Photo by Ken Scar | U.S. Army Cadet Command (Army ROTC) | 08.25.2019
Bill Cline Jr. shows a collection of his father’s items to Brenda Burk, head of special collections for Clemson University. Aug. 25, 2019. Cline’s father was U.S. Army Cpt. William Cline, a 1941 Clemson College graduate, who served with the 758th Tank Battalion (Light), the only black tank battalion in Italy in WWII. The 758th served alongside the 92nd “Buffalo” Infantry Division and......
Photo by Ken Scar | U.S. Army Cadet Command (Army ROTC) | 08.25.2019
A “Clemson Armored Corps” sticker belonging to U.S. Army Cpt. William Cline, a 1941 Clemson College graduate, and a company commander for the 758th Light Tank Battalion, the only black tank battalion in WWII, rests on a table in the Clemson University library, Aug. 8, 2019. (Photo by Ken Scar)...
Photo by Ken Scar | U.S. Army Cadet Command (Army ROTC) | 08.25.2019
Bill Cline Jr. shows a collection of his father’s mementos from WWII to Clemson University's Dean of Libraries Christopher Cox and Head of Special Collections Brenda Burk, Aug. 25, 2019. Cline’s father was U.S. Army Cpt. William Cline, a 1941 Clemson College graduate, who was company a commander in the 758th Tank Battalion, the only black tank battalion in Italy during WWII. (Photo by Ken Scar)...
Photo by Ken Scar | U.S. Army Cadet Command (Army ROTC) | 08.25.2019
Bill Cline Jr. shows a collection of his father’s mementos from WWII to Clemson University's Dean of Libraries Christopher Cox, Aug. 25, 2019. Cline’s father was U.S. Army Cpt. William Cline, a 1941 Clemson College graduate, who was a company commander for the 758th Light Tank Battalion, the only black tank battalion in Italy in WWII. (Photo by Ken Scar)...
Photo by Ken Scar | U.S. Army Cadet Command (Army ROTC) | 08.25.2019
Bill Cline Jr. shows a collection of his father’s mementos from WWII to Clemson University's Dean of Libraries Christopher Cox, Aug. 25, 2019. Cline’s father was U.S. Army Cpt. William Cline, a 1941 Clemson College graduate, who was a company commander for the 758th Tank Battalion, the only black tank battalion in Italy during WWII. (Photo by Ken Scar)...
Photo by Ken Scar | U.S. Army Cadet Command (Army ROTC) | 08.25.2019
U.S. Army Cpt. William Cline, a 1941 Clemson College graduate, in front of the ‘Villa Combie’ in Genoa, Italy, May 13, 1945 - VE Day. Cline was company commander of the 758th Tank Battalion, the only black tank battalion in Italy during WWII. The 758th served alongside the 92nd “Buffalo” Infantry Division. (Photo courtesy of the William Cline Collection, Clemson University)...
Photo by Ken Scar | U.S. Army Cadet Command (Army ROTC) | 08.25.2019
Bill Cline Jr., Clemson University class of 1970, holds a photo of his father, U.S. Army Cpt. William Cline, a 1941 Clemson College graduate, in Clemson’s Special Collections and Archives office, August 8, 2019. Cpt. Cline was a company commander for the 758th Tank Battalion, the only black tank battalion in WWII. The 758th served alongside the 92nd “Buffalo” Infantry Division and fought......
Photo by Ken Scar | U.S. Army Cadet Command (Army ROTC) | 08.25.2019
“Me and my platoon." The back of a group photo of U.S. Army Cpt. William Cline and his unit in the 758th Tank Battalion, the only black tank battalion in Italy in WWII. Cline wrote the names of nearly every man in the photo. The 758th served alongside the 92nd “Buffalo” Infantry Division, and fought in Italy against the famous German “Gothic Line.” (Photo courtesy of Bill Cline Jr.,......
