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum

[Building with Statuary]

Photograph of a building that has ornately carved pillars and arches as well as three sculptures built into recesses on the walls. The statue in the center is the full figure of a man standing on a pedestal, while the other two are partial figures of women that are built into much shallower recesses. People and other buildings can be seen to the right. The angle of the photo is tilted, and the word "Germany" is handwritten along the bottom.

Date: [1944..1945]

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum

[Cable Car Passing Over a Wooded Area]

Photograph of cable car passing over a wooded area and a house. Soldiers can be seen standing inside of the car, and mountains are visible in the background.

Date: [1944..1945]

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum

[Cathedral Behind a Wall]

Photograph of a cathedral and its steeple as seen behind an ornate wall.

Date: [1944..1945]

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum

[Convoy of Men and Vehicles on a Dirt Road]

Photograph of a convoy of jeeps and trucks on a dirt road as seen from the inside of William Giannopoulos' vehicle. Soldiers can be seen on and inside of vehicles along the road. Part of Giannopoulos' name is visible and backwards on the window in the foreground.

Date: [1944..1945]

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum

[Five Soldiers Beside a Sign for Brenner Pass]

Photograph of five uniformed American soldiers standing and crouching to the right of a sign that reads "Passo del Brennero, m 1372." The men are crowded against a short pillar topped a horseshoe-shaped curve that bears the image of a flower. A hill rises from directly behind the men and into the background.

Date: [1944..1945]

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum

[Five Soldiers Holding a Captured Nazi Flag]

Photograph of five uniformed soldiers standing beside an Army truck while holding aloft a captured Nazi flag. The flag has a dark field, a white circle at its center that features a bird holding an encircled swastika, and a banner with the letters "NSKK." This is a flag for the National Socialist Motor Corps. The truck behind them has wooden slats as the side of its bed. Baggage and gas cans are visible on the truck bed behind the men.

Date: [1944..1945]

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum

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