A Company of the 761st Tank Battalion at Camp Claiborne, Louisiana (a very large version of this picture is the last photo in this album -- it allows you to see more detail, but it will probably require scrolling around to see all the parts of the photograph.)
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PFC Floyd Dade at home in Texarkana, Arkansas, in 1943 after completing Basic Training
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PX picture of PFC Floyd Dade
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PFC Floyd Dade somewhere outside Pagnitz
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Floyd Dade atop his tank holding grease gun
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France in ‘44 before the snow fell – Staff Sgt. Johnnie Stevens left, holding map, and Staff Sgt. Floyd Dade, right, reading map
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Tisendorf, Bavaria – pictured upper left: SSgt Leonard Rucker; upper right: Cpl William Syphax, middle left: Cpl Louis Gaines; middle: T/4 Moses Bryant; middle right: Cpl Walter Cox, lower middle: Cpl Joseph Singleton holding Little Hattie Mae; lower right: SSgt Floyd Dade
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Stars and Stripes front page, November 27, 1944. Floyd Dade writes about this picture: "The picture of me on the tank in stars and Stripes is an action picture. We prevented a counterattack. We had a tank battle there, the knocked out tank was one of the 4th Armored Divsion."
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May 1945 outside Steyr, Austria – Staff Sgt. Floyd Dade (arm upraised) at hearing of the victory in Europe – the 761st Tank Battalion had linked up with the First Ukranian Army
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