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Category : EUCMH Mails Center
Tags: 26th Infantry Division, 372nd Fall Field Tour of Duty, 372nd FFTD Reception, Air France, American Airlines, Amiens, Arromanches Harbor, Artillery Company of London, Artillery Company of Massachusetts, Bastogne, Battle of the Bulge, Belgium, Boston, British Commonwealth Cemetery, Brussels, Caen, Café d’Ergmont, Capital of Europe, Charles III, Count of Anjou, Deauville, Duke William, En Plein Ciel, Eurne Rive, France, Geoffrey Plantagenet, Grand Place, Invasion of Normandy, Jeanne d'Arc, Julius Caesar, Kaundorf Memorial, King Henry I, Les 3 Brasseurs, Liberty Way, Little Sablon Square, Logan Airport, Lugdunensis, Luxembourg, Maison du Boeuf, Maj Michael W. Downing, NATO, NATO Headquarters, Norman Conquest, Normandy, Normandy American Cemetery, Novotel Bayeux, Omaha Beach, Orne River, Paris, Pointe du Hoc, Rouen, Royal Barrière, Royal Hotel Luxembourg, Salon Baudouin, Salon La Baule, Seine River, St Mère Eglise, The Hilton Brussels, Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, United States, William the Conqueror
Ancient & Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts
372nd Fall Field Tour of Duty Normandy-France, Brussels-Belgium
October 01 to October 12, 2009
Maj Michael W. Downing, Captain Commanding, 2009-2010
A Message From the Captain :
Fellow Ancients and Guests,
Welcome to this year’s 372nd Fall Field Day Tour of Duty. I hope you enjoy this experience as much as my staff and I had putting this trip together.
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As probably many of you , readers, know it, Belgium is a country made of paradox. Being itself one of the most paradoxical country what would you expect ?
Doing researches on the Fields for the past 40 years, in fact I’ve found accidentally, my first US Hand Grenade (MK-2) when I was 3 and 1/2 years old, I know almost every one of those who do also researches on the Battlefields today. Of course – and like in almost every works – they are many jerks in this area.
In the past 40 years, I have lost 3 friends :
- André, blown away while “playing” with the most dangerous American ammunitions ever created : the 105-MM Semi Fixed Shell HE-AT M-67 Hollow Charge and it’s terrible 3 Levels Work M-61A1 or M-62 Base Impact Fuze that doesn’t allow anyone, when fired and got lost, to play with it.
- Jean Mi, doing also something he shouldn’t have done with the little brother of the 105-MM Hollow cited above : 75-MM Shell Semi Fixed HE-AT Hollow Charge also provided to the field with this damned M-61A1 or M-62 3 Levels Work Base Fuze.
- Jan, a really nice man from the Netherlands that was doing something not allowed with a Panzer Geschoss (KWK-43 King Tiger Ammunition) and did try to remove the Base Ignitiong Fuze while holding the Shell between his legs.
