Medics of the Century: the History of the 325Th Medical Battalion

Medics of the Century: The History of the 325th Medical Battalion .. • • • • .. ..- • 1

THE BATTALION INSIGNIA

ur insignia was designed by Mrs. Don S. Wenger, O wife of our former Commanding Officer, Lieute nant Colonel Don S. Wenger, and was approved by the War Department. To the casual observer it probably holds no significance, but there is a story behind it, a logical meaning and sequence to each of the individual symbols.

Every unit must of necessity have a birthplace, a place where -it grows up and molds itself into an efficient organization. Our birthplace was Fort Jackson, South Carolina, which explains the inclusion of the State Tree, the "Palmetto", in the design. The serpents within the maroon "V" are taken froTh the staff of Aesculapius, the ancient Greek mythological god of healing, designa ting our service, the Medical Department. The "V" itselfstands for the "Victory" in which we were destined to participate. The "three" trees, "two" serpents and the "V" used as a roman numeral, combine to make up our numerical designation, "325". Our battalion motto, "To THE SERVICE OF ALL", is inscribed on the scroll at the base of the insignia. TO: n.e 325th Medicd Battalion; .1'0 447,U. S~ .AnI7.

1. It is "",et gratif71ng to learn that :fOur battalion ie going to re~rd its splendid achinemeote in thi. war.

:2. r.,. certain that I· voice th.. ..,Rti_nt of the ..ntir.. diviaion .h..n I ....7 that it hae nothiDg but edmiration and great reep80t for the oouragec,W1, intellige"t ard etfective _nner in which your outfit hae &1....,.. - 111 training and C<>lIbat oarried out ite vitel task. • ,

3. Shortl7 after the 325th. J.ledical Battalion we. or ganized, it ..stabli.hed an ..nviabl.. reput..Uon in the diviaion for its spirit and mlitsry erricienq. It has' ~ only lived • up to it.s reputation but glorified it upon every oC.casion. Some of th.. fin..st acte of heroi• ., b6vs b....n per1'o~ by its ID8mbere. The bat.talion h8S every right to be proud of t.he outstand1ne job it has done in"lIllviDg lives.

4. ICy best wishes go with ;you al....ve.

2 "MAJOR GE 'ER.\L WITHERS A. BCRRESS

Commanding Gf1lcral Tooth fNFANTRr DIVISIOX

I, JlIEDIC (J F rrl" H E

C.J.r· ~r· DIY

------_._------ lOOth INFANTRY DIVISION~ 5 To: Members 41he 3251h Medical Ballalion

nly through the ltighest enthusiclsm, unselfish c!r\()tion to duty, and utmost coope ration of every officer and enlisted man could the unil: have won the respect and admiration of our superiors and what is more important, the complete confidence of our fellow soldiers. The unit has rightfully earned and enjoyed a reputation for its military efficiency as well as proficiency in performance of assignments peculiar to the "Medical Department.

Through our cHarts to relieve suffering, save lives, and conserve the fighting strength of combat units, the phrase "To the Service of All" has taken on new significance for all of us in addition to signifying the organization in which many of us have endured our most trying experienCt's

T sball ,dwClyS cherish the associations I have had with the 325th Medical Battalion and wish to expnoss my gratitude to each of you for your part toward a "job well done."

~\J()W that the war is won and our paths diverge, it is hoped that memories of past associa tions and experiences can be refreshed by referring to this booklet.

Best wishes,

Lt. Col., Me,

6 Table of Contents

FORE\\'ORD 6

EARLY HISTORy...... 8

COUBAT OPERATIONS

HQ & HQ DETACHMENT 16 COMPANY "A" 23 COMPANY "B" 33 COMPANY "C" 41

COMPANY "D" ~ 48

AWARDS 4. CITATIONS BRONZE STAR MEDAL 56 PURPLE HEART MEDAL 57 GOOD CONDUCT MEDAL _ 5S DRIVERS & MECHANICS AWARD 60 UNIT CITATION 61

BEUORIAB (,3

ROSTERS 64

OFF ICE R S & EN LISTED 1\1 E N 325 M E D B N

NARR.~TORS

HQ & HQ Del S SGT PHILIP SPERLING COMPANY "A" 1 LT WILLIAM K FARQUHAR C.~RTOONS CPL LOUIS C BLASZYNSKI STAFF COMPANY "B" SGT ANDREW M SHEEHAN COMPANY "e" CPL THOMAS W JACOBS LAYOUT TEC 5 YALE RUBIN TEC 4 NICHOLAS HUPALO COMPANY "D" 1 SGT JOHN R BARBOUR S SGT PETER GIBSON

7 ACBDE n the 15th of November, 1942, a ceremony took I

8 before the unit trains as a team. Close Order Drill with its accompanying "HUT, Two, THREE, FOUR"; the read ing of The Articles of War; Marches and Bivouacs with the emphasis on "Marches"; Tent Pitching; Personal Hygiene; Nomenclature and Care ofEquipment; Individual Defense Against Air and Mechanized Attack; every "rookie", no matter what his assigned arm or service, must become familiar with these subjects. In addition, while those assigned to the inf

9 "chigger" for the first time, although all had received "booklarnin" concerning them during basic training. The collecting companies and the clearing company practiced setting up stations in the field while Headquarters Detach ment broke down rations under blackout conditions and carried on motor maintenance. At the end of the unit phase of training everyone had been trained for his future job in the army. The highlight of the combined training phase was the "D" Exercises carried out on the Post and surrounding maneu ver areas. The exercises consisted ofa series of short, two to three day combat problems designed to train the division for work as a unit. The collecting companies began working as integral parts of the combat teams. Company A was assigned the mission of giving direct support to the 397 Regimental Combat Team, Company B supported the 398 Regimental Combat Team and Company C supported the 399 Regimental Combat Team. Company D, of course, operated the clearing station and supported the entire divi sion. It was during the "D" Exercises that we all learned to set up stations and tear them down again with speed and alacrity. Each collecting company had the chance of learning the individual characteristics peculiar to its as signed combat team. We had our first taste of riding over dusty roads in convoy and we also learned the importance of maintaining constant liaison with the combat teams and Division Headquarters. The "D" Exercises in other words were the first field problems in which the whole division functioned as it would in combat. Ofcourse many mistakes were made by all units and we were still "rough around the edges." Upon completion of the "D" Exercises and the combined

