1. 8-A
2. Moosburg
3. POW for 5 months
   

1. 2-A,
2. 6-G

1. 9-B
2. POW# 23 850

1. Good Conduct 06/25/1945. 56 Med BN GO 1945-001.
2. Bronze Service Arrowhead
3. EAME/8 stars

1. Captured near Auw.
2. 9-B, Hammelburg.
3. Liberated by 4th Armored.
4. Recaptured near Nuremburg, Moosburg.
5. Liberated 05/1945

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

1. 422d Infantry Regiment Northern France, Rhineland and Ardennes Alsace
2. Named Commander of American Legion Post 221
   

1. 12-A
2. 9-B

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

1. Combat Medical Badge GO 1945-076.
2. Bert was a veteran of the U.S. Army during World War II, where he served in the Medical Corps.

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

1. 12-19-1944 near Schumberg.
2. 12-A,
3. 4-B,
4. 3-B Furstenberg Brandenburg, Prussia ,
5. 3-A

1. 12/16/1944 
2. 4-D Torgau Elbe Sachen Prussia 51,
3. 4-D

1. Dog tags sold on eBay 05/24/2013.
2. Asst Editor 422nd's "The Fighter"
3. 422d Infantry Regiment Northern France, Rhineland and Ardennes Alsace

1. 4-B,
2. KDO Zietz

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

1. 8-A
2. Moosburg

1. He graduated from Hammond Tech High School and voluntarily enlisted in the World War II Defense Effort (1943). Frank rode the MONON Rail Road to Indianapolis. After returning to Hammond, Frank received his assignment to Camp Atterbury and Fort Benning. Frank received ASTP training. Frank accomplished and excelled at an accelerated academic course at Alabama Polytechnic Institute, and served as Morse Code instructor in a parachute training program. Frank was sent overseas October 1, 1944. Frank served as Morse Code Operator with the 422nd Infantry, 106th Division, at the Battle of the Bulge, European Theatre, Germany. He was listed by the War Department Missing in Action in Germany. After liberation as a POW, Frank returned to Hammond. During his service, he earned a sharpshooter's medal, received the Combat Infantryman Badge, and the Bronze Star.
   
2. 422d Infantry Regiment Northern France, Rhineland and Ardennes Alsace

1. Purple Heart 01/24/1945.
2. Mass.
3. Purchased magazine says unit was 422/B. Purple Heart Order says 424.
4. 422d Infantry Regiment Northern France, Rhineland and Ardennes Alsace

1. 3-A
2. 4-B

1. 422d Infantry Regiment Northern France, Rhineland and Ardennes Alsace.
2. Roger served his country in the U.S. Army during World War II from August 1943 to December 1945. He attained the rank of corporal and was held as a POW during his time of service.

1. Court martialed during Battle of the Bulge. Sent home.
2. He was the Col. that joined us the night we pulled out of St. Vith. Check out page 109 in "Lion in the Way". The account is not true in many respects. At least from my prospective, since I was there, at the time.
   Bob Scherer
   

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

1. 4-F
2.  Work Camps

1. 422d Infantry Regiment Northern France, Rhineland and Ardennes Alsace.
2. Reference is listed as "59" but that is for 590th FABN members. ??
   

1. 12-A,
2. 4-B,
3. work commando 4-G
4. Leipzig

1. Combat Infantryman Badge 12/16/1944 GO 1945-051.
2. Alvin was a Corporal in the United States Army during World War II. He served in the combat infantry, was captured at the Battle of the Bulge and was a Prisoner of War.

1. 9-B
2. POW# 23 844

1. 4-B Muhlberg Sachsen
2. Died as POW

1. Combat Infantry Badge (MIA) 12/16/1944 GO 1945-051.
2. Question: How was he KIA yet in a POW camp?
   

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

1. 9-B Bad Orb Hessen-Nassau, Prussia.
2. Berga Am Elster. After he revealed to the Germans that he was Jewish.
3. Escaped during a march to avoid the advancing Americans.
4. Stole a turnip.
5. German family kept them hidden for three days until the Americans arrived.