In the 3 following cases, plastic bags were needed to get these guys together again. (RIP)
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Category : Army Air Forces, XIX TAC
Tags: 100th Wing, 10th Recon Group, 11. Panzerdivision, 1st Army, 28th Infantry Division, 2nd Armored Division, 2nd French Armd Division, 2nd Tactical Air Force, 303rd Wing, 354th Group, 355th Fighter Group, 357th Fighter Squadron, 358th Group, 362nd Group, 363rd Group, 36th group, 373rd Group, 406th Group, 4th Armored Division, 5th Armored Division (US), 67th Recon Group, 67th Reconnaissance Group, 6th Armored Division, 6th TAC Groups, 79th Infantry Division, 7th Armd Div, 7th Army (US), 80th Infantry Division, 83rd Infantry Division (US), 8th Infantry Division US, 90th Infantry Division, 9th Army US, Advanced Headquarters, Air Corps Tables, Air Liaison Officers, Air Service Command, Air Support Party, Aldermaston Court, Alençon, Alps, Amiens, Angers, Anoxia, Argentan, Argonne Forest, Armored Division, Avranches, B-26 Bomber, Bar-le-Duc, Beauchamps, Beauvais, Bonnetable, Brest, Bretigny, Brig Gen C. P. Wetland, Brittany, Brittany Blitz, Caen, Canadian 1st Army, Canadians, Carbon Dioxide, CCA-4AD, CCB-2-AD, Chalons, Chartres, Chateau Thierry, Chateaudun, Cherbourg, Col James Ferguson, Col Morton David Magoffin, Combat Command, Commercy, Compiègne, Corbeil, Cotentin Peninsula, Coutances, Creil, Cricqueville, Dieppe, Dinan, Dreux, Epernay, ES-293, Etampes, Eure River, Falaise, FFI, Fighter Wings, Fontaineblau, Foret de Machenoir, Fougères, France, French Forces of the Interior, Gassicourt, Gen Ernest's Task Force, General Purpose Bomb, Granville, Grassicourt, Hessian Waterproof, Ile de Cezembre, IX Air Defense Command, IX Bomber Command, IX Fighter Command, IX Fighter Commandy, Joigny, Jugon, Lamballe, Laon, Laval, Le Mans, Le Rotrou, Lessay, Lisieux, Loire River, Lorient, Lt Edward J. Moroney, Lt Gen George S. Patton Jr, Lt William S. "Tiger" Lyons, M-109, Maj James G. Martin, Mantes, Marne River, Maux, ME-262, Meaux, Melun, Meuse River, Milly, Mondesir, Montargis, Mordelle, Moret, Morlaix, Mortain, Murphy, Mustangs, Nantes, Néhou, Neufchateau, Ninth Air Force, Nivilliers, Nogent, Normandy, Operation Cobra, Orleans, Orléans Gap, P-47 Airplanes, P-51, Paimpol Peninsula, Paris, Périers, Pithiviers, Poles, Pontauboult, Rambouillet Forest, Reading, Reims-Champagne Airfield, Rennes, Rhône River, Romilly sur Seine, Russians, Sedan, Seine River, Sens, Sezanne, Soissons, Spitfires, St Calais, St Dizier, St Hilaire, St Lô, St Malo, St-James, Tables of Organization, Tactical Air Command, Tactical Control Group, Toulon, Troyes, Trun, Typhoons, US Third Army, Verdun, Vernon, Versailles, VIII Corps, Villaroche, Villeneuve, Vitry le François, XII Corps, XIX Tactical Air Command, XV Corps, XX Corps, Yonne River, Yugoslavs
12.000 Fighter and Bomber Sorties, XIX Tactical Air Command’s First Month of Operations in Support of the US Third Army in France.
Content
- Frontispiece
- Introduction
- Notes on Organization, Tactics, and Technique
- Missions of the XIX Tactical Air Command
- The Background, In Brief
- Air Operations Day by Day
- Five Accompanying Maps
- Recapitulation
- Annex : Map Showing Location of Units
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Category : EUCMH Mails Center
Tags: Admiral Nagumo, Aichi D3A1, Arizona-BB-39, Brownie Camera, California-BB-44, Cassin-DD-372, Curtiss-AV-4, December 7 1941, Detroit-CL-8, Downes-DD-375, Ewa, Gale Varcolis, Hawaii, Helena-CL-50, Helm-DD-388, Hickam, Honolulu-CL-48, Japanese, Kaneohe, Maryland-BB-46, Midway, Nakajima B5N2, Nevada-BB-36, New Orleans-CA-32, Oahu, Ogala-CM-4, Oklahoma-BB-37, Pearl Harbor, Pennsylvania-BB-38, Raleigh-CL-7, Sailor, San Francisco-CA-38, Shaw-DD-373, Sotoyomo-YT-9, Tennessee-BB-43, US Army, US Marines Corps, US Navy, USS Colorado, USS Lexington, USS Quapaw-AFT-110, USS Saratoga, USS-Enterprise, Utah-AG-16, Vestal-AR-4, Wake Island, West Virginia-BB-48, Zeros
Dear Gunter, Isn’t is amazing how a film could last so long in a camera without disintegrating ? Fantastic photos taken 68 years ago. Some of you will have to go to a museum to see what a Brownie camera looked like ? Here is a simple picture of what we are talking about.