10 training period, the division was ready for maneuver train ing. On 15 November, 1943, we left Fort Jackson and pro ceeded by motor convoy to the Tennessee Maneuver Area to participate in the Fifth Phase of the Second Army Maneu vers. The trip to Lebanon, Tennessee, our assembly area, was accomplished in two nights and three days with bi vouacs at Athens, Georgia and Chatanooga, Tennessee. Participating in the maneuver with the 100th Infantry Division were the 35th Infantry Division, the 14th Armored Division and several other combat and service units. The maneuver consisted of eight field combat problems, one per week for a period of eight weeks with Saturdays and Sundays free for passes to nearby cities. We had Thanks giving Dinner and Christmas Dinner in the field and cele brated New Year's in muddy bivouac areas. This was our first introduction to "mud en masse" but it proved to be good experience for what was to come when we finally landed on foreign shores and entered combat. Nashville, Lebanon, Murfreesboro, Gallatin, Shelbyville and Harts ville were the main centers of recreation. We also recall such names as Payne's Store, Doake's Crossroads, the Cedars ofLebanon, Baird's Mills and the Cumberland River. Maneuvers taught us how to live in the field for long periods of time under all sorts of conditions. We learned how to coordinate with other divisions and operated under a Corps. We also ironed out most of the rough spots we had noticed on the "D" Exercises. We learned to move convoys in blackout over roads congested with traffic. We even practic ed malaria control in near zero weather. Remember sleep ing with mosquito bars and wearing headnets inJanuary? On 17 January, 1944, the division left the maneuver area and traveled by motor convoy to Fort Bragg, North Caro

11 lina, which was to be our new home for some months to come. Everyone welcomed the return to garrison life with enthusiasm. The first few days were spent in cleaning up equipment and making our barracks and administrative buildings as comfortable as possible. Then we entered the Post Maneuver Phase of training designed to allow each arm or service to conduct final tests in all types of training. The battalion put on several medical demonstrations and participated in numerous division reviews for high ranking War Department Officials and news correspondents. The recreational attractions centered around Fayetteville, The Country Club, White Lake (Ma Mashburn's Place) and even Raleigh and Charleston. At last came word that we were alerted for overseas move ment. The last days of August and the early part of Sep tember were devoted to packing and crating and final fur loughs before leaving the States. On 25 September, 1944, the battalion boarded a train on the Post and departed for Camp Kilmer, New Jersey. It was no "dry run". We were finally on our way. At Camp Kilmer we received final equipment and personnel checks, received training in cens orship, abandoning ship, and gas mask drill. All men were given the opportunity to visit the "great metropolis", New York City, many for the first time. Many also had the chance to spend final hours with their families. On the evening of 5 October, 1944, we left Camp Kilmer by train, our next stop being the Troopship George Wash ington. The following morning we started drawing overseas pay, for our ship hauled anchor and we waved farewell to "the little old lady" in New York Harbor. A few miles out our convoy began to take shape and by mid afternoon we had assumed our position in the convoy and were well under way. On board ship it was necessary to alter our meal schedules for we received only two meals a day. The first few days out were calm and fair and most men spent much time on deck enjoying the sea air. Each night we received the same order, "Prepare the Ship for Blackout. There Will Be No Smoking On The Open Deck Nor The Showing of Any Naked Light."

12 The highlight of the crossing proved to be a storm of hurri cane proportions which swept around us for a period of twenty four hours. The mess hall was not so crowded during this time, for quite a few were suffering from "Mal de Mer". At long last we sited land on the starboard side, a faint outline at first, gradually becoming clearer. It was the rugged coastline of North Africa. Just about sundown that day we passed through the Gibraltar Straits. Next day, 21 October, we dropped anchor in the harbor at Marseille, France, and that evening while still on board ship we re ceived an air raid alert, our first real experience of combat. About midnight we scrambled down landing nets to wait ing LST's and were taken ashore. The crossing had taken two weeks and everyone was glad to feel good old terra firma under his feet once more. Then came the long uphill march from the beach to the bivouac area at Septemes, about ten miles north of Mar seille. Once again we were on familiar terms with mud and rain, plenty of both. Time here was spent in drawing last minute supplies and being introduced to the strange customs of a foreign land. We visited Marseille and Aix while waiting for further orders which materialized much sooner than most of us expected. On 29 October the first elements of the division left for the Seventh Army front in the vicinity of Rambervillers, France, a distance of approximately four hundred and fifty miles from Marseille. Some of us traveled in motor convoy while the rest of us traversed the distance in "40 & 8's". Good old "40 & 8'g". We were now about to enter into the combat operations for which we had so long and so diligently trained. On 9 November the 100th Infantry Division had completed relief of the 45th Infantry Division along the general line Baccarat, St. Remy, to La Salle. This was IT. Time would tell how thorough and complete our training had been. Our chance had come to do our part and every man was ready to give the best that was in him. "To THE SERVICE OF ALL" was our motto and we inteftded to live up to it. But all that is contained in the pages that follow. Our Early History ends and the stories ofour Combat Operations begin.

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mal.:". •.';0 tnlle'S to viclnlly Rambor villers. Enteled co"hfltloll\d(Or,VIColpS on 1 1i-C'. . Novomb.t ~ e ...... "S£'l~~ (,:OMBAT OPERATIONS ~~OMBAT OPERATIONS Ol1lC hell, come high water, or the gray un Callahan's Beach wert picked up, Ull hairs of' old age, "vho in Headquarters crated and distributed to the proper units. Detachment shall ever forget that hike from But this was also our first contact with a new .'viarseille to Septcmes in the early morn world - and the French language. Not to ing hours of the 21st of October 1944? If forget those bottles of biere amI vin. \Vhile we weren't told this was France, we would at Scpternes, the men had passe> lr. tllt'sur have thought "ve \vere in the Alps, Swiss, rounding towns and to ~t{arseiJk. B8varian or Schwabisch. But at 0400 we had Right then and there, tllf packages started the blcssed feeling of reaching our destination going home. Our men also confirmed the for the night. VVithout much ado, we dropped observation that "there just ain't no souvenir like ripc apples to the ground and tried to get hunters in all or the wide wodel like G. r. some rest on 1\tlother Earth's bosom. And Joe." Marseille grows a litt!f' dim now, hut then the rains came! \J\That a welcome to La some of us can rememlJcr the Cannebi<':re, the Belle France! At that point you would have harGor, the Chateau D'lr where IJumas' had to pay the Indians to take tht' place, and Cilunt of~1onte Christo was imprisuned and ill American dollars too. of course those many sidewalk cafes and cer Cam" the davvn and K rations, wc set to tain places marked "Off-Limits" :Marseillc making a home for ourselves. Pup tents also offered the first real chance to get clean quickly blossomed on the ridge of the hill ed-up. The cold salt-Ivater of the l\tlantic overlooki ng the Ii ttle town. The small field and of the blue Mediterranean certainly isn't stone farmhouse under the trees, the equal guaranteed to get the dirt off. In many or thr of any great chateau then, housed our temp establishments marked "Douches Et Bains" orary Headquarters and Battalion S-4 Of the men had a chance for the first guod scruh fices. Life was [JUsy and varied. Here in Head since leaving the States on October htll quarters Detachment \,ve not only take care Then after a week at Septi:mes, we were on of dIe administration, supply and motor the move again. Headquarters Detachment maintf'nance functions of the Detachment, moved up in two groups, one by motor con but also of the Battalion. All supplies dumped \"01' and the other by train. Could those "40

