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3rd Infantry Division, 3rd Signal Company Photo Crew

Roster: T/3 John D. Cole T/5 Howard B. Nickelson T/4 William Heller Pfc. Robert S. Seesock  T/5 William J. Toomey

bh000005a.jpg Bill in familiar pose, with his ever present stogie.

bh184a1.jpg Jack Benny, accepting a cigar from Bill before one of Benny's USO shows.

Assigned to Bad Wildungen, Germany in July, 1945, photographers Bill Toomey, Bill Heller and Bobby Seesock pose for a peacetime photo. Photo courtesy of Denis Toomey www.dogfacesoldiers.org	The Army built a baseball diamond in Salzburg, Austria and photographers Bill Heller and Bill Toomey of the 15th Regiment dropped by. Photo courtesy of Denis Toomey www.dogfacesoldiers.org
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Photographer's John Cole and Bill Heller pose with the tools of their trade on a warm September day in Faucogney, France. Photo courtesy of Denis Toomey www.dogfacesoldiers.org	Two Bills-No Waiting! Bill Heller & Bill Toomey

 

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Members of the 3rd Signal Company... in action! October 30, 1944 "The poker game was staged. One of the men found a suitcase full of francs... so they put the table, bottles, set the whole scene-then took pix..." says Howard Nickelson
Jack Cole, Bill Heller, Bill Toomey, Bob Seesock. Photo was taken near Zweibrucken, Germany after the 15th Infantry pushed through the Seigfried line.

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Christmas in Ribeauville, France 1944 0001ToomeyHeller photo3b.jpg	Third Division photographers Bill "Pop" Heller, Bobby Seesock, Bill Toomey, John Cole and Howard Nickelson (l-r) spend Christmas in decent surroundings in Ribeauville.
Crowning their Ribeauville tree, Third Division photographers pass Christmas 1944 facing the German army still entrenched in the Colmar Pocket.  Photo courtesy of Denis Toomey www.dogfacesoldiers.org

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Bill Toomey  in the photo office at Bad Wildungen, Germany (Disregard classic vintage photo-art on the walls!)

d o g f a c e s o l d i e r s A photographic journey of the Third Signal Co. of the 15th Regiment of the U.S. Third Infantry Division in WWII by Denis Toomey

Table of Contents
Introductory Bill Heller	Prologue		Troop Roster-1
Troop Roster-2	Prelude to D-Day-1		Prelude to D-Day-2
Amphibious Landing			Bob Hope
Jack Benny	Marlene Dietrich		Personalities
War is Hell		Watch on the Rhine
Generals-1	Generals-2		GI Views-1
GI Views-2	GI Views-3		GI Views-4
Hey Medic	Inhumanity		Links Page
Weapons-WWII/2004	Weapons-2		Weapons-3
Tanks for the Memories	Audie L. Murphy		The Wild Blue Yonder
Berchtesgaden	Going Home		Bibliography

  

Thanks to Tricia Joyce, Bill Toomey's daughter, for some of these great photos.
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Last Update February 15, 2019

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