These photos are absolutely incredible… Read below the first picture and at the end.
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Category : Fields Researches
The target of this website is to serve World War Two informations. I am not interested about the subject of about the person who send the informations to me. I just get the informations, read it, correct it : often for wrong city name and places, then I re-write the informations and put them online. This allow often readers and historians to establish a connection between different flanks of units on the battlefields. Of course I am always trying to help and mostly American visitors which are searching informations but I have to say that this becomes sometime a very hard task. (please read the following)
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Category : EUCMH Mails Center
Tags: Forum, Germany, Militaria
Hallo Gunter,
unter der Domain : www.kunst-und-troedel.com findest Du unser neustes Projekt – das Kunst und Trödel Forum. Wie der Name des Forums schon sagt, kannst Du dort alles rund um das Thema Kunst und Trödel einstellen, bewerten oder besprechen lassen.
Wenn Du Fachahnung von einzelnen Themenbereichen besitzt – es sind noch einige Foren mit Moderatoren zu besetzen 
Wir würden uns sehr freuen, wenn wir Dich in unserem neuen Forum begrüßen dürften !!!
Gruß
Frank
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Category : 017th-ABD, 513th-PIR, Battle of the Bulge
Tags: 11th Armored Division, 139th A/B Engineer Battalion, 184th C. Engineers, 193rd GIR, 5. Fallschirmjaeger Division, 507th Prcht Inf Regt, 513th Prcht Inf Regt, 6th Cav, 87th Infantry Division, A-70 Airfield, Barton Stacey, Bastogne, Bockholtz, Bois de Fragette, Bois De Valet, Chehéry, Cheveuge, Chilbolton, Eisenbach, England, Espeler, Flamierge, Flamisoul, Flohimont, France, Gives, Givry, Hosingen, Hubermont, Jodenville, Laon, Limerlé, Lt McGuire, Lt Stubbs, Mande St Etienne, Marche en Famenne, Meuse River, Millomont, Monty, Mourmelon le Grand, Nortrange, Ober Eisenbach, Omicourt, Our River, Ourthe River, Rechrival, Recogne, Rhine River, Rodenhausen, Schmiede, Sibret, Siegfried Line, St Hubert, St Vith, Stenay, Uber Eisenbach, Verdun, Virton, Wathermal
Headquarters 513th Parachute Infantry Regiment, APO 452, US Army, February 15 1945, Subject : Summary of Operations, 513th Parachute Infantry Regiment, to : Commanding General, 17th Airborne Division
APO 452, U.S. Army
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Very interesting website for those who are working on US POWS during WW-2 in Germany, a great site from Leo Finegold – 30th Infantry Division Old Hickory
Stalag 3A. Two hundred thousand prisoners of war passed through its gates during World War II, beginning in 1939. Those remaining in the camp at the close of the war were liberated by the Russians in April 1945. Approximately 5,000 died from disease, starvation, cold, brutality and neglect.