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J 6 and 8's" be called trains? The trip took us remembered for our {ir.,t real taste of }'rcnc11 through some lovely country, but always there mud. Our area in the wake of constant rain were signs to teU us of WAR. From the sta became one or those seas of' lYlml that ;;e("rn tions passed, we noted our route up the to follow soldiers \\hcrevCJ' they go. Walks Rhone Valley, up France. Names like Avi and gravel paths alk\·iatrd tbe situatiuna gnon, Valence, L'Etoile, Lyons, Couzon, Mt little. Sti]] this wasn't as bad as Tennessce . D'Or, ViILiers-sur-Rhone, Rambert D'Albon ~ever say we didn't learn something from :lDd Is-sur-Tille ring faintly in the ear. And our maneUVC-TS. Here too we had our TI1,tnks then detraining and mounting trucks we were giving Day dinner of turkey and all the trim in Fremifontaine on the 2nd of November mings. Our men in the personnel sedion wrre NEAR THr,~ FRO!\T LI:"iES. with the Division Rear Echelon which was The first day at Fremifolltaine was rather located in town in frrnch lJdrracks on tile' quiet although smashed buildings, scurrying Avenue de 17(' BatailJon. But Lhal address vehicles and mud told us this was IT. Our was more important for most 01' us as ilein~ introduction to the sound of artillery fire the place for showers. .c\nd showers or baths came at night; fortunately the shells were in the Army as one soon limb out are a rarity going in the proper direction. We were sleep and a luxury. The search for bathing bcilitics ing quite comfortably in a hay loft when the never ceascs. barrage began and that was the end of sleep Our mail clerk now Jouncl himself huried ing for the night. Company D did not set undC'r an avalanche of packages hortle,,-arcl up a Clearing Station here and it was nol bound. !\'orthcaslc:rn france is a greal glass until i\"O\'cmbcr 6th when we moved to Ram manufacturing center, andihve didn't know vcrbillers that we really started functioning it before we g(lt here \\.~ soon found tklt f;\d and doing our share "To THE SERV[(:E uut. ~'vrany American homes wi]] displav in OF ALL." til(' years to corne gl as:'wart· rrum til e Ltd ory At RamberviJlers, in the Vosges t-,!ountains, at Baccarat. we pitched our tents in a large fieldjust above 1<.aon L'Etape was taken, positions consolid the crossroads where one road lead to Bacca ated and the IOOth Infantrv Di\ ision mo\ed rat and the other to St. Die. The action cent --we on the 2:)th of Sovcmber to Sennncs. ering around Raon L'Etape, we now were Company D and Hradquarlers Det;tchment doing the work we had so long and so ardu (thC'se (wo units of the 32.=)th ;-vfcclical Batla ously trained for. Rambervillers can also be lion operate together) set up in the Ho."pital

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St. Ceorge. Space was at a premium. Batta December 7th and we were at Li1L7.clstein, lion Supply found itself in the morgue! Per but now once ag'ain called IJy its French sonnel slept anywhere and e\"(~rywherf in name, La Prtitc Pierre. Hcre we had addcd tCl\vn but with events moving rapidly and another installatioIJ [or the pleasure of an, a plans being changed abrupLly, \ve folded our movie tent. And mighty popular too. Then "tents" again and like the Arabs silently on the 13th we set our tents up on the siele of crept away making a wide sweep around the a hill ovcrlookinl.\· the town o[ Meisenthal. end to a nr:w sector coming to Buhl on the Battalion Motor .rv1ain((~nance had its place 27th. This time we set up in a large modern in the woods with a concretc pillbox guarding factory Wf: never did learn just what kind thc gate. What a seemingly impregnable po it was -but our stop was destined again to sition, but it seems vvhatcver one man can be a short one. Bu hi is just a short distancc create another can destroy. With the front I'rom Sarrcbourg (Saarburg to the Krauts). lines not too far away and the guns booming VVe can remember the cub planes using the and the planes flying in our front yard, the lar.~e tielel around the factory ;)s their base packages going home rose to a staggering !()r operations. 'What choiCi: companions to total. Now we were surrounded by glass fac havel l\nd showers under squad tents beside tories. There was one down in Meisenthal, the Sarre River. another in Milnzthal or St. Louis operating _'\'O\'ember ~Oth, J. 9/H, and wc corne to Rau as far back as 1586, and another world willer, a sad sack of a Lovvn. Here roads and famous one in Wingen, R. Lalique et Cie. fldds were heavily mined and moves had to Those men who were fortunate cnough to be made with caution. Our tents were pitched get choice items from these factories really in a field along a road, an :VI S I.C We had have something besides just a souvenir from to take into consideratiojl an unwilling gue3l; France. a huge white hor,e and dead. \Vhen we got Our next move toward "TARGET BERLJ:"" our tents pitched, there it was jmt about 30 was in the \'icinity of Diemcringen and feet out the b'ICk entrance of the Division BiHten. Wc gal our tents up just in time to \JIedical Supply Tent. ,\tleast we had a name celebrate Christmas Eve and not long there !c)r our station sO rcmini,t:ent of old English after, ~ew Year's }\-e. Even in \Var w,~ found hostelries and way,idt' inns; ours \vas "At lik goes on in old routines. Looking back, it The Sign Of' The Dead White Horse". All is a great satisfaction to know that the mC3sage we lacked now was a case or two of seotch our Genct 211 sent us on the 1st ofJanuarv 1945 White Horse. has come true:

