Camp Mabry, American Heroes Celebration / Muster Day Weekend, April 2009

Camp Mabry, American Heroes Celebration / Muster Day Weekend

Day one, Saturday April 18th, 2009

Photographs by 2/FRJ Luftwaffe Kriegsberichter - Ferreiro

Happy helferin return to camp with wine and beer!

Jagers around the campfire.

More jagers in camp.

Fieldgendarms talk to a captured Ami.

Landsers come over for kafe.

Gebirgsjaeger arrive.

Discussion in the road.

The Gebirgsjaeger get deployment instructions.

Which turns into a group chat in the road.

Jager prepares for action.

SS gather around the Hetzer before moving out.

SS officer preparing for action.

Landsers gear up for action too.

Hetzer lurks in the shadows.

Field hospital empty and quiet before the battle.

The sanis know action will come soon enough.

Sentries man the checkpoint and the trenches.

A young Gebirgsjaeger talks with a nurse at the medical tent.

We all know action will happen soon.

Everyone ready for action in their own field.

Hanging the standard in the new HQ.

The Hetzer leads the retreating column behind the dragon's teeth.

SS ride the Hetzer back.

Ami artillery rounds begin to fall as the rest of the column passes through the gate.

More jagers reach the relative safety of the gate.

Last through the gate, a pair of relieved jagers.

Landsers and SS fire at the Amis from the edge of the mine field.

Seeking cover and firing back.

Kettenkrad crosses the field.

Jagers deploy near the Hetzer.

Sanis treat the fallen.

Wounded young landser helped from the field.

Another sani springs into action.

French Legionaires advance under smoke...

...while the Amis advance on the left.

An SS officer panics and flees the fighting...

...with a squad of Amis taking aim.

Amis in the trench for hand to hand!

Field is littered with dead and wounded...

Trench taken the Amis pop smoke and continue their advance.

Germans fall back and cover.

Amis continue to take casualties as they advance.

Amis take the German HQ.

Sanis take the field to tend the wounded.

Final fanatical resistance is ended when a satchel charge detonates on the bunker.

Helferin also venture into the battlefield to tend wounded.

A pair of jagers fall back to fight another day.

Last of the landers and jagers regroup.

Grimy jagers after the battle.

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