1.Photograph. Group photograph of the 1st Platoon, 634th Clearing Company of the 6th Engineer Special Brigade. 25 December 1944. The unit had helped to operate Omaha Beach from 6 June 1944 to 24 December 1944. "634 Clearing Company. 1st Platoon. December 25, 1944. 'France.' Landed in France on June 6, 1944. Reading from left to right: First Row: Magness, Wm [William] B. - Ohio; Barker, Glenn - Missouri; DeFelice, Carlo - Indiana, Inpls. [Indianapolis]; Wallace, Tom - North Carolina; Lego, Charles - West Virginia; Kovalick(?), Philip - Ohio; Kidd, Frank J. - West Virginia; Oary, Harry W. - Illinois; Klein, Bertrand D. - Indiana, Liberty; Zehagen, Theodore - Ohio; Swaim, Gene M.; Goldsmith, Fred - Kentucky; Warren, George A. Kentucky; Snidaker, Robert - Ohio. Second Row: Robinson, Albert L. - Rockport, Indiana; Sharp, Bernard - Wisconsin; McGrath, Frank - Ohio; Seib, Joseph - Indiana; Jackson, Vern - Illinois; Shotwell, Clifford - Ohio; Chamberlain, Jack - Calif - West Virginia; Schilling, Lawrence - Missouri; Myers, Clarence - Indiana; Gardiner, Edwin T. - New Jersey; Lowry - Washington; Izzo, Edward Pennsylvania; Dieter, Warren - Michigan; Graham, Wm. [William] R. - California. 3rd Row: Butner, Charlie O. - Ohio, Shiloh; Schulte - New York; Leghart - Ohio; Strutt, Woodrow - Ohio; Muehlenbein, Delbert - Indiana; Ganss, Ralph - Ohio; Kepp, Carl Ohio; Handleman - New York; Pulfer - Ohio; Flake, Eugene J. - Illinois; Hildenbrand, Carl - Indiana; Greenwald, Sol R. - Michigan; Thomas - West Virginia; Newsom, Edgar - Ohio; Pavson, Ben J. - New York; Fahey, Raymond - New York. 4th Row: Lester, Chester, Kentucky; Trogdon, Darrell - Missouri; Evans, Jimmie - Texas; Howland, Charles - Ohio; DiLorenzo, Patsy - West Virginia; Hacker, Carl P. - Ohio; Hughes, Lawrence - Ohio; Braasch, Walter F. - Illinois; Harrison, Eston - Georgia; Belden, Lawrence Indiana; Burton, Clyde L. - Kentucky; Fahey, Ricard D. - Illinois; Robert L. - Tennessee." 25 December 1944

Donor file: Reprint photographs of Swain; reprint photograph of memorial to members of the 6th Engineer Special Brigade that landed on Omaha Beach on D-Day