In April 1945, the Stalag held approximately four thousand American POW’s in a compound separated from other nationalities. Crowded four hundred men to a tent, the day to day routine was an exercise in misery, hunger, cold, and lice. A chief preoccupation involved tediously removing
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Category : 017th-ABD, 194th-GIR, Battle of the Bulge
Tags: 101st Airborne Division, 11th Armored Division, 12. SS Regt, 1252nd Engineers, 19. SS Regt, 224th Med Crl Det, 29. Panzer Regt, 29. Panzergrenadier Div, 3. Pzr Gren, 366th Engrs, 3em Battalion Français, 3rd French Battalion, 507th Parachute Infantry, 513th Parachute Infantry, 513th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 550th Battalion, 606 Med Clr Det, 6th Cavalry Squadron, 713th MPs, 726th MP Battalion, 87th Infantry Division, 928. Gren Battalion, 99th Gen Hosp Det, Aldbourne, Ans, Bastogne, Beaumont, Belgium, Bertogne, Camp Mourmelon, Capt Brady, Capt Cohen, Capt Colyet, Capt Foxman, Capt Graham, Capt Harrison, Capt Hunter, Capt Kormoyle, Capt Kreider, Capt York, Chalgrove, Chalons sur Marne, Charlesville, Chief of FFI, Col Baily, Col Barnett, Col McCarty, Col Pierce, Col Stewart, Consthum, EE-8-B, England, FFI, Flaba, Flamierge, Flamisoul, Forces Françaises de l'Intérieur, Fosset, France, Frenet, Gen Miley, Gen Phelps, Gen Whitelaw, Gives, Givroulle, Haraucourt, Houmont, Hubermont, Laval, Les Trois Monts, Lt Alcott, Lt Ball, Lt Dobey, Lt Evis, Lt Jennings, Lt McGhee, Lt Spira, Lt Wollom, Luxembourg, Magerotte, Maj Davis, Maj Fisher, Maj Hundley, Maj Peterson, Major Dantel (FR), Mayor of Raucourt, ME 109, Millemont, MLP, Monsieur Noiraux, Mouzon, Mouzon Bridge, Ogbourne St. George, Our River, Pintsche, Ramsbury Field, Rechimont, Rechrival, Renaumont, Rouffy, Salle, SCR 300 Radio, SCR 694, Sedan, Siegrfried Line, Skyline Drive, Stéphane Heumon, switchboard BD 72, Tannay, Tillet, Verdun, VIII Corps, Vouziers, Wigny, wire W-110
This document is an hour-by-hour account of the 194th Glider Infantry Regiment (17th A/B) for the period of 1-12 February 1945.
- 1-3 February 1945 : Regiment was in Division Reserve at Pintsche, Luxembourg and vicinity. Some patrolling was done in the 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment area across the Our River into the Siegrfried Line. Rehabilitation was main work.
- 4 February 1945 : Regiment continued in Division Reserve. Received warning order for relief of unit on south of 513th Parachute Infantry Regiment.
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Category : Veterans Taps
Tags: 17th Airborne Division, 507th Prcht Inf Regt, 82nd Airborne Division (US), 82nd Airborne Memorial, Amfreville, Architecture, Atlanta, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, D-Day, Elbert Hugh Summer, Fort Benning, France, Georgia, Hq Company 1st Bn, John H Summer, Murrayville, Newberry, Normandy, Pittypat's Porch, Ritz/Carlton Downtown, South Carolina, Static Line Magazine, Summer and Associates, Summer/Wise & Associates, Vera Lucille Summer, WAGA-TV, World War II
It is with a heavy heart and my deepest sympathy that we belatedly learn of the passing of another of our Distinguished Veterans and a Valued Comrade. Through the Static Line Magazine we learned that Mr. John H Summer, Hq Company 1st Bn, 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 17th Airborne Division, passed away on 26 April 2009. With the assistance of Mr Summer’s Architecture Firm I was able to contact Mrs Susan Ory, his Daughter, to obtain the information for this message.