18 SlLpply trailer., . Dierner ill.gel1.

"Today, Ne\vYear's Day, L94.), finds us of passes, leaves and furloughs. The first pass closely engaged with the enemy, wbo is to Nancy came on tbe 21st of February and making a desperate attempt to drive us to Paris on the 10th of:".larch ... WOW III from our positions, but without success. Then the ass;lult. On the 18th of \:larch We Your splendid and courageous efforts were in Bitche, a place long to remembered will certainly defeat him in his purpose. by every man in the 100th Infantry Di\·ision. May the ::\ew Year bring victory and Here our quarters, sans tents, were in the peace." Hindcnburg Kascrnf'. For us it was quite an The mission of the Division comhat troops experience to go rambling in, on and undn while at Diemeringen was to hold the Krauts the Citadel perched high aIH,\'e the city. [t and they did-aU through the winter, but ,ve WJ.s understandable why sue!l a fortress could were also getting ready for our grancl entry bejust about impregnable. As results proved into Germany. It wasn't jong after we got howe\'er, it remained for the feHows from here and WCIe set up completely that heavy America to show the folks how to do thejolJ. snows began to fall. :\ good many oC our The Citadel, something out of the Middle Southern boys wen~ treated to a natural phe Ages and the pages of King Arthur and the nomena new to tbern. Thanks to Quarter Knights or the Round Table, must have an master for oil sto\'Cs and paulins and to our interesting history. Some day we should like own G. 1. ingenuity, our tents were made to read it and learn sueh things as the comfortable during these many weeks. Al meaning of the inscriptions engraved in the though it was a period of seeming inactivity, stones of one of the buildings. I nseriptions it "vas these very days tbat decided ho'v" sueh as "Henry IvI. VVorth, midshipmen late quickly we wuuld Gring the Germa.n Army of H.B.:"1. Sloop Argus 1804" and "To Cole to its knees. Here we ate dirt (and liked it) 1810 Portsmouth." during a strafing attack. On January J3th, the Battalion was awarded Th,' Meritorious 'i'h" "Orderly No"","· I iiemerillgl'lI Service Unit Plaquf fur "superior perform ance of duty and the achievement and maintenance of a high standard of disciplinr during the period from L October 1944 to :n December 1944." Diemeringen also is th~ place where ,1 program very dear to the heart or all Army pers(;mne] was instituted-that March 23, 1945 - The Rat Race Begins! Leaving Bitche on the :\trag-illot Line we travelled by fast motor convoy into Germany. .'\t ~c:ustaJt we were quartered ill a IlloJern building that was formerly a High School lor Girls. Address: Haardtcr Treppenwp.g and Villcnstrassc. Neustadt shall be memorable in our minds for a numbfT of reasons, "hier among them being however: this was our first stop in Germany; the \ isit on the 30th of Y[arlen(~ Dietrich and her company to enter lain us at the local town 11 all ; Passover SCI \ ices for the men of Je'wish fai tll, and last, SOUVENIRS, TROPHIES OF WAR. At last it came our turn to make the crossing over the much-vaunted, much-sung RHINE. Uurs was maJe frllm Ludwigshafen over to Mannheim. While on the pontoon bridge sllme of us looked for those lust! Rhine :vlai dens, but wc neither sa IN nor heard them. l'kither did we sec any of that Rheingold that Herr Richard Wagner made such a fuss about. Thus on the 31st or March, we hung up our hats and went tu wurk at our jobs at (i6 Zahringerstrasse..\gain it was a school hUllse in which we tound quarters in this town of Seekenhcim n~lch :Vfannheim am Rhein. C)urjourney took us on April4.th from Secken heim through the famous universil) citv uf' Heidelberg am Xcckar, ~,o fortunately spared Lhe devastatiun uf war (rhe (;ermans ought to gi.ve thanks for that), La Sinsheim. It v\a~; [Jerf' where we gave llur medical support Lo our fighti.ng men waging a terrific battle for t he key ci ty of Hci [hronn. A message from Our General told us that "the 100th Infantry ])i\·j~ion was now engaged in what is prob ably the severest fighting on th(' Western Front. A fanatical ~ncmv is doing cverything To!': Our .fIrsl. stop in Germany - '\'f>u~tarll. in his means to hold the pivuwl position around Heilbronn." But the Krauts' "en:ry Ccn.f,Jr: F:nLrnflre LO Sinshl'im. 4n>(l thing" just is not good enough for the boys from America and Heilbronn was ours .. Bottom: Our" £rome" ;" ~in.,heim

20 ",,'hat \vas left or it.. It was here at Sinsheim yesterday was a smoking rubble and the pro on tbe ] ::lth that we g'ot the news of' our great perty of the 100th Infantry Division." ;\l luss and the world's too. PresiJt:nt Franklin Heilbronn we set up in German barrach Ddano Ro()se\c!t had died the clay before, again -the Luclendorff Kaserne. Since our There was not a man among us who did not personnd section was always with Rear red the loss someway, and wonder. [t is said: Echelon, it was in another world, bUl this time some of us wl.lU had contact with the "The tumult lind the shouting dies: men there wanted to go hack for ano( her \·isit. Why? It \vasn't every time that Rear The ralJtains and Ihe kings depart, Echell)1I was set up in a place like this-the Sli II stands Thine IIncient sarrifi'ce, palau of the Grafs \'Oll Ncipperg at Schwai lIn humble find a contrile heart. gern. What treasUl (; tra\'C I What loot I But it ron! (;()d oI H()sts, be wilh usyet was "Tee Ess." Alles \f'rboten! Still we /"1'.11 ,.ve/orgel lest we forgel-" fou nd enough legitimate trophies or war on the premises afoul' barracks to keep us happy and srneling packages home This was also Some ~\'cw Yorkers, especially if they hail Ji:'om lhe borough uf the Bronx, may remCll1 the time when everyone seemed tu be lakin/!; bel' a Franz Sigel Park. Would it be a surprise up photography :lS a hobby I ',\o\\' wlth Heilbronn oUt's and the Germans rdpidly if' llley learned that old Ceneral Franz Sigel was born in Sinsheim in 1824, but Idt the old falling back everywhere, spec.ulatioll was rife world for a better one. He ditd in Kew York when the end would come. Ollr infantry didn't give the Krauts a minute's rrst, but in J()()2. got right on tht>ir tads. ,\priJ 14th, LY4.)-thc scene: H<,ilbronn am l,oading up a,gain, we wnc oA' <\gain all the ,\;cckar. ,\nd as The Beachhead ;\!rws of cllase. Through Lowenstein (what a \·ielol, Friday, the 13Lh put it "nine days ago a rcla rrmrmber;» vve got [;) Racknang the 2:1 st 0[' li\·dy intact and beautiful city, Hcilbronn April and set up our installations in a great

W" C/"n",s (.he Hhinc at Mannheim

I":"rollte to the Rhine Ludu';gshafen

21 Daltalion lfeadquClrlers on v~ E Day

building on Richard Wagner Strasse, formrr event was celebrated rather rl"uietly, with Iy the home uf the Nationalpolitische Er prayers and wisbes on our lips, and thoughts ziehungsanstalt (Educational Institution of in our minJ. From men on pass in France we the l'iational PoliticLd Party -tbe Nazis). Liv learned that the ('vent was greeted with great ing at Backnanc;' was luxurious, but not for joy and excitcmrnt. ,\ soldier-pon of the last long and April on 28th we wne outside StutL World War expressed this fecling- for all of gart in still another barracks. This, our first us when he wrote: visit to this German metropolis, was destined

to be a very short one. And how we worked "Everyone suddmly hur.rt Ollt sin/;lng, to prepare those filthy quarters for our b~acl And I waf filled u'ith such ddight quartf'rs! C'est b guerre. 11.1' priJoned birds must find in freedom,

Then, Wll at was to be our last move before vVinging wild!;' across tl/f, whit! V-E Day occured on the 30th day of April. 0rc!wrds and dark-gran ./ieldf; on Oll This lme took us tll Eislingenjust outside the and uut of sight." city of Coppingen and our pbce was in the Richthofcn Schulc. ~ow it was just a matter Now perhaps in the not too distant future, of time before the Germans threw in the with the overwhelming mig'ht of the Cnited sponge. It came on the 7th day of May in Nations, and the grace of Cud, it might he the year of Our Lord, one thousand, nine Home, Sweet Home. The place that llC it hundred and forty-five. For ourselves, the ever so humhle is Home.

