As Veterans of World War II we often live our daily lives and soon forget many of the events that were part of our lives during our Service in the war effort. One tragic event that I will never forget was the terrible Horsa Glider Crash on the Greenham Commons Air Base on December 12, 1944, some 65 years ago.
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Dec
07
2009
Posted by Snafu | Comments : 15853(0)http://www.eucmh.com/2009/12/07/del-townsend-lest-we-forget-12121944/Del+Townsend+%3A+Lest+we+Forget+12%2F12%2F19442009-12-07+16%3A58%3A49Snafu
Category : Archive Stories, Col Del Townsend
Tags: 17th Airborne Division, 194th Glider Inf Rgt (US), A Co, Basic Training, British Horsa Glider, C Co., Camp Forrest, Camp Mackall, Camp Miles Standish, Capt William Hunter, CG4A Waco Glider, Chief Warrant Officer Ira Smith, England, Fort Benning, Greenham Commons Air Base, Hoffman, Horsa Glider, Joe Quade, Jump School, Laurenburg Maxton Air Field, Lt Charles Albury, Maj James Klock, Mr Chris Green, North Carolina, Parachute School, Royal British Legion, Small Unit Training, Swindon, Tennessee, Tennessee Maneuvers, USS Wakefield, Walt Wrzeszczynski
Sep
02
2009
Posted by Snafu | Comments : 9157(0)http://www.eucmh.com/2009/09/02/e-51317ab-robert-l-bobcat-wilson-39336775/Robert+L.+Williamson+513-PIR2009-09-02+11%3A01%3A24Snafu
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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Jun
29
2009
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Category : 099th-ID, 324th-MED, Battle of the Bulge
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HEADQUARTERS, 99TH INFANTRY DIVISION
Office of the Division Surgeon
A.P.O. 449, c/o Postmaster
New York, New York
SUBJECT : Medical History, 99th Infantry Division.
TO : The Surgeon General, US Army, Washington, DC
(Through Technical Channels).
The Medical History of the 99th Infantry Division for the calendar year 1944 is submitted in compliance with instructions in paragraph 6, AR 40-1005, Circular Letter No. 168, 1942, No. 81, 1943, Office of the Surgeon General, and Circular Letter No. 143, 1944, Office of the Chief Surgeon, ETO, United States Army.














