22nd Infantry World War 2 Page 5

The 22nd Infantry in World War II

The 22nd Infantry enters Prüm, Germany, February 1945

22nd soldiers advance through Prüm, February 1945

22nd Infantry occupies Prüm

Staff of 3rd Battalion 22nd Infantry study map after the capture of Prüm

March 1, 1945, after crossing the Prüm River

Infantrymen of the 22nd Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Division,
move across a tread way bridge near Scheuren, Germany. March 6, 1945

March 1945, moving toward the Kyll River.
Note the spacing of the 22nd Infantry soldiers along the road,
and how each has picked out a tree or pole as limited cover.

22nd soldiers pile into a captured German car

On the left: Captain Bill Boice, Chaplain of the 22nd Infantry.
On the right: Otto Oehring, who was Boice's Chaplain's Assistant.
Car is captured German vehicle painted for use by the Chaplain of the 22nd Infantry.

Photo courtesy of Bob Babcock

April 7, 1945 - The 22nd Infantry advances deeper into Germany.
Soldiers ride on a halftrack of the Anti-Tank Company of the 22nd Infantry.
City of Bad Mergenthein is in background.

The original caption to the above photo reads:
"In constant danger from falling walls, infantry from the 22nd Infantry Regiment,
4th Division move through smoke filled Crailsheim, Germany, April 21, 1945"

US Army photo by T/5 James Wood from the 163rd Signal Company

M29 Weasel tracked vehicle of Headquarters Company 22nd Infantry,
being driven by Major Clifford "Swede" Henley at Bad Mergentheim, Germany
sometime after April 1945.

Photo from 8mm film taken by Major Henley during the war
Courtesy of John king

Seckenheim, Germany - May 1945
A sign is installed, naming a street after a 22nd Infantrymam killed in action.

Bound for home, 22nd soldiers sleep on the deck of the US Army Transport
General James Parker, July 3-11, 1945

The ship that brought the 22nd Infantry home.
The USAT James Parker (AP-46)

Photo from Shipscribe, from Roland W. Charles, "Troopships of World War II" (Washington, D.C., 1947)