22 T (jOlt •• .£

r his might be aptly called a journal, or a and ground tu a halt at the schuolhouse in

history, or even d. biography, but we prefer Eislingen, Germany, on 30 April 1945 - a lO think or it as a story, made up of distinct total of 6 months. This isn't much rime, rcla chapters, with a definite heginning and end. ti vel)' speaking, but between those dates It is the story uf the men of one small unit, there's a lot of living - a period in which in their JInal test after months of preparation our company was cunstantly alert and pre and arduous training. It is a story in which pared for any eventuality, a period of con these men become integrated into a whole, in stant. t.ension and strain in which we perfor which cach man is forced to exhibit the stuff med our duty to the best of our ability and at of which hr's made. It is the story ofa Euro the conclusion of which time, each of us felt pean tuur, a t(Jrtrcss city, an Alsatian town, a profound sense of relief. in which bitter fighting, chases, and river The story? Here it is crossings figure prominen t1 y. It con tai ns We lefl S<>ptemes, France, ncar ·.\lar~eille, on many thrills and much sadness, and at the 30 October ] 944 and headed north up conclusion each participant breathes a deep throup;h t.he Rhone River Valley. Our battal sigh and says a prayer. It's a story he'll never ion, the 325th Medical Battalion, \vaS split., forget. and we were- travclling in convoy wilh our The story doesn't cover much timt::. We pullfd combat. team· the 397th Infantry Regiment, out of the Ddta Base Section Staging Area the 374th Fielc.l.\rtillery Battalion, Company at Septcmes, France, on 30 October 19[.;1 "A" of the- 32:Jth Engineers and attarhed

I.efl: The COllal - Dipnwringell

!{ip.ht: S/.Dtion 01. Go"tzcnbruck

23 method of deploying our company for action. gauntlet as the shdL exploded. Here we lost We later found it to be so and stuck tu the a jeep when it cJllided with another in total original plan throughout our entire period blackout. Another outstandingevent occurred of combat. v"hen a huge time bomb went off carlyon the On 10 :.\ovember, 1944 the company movecl morning of 18 November blowing a tremen through Rambenillers to Baccarat as our dous crater in the main supply route between combat team ffiO\"Cd on line and attacked the Baccarat and Ramhervilkrs. This charg(~ had hills above Raon L'Etape on the Meurthc been planted 20 days before and completely River. \Ve learned quickly that "maneuvers disrupted communications over a road that were never like this." vVe saw our first casu we had travelled many times. On 21 Novem alties, heard for the first time first hand tales ber we moved through Bertrichamps into of mines, mortars, 88's. The company learned heavily mined Raon L'Etape. vVc no long(T the fatigue of continuous operation. The sta considered ourselves green troops but rather tion technicians had l'ound the clock exper true veterans. ience in administering plasma, dressing On Thanksgiving Day the weather ":as typi wounds, treating exhaustion patients. Ambu cal of the FaU-colcl and unsettled. The mess lance drivers found that they had no rest sergeant had spent the entire night preparing during a push. Litter bearers evacuated ] JO pounds offrcsh turkey ill his kitchen iII a casualties from the front lines, came back to garage ln Raon L'Etapc. Part of our com gi\'e proud testimony to front line conditions pany had remained t!terei n nearby houses and "whether they're coming in or going out-by the sound!" (so they saiel). We were baptized fiercely and completely to actual warfare during those fIrSt days· to the' blood, Station in Franlrenbach pain and death that went with the hanelling of actual battle casualties, and we emerged stronger, wiser, prouder and more respect ful.

Raon L'Etape \vas a tough nut La crack. The town was one of the keys to the German de fense for the entire Vosges .Mountains and the enemy resisted fiercely. The town of Ber trichamps was the scene of much of our acti vity-the site or the battalion aid stations. Many of us "vill long remember the day \vhen a chance hit set fire to a house full of mortar ammunition and we were forced to run a I.eft.: {{Plllhu ''-''''-' God Zl'i'Vrlld,

Hi.~hl: Our Ch,-islIIlIl< [(on", .W"yerh[)(

special troops. The 7lh ARMY, our t,\RMY, cipated mode of operation in combat. OUI had precel'c!l'c! us up th is rou te 21, 2 months station was to operate as follows, There would bdore, and here we saw for the fIrst time, be 2 station platoons, each idl'nticzl! in com thl' waste of war -the vehicles, guns, tanks position with a Captain Me in charge. TIle that had been destroyc'd by the invading' additional medical technicians would be !(ll'CC'S, the briclgl's which had been methodi taken from the litter pJatoon. Thcse 2 stal cally clestro)Td bv till' encmy in their r('treat. ions, also with idl'ntical equipment, vvould v\'e bivouaced at Valence, passed Lyon, operate one at a time in their job or receiving bi\'lJUaced at Dijon, crossed the .Mosf'lJe and Ircating casuCllties. The onl' behind Ri\'Cr, pulled into St. Helene, Fntnce·a total would always be preparrd to leap fro.r; for oriS:') miles having been covered in 3 days. ward in an advance, thus providing \cJ[ rapid fn St. Helene w(' had our first taste or what movl'menl, a resl, a relief. Cuic\l'd by the was to come. \Vc all felt \Try fortunalt' on experience of veteran units, it \,vas decided that first night, to be indoors-in a hay loft. that ambulances would opnall' from battal \\'e experienced our first real contact with iun aiel stations. With each aid station lherl' the French people and the French way of was to be a liaison man to supen'isc the ]oad life its attractions, its inconveniences and its ing of patients, to care for our dri"crs, and manure piles We got used to being in a posi to keep uur Cumpany Commandcr informed. tion which wr cunsidered "up rronl". :'(oboclv Litter squads of ;j men each wrJ'l' to be

10uc!lCd a thing; [or fear it might explode. ::'\1) availabk to hel Ii C\'acuale aid slatiul1S, Rothbach Lc Saulcy. \i\'e rested there. Our combat or the date 4 Decemuer I 94't. The cntire team and our division had completed their company had movtd to Ing'vviller on the mission and our Army had succeeded in taking Moder Ri vcr, 8 mi les from Dossen hei m to the Vosges Mountains I()r the lirst time in support our combat t,-am which was attack history. This ended the: first phase of our ing high ground to the north. Towards dark combat action. on 4 December, two of our lit tel' sg uads were On 26 Novemuer 194,4 we returned from our calkd by an ::tid station in lZothbach. Une position high in the Vosges, asscmhkd at squad found their c::tsualty, brought him back Raon L'Etape, and on the following day we over hazardous terrain. The olher squad did moved northeast to a point 64, miles ,nvay not find their casualty. While following a wire to Dossenheim on the Alsatian plain at the through pitch black foresl, they stumbled into mouth of the Saverne Gap. Our combat team a German laid booby trap. Two men, Cpl

