1949 Lancaster Red Rose Baseball team. First row: William Glane, Dick Trass, Bill Mosser, Christ Kitsos, Jimmy Massas, Bill Ripkin. Second row: Al Campanis, Frank O'Neill, George Freese, Bob "Red" Sweeney, Jack Elkins, Len Glica, Tom Astbury. Third row: Charles Landau, Chet Beres, Mike Quill, Eddie Yasinski, Don Collins, Arnie Wallis, Tom Floyd Jr., Tom Floyd Sr.
1946 Lancaster Red Rose Baseball team. First row: Nat Usciak, Walt Novick, Joe Astroth, Jim Gilmore, Bob Bay ?, George Mitrus, Mike Kardash, Eddie ?. Back row: ? Cowdrick, Freddie Peeler, Angstadt, Joe Yuorkouich ?, Bill James, Bob Mohr, Fred Danck, Stan Stenoff.
1947 Lancaster Red Rose Baseball team. Back row: Tom Floyd (trainer), Freddie Peeler, Bill James, Tom Astbury, Cloyd Sheedy, George Armstrong, Eddie Boehm, Gus Holborough, Charles Landau. Front row: Walt Novick, Leon Griffith, Mat Usciak, Lester McCrabb, Nelson Fox, Tom Kirk, Bill McCarthy, Joe Zack, Len. Kelly.
Robert B. Johnson in front of his tent, "Johnson's Jip Joint", while serving in the Army in Europe during World War II. "Don't stand outside and get wet - come in and get soaked".
Airplane in flight over Espirito Santo, Vanuatu during World War II. Robert P. Breneman served in the U. S. Navy during World War II and may be aboard the plane.
Pfc. Ralph Gohn, Jr., of Marietta, U. S. Army, was killed in action June 16, 1944 in France. Husband of Helen Gohn, and son of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Gohn, Sr. Entered the service April 28, 1942 and trained at Camp Wheeler, GA, Camp Davis, NC, Camp Johnson, FL, and Ft. Dix, NJ. He held his company's marksmanship record and went overseas in February 1943. Received Silver Star and Purple Heart.
Harry Bitzer, kneeling at front, celebrates V-J Day with fellow Navy crewmen and friends including, at far right, his wife Margaret Uhland, her sister, Kathryn Uhland Sloat, second from right, and Harry's sister, Fianna Bitzer, second from left. Photo was taken while Bitzer was stationed in Wildwood, NJ during World War II. The Bitzers lived on West Lemon Street in Lancaster.
Newly married, with her husband in the infatnry in Germany, Polly Abel moved in with her parents in Philadelphia and took a job at radio station WDAS, where the office teletype buzzed all day long with war news. On March 13, 1945, Polly, standing second from right, joined fellow broadcasters at the Philadelphia Navy Yard for a shakedown cruise on an LCI.
