Name/Title
Soldiers posing with captured liquor bottlesEntry/Object ID
1977.001.014Description
Soldiers posing with captured liquor bottlesPhotograph Details
Subject Person or Organization
George A. FisherSubject Place
City
MunichState/Province
BavariaCountry
GermanyRegion
Central EuropeContinent
EuropeContext
"Milton Kleinman bears the bottle of Courievosier Cognac, which when mixed with Benedictine, creates a glow like nothing else can. All of the crowd, which includes George Fisher, had been drinking of that which was formerly reserved for the Whermacht. The 45th knocked over their liquor warehouse, all five stories of it, at Aschaffenburg Germany. They put up a hell of a fight for the town. We detached a company which had been hit very hard in the battle and had the warehouse's contents removed under their guard to a nearby forest area. As soon as Deutschland was through, we hauled it all to Munich. When the 7th Army realized, belatedly, what we had done, it issued an order that all such liquors be turned over to the Army Surgeon for medical purposes. I drafted a reply that we didn't have any such liquor on account of we had already drunk all of the five-story building full of booze. It's not recommended for a person with an empty stomach. A very popular 45th Signal Officer saw me sipping one one night and gulped down two "French Seventy Fives- several jiggers of Napoleon in a mixture of straight champagne. His orderly was following him and as he passed out, caught him."Made/Created
Date made
May 1945Time Period
20th Century, World War TwoLexicon
Nomenclature 4.0
Nomenclature Secondary Object Term
Print, PhotographicNomenclature Primary Object Term
PhotographNomenclature Sub-Class
Graphic DocumentsNomenclature Class
Documentary ObjectsNomenclature Category
Category 08: Communication ObjectsLOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials
Group portraits, Soldiers, LiquorDimensions
Width
3-1/2 inLength
5-1/8 in