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VFW Post 328 News JUNE 2018 - VOLUME 5 - ISSUE 6 VFW Post 328 News JUNE 2018 - VOLUME 5 - ISSUE 6 Mother Post of Wisconsin STOUGHTON, WISCONSIN SAILORS DRESSED AS SOLDIERS D-DAY JUNE 6, 1944 7/01/17-6/30/18 Commander: Scott Richmond Phone - (608)516-1460 Sr. Vice: Ilein Taipe Jr. Vice: Dewayne Lloyd Qtr. Master: Vic Duesel Asst. Qtr. Master: Rick Kumlien Chaplain: Rob Kojo Judge Advocate: Rod Nedlose Surgeon: Rod Haried Trustees: 3 Bradley Stepp 2 Rodney Nedlose 1 Rod Haried Officer of the Day: Clarence Osland VFW Dues: $38.00 Web site address: http://www.stoughtonvfw.org/ Email: [email protected] Phone: 608-873-9042 Jun 6th Cootie Scratch 6:30pm And on the lighter side: Jun 19TH House Committee 5:00 pm Post Meeting 6:30 pm Auxiliary Mtg. 6:30 pm Editor: Doug “Ole” Olson (608) 873-8924 [email protected] Bar/Hall Rental: (608) 873-9042 Manager: Jean Torgerson Auxiliary Dues: $20.00 Article Submission Deadline: 20th of each month FROM THE DESK OF THE AUXILIARY PRESIDENT Greeting to all: Auxiliary Officers President: Edee March Where did spring go? Summer came fast and soon Sr. Vice: Evelyn Kahl the year will be half over. Time flies by so take time to enjoy Jr. Vice: Linda Schmidt Secretary: Linda Schmidt life. Treasurer: Jody Kumlien Chaplain: Annette Klingaman Election of officers was held and at our next meeting Guard: Judy Casey Conductress: Nita Halverson the swearing in of officers and new members will take place. Patriotic Inst.: Annette Thank you all for stepping up. Klingaman Flag Bearer: Judy Casey Historian: Evelyn Kahl A BIG THANK YOU to ALL who helped make Banner Bearer: Nita Halverson the Memorial Day Parade a success. Buddy Poppy: Linda Schmidt We meet on the 3rd Tuesday In April we donated 57.8 #s of food to the Food Pantry. With a busy of every month – 6:30 summer coming up please continue with your donations. It’s by the bench in the hallway. Needed especially are healthy snacks, juice, breakfast foods, etc. To our Graduates, a whole new world begins for you. Wishing you the best in whatever endeavor you take on. CONGRATULATIONS!!!! Be safe, relax, enjoy the nice weather. God Bless You All Edee March, Auxiliary President UP COMING MARCH EVENTS June 9th Freedom Riders Poker Run June 14th Flag Day June 17th HAPPY FATHERS DAY! June 19th Auxiliary Meeting – 6:30 th June 27 PTSD Awareness Day IT’S BEEN A GREAT RUN To my friends, fellow VFW members and subscribers: I want to thank all of you for your support, your contributions, your comments and yes, your critiques with regards our monthly newsletter, during my term as editor. It’s been my hope that I have provided some useful information, and perhaps a smile or two along the way, with some of my mindless drivel. Hopefully someone will step forward before long and pick up where I have had to leave off. As for me, it’s on to another phase in my life, new challenges, new rewards. Sayonara, Ole - MEET YOUR NEW POST COMMANDER! ILEIN TAIPE This past May 15th, Ilein was sworn in as the new Commander of VFW Post 328 and will assume the duties of that position on July 1st. Previous to that she was the Senior Vice Commander. She is not only a Life Member of the VFW Post 328, but a member of American Legion Post 59 in Stoughton as well. Ilein was born in New York City and received her El/Hi education in Queens, NY. Subsequent to her high school graduation, and at the urging of her mother, she confirmed her initial decision to join the “Branch - One and Only Marine Corps.” (the Few, the Proud, the Marines). She said she needed to find out why the Marine Corps had 13 weeks of Boot Camp and the other branches had fewer than that. She was initially shipped to Okinawa, Japan after boot camp but in 2006, served in Iraq during Operation Iraqi Freedom. Although at the time, women were not assigned combat roles, she volunteered, and being a Gunnery Sergeant, took charge of seven other volunteer female Marines for frontline checkpoint duty along the borders with Jordan and Syria. Their assignment was to check female travelers for among other things, explosives. With Ilein’s leadership, all on her team not only returned safely but were recognized by the Marine Corps for their outstanding contribution to the operation. They also served as a model for similar teams which were to follow. In 2013, at the end of a proud 21-year career in the Marine Corps, she retired as a Master Sergeant (E-8), earning 2 Navy Commendations, 2 Navy Achievement Medals, 1 Marine Security Guard Medal, 1 Drill Instructor Medal, 7 good conduct Medals and the National Defense Medal. Civilian life first lead her to work for a Catastrophic Claims Company, which specialized in hiring veterans. The job entailed considerable nationwide travel and