US WWII 7th Armored Division Officers Photo & Ephemera Grouping
This item is listed for historical interest only. It was listed on our site previously but has been sold and is no longer available for purchase.
Sold for: $350.00

Original era photography. A very large, and interesting grouping which concerns the service of a Mesa Arizona soldier, Captain, later Major, Morris Sorensen. The lot includes a sepia image of the Divisional Commander of the 7th Armored, MG Rbt W. Hasbrouck, two period 7 x 8 inch bw photos of Sorensen with Russian officers dated July 1945, over 30 additional assorted sized, bw photos, many with period inscriptions, a very intersting multi-page document, produced by the HQ Air P/W Interrogation Det. MIS of an interview by General-Leutnant Fritz Bayerlein, commander of Panzer-Lehr, regarding the effects of Allied Air Power on his division between D-Day and V-Day. A large, leather-bound, 3-ring notebook, with handwritten notations regarding German POW's (including SS troops) and liberated Allied POW's by nationality, lastly, an assortment of 24 wartime US maps of the European Theater, 15 of which have period, hand-drawn markings in ink and grease pencil, of troop movements and unit positions during actual combat operations. In some instances, both German & American maps were taped together to provide a particular situation map. Most of the marked maps are dated either 1944 or 1945. As Major Sorensen stayed in the Army after VJ -Day, five of the unmarked maps are dated in the early 1950's