Tuesday, August 13, 2013

U.S. Army, Probably Fort Knox, 1960's

This is one of several photos from an album I bought on ebay many years ago. There are 3 young soldiers. The last names are Harrison, Kovach, and Fleming (as best as I can make out).  One has the first name of Ras or Ros, he lived at 2237 Madison Avenue,Covington, Kentucky, One is Wally. The photo belonged to Ed, according to the inscription on the back.

9/11/2015: I believe the soldier named Fleming owned this album as he is definitely in many other photos throughout the album. I'm pretty sure his first name is Ed.

2/21/2022: I'm quite sure Harrison is Roscoe Harrison, as I found him in the city directories living at the address he wrote on the back of this photo. Update, I discovered Roscoe died in 2012.

3/2/2023: I have discovered the soldier who owned this album was not Ed Fleming but Ed Ferring, I misread his name tag on his uniform.








Update: 9/11/2015: I will be posting more photos from this album each day the next week.

2 comments:

  1. Yes, early 1960's before the M14 replaced the M1. I was stationed there 61 to 64. trained with the M1 and had to qualify with the M14 in about 63

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  2. I was stationed at Ft. Knox August -December 1960, w/ Company E 2nd Training Regiment 3rd Battalion, for Armor Crewman training on the M48A1 Tanks. I was assigned as one of the first crew to preform weekly start-up on the new M60 tanks that arrived on site. We were stationed on the e NW corner of the post near Drag Azz hill and exit to the tank training areas. Anybody out there that was in E-3-2 or remembers the area? By the way we always wore, pistol belts with poncho wrapped, helmet liners and carried our shoulder holsters for the 45 pistol.

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