Combat Infantryman Badge 12/16/1944 GO 1945-051

Combat Infantryman Badge 12/16/1944 GO 1945-051

Combat Infantryman Badge 12/16/1944 GO 1945-051

1. 9-B
2. POW# 23 931

1. 81st Engineer Combat Battalion Cited for Action in Germany from 12/16 to 12/23/1944.
2. Served in both Pacific and European Theaters
   

1. Purple Heart 12/25/1944
2. AL

1. newspaper article returned to Baltimore.
2. newspaper article marries Barbara Swiggett.
3. He was a veteran of the U.S. Army, serving in World War II, where he fought in the Battle of the Bulge. He was a life member of the 106th Infantry Division Association

1. 9-B
2. POW# 23 715

1. 12-A,
2. 4-B,
3. KDO Sandesdorf

Combat Infantryman Badge 12/16/1944 GO 1945-051

1. He served as Sergeant in the U.S. Army, 106th Division, 422nd Infantry. He survived 104 days in captivity as a POW in the Battle of the Bulge (Germany) and received the Purple Heart.
2. 422d Infantry Regiment Northern France, Rhineland and Ardennes Alsace

Combat Infantryman Badge 12/16/1944 GO 1945-051

Combat Infantryman Badge 12/16/1944 GO 1945-051

Combat Infantryman Badge 12/16/1944 GO 1945-051

1. Fol EM 3d Inf trfd in gr to units indicated as Cadre pers to report at Div Reorgn Area 3 Apr 45: EDCMR: 3 Apr 45. Auth VOCG 15th US Army. SO 66 03/31/1945.
2. He served in World War II in a field artillary unit under General Patton and then he transferred to Fort Hood.

1. Captured 12/16/1944 near St. Vith.
2. 3-A
3. Work Camps.
4. Liberated by Russians 06/06/1945.

1. Combat Medical Badge GO 1945-076.
2. SGT US Army World War II, Korea, Vietnam

1. 9-A,
2. 9-B

1. 12-A
2. 9-B

1. 13-B
2. POW # 25 335
3. Oflag 73

Combat Infantryman Badge 12/16/1944 GO 1945-051

Combat Infantryman Badge 12/16/1944 GO 1945-051

1. 12-A
2. 9-B

• Purple Heart 12/29/1944 GO 1945-002
• Brigadier General Perrin, Div Comdr., came to the Cir Station and in a formal ceremony presented the order of the Purple Heart
• Combat Medical Badge GO 1945-076
• Missouri

Combat Infantryman Badge 12/16/1944 GO 1945-051

1. 4-B,
2. Gleina, Germany

Combat Infantryman Badge 12/16/1944 GO 1945-051

Combat Infantryman Badge 12/16/1944 GO 1945-051

1. NOT a POW - Just needed the space.  Basic training in Death Valley CA with 305th QM. Left overseas late 11/1943. Treated for pneumonia in Winchester England and again in France 1944. Couldn't talk above a whisper for a month. Transferred from 6974 Reinforcement Depot to 106th/422 INF/C.  Transferred to 118th Regt. Treated for gunshot wound in France. Given some kind of medicine every 4 hours. Had to sign a paper as they didn't know what the effect might be, at 193 General Hospital. Transferred to 922 HAM Ordnance to ship back to the USA on the Queen Mary.
2. The medicine he was given could have been penicillin, which was fairly new at the time. 
3. His mess kit cup was stolen at some point and he went a good distance away to "obtain a replacement". The replacement he found was actually his as he had hand engraved the countries he'd been in. I still have the cup.

1. 4-B,
2. 4-A Hohnstein, Saxony

1. 2-A 
2. 12/1944

1. newspaper article - sent card home saying he was a POW.
2. 422d Infantry Regiment Northern France, Rhineland and Ardennes Alsace

1. 9-B
2. POW# 24 040

1. Oflag 13-B
2. POW # 311 780

1. 8-A.
2. Moosburg

Combat Infantryman Badge 12/16/1944 GO 1945-051

1. 8-A,
2. Moosburg

1. Captured after a German sympathizer alerted the Germans to their hiding place in the village of Werth. Captured, tortured, beaten and finally shot dead. The 99th INF DIV discovered the eleven mutilated bodies 12/17/1944.
2. Members of the 333rd Artillery Battalion who were killed in Wereth, Belgium, Dec. 17, 1944: Staff Sgt. Thomas Forte, Cpl. Mager Bradley, technicians William Pritchett and James Stewart, Privates First Class George Davis, James Leatherwood, George Moten, Due Turner and Privates Curtis Adams, Robert Green and Nathaniel Moss.
3. George was from Alabama, ranked Private First Class in the U.S. Army's all-black 333rd Field Artillery Battalion, serving in Liege, Belgium, during the Battle of the Bulge (a.k.a. the Ardennes Offensive) towards the end of WWII.
   "The 11 were buried in temporary graves in Europe until 1947, when their families were contacted about permanent burial options... Seven of the dead are buried at the U.S. Military Cemetery at Henri-Chapelle, Liege, Belguim. The others were returned to the United States for burial."
   Also commemorated here Wreath 11 Memorial Site

Combat Infantryman Badge 12/16/1944 GO 1945-051

1. Combat Infantryman Badge 12/16/1944 GO 1945-051
2. MIA since 12/21/1944
   

1. 4-B
2. Also POW in Korea for 37 months with 24th Div, 21st Regt, Co I.