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. 9-A

1. 4-F
2. Work Camps

1. 4-B Muhlberg Sachsen
2. Died as POW

1. newspaper article body returned to states for re-burial by Kriegshauser mortuary
2. 422d Infantry Regiment Northern France, Rhineland and Ardennes Alsace

1. 4-B,
2. 3-B Furstenberg Brandenburg, Prussia ,
3. 3-A

1. Captured 12/19/1944.
2. 12-A,
3. 4-B,
4. 3-B Furstenberg Brandenburg, Prussia ,
5. 3-A.
6. Liberated 05/02/1945 by Russians

1. "The first night we spent in the pill box we were hit repeatedly with the multiple rockets called screaming meemies. When I left the pill box I could not recognize the area at all."
2. "I noticed the German civilians were more apt to throw food to the captured black solders. I made it a point to march directly behind them so as to catch any food they missed.
3. We were so tired we found ourselves falling down and it made us wake up. We passed a field with sugar beets still in the ground. We ran to the field and ripped the beets out of the ground, We ate through the dirt we were so hungry.
4. After the war went to college on the GI Bill and became a mechanical Engineer
   

• Combat Medical Badge GO 1945-076
• Ed Christianson 7/2007 - Jim, These are the names of men of the 331st/C who autographed the 106th Big Picture Books of Ray Cole and myself.

1. 4-F
2. Work Camps

1. 422d Infantry Regiment Northern France, Rhineland and Ardennes Alsace.
2. Post-Star,Glens Falls, NY. 08/21/2003: POW Honored in Washington DC. Lawrence"Josh" Fifield was honored as this month's veteran. An automatic rifleman. From Dec to May he was kept as a POW in Germany. Anna Fifield said he didn't talk much about it. He wanted to forget it. He served in Ardennes and Rhineland and received Am Serv, WW2 Victory, EAME and CIB. He was discharged 12/01/1945

1. 12-A
2. 9-B

1. 9-B Bad Orb Hessen-Nassau, Prussia
2. 13-B Hammelburg, Bavaria Germany
3. POW # 25 131
   
4. Liberated 05/12/1945

1. MIA since 12/16/1944.
2. newspaper article Observer Charlotte NC 01/04/1977
   
3. 422d Infantry Regiment Northern France, Rhineland and Ardennes Alsace

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

1. Combat Medical Badge GO 1945-076
2. 12/28/1944 - Sgt Kenneth Finlayson was cut by flying glass while on duty in the admission room.
3. Purple Heart 12/29/1944 GO 1945-002
   
4. Brigadier General Perrin, Div Comdr., came to the Cir Sta and in a formal ceremony presented the order of the Purple Heart.
5. Recalled to service in the Korean War and served at the Percy Jones Army Medical Center, Ann Arbor MI.
6. He was a decorated veteran of World War II and the Korean War. A combat medic in the 106th Infantry Division, he earned the Purple Heart and Bronze Star medal at the Battle of the Bulge. He participated in four campaigns in the European Theater and was awarded the Good Conduct Medal, American Theater Medal, Victory Medal and the Combat Medical Badge. He was recalled to service in the Korean War and served at the Percy Jones Army Medical Center in Ann Arbor Michigan.

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

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. POW camp unknown
2. Died as POW

1. Bronze Star for meritorious service in connection with operations against the enemy 11/17/1944 to 05/08/1945 in England, Belgium, France and Germany. GO 1945-060
2. Combat Medical Badge GO 1945-076
3. NJ

1. Combat Infantryman Badge 12/16/1944 GO 1945-051
2. Silver Star for gallantry in action 12/18/1944 in Germany. When his leading vehicle attempted to penetrate the German lines and join friendly units, a direct hit by an 88mm shell destroyed the vehicle. Pfc Fischer and Pfc Spencer immediately manned the vehicle's machine gun while a third soldier ran back to warn the approaching convoy. Ignoring the intense 88mm, automatic and small arms fire they delivered such effective fire that the hostile 88 gun and two machine guns were silenced. Only when they ran out of ammunition, did they leave the position and rejoined the convoy. GO 1945-041,

1. 4-B,
2. 4-G
3. Escaped
   

Combat Infantryman Badge (as 423/2 BN/G) 12/16/1944 GO 1945-051

1. 3-B Furstenberg Brandenburg, Prussia ,
2. 8-A
3. Moosburg

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

1. 13-B Weiden Bavaria
2. POW # 25 336
   

1. 422d Infantry Regiment Northern France, Rhineland and Ardennes Alsace.
2. Bruce became a Lieutenant in WW2 and served in the Battle of the Bulge.

