Red Diamond Division

one of our Charlie Company tanks
skidded from an icy mountain road near
Brandenbourg,Luxembourg
and landed in this snow covered gully

your webmaster has been trying
for more than 50 years
to get the driver's
name,rank,and serial number

Castellaun,Germany

foot soldiers didn't walk thousands of miles
across several countries
they often rode on our tanks
some traveled in trucks

Castellaun,Germany

on the tanks again

Grevenstein,Germany

your webmaster swears this is his platoon
up there on the elevated road

we ran a gauntlet of open spaces
between the houses at full speed

while a German 40mm gun
kept popping away at us and
broke the left track on our tank

couldn't see that sucker
on the hill
with the sun behind his back

Grevenstein,Germany

other 737 tanks with Company K
2nd Infantry Regiment

preparing to attack a nearby hill
being used by the Germans
as an observation post