26 Woodrow W. Bailey Ingwiller, set up brieRy in Reiperts camr to ~1l:).('rhofon Christmas Day and ate wiJler, passed thr<>ugh heavily woodf'd ter a deli,iolls turkey meal. \V ~ constructed llHlg rain across the imaginary Jine that divides !JC\'H:hes in tl1l' ['ront room of the large AJsace from Lorrainr. VVe set. up a station in Meyerhol' hous!' and everyone sat down to Goetzenbru('k and one in t>.10uterhouse as the struggle for Bitche raged on. The fighting was fierce and casualties were heavy. For days Ferryin,[! acros., the Neckar -~ J["ilhronn our quarters in Guetzenbruck rocked with the jar of heavy artillery as the mighty fortress system of the" Ensrmble de Bi tche" was redu ced. Then suddenly, on 21 December we moved from Goetzenbruck, through Enchen berg, to the crossroads at Meyerhof, 10 kilo meters west of Bitche. The Germans had attacked in the ,\rdennes and, as a part of a fanning out defense, we were forced to halt the offensive of Bitche; forced to withdraw from hard won gains to high ground positions recently vacated by 3rd Army troops who were swinging north.

'J"- '"', third they moved further south to Ralding. We maintained a rear station in Diemeringen for exactly 10 weeh. Our forward station moved back to RolJrLach to fairly com!l)rt aule quarters in a schoolhouse. Our head quarters, kitchf'n, maintenance, litter bea rers, resting amhulance drivers and the resting station remained in Dierneringen. At Crossing the :Yerkar III ll"ilbr()nn \'arious intervals amuuJance personnd and the stations were switched. Three times a day, the chow truck crossed the line ['rom cat for a change. But the artillery didn't stop. :\l5a('( into Lorraine and delivered hot [(Jod Nor did the air activity, nor the casualties. to the Rohrbach contingent. Then began se\'eral clay~ that few will fiJrget. Our company will always have a warm SpOL On 30 December 1944 enemy air activity for little Diemeringen. We were [)ilkted in increased and nearhy artillery poslLIons the roums of R houses along the main street werr~ subjenccl to bombing attacks. A group on the north side or town. In those 10 weeks, of bombs fell wi thin 100 yards of our Meyer during which the majority of the company hof station thoroughly jarring cvrryone, and was situated there, life settled into a sort of breaking a good share of those windows routine, a series of daily acts. V\'e caught up which remained. The stroke of miJnight on on our reading and correspondence. We gri 1 January 194,) was marked by a tremendous ped about the food, but many of us got fat. artillery barrage, and shortly afterward, in Our life revolved around daily mail call and the early hours of the morning, the enemy consisted of little more than 3 me

shelling hit two ot' OUl' ambulances. On the

2H The boredom was punctuated by an occassio hurried on. We set up our collecting sta nal movie at the Clearingstation 3 miles away. tion in the ghost towns north of Bitche-first But while life was lazy, it was also, and of Hotwiller, then Schorbach, Briedenbach, necessity, alert, and we were constantly pre Waldhouse-all abandoned by their civilian pared for any eventuality. The enemy retook inhabitants in 1939 because of their danger Mouterhouse and Reipertswiller and the ous position between the Maginot and Sieg front line ran down the main street of fried Lines. Afterwards we remembered these Goetzenbruck. After days of bitter fighting, shattered remnants as our low point in Euro our combat team successfully repulsed the pean living. enemy attempt to break the 7th ARMY front, The first of our men to officially become sub in the Rimling area. Our forward station in j ect to the Army non-fraternization policy Rohrbach handled casualties daily-both were Pfc Theodore 1. Nigri, Pfc Phillip Mill battle and non-battle. The entire sector man, and Pfc John W. Curran. This team quieted down eventually but air attacks and crossed the borderline into Germany on sporadic shelling continued. By the middle of 21 March with a battalion aid station. Part March everyone was growing impatient. ofour company followed on the next day and "Active defense" had become nerve-wrack set up the first station in Germany at Hoh ing. The ground was drying up with the in eischweiller. The remainder of the company crease in sunny days and warm weather. followed on 23 March, across the border, past Bitche still had not been taken and we were the dragon's teeth, tank trenches, pillboxes. still in France. The drive to clear the Saar was on. In cust As if our impatience were a signal, things omary fashion, our stations leaped each began to move. We left Diemeringen on other, set up successively in Assenheim, 14 March and moved forward to Rohrbach. Hochdorf, and finally on 24 March halted at The roads were filled with men and materiel Oggcrsheim, a few miles from Ludwigshafen -moving up. At 0100 on 15 March the whole and the Rhine River. A total of 60 miles was town of Rohrbach began to rock as artillery made in less than 36 hours through the Saar, prepared for the "kickoff". Shortly after dawn past shattered cities, abandoned, wrecked, the first casualties were brought in by our dri and burning vehicles, dead horses and dead vers-the resultofmines and phosporous burns. men and a hostile, cold-eyed populace. The attack moved swiftly and our infantry The crossing of the invisible line that marks took the high ground at Schorbach, north of one group of people as French and another Bitche, on the first day. They then swung as German caused considerable change in north in hot pursuit of the enemy who fled the complexion of our routine soldier's life. to prepared positions behind their Siegfried Our missions and our mode of operation Line. Bitche fell on 16 March to other el remained the same, but now we were trans ements of our division as our combat team formed from "liberator" to "conqueror".

29 Non-fi-aternization \\·as the order. We initi ied hospitals that overAowcd with German ated a system of continuous armed guard, war wounded. We evacuated several Ameri regarded all Germans with coldness and can and British soldiers who had been cap distrust, didn't stray very far from the com tured and hospitalized by the Germans. pany. Our mode of living improved consider Therewas no time for relaxation, however.Our able because of the fact we no longer "shar infantry was advancing swiftly as the enemy ed", but rather "touk over" a whole build fell back on a new defense line. We hurried ing that would serve our purpose and which on, stopping- at the hospital in Sandhausen, was to our liking. A great amount ofwine was the factory office in Wiesloch, the tavern in "Iiherated" and souvrnirs in the form of Eiehtersheim, the city hall in Sinsheim, and ~ azi flags, guns, daggers, cameras began to finally halted at Frankenbach, 45 miles bey appear. ,\t about this time, to offset the ond Mannheim. Our infantry was a few loneliness of a cloistered existence, passes to miles ahead, deployed along the Ncckar Nanry, Brussds, Paris came in in limited River. Across the river was the German held quantities. Then thrrc were also occasional city of Heilbronn, key to the vaunted "red movies and a few shows but most of the time oubt" area of Southern Germany. these were inaccessible. To our combat team fell the main effort The entire company crossed the Rhine River attack on the city itself at two points, ahove at 0930 on 31 March 1945. The crossing was and below, involving a hazardous operation made on a pontoon bridge at a point between a river crossing. Initial crossings began on the cities of Ludwigshafen and Mannheim. 5 April with two battalions above at Neckar For the first time many of us saw the utter gartach and one below at Bockingen. Our and complete destruction wrought by our bornbers on these industrial ci ties. Hardly a

