4/12 Inf (M): Southcott, McLaughlin and Friendly Partisans

Here's a favorite of mine from the Bruce Van Hoozen photo archive, Captain Ed McLaughlin (on the right) and, I believe, Captain Joe Southcott rendezousing with friendly partisans in the German countryside. This one's from spring / summer of 1990, not long after the Berlin Wall had fallen.

At that point I was a student (again) in Heidelberg and loving every minute of it.

In Baumholder days, kids on bikes used to track us like bloodhounds, hot on the trail of free MREs, lost equipment and vicarious thrills; as Brooks McAllister once said, "these kids have Panzers in their blood". Bruce Van Hoozen used to use them as inform recon units, scouting out the orange forces.

I understand that today, in mid-2007, Joe Southcott's a bird colonel and Ed McLaughlin's a civilian working up north (in Wisconsin?).

Warriors!















And there's another recently uploaded photo of two fellows who would have served with 4/12 Inf here.

p.s. add your name to the roster now!