New Aerial Photos

I have found a series of aerial photos taken in 1946-47 when the camp was being used as temporary accommodation by displaced civilians.

Time Off in London.

Four shots of 279th personnel having some time off. Bill Lacer is the only one identified, sitting on the grass and in the middle of the third pic. I have identified the locations as 1. In front of the treasury building, parliament square, London, opposite the Palace of Westminster (Lincoln statue is now elsewhere). 2. In the corner of St.James' Park with the lake in the background. 3. Picture taken in same place as 2, but looking the other way on to the rear of the Treasury Building and what we now know as the Cabinet War rooms, where the British government and Churchill made all their decisions in the shelters below.

More Lab Guys.

Another pic of Mashburn, Katz and Roberts in the Lab / Pharmacy.

The lower picture is Mashburn with Tec3. 13175630 William C. Lupton

Lab Guys.

New pictures in from Ansley, the grandaughter of Tec5 34686323 Robert J. Mashburn (left), with Tec5 36718343 Samuel H. Katz and Tec3 34396327 Billie B. Roberts (right). These guys are in the Laboratory Department. Some details on Mashburn below.

Robert "Bob" Mashburn was born in 1922 and raised in Hawkinsville, GA.  He married Mervin Hobbs in 1942, just a few months before he entered the Army.  He did his Army and pharmacy training in Texas (El Paso and Brownwood) during 1943 and left for Wales to join the 279th Station Hospital a few days after Christmas that year.  He was with the 279th until March 1946 in Berlin, at which time he came home to Hawkinsville and was honorably discharged from the Army.

 

Bob and Mervin had a daughter, Linda, a year after he returned and several years later they moved to Tallahassee, FL where he continued his practice as a pharmacist.  He passed away in Tallahasee in 1972 at the age of 49.  Mervin stayed in Tallahassee and passed away in 2009 at the age of 87.