Combat Infantryman Badge 12/16/1944 GO 1945-051

1. II-A
2. VI-G

1. 3-A
2. work camps

1. 4-B,
2. Slaughterhouse 5, Dresden, Germany

Combat Infantryman Badge 12/16/1944 GO 1945-051

1. Vice Division Special Services Officer 01/06/1945.
2. Bronze Star for meritorious service in connection with military operations against the enemy 10/15/1944 to 05/08/1945 in England, Belgium, France and Germany. GO 1945-049,

1. Szubin, Poland.
2. Marched north by guards when Russians approached
3. Escaped and spent a month wandering Poland

1. 3-A
2. work camps

1. 13-B
   
2. POW # 25 485
   
3. 12/19/1944

1. Combat Infantryman Badge 12/16/1944 GO 1945-051
2. Company Commander 423/HQ from 01/1943 to capture 12-19-1944. Many of his letters home were sold on Ebay 2007.
3. newspaper article death notice.
4. SAMUEL ELIJAH DAVIS, JR of Sarasota, FL
   He was Episcopalian by faith. Samuel was a POW of WWII in Germany and he was a proud member of the 106th Division.

1. 422d Infantry Regiment Northern France, Rhineland and Ardennes Alsace.
2. Freed from 43-mile march, days without food. Full story in paper.
   

1. Combat Medical Badge GO 1945-076
2. Bronze Star for heroic achievement in action against the enemy 12/16/1944 to 12/18/1944 in Germany.
3. Mentioned in Unit History 331/C
4. Indiana
5. Paul served as a medic with 106th Infantry Div. during WWII.

Combat Infantryman Badge 12/16/1944 GO 1945-051

1. 422d Infantry Regiment Northern France, Rhineland and Ardennes Alsace.
2. He was a veteran of WWII, having been a P.O.W. the last six months. He was given a lifetime membership in the Old Hickory Area Chamber of Commerce "for a lifetime of service by the people of Old Hickory." He was on the board of the Old Hickory Veterans Committee.

1. POW camp unknown
2. Died as POW

Combat Infantryman Badge 12/16/1944 GO 1945-051

Combat Infantryman Badge 12/16/1944 GO 1945-051

1. 81st Engineer Combat Battalion Cited for Action in Germany from 12/16 to 12/23/1944.
2. He served in the U.S. Army Combat Engineers in the 106 Division in the European Theater and received four Battle Stars.

1. 3-A
2. Work Camps

1. 4-B,
2. Slaughterhouse 5, Dresden, Germany

1. Bronze Star War Department GO 1947-070.
2. The Regimental Supply Sergeant, Master Sergeant John L. Hall of Port Allegheny, Pennsylvania, was enroute from Division D.P. with rations on the morning of 16 December. Encountering enemy small arms fire at Schönberg he set up a machine gun in a German farm house. He was finally captured when tanks appeared on the scene. Breaking away with Pvt. Edgar M. Decker of Lee, Massachusetts, he returned to St. Vith, secured trucks and an armored escort and again started back with the rations which he knew would be desperately needed. His trucks were knocked out by German armor but he and Pvt. Decker again returned to Division D.P. loaded trucks and waited in vain for armor to clear the road to Schnee‑Eifel.

1. Stalag 3A
2. work camps

1. Assignment as Aide-de-Camp to BG Perrin, GO 1945-054, 08.03/1945
2. Relieved as Aide-de-Camp 08/13/1945 GO 1945-061

1. Silver Star (as 424/AT) for gallantry in action 12/16/1944 in Germany. Remaining at his post after having been painfully wounded during the intense barrage that signaled theenemy's Ardennes attack, he heroically kept his 57mm anti-tank gun inaction despite a continuing rain of German mortar and artillery fire. Observing three enemy tanks supported by infantry approaching, he coolly withheld his fire until they moved to within 150 yards. The, completely surprising the enemy, and with telling accuracy, he knocked out tow of the tanks in quick succession. When his gun was demolished by a direct hit, and he was forced to withdraw, he skillfully led his shock-dazed crew to safety. GO 1945-065
2. Delaware