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Category : Veterans Taps
Tags: 17th Airborne Division, 1st Allied Airborne Army, 82nd Airborne Division (US), Acworth, Alex Nouri, American Legion Associations, Arlington National Cemetery, Battle of Normandy, Battle of the Bulge, C-507th Parachute Infantry Regiment, Cecelia Stolz, Christine G. Jeziorski, David Schombs, Disabled American Veterans, Distinguished Member, Edward J Jeziorski, Emily Kaitlynn Jeziorski, Farmers, Florida, French Croix de Guerre, General Manager, Georgia, Glen Spey, Henrietta Snyder, Huntington, Jean Ramsey Jeziorski, Joan Jeziorski, John Jeziorski, John M. Jeziorski, Joseph Jeziorski, Kelly J. Nouri, Laura Czendrovska, Life member, Little Neck, Loretta Perdek, Martha Jefferson Hospital, Martin Schombs, Michael E. Jeziorski, Monmouth County, Morganton, Mrs. Cheryl Dellinger, Mutual of Omaha, New Jersey, New Port Richey, New York, North Carolina, Olivia Nouri, Paul Schombs, Purple Heart, Raymond Jeziorski, Sacred Heart Catholic Church, Salisbury, Secretary of the Army, Shenandoah Valley, Simpsonville, Smithtown, South Carolina, Static Line Magazine, Teague Funeral Home, V.F.W. Post 1827, Valerie Bifulco, Veterans, Violet Reed, Weaverville, William Robert Jeziorski, Wilmington, World War II
It is with a heavy heart that we belatedly learn of the passing of another of our Distinguished Veterans and a Valued Comrade. Through the Static Line Magazine we belatedly learn that Edward J Jeziorski, C-507th Parachute Infantry Regiment 17th Airborne Division passed away on June 16 2009. This morning I was able to contact Mrs. Cheryl Dellinger, Mr. Jeziorski’s Daughter, to obtain the information for this message. Following his service in World War II Mr Jeziorski made a career with the Mutual of Omaha in the Insurance business where he rose to the position of General Manager. Following his retirement he became very restless and went back to work selling tools and equipment to the Farmers in the Shenandoah Valley. He loved associating with the Farmers in the area. He joined our Association in 1982 and became a Life member in 1991. The cause of death was Heart Failure at the age of 88.
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Category : Shoah & Holocaust
Tags: Adolf Hitler, Alien Laws, Anti-Semitism, Byzantine flattery, French language, German Republic, Jew, Jewish American, Jewish German, Jewish Pole, Jewry, Jews
Dear Herr Gemlich
If the threat with which Jewry faces our people has given rise to undeniable hostility on the part of a large section of our people, the cause of this hostility must be sought in the clear recognition that Jewry as such is deliberately or unwittingly having a pernicious effect on our nation, but mostly in personal intercourse, in the poor impression the Jew makes as an individual. As a result, Anti-Semitism far too readily assumes a purely emotional character. But this is not the correct response. Anti-Semitism as a political movement may not and cannot be molded by emotional factors but only by recognition of the facts. Now the facts are these :
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Category : 017th-ABD, 193rd-GIR, Battle of the Bulge
Tags: 101st Airborne Division, 1172 Group Headquarters, 11th Armored Division, 155th AA Battalion, 17th Airborne Division, 22nd Tank Battalion, 257th Field Artillery Bn, 2nd French Bn, 317th Infantry Regiment, 327th Infantry, 392nd Engineer Regiment, 507th Parachute Infantry, 513th Parachute Infantry, 55th Armd Inf Bn, 56th Armd Inf Bn, 602nd TD, 680th Field Arty Bn, 707th Tank Battalion, 811th TD Battalion, A-79, Baraque Dumont, Bastogne, Bertogne, Bockholtz, Camp Chiseldon, CCA-11AD, Champs, Charleville, Compogne, Cowan, Erpeldange, Eschwieller, Flamisoul, France, Frenet, Givroulle, Halt, Hemroulle, Hosingen, Houffalize, Huldange, Longchamps, Luxembourg, Mabrompré, Marshalling Area, Massul, Membury Airfield, Meuse River, Monaville, Monty, Mourmelon, Neufchateau, Niederwiltz, Prosnes, Seaborne Echelon, Sibret, Siegfried Line, Task Force Bell, Task Force Stubbs, Tavigny, Vaux, Vaux River, Villeroux, Wiltz
Historical Record of Events for the 193rd Glider Inf Regt, Period : 19 Dec 1944 to 3 Feb 1945, 193rd Glider Infantry Regiement, Subject : Historical Record of Events, Period : 19 Dec 1944 to 3 Feb 1945, to : CG, 17th Airborne Division
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Category : EUCMH Mails Center
Tags: Afghanistan, Africa, Brook Medical Center, Cape Cod, Iraq, Jeff Pearle, Massachusetts, Randy Givens, Recon Marine, Semper Fi, Special Operations, Texas, Tim Harrington, USMC M/Sgt Eden Pearle
Harlingen, Texas, Sept 7, 2009 : When we develop enough backbone, we should seriously challenge the media on the issue of providing us with its agenda oriented and selected news coverage.
