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1985 Reunion Booklet Part 3 (Compiled from Chronicle- Telegram files) May 2, 1945 Ceintihiiiiin The German armies of May 5, 1945 Northern Italy and West• ern Austria, affecting The remnants of the Ger• between 600,000 to 900,000 man army group in Austria I men, unconditionally sur• surrendered, leaving Norway I rendered to the Allies. and Czechoslovakia the only to ViClOP!! Two American armies large pockets of Nazi resist- i drove into the last 40-mile ance in Europe. April 28, 1945 T stretch before Berchtes- German troops surrender-; gaden from the north and ed throughout Denmark and The German High Com• west, meeting only sporad• Danish police began rounding mand admitted that Russian ic opposition from an up Nazi collaborators. | siege forces had slashed to enemy shaken by the Ger• the Brandenburg gnte and man announcement of May 6, 1945 Alexander platz in the heart; Hitler's death. Adolf Hitler's body has of Berlin. The suicide garri• Marshal Karl Von Run- been hidden so well that it | son of the mined capital stedt, former commander never will be found, Nazi I virtnaiiy had been wiped out in chief of German armies propagandist Hans i with the idiiing or capture of on the Western Front, who Fritsche told his Russian 19,500 Nazi troops. masterminded the Battle captors. of the Bulge, was captured April 29, 1945 by the 38tb Division at Bad May 7, 1945 ' Toelz, 24 miles south of The German radio at Berlin. American and Russian Flenshnrg said that Fueh• troops effected a second rer Karl Doenitz. had juncture on the Elbe River Mays, 1945 The unconditional sur• nnconditionaiiy snrrender- below Berlin broadening to render of all German: ed "all German fighting 50 miles the AiUed wedge forces in Holland, Den• troops" to the Allies. ; - between Germany's col• mark, Norway and Czecho• London prepared to wel• lapsing northern and south• slovakia was reportedly come the victory it bought j ern fronts. concluded. : with six years of war's Allied victory in itaiy Germans surrendered agony, hardship and death. was announced by Gen. Hamburg, the Belch's larg• Doenitz ordered Germa• Mark W. Qark in a trium• est port and second city, ny's U-hoat fleet, most phant proclamation that 25 without a fight and began a potent weapon left the German divisions had been mass flight by sea from the I shattered Reich, to cease "torn to pieces" and no northern redoubt, presum• hostilities and return to longer could resist effec• ably for a last stand in .port. tively the U.S. Fifth and Norway. CBS correspondent British Eighth Armies. The conquest of Italy Edward Mnrrow broadcast Allied troops liberated cost the U.S. more than from London that Prime 32,000 persons at the 100,000 combat casualties, Minister Churcliill and notorious Dachau Death U. S. Sec. of War Henry L. President Truman had Camp, north of Munich. Stimson disclosed. j been prepared to broadcast official surrender news hut April 30, 1945 ' Victorious Red Army troops searched the ruins were delayed because of captured Berlin for the Premier Stalin was not A , British spokesman bodies of Hitler and his ready. said that th^ was no crippled henchman Paul J. i May 8, i94S ~^ ^ longer a western front as a G 06 h he is, propaganda- result of the American- President Truman in minister. Bnssian junction in announcing the "uncondi• Germany and that hence• May 4, 1945 tional surrender" of I forth military descriptions All German forces in Germany, told the country \ of the fighting will refer to northwestern Germany, that the war was only half "the northern and southern Denmark and Holland over and warned the Japa• zones of operation." have surrendered to Field; nese they can expect noth- German Army and Gov• Marshal Sir Bernard L. ing hut complete ernment collapse is as Montgomery's Allied destruction unless they too total as never before in the Army. The surrender left surrender. history of war. Nazi resistance isolated in Field Marshal Wiiheim two doomed pockets of Keitel, chief of the German May 1, 1945 Norway and Czechosolva- High Command, officially kia. acknowledged that Germa• Adolf Hitler died at his The first full newsreels ny is beaten. It signified command post in Berlin and of scenes of German formal end of hostilities on Admiral Karl Doenitz was atrocities are being a continent desolated by declared to he his successor, shown at Elyria's Capitol more than five years of Nazi radio broadcast. Theatre. coqflict. 