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Bluffs' Combat Artist Views Mediterranean Invasions
"Line Handling Detail." Tying up at the wharf are these three coast guardsmen. "You have to handle the line smartly or you may find yourself in the 'drinker' or minus a thumb," comments Gretzer.
Bluffs' Combat Artist Views Mediterranean Invasions
"Hoisting the Boats." Coast guardsmen are depicted swinging a ship's boat onto the chocks.
Bluffs' Combat Artist Views Mediterranean Invasions
"Off Watch Below Deck," depicts a typical below-deck scene aboard ship. Off duty, these crewmen write home, mend socks and clothing, and catch up on sleep.
Bluffs' Combat Artist Views Mediterranean Invasions
"Greeting the Dawn." Coast guardsmen see a new dawn break over the sea. "Dawn always give you a wonderful feeling of relief," says Gretzer, "because it relieves you of the fear of something happening before you see it."
Bluffs' Combat Artist Views Mediterranean Invasions
"Wounded." Transfer of a wounded man from a landing barge to a coast guard manned transport. It was sketched off Salerno, which Gretzer said was the roughest of invasions, as far as the men were concerned.
Bluffs' Combat Artist Views Mediterranean Invasions
"Unloading Under Fire." Working in heavy seas, coast guardsmen are shown unloading tins of high test gasoline. Other landing barges await nearby, as operations under fire continue.
Bluffs' Combat Artist Views Mediterranean Invasions
"Fire Control," a study of a U.S. coast guardsman on fire control duty aboard ship. The fire control man wears colored glasses to enable him to look into the sun and identify approaching planes.
Bluffs' Combat Artist Views Mediterranean Invasions
"Mediterranean Port Scene," says Gretzer, is a typical view of an unnamed Mediterranean port where American fighters and transports give up the bulk from their cavernous holds.
Bluffs' Combat Artist Views Mediterranean Invasions
"Beach Party," A beach party from a coast guard-manned combat transport is shown entering an invasion barge. Once ashore, the beach party will set up ship-to-shore communications and help in unloading the barges.
Bluffs' Combat Artist Views Mediterranean Invasions
"Self Portrait." Gretzer made this sketch of himself at the wheel of a landing barge. He took part in the invasions of North Africa, Sicily and Italy. Combat artists, like Gretzer, are first of all fighting men. At sea his station was at a 20 mm.…
Getzer, John
Mary Louise Dunshee, 17, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Max S. Dunshee, and John Gretzer, 15, son of Mr. and Mrs. L.H. Gretzer, have the leading rolls in the play "Big-Hearted Herbert," which is being presented in the Abraham Lincoln high school auditorium…
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene--This is Broadway, looking southeast from Fourth St., as it appeared during a celebration of IOOF Lodge in 1868. The lodge was organized about the time Council Bluffs came into being. At the extreme right, on top of…
Today
Today...the armory looks like this. A new $185,000 administration and supply building being constructed at right will tie in with the drill hall. The section being built by the Iowa National Guard, with federal aid, will be completed in the summer…
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene--It was in the summer of 1937 when this picture of the 500 block on Pearl St. was taken by Ben E. Bierer of 621 Bluff St. The drill hall of the Dodge Light Guard Armory was just being constructed. Bierer, who is now…
Today
Today...The Younkerman Seed Co. is still doing business at the same address, and in somewhat the same building. However, the front and trim were changed many years ago to give it a new look. And modern autos replace the team and wagon at the…
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene--Among the souvenirs of W.C. Grote, 515 Harrison St., is this 1901 photograph of the Younkerman Seed Company at Broadway and North Second St. Mr. Grote was with the company over 50 years, retiring as manager in 1944.
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene--The Hagenbeck circus elephants attract a lot of attention back in 1905 as they are being watered along the north shore of Lake Manawa, just west of the park area. At that time, the lake was a popular resort spot for…
Today
Today...the lake is still one of the most popular in Iowa. The north shore where the park, board walk and docks once stood, is now built up to private homes and docks. This picture was taken looking east from the Elks County Club docks. The lake…
Today
Today...at the same site is the present Longfellow School which replaced the old Twentieth Avenue building in 1939. It is a modern 23-classroom building plus the auditorium, library, and gym. Immediately following the completion of the present…
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene--The old Twentieth Avenue School as it appeared just a few years before the new building was built at Twentieth Avenue and S. 10th St. Started out as a four room building before 1900, the old building was built in…