17th Artillery Regiment

17th Artillery Regiment Association

WWII ERA

  • A Battery – 1943-45 Italy, Germany (Photos courtesy of Walter (Jack) Larson)
  • B Battery – 1941 Fort Bragg, NC (Photos courtesy of David Stoddard)
  • C Battery – (Photos courtesy of Judy Ramirez who is the granddaughter of PFC David Madrid Jr. who served with Battery C, 17th Field Artillery Battalion. Enlisted in1941and discharged in August 1945.)
  • C Battery, 1st Battalion, 17th Artillery Regiment – photos courtesy of Tom McElfresh nephew of PVT William H McElfresh Jr,

17th Artillery WWII – (Photos courtesy of Walter (Jack) Larson)

Battery A, 5th Section, May 1943, Mateur, Tunisia

Sgt Herb Hobbs (Right Front) Sicily

German Wreckage, Messina, Italy

Battery A, 5th Section, Messina, Italy

(L-R) Pvt Ed Vincent, French Moroccan Soldier, T-5 Walt Larson

Knocked out 170mm German Gun, Messina, Italy

(L-R) Sgt Herb Hobbs, Pvt Ed Vincent, Casssino, Italy 1944

Gun Section Battery A, Italy 1944

Battalion Sign, Hirshchlhal December 1944

Battery A sign as 17th entered Hirschlhal, Germany, 1944 (L-R) Walt Larson, Lewis Roznosky

Cpl Gibson and SSgt Burns (Roebuck Hunting, Germany 1945)

 

These three pictures are from David Stoddard; whose brother (Charles) served with Battery B, 17th Field Artillery Regiment 1941-1943 as Motor Sergeant.

Pictures were taken in 1941, at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.

Battery B, 2 1/2 ton Truck.

Truck Park, 17th Field Artillery Regiment

SGT Charles L. Stoddard poses with one of the Regiment's 155mm Howitzers

 

Battery C, 17th Field Artillery Battalion

155MM Towed Gun crew Battery C

Battery C truck broken down

105 Gun crew - PFC Madrid back row second to the right

Battery 1st SGT at work

chow line

chow line

PFC David Madrid Jr.

Unloading ammo

PFC Madrid - center playing the accordion

PFC Madrid standing

 

C Battery, 1st Battalion, 17th Artillery Regiment

photos courtesy of Tom McElfresh nephew of PVT William H McElfresh Jr,