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Category : 017th-ABD, 193rd-GIR, Battle of the Bulge
Tags: 101st Airborne Division, 115th Field Arty Bn, 11th Armored Division, 193rd Combat Team, 193rd Glider Infantry Regt, 224th Med Co, 26th Infantry Division, 2nd French Bn, 382nd Engr Cbt Bn, 392nd Engr Cbt Bn, 502nd Prcht Regt, 507th Prcht Inf Regt, 513th Prcht Inf Regt, 560. Volskgrenadier Div, 5th Infantry Division, 602nd Tank Destroyer, 63rd Infantry Division, 680th Fld Arty Bn, 80th Infantry Division, 9. Panzer Division, A-79-Prunay, Aiglemont, Bastogne, Belgium, Bertogne, Bois des Valet, Boulzicourt, Camp Chiseldon, Camp Membury, Capt Cross, Capt McCrary, CCA-11AD, Chalk Red, Chalk White, Champs, Charleville-Mézières, Col Balish, Col Oswald, Col S. L. A. Marshall, Col Schorr, Compogne, Cowan, Dasburg, Doncherry, Duvall, England, Fallmuhle, Fays, Fazone, FFI, Flamierge, Flamisoul, Forces Françaises de l'Intérieur, France, Frenet, Germany, Givery, Givry, Greenham Commons, Hautbellain-(Mexico), Hemroulle, Huldange Forest-(Desert), Huldange-(Peru), Le Havre, Limerlé, Luxembourg, Mabompré, Meuse, Monthermé, Monty, Mourmelon, Noville, Obereisenbach, Orleans, Our River, Prunay, Rachamps, Renoumont, Rocroi, Rouen, Rouette, Rouvroy, SCR-536, SCR-610, Seine River, Sibret, Siegfried Line, SRC-300, Task Force Bell, Task Force Stubbs, Thilay, Vaux-sur-Sure, Vie, VIII Corps-US, Vissoule, Wattermal, Withimont
Subject : Action Against Enemy Reports, to : Commanding General, 17th Airborne Division, APO 452, c/o Postmaster, New York, NY
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Category : 075th-MED-Bn, Battle of the Bulge
Tags: 15th Aid Station, 28th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Ranger Battalion, 46th Infantry Battalion, 47th Medical Detachment, 4th Infantry Division, 5th Armored Division (US), 81st Aid Station, 83rd Infantry Division (US), 85tht Aid Station, 8th Infantry Division US, 9th Army US, Astenet, Baelen/Vesdre, Belgium, CCA-5AD, CCB-5AD, CCR-5AD, Eupen, Germany, Gey, Grosshau, Hahn, Huertgen, Kettenis, Kleinhau, ME 109, Mospert, Mularschutte, Pepinster, Roer, Roetgen, Schevenhutte, T/4 Walter Smolski, V Corps, Venwegen, Vicht, VII Corps, Waimes, Walheim, Zweifall
On Dec 1 1944, Hqs & Hqs Co was located in Waimes, Belgium. On Dec 11, the company marched to Venwegen, Germany a distance of 39-M.
