Hermann Johann Friedrich Bottcher
 July 13, 1909 -- December 31, 1944
         
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Captain Hermann Bottcher

Captain Bottcher with members of the 32nd Recon Troop. Pfc. Phil Christ is directly behind his captain.

Captain Hermann Bottcher

Pfc. Phil Christ with other members of the 32nd Recon Troop.

Captain Hermann Bottcher

Pfc. Phil Christ

Captain Hermann Bottcher

Captain Bottcher on left with Pfc. Phil Christ on badminton court in New Guinea

Hermann Bottcher

Portrait of Captain Bottcher by McClelland Barclay, USNR made shortly after, and probably because of, the taking of Bottchers Corner at Buna, New Guinea.

Lt. Steele, three months after being wounded, April 1945.

 

Phil Christ and Royale Steele, Florida 2009