building was left standing. We marvelled Company setup in airplane parts factory - Weirt.~berg that there ,vas any life left. We crossed the celebrated river through a heavy smoke screen suppressing our desires of what we'd like to do-in the river! We proceeded in a sOlltlH'rly direction down the autobahn-the first of many miles we travelled on Germany's ultra modern high way system, and set up in Epprlhcim, 3 miles Irom famed Heidelberg. On Easter Sunday, I :\pril, the men attended services in nearby churches. lIere we were paid for the first time in Allied military marks, exchanged our francs. We saw our first large group of for eign slave labor, imported by the Germans, now JahJed "displaced personnel". We empt

30 position in Frankenbach was ideally Incated area. This went on for over a week. at the junction of thle roads running to these On 12 April the first aid station crossed the towns. Evacuation became a problem. For river. We promptly sent a litter jeep, and ward elements of the battalion aid stations then an ambulance across on a ferry that had crossed the river and they brought their casu finally been constructed at Neckargartach. alties to the river's edge. These were paddled All of our litter bearers worked on both sides aunss in assault boats by engineers, picked of the evacuating casualties to advanced am up by our litter bearers and taken to the aid bulance Joading posts. Then on Friday the stations. Behind the city high hills towered 13th, the city was declared clear and a skele and the enemy was able to observe directly ton station crossed on the ferry, passed our every move. Attempts at bridges, ferries, through streets littered with rubbk and with amphibious tanks failed as the enemy knock dead, to a poin t on the far side of the ci ty ed them out with deadly artillery fire. The where a few habitable buildings remained. little assault boat remained as the sole means There we were told that on a night in early De of transport-truly a lifeline. The majority of cember airplanes had bombed for 25 minutes, the company will long remember Heilhronn had destroyed the city, had killed 20,000 and many have a certain lasting affection for people. It was truly a dead city and the nause some deep cellars along the banks of the ating smell of death permeated everything. Neckar. Shells screamed both ways, planes We stayed there one night only and then gladly bombed. We watched our own artillery and moved on behind our advancing infantry. mortar fire land, heard the blast of rockets. We stoppled brieRy in Weinsberg where wc' At night burning buildings lit up the entire set up in a former airplane factory, tlie>11 hurried on to L~hrf'nsteinsfcld, WillslJach, ------Lowenstein, Neulautern, Sulzbach, Back

View from Lowenstein. nang, Geradstetten-only stopovers as our division hurtled southward in its tremendous drive. Casualties were light. We passed by the dead horses, overturned wagons, abandone>d equipment-the usual litter of war. Truck loads of PWs travelled in the opposite direc tion. We bypassed known pockets of' resist ance as we hurried to keep up. The weather varied from bright sunny days to light rains, but Spring was definitdy in thc air. Vve remember the magnificent view from our station atop the mountain at Li)wenstein and how the entire company engaged so acti vely in "liberating" wine during our short stay there. It was at the furniture factory in Geradstetten that our supply truck was liter

31 ally smeared along the road by a passing Corces. C-47's were seen Hying overhead in tank . ..-\ group of 14 (~ermans surrendered to stead of bombers. On 29 Apri] we moved to an ambulance driver. Our liaison sergeant barracks north of Stuttgart into battalion entered a town not yet cleared of the assembly. Official word camt> for uur station enemy and returned with seven prisoners. to "cease operation". But unfortunately the On 22 April, elements of our combat team U.S. forces had only paved the way for Stutt were ambushed by a pocket of Germans and gart's fall and werc not the "liberators", for heroic action in this encounter, 'L:> and on 30 April we left Stuttgart to the Walter G. Roberts and Pfc Gerald E. Rowen French and proceeded 38 miles east to Eis were awarded the Bronze Star Medal. In lingen where we set up in the town's school Gerac!stetten, on 22 April 1945, we admitted house. 8 May 1945, internationally proclai what later proved to be our last actual battle med as V-E Day, found us there engaged in casualty-the result of Jirect enemy action. "usual company activity"..Morale-superior. On the next day the entire company moved There it is. You've had it-"A" Company in to Ploehingen, 10 miles east of Stuttgart. combat. Here we set up in a large school building to It's really an important slice of our lives and rest and to await a new mission. not easily forgotten. We saw plenty. We On 26 April the company left Ploehingen travelled approximately 350 miles from St. and travelled to Stuttgart. In our comfort Helene to Eislingen in 179 days. Betwe~n able quarters in the fashionable eastern resi these points we set up and operated 45 ~ta dential section of tbt> city we enjoyed electric tions and treated a total of 3863 casualties. lights, hot water, a washing machine, and We also learned plenty. We learned to think champagne by tbe case. ~('ws came ofajune in kilometers, to speak enough French and tion between the American and Russian German to get us what we wanted, to pick up items necessary for our existence-a gener ator, a Cerman amhulance. W~ learned to CaptlJrrd German A mbllZal/.ce duck first and to look afterwards. We saw planes crash, heard land mines go off, learned to touch nothing. We learned to hate the enemy-mostly because he got us into this mess. We'll forget much of this as time blurs the dates, figures, places, incidents, but there is one thing none of us can e,-er furget-Comp any "A" and the spirit which makes us proud to b(' called its member.>. It's a mixture of men, machines, and rnatericl banded to.r~ ether under a letter of the alphabet for the duration plus. We don't know what the future lwld,. This story may have a sequel. As for our company, its members may change, but the organization will remain at the same solid consistency. We did it once, and we can do it again-if we have to. e didn't know what it was like to The strategy or tactics of battle was not our Whear the anguished cry of "Medic". concern, but it was our roncern to remain in We didn't know the feeling of a pounding contact wi th the troops in battle. So as the heart, as life came back to man, yet after combat team swung north through Baccarat three days of traveling by motor convoy, over to the hills around La Trouche, France, our roads strewn with the debris of battle, we ambulance drivers and litter bearers learned arrived in Villaineourt, France, prepared to the meaning of "Under Fire". It was here, relieve elements of the 43th Division. On over the roughest of terrain and adverse November 6th the relief was completed and weather conditions that litrer bearers Tee. 5th we were in full support ofComuat Team 8. Lawrence F. Bourgeois, PtC. George Karaffa, There wasn't a man in the Company, who Pfe. Loren J. McGovern and Pfc. Harold didn't realize the seriousness of war as Staff K. Scribner spent six hours evacuating one Sergeant Paul F. Smith related what he had casualty. Because of the constant enemy Artil witnessed while spending tW0 days \-vith lery and Mortar fire, the task was made more Company "A" of the 120th Medical Batta difficult. For this display of courage and loy lion. Faces became set in grim determination as our own casualties began to pour in. The first, a mine casualty, had his right leg ampu tated to the knee, by what is known as the "Shu Mine". This is a diabolical device con ceived by the enemy to wreak havoc amongst our troops; we know for we have seen its results and slurred the fears of the men wlto encountered them. ~ow the timehad come to put to test knowledge we had gained from a rigorous two years of training. Vie learned, and soon, that the best system was the simplest system. Our Station set up in a dugout a short distance forward of the town of St. Benoit, France, wa; f)rcecl tD move back as "Jerry" zeroed in on the road fifty yards from their location. Now located in a lent ,1 mile forward nfSt. Benoit, the Station worked fast and accuratdy as the battle for Raon L'Etape grew in fury.

