Photos of the 8th Ordnance Battalion and Depot 0-644

Bonus post. Depot 0-644 was the "big" ordnance depot of the European Theater in World War II. All tanks and captured equipment that came back to the US came through 644. I found these photos when I was looking into records of the unit. There were many, many more that I did not take pictures or scans of due to them not having any worthwhile content, but even more so because of the way these photos were "preserved". When they were cataloged in 1946, someone taped them, 20 at a time, to the backs of old sheets of paper (see above). As a result of being taped for 70 years, all the photos were stuck together, and I was only able to get scans of two of them — the rest I was barely able to even get clear photos of. The archives conservation team took the photos for two days and removed some of the tape; if they hadn't I would not have been able to separate the photos at all.