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Category : EUCMH Mails Center
Tags: Bastogne, Co. I 513, Col Bart Hagerman, Erwin Flohr, Espeler, Flamierge, Hamminkeln, Hosingen, Houffalize, Luxemburg, Mahlon Nichols, Margraten Memorial, Quinten Flohr, Wesel
The seven years old son of one of our friends of the Margraten Memorial group, Erwin Flohr, is struggling with cancer. This young boy likes to receive greeting cards. Will you please be so kind and ask your friends for help. You know how important a “good mood” is for the health.
His address :
Quinten Flohr
De Kromme Geer 77
5709ME Helmond
Netherlands
This is of course a Worldwide Message and I think you could really take a moment of kindness to provide some joy for a youngster who really need help. His father is one who had adopted and decorates our 17th A/B Fallen Troopers’ Graves at Margraten Holland.
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Category : East Europa, Russia
Tags: Russian Images, World War Two
While searching for some photos to add to a text I have found some interesting photos on World War Two on the Russian Side.
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Category : Archive Stories, Robert - 513-PIR
Tags: 10th Troop Carrier Group, 15th Bombardment Squadron (Light), 16th Observation Squadron, 17th Airborne Division, 314th Troop Carrier Group, 316th Troop Carrier Group, 3rd Composite Squadron, 41st French Escadrille, 438th Troop Carrier Group, 513th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 63d Troop Carrier Group, 74th Observation Group, 97th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron, Alabama, Anthony Eden, Army Airfield, Battle of the Bulge, Bussey Plantation, Camp Forrest, Camp Mackall, Camp Miles Standish, Capt Walter R. Lawson, CG Army Air Corps, Cherbourg, Civil War, Columbus, Douglas 0-25, E Company, Edward Maley, England, English Channel, Flight B, Fort Benning, Fort Bragg, Fort Lewis, France, Frying Pan, Ft Riley, Gen George C. Marshall, Gen Hap Arnold, Georgia, Georgia Supreme Court, Henry Lewis Benning, I Troop Carrier Command, Infantry School, Infantry School of Arms, Kansas, Lawson Field, Liverpool, Lord Louis Mountbatten, Mande St Etienne, Maxwell Field, McCook Field, Montgomery, Mourmelon le Grand, New York City, North Carolina, Ohio, Operation Varsity, Portland Oregon Draft Board, President Franklin Roosevelt, Queen Elizabeth-1, Rhine River, Robert L. Bobcat Williamson, Southampton, SS Wakefield, Stuart Stryker, Taunton, Tennessee, Tidworth Barracks, Winchester
Robert L. Bobcat Williamson, E Company, 513th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 17th Airborne Division (ASN 39336775) was born on February 19 1925. Bob Williamson has several claims to notoriety, which consists of two very good reasons. First, Williamson, has become my very close friend ever since we met in 2001, at the Branson, MO, reunion. Our friendship permitted us to fondly rename each other. He is now my Bobcat and I am his Tomcat, as the two very loyal airborne feline buddies. His other claim to fame was that he was the buddy of Stuart Stryker, the winner of one of our four Medal of Honor recipients. They both volunteered for the airborne at their induction in Oregon.
Bobcat entered military service at the Portland Oregon Draft Board. From Portland, he and Stryker was bused to Fort Lewis where they first saw a paratrooper in dressed uniform. His entire group of draftees liked that look and volunteered for the paratroops and were then transported to Fort Benning, Georgia in a train that took a week. Upon arrival, they met a paratroop Sergeant, who admonished them for joining such a dangerous unit while still so young. He offered them “quit slips” should they change their minds, but there was no ‘quitter’ among them. After they all went through very rigorous physical trainings at the Frying Pan (Lawson Field) area at Fort Benning, some of the guys signed the quit slip except Patterson, Stryker and Bob, who refused to sign because they wanted the extra $50 pay per month.
