The picture was taken right after V E Day at the Olympic Stadium in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. It was taken by Ira Selinger, a cousin who also fought in World War II.

Dr. Jerome Selinger
Retired dentist
from East Brunswick, NJ

He enlisted in the Army at age 18 ½. After two years of Infantry ROTC at Rutgers University . He joined the 10^th Armored Division and was assigned to Company C of the 61^st Armored Infantry Battalion. He was trained in Camp Gordon , Georgia and landed on Normandy Beach after it had been secured and joined the Third Army under General Patton and advanced through Paris to Alsace-Lorraine.

“We were committed to Battle at Metz and crossed the Moselle River on a Pontoon bridge. We then advanced to the Siegfried Line at one of its strongest points. At this time our company was the lead line company on the front. We were the lead half-track with 12 Infantrymen following three Sherman Tanks who were leading the column in attack. As we were moving down the road, the Germans opened fire with their 88mm guns from their pillboxes in the Siegfried Line. They hit and knocked out the three tanks and then our half track. All the men in the tanks were killed and only two of us got out of the half track without being hit! I managed to survive this and other battles and ended up fighting through Germany to the Bavarian Alps with the 10^th Armored Division on V-E Day. I was awarded the Combat Infantryman’s Badge, The Bronze Star and the European, African and Middle Eastern Medal with three battle stars for the Rhineland , Ardennes and Central Europe .”