Signal Corps photo from
Dan Fong, Web Staff
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Pool is shown seated on the turret of "In The Mood" in Liege, Belgium, on September 8, 1944. On that day, the 3rd Armored Division liberated Liege after four years of German occupation. When the streets were finally safe, many of its citizens came out dressed in their Sunday best.

Pool's crew through France, Belgium, and to the Siegfried Line where the following soldiers:

      • Pfc. Wilbert Richards, driver
      • Cpl. Bert Close, co-driver and machine gunner
      • Cpl. Willis Oller, gunner
      • T/5 Del Boggs, loader

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