1. 13-B Weiden Bavaria
   
2. POW # 24 982
   

1. Captured . When American tank fire broke a hole in the fence, he escaped. Stopped by a roadblock, he broke away from the group. Traveling for four days they were befriended by a villager and hid in his barn. April 6th they were rescued by American troops.
2. 422d Infantry Regiment Northern France, Rhineland and Ardennes Alsace

1. Captured near Schonberg.
2. XI-B.
3. Liberated 04/16/1945 south of Hanover, Germany

1. Combat Medical Badge GO 1945-076.
2. Hugh entered the Army in 1942 serving in the Medical Corps. He was captured in 1944 and was a POW for 4 long months. Following his liberation, he was decorated and received the Purple Heart medal. He was featured in a book authored by his grandson called "A Medics War".

1. Combat Medical Badge GO 1945-076
   
2. Corporal Fisher has been missing in action since Dec. 21 following enemy action in Germany, a war department message to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred L. Fisher, 1010 Lafayette street, reported Monday. Corporal Fisher was serving with a medical battalion of the 106th division in Germany. He entered army service Mar. 10, 1943, and arrived in England in November, 1944. In a letter to his parents dated Dec. 10, he told of his arrival in France and that he had moved on into Belgium. Another letter dated Dec. 12 told of his arrival in Germany. Waterloo Daily Courier, Waterloo, Iowa
3. Stateside promotion to Sgt. T. O'Conner 01/12/2016
4. Suffered shrapnel wounds when American P-51's strafed the boxcars they were in.
   

1. See Lt. Haines account of the battle under "Grosslangenfeld" link.
2. CUB 1981-9/10/11/12, CUB 1988-10/11/12, CUB 2014-March,

1. 3-A
2.  work camps

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

1. 3-A
2. work camps

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

1. 4-A Airfield at Dresden-Klotsche,
2. 13 work camps,
3. Slaughterhouse 5, Dresden, Germany
   

1. POW
2. Liberated and in hospital in England

1. Combat Medical Badge GO 1945-076
2. newspaper article confirming POW status

1. Assigned to 106 ID 02/12/1943. 106 INF SO 1943-036.
2. Find A Grave #74 359 205

1. Captured 12/19/1944.
2.  4-B,
3.  8-A.
4. Liberated 04/14/1945 by Russians

• Pfc Fleischman and Pfc Freedman were transferred to be part of cadre for the new Co. "B", which is being formed at Camp Atterbury.
• Combat Medical Badge GO 1945-076
• Bronze Star for heroic achievement in action against the enemy 12/25/1944 in Belgium. GO 1945-008
  
• PA

1. Purple Heart 01/03/1945.
2. newspaper article marries Nancy Montgomery

1. 4-B,
2. 13-B Hammelburg, Bavaria, Germany
3. POW # 311 881
   
4. Neurenburg,
5. Mooseburg,
6. Muklberg

1. Captured Grosslangenfeld.
2. 4-B,
3. 8-A

1. William Borst diary & map.
2. Grouped with William Borst & Roy Mechling as POWs,
3. See Lt. Haines account of the battle under "Grosslangenfeld" link.
4. One of 4 authors of map shown in Grosslangenfeld link.
   

1. 12/17/1944.
2. Liberated 05/1945

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

1. 12-A
2. 9-B

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

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

1. 3-A
2. work camps

1. 12-A
2. 9-B

1. 8-A.
2. Moosburg

1. 12-A
2.  9-B Limburg An Der Lahn Hessen-Nassau, Prussia

1. newspaper article confirming POW status
2. 422d Infantry Regiment Northern France, Rhineland and Ardennes Alsace

1. 8-A
2. Moosburg

1. 9-B Bad Orb Hessen-Nassau, Prussia
2. 13-B Hammelburg, Bavaria, Germany
   POW # 095 392
   

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

1. 9-B,
2. 12/19/1944,
3. Prum,
4. 9-B,
5. 9-A.

1. 12-A
2.  others

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

1. 422d Infantry Regiment Northern France, Rhineland and Ardennes Alsace.
2. Doctor Horticulture-Plant Physiology from Iowa State
   

1. 9-B
2. POW# 23 891

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

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.

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

1. Silver Star for gallantry in action on 12/17/1944 in Belgium. Repeatedly climbed telephone poles in view of the enemy to maintain communications with commanding general. GO 1945-007.
2. See also Williams, Earle, Lt Col

1. 422d Infantry Regiment Northern France, Rhineland and Ardennes Alsace.
2. A native of Alamance County, he was a retired employee of Western Electric, an Army veteran of World War II, and former prisoner of war.

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

1. 12-A
2. 9-B

1. 8-A
2. Moosburg