897th Ordnance Go. CP. at the Pilsen, Czechoslovakia airport, May — June 1945, showing ahandoned German military aircraft in foreground . Background shows B.P.s & slave laborers loading on American C-47s awaiting transport to their country of origin. On the far horizon can be seen smoke stacks of the giant Skoda munition and armament works which supplied materials for the German war effort. Close up photo of an abandoned Stuka dive bomber, left behind at the Pilsen airport by the Germans. UPPER PHOTO "home" for the 897th in Erlangen (Lauf^ Germany June 14 June 24, 1945. LOWER PHOTO British camp v/here the 897th stayed in Rome, Itaiy, July 26, 1945, on its way to Naples, Itaiy. The ancient Roman aqueduct was on the far side of the camp. .^^^ -Ytjiv.i::^^-.Y: ^-^^io^; • --..r^ fl First Row Second Row Third Row Fourth Row Fifth Row Sixth Row Seventh Row (bottom) (top) John Metts Joe Grachek George Killlnger Louis Pullen Morris Forman Elmor Felton Mike Mrosko Elmer Wright Angelo Ferrara Theo. Fritz Ralph Neer Elvin Box John Bleluslak James Kosup Toivo Kuivila Lawrence Wynne Archie Chenevey Orra Rosier Ed Oesterle Shelby Klper Ray DeCarlo John Kovl Ned Lewis John Sabol Thomas E. Thomas Wilmer Bechdol William Bacon Jose Moreno Herman Wright Alex Koester G. W. Thomas Harold Granger Wm. Anderson Walmer Thomas Walt Llmbaoher Wm. Hellman Harry Kahabka Harold Albright James Hudson Cllf Jensen Al Myszka Carl Folk Vic Lukasiewicz John Maska Henry Gryglel Wallace Taylor Joshua Stockstlll Felix Balcerek Charles Gaulke Anthony Bortko Al Carfora John Deusner Dan Lenwell John Brankln Bradley Creech Miles Kesler Ed Meyers Julian Gocek Ray Chamberlain Nolan Jackson Dick Dletz Clint Mldyett Mel Mlllmaker Nick Appleman Ed VanDerWal Charles Jonas Wm. Klockow Charles Ataras Carrol Manning Bob Jackson Chas. Trump Robert Thompson Waldo Pletila Art Grochowskl John Rolence Wade H. Moon Ron Bennett Jim Mendlas John Chessler Art Thlenel Alex Cegan Robert Wright Joe C. Davis Chas. Gray Wm. Leslie Milton Dornberg Frank Grugnale Walt Snyder James Ryan Ed Zlellnskl Geo. Price Lee Skelton Victor Fresl Harry Suszko Wm. Kemnltz John Richardson Dallas Fetherolf Silas Howerton John Eberhard Floyd Ensign Stan Brown Wm. lake Park Buragarner Joe Valenlck Harold Bias Tom Enrlght Ered Miller Herb Schultz Clay Huff Wm. Hanna Nick Miller David Lewis Ben Noster Marco Clvltello Len Wllhelm George Price Earl Leach Tony Panarello Tolefus Lowery Ken Comrle Ray Myers Carl Crist Joe Kloc Fred Eggleston Henry Ash Troy Goss Tom Edwards Charles Kinney Harold Erwin Robertson Gus Palnls Paul Colter Howard Sears Harold Crandall J. Brown Fred Lecrone Len Gillies Wm. Craven Vernon Kincaid Gather Blevins Lou Plavec Ben Petro Jim Holllngshead S. Tabachnlck Arnold Donahue Frank Durst Lowell Elliot Earl Winkler Earl Schultz Cecil Craft Walt Goodner Axel Swanson Chas. Moore Kermit Radke Howard Hammond Roy Carpenter Norman Kron 897th ORDNANCE H. A. M. CO. Howard Moser Harvey Wambold Wm, Crytser Charley East NURNBERG, GERMANY JUNE 1945 Bliss Stevens Name list of identified Mike Swirsky personnel is thru the (not all Co. personnel are in picture) courtesy of Howard Hammond YANK The Army Weekly » JUNE 1, 1945 Sljc york iSmt^;. i^j^f WAR IN EUROPE IS ENDEDf SURRENDER IS UNCONDITIONAL; V-E WILL BE PROCLAIMED TODAY; OUR TROOPS ON OKINAWA GAIN OME of our soldiers may now lay down You may be assured that the demobilization S their arms. For a long time the War Depart• plan does not interfere with the best strategy ment has planned for this moment when the we can devise to finish the war with Japan in defeat of our European enemies would permit the shortest possible time and then to get partial demobilization, it has come nearly 5 everyone home. years since the first draftees were inducted into If you are I among those selected for dis• the Army in the autumn of 1940—nearly three charge, you have my sincere congratulations and a half years since the Japanese attacked and good wishes for a deserved return to the us at Pearl Harbor. Part of our mission is now country you hove served and saved. If you are completed. All who can be spared will be re• among those who must continue the fight, you leased. con count upon everything you need to finish The plan for release is based on what the the job as soon and with as few casualties as men in the service believed should be the basis possible. The gratitude of the nation is with of discharge. You yourselves have decided who ! you all. Moy God bless you wherever you are. should be chosen. The needs of war have deter- ' HENRY L. STIMSON mined how many shall be chosen and when. Secretary of Wor THE POINT VALUES AND THE CRITICAL SCORE POINTS. The Army's plan for ,the readjustment of enlisted personnel colls for on Adjusted Service Rating Card to be issued to each enlisted man and woman. Point totals will be entered on this cord covering each of the following four factors: | 1) Service Credit. One point for each month of Army service between Sept. 16, 1940, and I May 12, 1945. 2) Overseas Credit.
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