Mexican Border
Mexican Border. HW Anderson, commanding Company ‘K’ is center (Racoosin family collection)
Co K – 6th Pennsylvania Infantry
Anderson NGP bag
NGP devices and ID disk
Anderson Saddlebags with canvas liners and acorns
Anderson Saddlebags
Anderson’s issued Colt Model 1892 .38 caliber revolver, with six .38 Long Colt bullets
Anderson Registration Card (Elizabeth R. Racoosin Collection)
World War I
Captain HW Anderson, Infantry, 28th Division, Augusta, GA (Elizabeth R. Racoosin collection)
Engineers in the front line, St Agnan (Shenton)
Sketchartist, Ed Shenton, Co B 103rd Engineers
103rd Engineer Regiment officers, 28th Division, France, WWI. Colonel Frederic Snyder Commanding, is second from right. HWA is far right (Racoosin family collection)
Graves of 103rd Engineers (Racoosin family collection)
Barbed Wire N of Toul (Racoosin family collection)
Barbed Wire Pickets (Racoosin family collection)
Engineer Topographical Wagon (Racoosin family collection)
German Locomotive (Racoosin family collection)
German Observation Tower (Racoosin family collection)
Verdun – French Graves (Racoosin family collection)
Mined Bridge (Racoosin family collection)
Rolling Barricade (Racoosin family collection)
General Pershing review of 28th Division (Racoosin family collection)
Map + shaving kit
Weapons – M1917 Trench knife, home-made weighted, taped sap (or ‘kosh’)
103rd Engineer officers in France (Anderson far left)
Anderson WWI helmet (note ‘Bloody Bucket’ symbol for 28th Division – Penna)
Between the Wars
103rd Engineers Regimental flag (Elizabeth R. Racoosin collection)
HW Anderson, Between World Wars (Racoosin family collection)
Pins – Officer’s cap device, engineer lapel pin (castle), 103rd Engineer badge
World War II
HW Anderson, Jackson Square, New Orleans 1942 (Elizabeth R. Racoosin collection)
HW Anderson, LCOL James Kirkland, England 1944 (Elizabeth R. Racoosin collection)
HW Anderson probably Camp Bowie Texas 1942 (Elizabeth R. Racoosin collection)
1111th Engineer Combat Group officers. HW Anderson is seated, center.
HW Anderson in WWII visiting French friend from the Great War (Racoosin family collection)
Remagen Bridge, from Erpeler Ley, March 1945
Anderson WW2 map bag
Anderson WW2 musette bag (front)
Anderson WW2 musette bag name (rear)
WW 2 Combat Engineer tools – Blasting Cap Machine, pocket knife, cap crimper, field manual
1111th ECG Officers, Highnam Court England; Front Row – Pergrin (291st ECB), Reafsnyder (51st ECB), HWA (1111th CO), Kirkland (1111th XO), Jeffreys (296th ECB)
Anderson in Normandy hedgerow country 25JUL1944 with VII Corps Engineer COL Mason Young – note box for diminuitive HWA to stand on
Anderson WWII helmet (Colonel rank)
HWA letter and wallet
Plattsburg NY – Anderson with 51st Regiment symbol
Remagen – bridge foundation
Remagen – pontoon bridge
Remagen German Shelling
German WWII
German ME-262 jet fighter-bomber
PzKwIV Tank
PzKwV Panther Tank
Budapest, Panzer VI (Tiger II, Königstiger)
V2 rocket
V2 rocket
Leibstandarte Blowtorch symbol
Joachim Peiper, black SS uniform, just prior to Ardennes Offensive
Post War
HW Anderson visiting St Agnan, 1971 (Racoosin family collection)
HW Anderson Retirement, 1950. Sixth Army Commander LGEN Albert C. Wedemeyer presides.
HW Anderson, post-WWII (Racoosin family collection)
Anderson Medals
Single row miniature medal rack, for formal uniform wear, showing:
Silver Star (with bronze oak leaf cluster for second award) – for Ardennes and Remagen actions
Legion of Merit – for senior leadership, 1945
Soldier’s Medal – for Normandy ammunition dump fire action
Mexican Border Service Medal (with nationalized Pennsylvania National Guard) – 1916-1917
World War I Victory Medal (with silver service star, denoting multiple campaigns)
World War II Victory Medal (with multiple campaign stars)
French Croix de Guerre Medal