Erskine and Christine Stroop
John Erskine Stroop, Jr.
Erskine, Jr, in August, 1925
Erskine Stroop, 1st Lt, 149th Armored Signal Company, 9th Armored Division, 3rd Army
Picture taken at his home in Murfreesboro, TN, prior to going overseas during World War II. Erskine was in the Signal Corps and had to do with the radio communications between the tanks and the headquarters. He was a ham radio operator before he entered the Army and had a very large radio tower at his parents' home in Murfreesboro.
When the Allied Armies were approaching Germany, all bridges over the Rhine River had been destroyed by the Germans except the railroad bridge at Remagan. Erskine was in the third tank that went across the bridge after its capture.
Erskine
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