having a young son (Jonah), she eventually decided to finish getting her Bachelor’s Degree and attended Concordia University in Madison. She graduated in May and has since taken a position with the Dane County Department of Corrections. (Not that our new commander isn’t busy enough, she is also a part-time bartender at the Post.) Ilein and Jonah have made Stoughton their home and are very happy to be a part of the community. She ended her interview by commenting: “Stay tuned, her plans are to run for Town Chairman or possibly even Mayor!” Semper Fi! MSgt. Taipe (Second from the right) Contributed by Evelyn Kahl SAILORS DRESSED LIKE SOLDIERS A book about Navy medicine in World War II understandably might overlook the secretly trained U.S. Navy medical teams, NBBs (Naval Beach Battalion). The NBBs operated aid stations on the beach on Omaha Beach, 6 June 1944. Military historians rarely mention the amphibious sailors of the Normandy invasion, including 18 Navy doctors and 144 corpsmen, who landed in the early hours of D-Day. Working together, the ESBs (Engineer Special Brigade) and the NBBs formed a link between land and sea forces. The NBBs operated aid stations on the beach and directed the Normandy landings and the shore-to-ship phase of the seaward evacuation of casualties. Operation Overlord's evacuation problem was to shield the demoralizing sight of heavy casualties from the battle troops scheduled to go ashore later in the morning on D-Day. The U.S. NBBs and their British counterparts, elements of the Royal Marine Commandos, were distributed among many LCI(L)s (US Coast Guard - Landing Craft Infantry – Large) to ensure that a direct hit would not wipe out an entire unit. Amphibious warfare instructions for medical personnel warned that "It is essential on landing to seek immediate cover. Only two people are seen on a modern battlefield—one who is a casualty and one who is just about to become a casualty." The 45 NBB sailors who made the D-Day landing at H+65 that morning went ashore to an apparent military disaster. Among a number of unfortunate events, most of the H-hour assault tanks scheduled to lead the charge onto Omaha were at the bottom of the English Channel or burning on the beach. The resulting casualty rate of the H+1/minute invasion troops and the Army-Navy gap assault teams was appalling. The Overlord nightmare of wounded U.S. servicemen piling up on the beach already had become a reality. While beach battalion personnel joined the assault, the medical teams, including injured doctors and corpsmen, set up aid stations and immediately began performing their humanitarian duties. So many soldiers and sailors were wounded in the tidal flat that it was difficult for the corpsmen to distinguish the living from the dead. Medical conditions were catastrophic, as the rising tide was drowning dying men and washing bodies ashore in the pink, murky water. The amphibious sailors, forced to drag casualties from the surf toward the enemy's murderous guns, became casualties themselves. Out in the channel, pilotless landing craft filled with dead GIs were circling aimlessly while 1,300 yards down the beach, the LCI(L)-91 and LCI(L)-92 were on fire. The unanticipated degree of carnage and destruction of equipment necessitated the scavenging of medical supplies from the dead. To avoid further chaos, the Navy Beachmaster, a beach battalion commander, radioed a temporary halt to the landings at 0830. While sailors assumed combat roles in support of the infantry, officers and men of the battalions worked with the gap assault teams in clearing beach obstacles and mines. Navy doctors and corpsmen, working beside their Army counterparts, remained extremely busy while the surgical teams on the hospital tank landing ships (LSTs) prepared to receive heavy casualties. Not until 1130 on D-Day did battle conditions improve so that the beach battalions were able to begin evacuating the wounded and dying. When darkness fell over the beaches, assault craft no longer could pick up casualties in the dangerous surf. Near the Easy Red evacuation site, suffering men were heard crying on the beach, as morphine supplies were exhausted. A warming fire for those in shock would mean instant death from German snipers. Having witnessed the gruesome death of his partner, 18-year-old Navy Corpsman R. W. Borden begged frantically for blankets as more Army troops came ashore. Not all could be saved, however, and the mortally wounded began pleading with the medical officers to end their misery. Around midnight, dying Americans were lifted into rubber rafts, and the amphibious sailors, without oars, made a desperate attempt to "dog-paddle" them through the mined surf out to the LSTs.
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