Combat Infantryman Badge 12/16/1944 GO 1945-051

1. 11-B
2. Liberated 04/1945
   

1. Combat Infantryman Badge 12/16/1944 GO 1945-051
2. Issued a wooden ID tag by XI-B.
3. Jeep driver for 1st Platoon leader, 2LT Stein.
4. Hit by shrapnel behind left leg, and Capt Clarkson KIA by direct hit from 88's
5. After surrender, drove an American 6x6 hauling POWs to a railroad station.
6. David was drafted into theArmy in 1943. During Army Specialized Training at Alfred University, he met hisfuture wife, Carolyn Howe. After acceptance as an Aviation Cadet, whileawaiting preflight training, the program was discontinued and he was reassignedinto the 106th Infantry. They boarded the Queen Elizabeth to Glasgow, Scotlandand eventually arrived in St. Vith, Belgium, the point of the infamous Battleof the Bulge. There his company suffered heavy losses and survivors were takenprisoner. He was wounded in battle, then transported to Stalag X1 B in Germany.In April of 1945, the camp was liberated and he was transferred by hospitalship to England.

1. Oflag 13-B
2. POW # 25 557

1. 4-B,
2. KDO 1315

1. he told my cousin that he and another soldier hid in a hole for a night and were able to avoid capture. by granddaughter K. Hutchison 01/10/2021.
2. Of the 96 Men assigned to Service Company only 24 were not captured. Seven of the men he served with in Service Company died--including his company commander. 3 died during the battle or wounds received during the battle, 3 died in the bombing at the rail yard near Limberg, and one died from malnutrition.

Combat Infantryman Badge 12/16/1944 GO 1945-051

Combat Infantryman Badge 12/16/1944 GO 1945-051

• Combat Medical Badge (as 331/Medic) GO 1945-076
• Pvt Joseph R. DeLizio, xxxxxxxx, was assigned to our company from the 424th Infantry Regt per Par 1, SO #9 Hq 331 Med Bn

1. 422d Infantry Regiment Northern France, Rhineland and Ardennes Alsace.
2. Georgia MSGT US Army World War II Korea PH
   

Combat Infantryman Badge 12/16/1944 GO 1945-051

1. 12-A,
2. 4-B,
3. 4-F

Combat Infantryman Badge 12/16/1944 GO 1945-051

1. 81st Engineer Combat Battalion Cited for Action in Germany from 12/16 to 12/23/1944.
2. A veteran of World War II, and a recipient of a battlefield commission given by General Omar Bradley, following the ``Battle of the Bulge'', he also served in Korea as a platoon leader in the Combat Engineers. After Korea, he became a member of the 411th Civil Affairs Company (USAR) of Hartford, and was public information officer for the compan y. He held the rank of Major.

Combat Infantryman Badge 12/16/1944 GO 1945-051

Combat Infantryman Badge 12/16/1944 GO 1945-051

1. 12-A
2. 9-B

Combat Infantryman Badge 12/16/1944 GO 1945-051

1. 9-B
2. Work camps

1. 9-B Limburg An Der Lahn Hes
2. 9-A
3. Liberated 3/30/45

1. 2-A
2. 6-G

1. newspaper article marries Patricia Edwards.
2. 422d Infantry Regiment Northern France, Rhineland and Ardennes Alsace.
3. Dave attended Culver Military Academy, Duke University, and Cornell University prior to World War II; and graduated from the University of Colorado upon returning. He served in the US Army in the United States and Europe during World War II including a six-month period in which he was a Prisoner Of War in Germany. Dave received the Bronze Star and Purple Heart during his military service.

1. 12-A
2. 9-B

1. Fol EM 3d Inf trfd in gr to units indicated as Cadre pers to report at Div Reorgn Area 3 Apr 45: EDCMR: 3 Apr 45. Auth VOCG 15th US Army. SO 66 03/31/1945.
2. Peter was one of the last surviving World War 11 Veterans.

Combat Infantryman Badge 12/16/1944 GO 1945-051

1. 12-A
2. 9-B

Combat Infantryman Badge 12/16/1944 GO 1945-051

1. Purple Heart 01/13/1945 - While on detached service with the 424th. He was struck by a shell fragment on the right thigh. The wound was not serious enough for evacuation.
2. Bronze Star for meritorious service in connection with military operations against the enemy on 01/13/1945 in Belgium.
3. NY
4. Combat Medical Badge 06/24/1945 GO 1945-045,

Combat Infantryman Badge 12/16/1944 GO 1945-051

Combat Infantryman Badge 12/16/1944 GO 1945-051

Combat Infantryman Badge 12/16/1944 GO 1945-051

Combat Infantryman Badge 12/16/1944 GO 1945-051

Combat Infantryman Badge 12/16/1944 GO 1945-051