100th Medical Battalion - Company B - Photosa/TITLE> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=windows-1252"> <META content="Microsoft FrontPage 4.0" name=GENERATOR> <META content=FrontPage.Editor.Document name=ProgId></HEAD> <BODY text=#ffffff bgColor=#000080 background="110thMedBn/olive2.gif"> <div align="center"> <center> <TABLE cellSpacing=4 borderColorDark=#0000FF cellPadding=2 width="429" bgColor=#FFFFFF borderColorLight=#FF0000 border=4> <TBODY> <TR> <TD width="247" height="138"><IMG height=140 src="110thMedBn/50star.gif" width=247 border=0></TD> <TD width="161" bgColor=#000000 height="138"> <P style="BORDER-LEFT-COLOR: #ff0000; BORDER-BOTTOM-COLOR: #ff0000; BORDER-TOP-STYLE: solid; BORDER-TOP-COLOR: #ff0000; BORDER-RIGHT-STYLE: solid; BORDER-LEFT-STYLE: solid; BORDER-RIGHT-COLOR: #ff0000; BORDER-BOTTOM-STYLE: solid" align=center><B><FONT face="Odessa LET" color=#ff0000 size=2><IMG height=140 src="110thMedBn/35id.jpg" width=138 border=0></FONT></B></P></TD> <TD width="251"><IMG height=140 src="110thMedBn/50star.gif" width=247 border=0></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE> </center> </div> <hr> <div align="center"> <center> <table border="6" cellspacing="1" width="793" bordercolorlight="#FF0000" bordercolordark="#0000FF" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" height="561"> <tr> <td align="center" width="722" colspan="2" bgcolor="#000080" height="55"><b><font size="7">Photographs from Company B</font></b></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" width="226" height="91" bgcolor="#000000"> </td> <td width="535" rowspan="2" height="494"> <p style="text-indent: 24; margin-left: 6; margin-right: 6"><font color="#000000" size="4">My father, Leo A. Mayhan, was in Company B of the 110th Medical Battalion, attached to the 35th Infantry Division. My mother and father were married on Feb. 5, 1944. Shortly after, my dad shipped out to England, and then, to Normandy. He stayed with the 110th from Normandy to the Elbe River.</font></p> <p style="text-indent: 24; margin-left: 6; margin-right: 6"><font color="#000000" size="4">When my mother passed away several years back, I started talking more often to my father about his experiences. He is 88 years old now, still living in Omaha. Little did I realize growing up what my father went through. I am 44 years old, born in 1959. Still, as a child I realized the war had a profound effect on my dad. I am sure he had nightmares, but I never understood what he went through in being a medic. I know that at times, he would sit up at night, alone. But rarely did he talk about the war.</font></p> <p style="text-indent: 24; margin-left: 6; margin-right: 6"><font color="#000000" size="4">Now, after my mom passed, I have started to discover the treasure trove of photographs that sit in my father's basement. He was drafted in December 1940. After the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, the 35th was sent to California. There my father started taking photographs. There are boxes and boxes of them. Even a shot of Mickey Rooney playing table tennis with Eva Gardner at the Beverly Hills Hotel. He has great stories of those times, and those memories. My dad and his buddies driving jeeps along the coast of California, meeting Red Skelton who did stand-up comedy for the troops. Those were some of the fondest of his army career.</font></p> <p style="text-indent: 24; margin-left: 6; margin-right: 6"><font color="#000000" size="4">Somehow my father took a camera with him to England, then to Europe. He mentioned it was against regulations, but he continued to take photos. Some were developed by a young Frenchman that my father befriended and later mailed to my mother at home (my mother could speak and write French, and they corresponded for a number of years). That young boy later became a physician. Some were developed by my dad in the basement of a German home. But many photos went undeveloped. Some photos were taken of the holocaust that my dad and the other soldiers witnessed first-hand.</font></p> </center> <p align="right"><font color="#000000" size="4">-David Mayhan, September 2004</font></p> <center> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" width="226" bgcolor="#000000" height="397"> </td> </tr> </table> </center> </div> <hr> <DIV align=center> <TABLE borderColor=#000080 height=1 borderColorDark=#ff0000 width=747 bgColor=#000000 borderColorLight=#ffffff border=3> <TBODY> <TR> <TD width=727 height=27 colspan="2"> <p align="center"><b><font face="Arial" size="7">Photographs from Company B<br> </font><font color="#00FFFF" size="6" face="Arial">Click on Images to Enlarge</font></b></TD></TR> <TR> <TD width=402 height=27> <P align=center><img border="0" src="LM-001a.jpg" width="400" height="269"> </P></TD> <TD width=325 height=27> <p style="margin-left: 4; margin-right: 4"><font size="3" face="Arial"><b>The first photo is of two medics surrounded by people in a French town. The medic holding the child in this photo is Jack Benevento. I understand Jack died in combat near the Moselle River, wearing my father's extra set of clothes. Only lately have I learned that my father wrote Jack's wife to tell her what happened, and that Jack left a widow and children at home in Connecticut.</b></font></p> <p align="right" style="margin-left: 4; margin-right: 4"><font size="3" face="Arial"><b>-David Mayhan, September 2004</b></font></TD></TR> <TR> <TD width=402 height=25> <P align=center><B><a href="LM-003b.jpg"><img border="0" src="LM-003a.jpg" width="400" height="266"></a></B></P> </TD> <TD width=325 height=50 rowspan="2" valign="top"> <p style="margin-left: 4; margin-right: 4"><font face="Arial" size="3"><b>...... a group of medics and an infantryman from the 35th in Bocket, Germany posing with the Nazi flag . The man in the light colored jacket at top left is the unidentified infantryman. The others I believe are Sammy Antinora, Jack Bernstein, Paul Kyman, and in the front row, my dad, Alfred Blank, Morris Rubenstein and Art McLean</b></font></p> <p style="margin-left: 4; margin-right: 4"><font face="Arial" size="3"><b>Date of February 10, 1945</b></font></p> <p align="right" style="margin-left: 4; margin-right: 4"><font size="3" face="Arial"><b>-David Mayhan, September 2004</b></font></p> <p style="margin-left: 4; margin-right: 4" align="right"> </p> <p style="margin-left: 4; margin-right: 4"> </TD></TR> <TR> <TD width=402 height=25> <B><a href="LM-002a.jpg"><img border="0" src="LM-002a.jpg" width="400" height="299"></a></B></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE> </DIV> <P align=center><FONT face=Arial size=2><B><IMG src="110thMedBn/cadeuc.jpg" border=0 width="40" height="40"><IMG src="110thMedBn/EAFMDEST.gif" border=0 width="150" height="42"><IMG src="110thMedBn/cadeuc.jpg" border=0 width="40" height="40"><IMG src="110thMedBn/EAFMDEST.gif" border=0 width="150" height="42"><IMG src="110thMedBn/cadeuc.jpg" border=0 width="40" height="40"><IMG src="110thMedBn/EAFMDEST.gif" border=0 width="150" height="42"><IMG src="110thMedBn/cadeuc.jpg" border=0 width="40" height="40"></B></FONT> <hr> <P align="center"> <a href="110thMedical.htm"><IMG height=32 src="110thMedBn/btn_HomeEnabled.gif" width=96 align=bottom vspace=12 border=0></a> </P> <hr> <p align="center"><b><a href="http://www.dvrbs.com"><font size="5" color="#FF0000">RETURN TO DVRBS.COM HOME PAGE</font></a></b></p> </BODY></HTML>