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Walter Ervin World War II Photographs

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Title	Walter Ervin World War II Photographs
Subject	Military Ohio World War II
Place	Athens (Ohio) Athens County (Ohio) France Germany North Africa
Description	These three photographs were taken by Walter R. Ervin while serving in Europe and North Africa during World War II. Ervin was later taken prisoner and served five months in a German prisoner of war camp before being released. The photographs measure 4.5" x 3" (11.43 x 7.62 cm). Walter R. Ervin (1914-2003) was born in Greenbrier County, West Virginia and moved to Athens County, Ohio when he was a child. After graduating from Athens High School in 1933, he began working for the Athens Ice and Storage Company until he reported for Army duty on December 8, 1941, the day after the U. S. was attacked at Pearl Harbor. His first duty station was with Western Defense Command in Gilroy, California, where he trained as an infantry scout. In June 1943 Ervin married Helen Sheridan, a 1939 graduate of Ohio University and secretary for football coach Don Peden. The following March, he shipped first to North Africa and then to Naples, Italy. He took part in the invasion of southern France in August 1944, and his division became part of the left flank of the 3rd Army group of Lieutenant General George Patton. Ervin was captured near Colmar, France on January 23, 1945 and spent the next five months as a German prisoner of war at Stalag VII. He was freed on May 11, 1945 and discharged from the Army as a corporal on October 18, 1945. Upon his return to Athens, Ohio he again went to work for the Athens Ice and Storage Company and in 1955 bought the Athens Culligan Company. He later moved to Millfield, Ohio.
Creator	Ervin, Walter R., 1914-2003
Date of Original	1941 - 1945 circa
Collection	Walter Ervin Collection
Source	Audiovisual material MSS 144
Submitting Institution	Ohio University, Mahn Center for Archives & Special Collections
Type	StillImage
Format	picture

Title	Om2596_2934351_010
Rights	For rights and reproduction requests, go to the Ohio Historical Society's Audiovisual and Graphic Reproduction Services page at http://www.ohiohistory.org/resource/audiovis/photodup.html; Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
File Name	Om2596_2934351_010.tif
Image Height	1231
Image Width	1849
File Size	662.094 KB

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