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Category : Books Reviews
Tags: 1-503rd Infantry (Airborne), 1-91st Cavalry, 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team, 2-503rd Infantry (Airborne), Afghan National Army, Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, Amazon.com, Army Rangers, Bamberg, Blackfive, Camp Blessing, Deuce Four, Elizabeth Rubin, Firebases, Florida, Germanicenza, Green Berets, Hindu Kush, Iran, Iraq, Iraqi SWAT, Kunar, Marines, Michael Yon, Navy SEALS, New York Times, Observation Points, Omar, Pakistan, Paratroopers, President Reagan, Saddam, Schweinfurt, Special Forces, Special Operations, Taliban, US Special Ops
Note from Gunter : We poor Belgian People weren’t allowed to support the troops down there. We weren’t allowed to be also a part of the “Send a Hug” or “Hug a Soldier” because it was not interesting doing businesses with us because of Postage Costs. I decided then to support Michael Yon because I was able to send him money without having to feed several dozens peoples working in A/C offices around the States. I had not a lot money to send to Michael but I did because I know that Photographs as well as Historians are the best troops support everywhere in the world.
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Category : 291st-ECB, Battle of the Bulge
Tags: 002nd Infantry Division, 101st Airborne Division, 106th Infantry Division, 1111th Engineer Combat Group, 158th Engineer Combat Battalion, 168th Engineer Combat Battalion, 291st Engineer Combat Battalion, 299th Engineer Combat Battalion, 35th Engineer Combat Battalion, 3rd Armored Division, 44th Engineer Combat Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 51st Engineer Combat Battalion, 7th Armd Div, 81st Engineer Combat Battalion, 82nd A/B Div, 84th Infantry Division (US), Adolf Hitler, Antwerp, Ardenne, Bastogne, Belgium, Capt Preston Hodges, Capt Sam Scheuber, Corps of Engineers, D-Day, Distinguished Unit Citation, Egypt, France, German Panzers, Golden Lion, Hotton, Huertgen Forest, Huy, Indian Head, Istanbul, La Roche, Lt Col Clarion J. Kjeldseth, Lt Col David E. Pergrin, Lt Col Harvey Fraser, Lt Col Sam Tabet, Lt Col Thomas J. Riggs, Luxembourg, Maj Robert B. Yates, Malmedy, Malmedy Massacre, Marche, Meuse River, Odessa, Ortheuville, Ourthe River, Paris, Port Said, Pvt Bernard Michin, Pvt Lee Ishmael, Rochefort, Roer River, Saar River, Sgt Kenneth Kelly, St Vith, Stavelot, Trois-Ponts, US Army, VIII Corps, Warsaw, Wiltz, Wiltz River
Although D-day gave the western Allies a beachhead in northern France, it took them almost two months of bitter fighting to break out of the Normandy hedgerows. After the breakout, Allied armies raced across France, liberated Paris, and headed toward the German frontier. The rapid pace of the advance placed a severe strain on Allied logistics, which, along with bad weather and stiffening German resistance, slowed the offensive. By mid-December, American armies had reached the Roer River inside Germany and the West Wall along the Saar River in eastern France. Between these two fronts lay the Ardenne, a hilly, densely forested area of Belgium. The Germans had attacked France through this supposedly impassable region in 1940. In early December 1944, five American divisions and a cavalry group held the 85-mile-long Ardenne front. The difficult terrain of the region and the belief that the German army was near exhaustion had convinced the Allied commanders that the Ardenne sector was relatively safe. Thus, three of the divisions were new, full of green soldiers who had only recently arrived on the continent; the other two were recuperating from heavy losses suffered in the bitter fighting in the Huertgen forest farther north. In addition, the heavy demand for American troops in some sectors had forced Allied commanders to lightly man other portions of the front .
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