Showing posts with label art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label art. Show all posts

717th Railway Operating Battalion etched soldier's cup

This cup was destined for the metal recycling at a thrift shop, was rescued and given to our Sisters Museum in Sisters, Oregon.

It is a diary and timeline compactly etched into the cup issued by US A Co 1943. 

Etched is the following: 

On the base: Co - A H D B 717th Ry. Opr. Bn 

1943 

  • Oct. 9 Ft. Dix 
  • Oct. 19 Cp. Harahan 
  • Dec. 16 Cp. Scott 

1944 

  • May 2 Cp. Kilmer 
  • May 25 ENGLAND 
  • Sudbury Bury Southampton 
  • Hereford 
  • Longmoor 
  • Sept 1 FRANCE 
  • Cherbourg-Chartres-Paris 
  • Valenciennes - Bohain 
  • BELGIUM 
  • Liege 
  • Sept. 23-29 

1945 

  • Antwerp Dec. 23-Jan 13 '45 
  • Apr 4, 45 GERMANY 
  • Frankfurt Bremen Bad Nauheim 
  • Wesel 
  • HOME

711th Railway Operating Battalion lighter

Persian Gulf Command Beer Stein - Trench Art

WW2 WAR US ARMY PERSIAN GULF COMMAND PICTORIAL MAP BRASS BEER STEIN, 

This is neat 1940's plated brass beer stein showing a map of the Persian Gulf including, Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and the Soviet Union. Persian Gulf Command was a United States Army operation to have a land supply route open to Russia during World War 2

 More on Persian Gulf Command on this blog HERE

Some units were : 

3rd Military Railway Service (702nd Military Railway Grand Division)

711th Railway Operating Battalion 

730th Railway Operating Battalion 

754th Railway Shop Battalion 

762nd Railway Shop Battalion 

791st Railway Operating Battalion

753rd Railway Shop Battalion trench art

753rd Railway Shop Battalion art by Nancy on Scribd

712th Railway Operating Battalion cup and 714th Railway Operating Battalion candlesticks: soldier's art

 

712th Learn more about soldier's art ... Art of the American Soldier by Center of Military History