Back row: Jake Bedsole (Fayetteville, NC), Paul White (Ft. Worth, TX), Sephus Adams (Varnado, LA), Abe Friesen (Blue Earth, MN), Roy Knowles (Meadows of Dan, VA), Leslie Grubb (Haydenville, OH), Willie Shaw (Jackson, MS), Ralph Freels (Knoxville, TN), Melvin Horton (OK) and Harold Morrin. Front row: George Canter (Portland, OR), Vince Muntzinger (Fort Wayne, IN), Charles McDonald (Boston, MA), Tom Riley (Holyoke, MA), and Baby the company cat (Birmingham, England!). Christmas 1944, Ord. Depot, Paris, France.