Top: "The little carwl we remember so well" Bottom: The shmcer ten.t in. Diemeril!gen many wounded evacuated by this Company and the lives, perhaps saved by it:; members, are a tribute to its ski11. The Vosges cam paign was over for us as we headed north to partake in tIle assault on the Maginot Line. ~o, not as those who must pit their marksmanship and courage against the en~my but as those who must stand behind,

The sled litter ever to the service of alL Trois Fontaine came next in our series of Towns along the high ways of France. ,\ction had since passed this town and so here we were enabled to rest alty to dUly they \vcre awarded the Bronze while the plans for further action by our Star Medal. Ambulance drivers still talk of Combat Team were drawn up. On Decem the washed out roads and the pitch black ber 2nd we were once again in pursuit of an nights lightened only momentarily by the enemy who fought hy day and retreated by glare of a bursting shell. Yes, we will always night. Ajump ofsixteen miles lOok us to a town remember this spot on the map of France. called Moderfcld. Here again it was mines Kow Raon L'Etape had fallen and the and mortars and the never ending string at enemy's main line of resistance had been enemy snipers. Jerry's determination to stop bruken. He was in full flight. .\ Task Force us was great, yet not so great as our determina consisting of Combat Team "8" and support tion to move forward. How well we remem ing armor was formed; Object: to catch the ber the courage of Infantrymen anel Engi enemy in flight. This Company reinforced neers, smiling, yes even joking as they passed with men and vehicles Ii'om the rest of the through our Station, teJling us their experien Battalion brought up the rear of a huge ces. Yet how much more we remember the motor convoy that was hampered by enemy stories written on the faces and budies uf mines, roadblocks and mortar fire. The Task others. Stories that told of men charging up Force was halted in Senones, France, as the hi.lls in the face of an enemy wdl c!ugin and enemy had been beaten as far forward as fortified against their fire. Stories that talc! of Strasbourg. weariness Cram long nil:\·hls and the things Thanksgiving Day had passed and, true, which night on the Ii'ont brings about. The we bad much to be thankful for. We had stories our own men told were no different. seen almost a month of combat; war in all Tee. ;) th King A. Jackson and Pre. Isaae its hell had so far inflicted no casualties J Rosen can telJ you how their ,\mbuLance upon the mem bel's uf this Company. So mis tipped and blew a mine witbout injury to sing the revered Thanksgiving dinner wasn't themselves or damage Lo the whiclc. Dri\'ing too bad to take. through mined roads and fields is a job that The month of ::"Jovember spent in the Vosges demands courage and is in keeping with thr was a month all men will remember. It was a high stanelards of the Medica! Department. month of rain and snow, bitter cold and Here, two more "Bronze Stars" were awar rough terrain, but it was a month that made ded men of this Company. All these are the veterans of all the men of this Company. The memories of and around Moderfeld. Of

34 course there are more, many more that some Company with its ambulance drivers, litter ofour technicians can tell you about. Moving bearers and technicians worked wi th all the. on through the ruins of Rosteig, our next knowledge they had gaineclto relieve the pain location was in the town of "N[eisenthal. i'iow and suffering of the men who tried. While at we were beginning to see and realize how close Lemberg, Pfc. John E. McMahon fclt the we were to the boarders of Germany. Meisen cold sting of enemy steel as it slashed across tha.! is another small town battered and his face, and became our first casualty and beaten by a passing war and like all other Purple Heart recipient. l\'ow the enemy had towns in this region, it too is nestled in a valley. struck very close to home and although John Ever moving forward, the infantry was now received only minor iqjuries, surely the me engaged in a desperate battle for the town of mories of that bursting shell are printed for Lemberg, and although surrounded, the ever on his mind. enemy offered bitter opposition. These then Could we return to these towns today, we were days and nights of continuous driving would find none of the buildings so familar to for Amublancc Drivers. Days and nights us. Instead, where once they stood we would where Doctors and Technicians plied their find heaps ofrubblc or perhaps a vacant lot. skills to help those who had tried so hare!. Yet always there will be a memory of Tech Lemberg could not hold out against punish nicians straightening those twisted bones, of ing blows dealt by our Artillery and so on Doctors assuring those who asked, that they December 7th the town was entered. Close would come back for that one more chance. on the heels of the continually moving In All this took jJlace in a Gasthans in the town fantry, we moved our entire company into of ReyersviJicr. It was the same Gaslhaus the town for a closer and more direct support where litterbearers, tired from a day of of thl~ comhat team, for soon the assault or crawling, would lay their head upon the 11001', the Maginot Line was to begin. Lemberg will oblivious to the noises oCthe maddened world never be forgotren, for there are none of us at war. Outside thl' door could always be who do not remember the crack of shells as heard the screeching brakes of an ambulance they struck buildings and roads, nor can we as it told still another story. There is no glory forget the roar of our own guns as they dealt their punishing blows to the enemy. Still Dicmeringcn forward to the town ofReyersvilkr, an ad vance Station was set up for a speedier hand ling of the most serious casualties. .'\.11 this was necessary, for the Maginot Line was a strong point of the enemy. Tile men who attacked this strong point must have had a queer feeling in their stomachs. Reading in th(' newspapers h0W the pillboxes could be picked apart with a pencil and then seeing 240 mm shells bounce off them would turn any mReyersviller, "B"

35 in our page of this war. Just a feeling of pride it with what could be found. Men smiled and and satisfaction. laughed that night and I'm sure the war The great series of Forts that made up the was forgotten for that little while. Could we Fortress of Bitche were crumbling under the have gOLlen a suit, I'm sure Staff Sergeant direct fire of artillery and the courage of Ben Toomer would hwc made the perfect Infantrymen and Engineers. Soon a page was Santa Clews. The members of his platoon to be written into history and some 200 years looked upon him as such, anyway. of military history was to be shattered, but i\ war of defense brings very little casualties we didn't know then, that the large scale from man made weapons but as medical sol German counter attack had begun inBdgium. diers we learned that cold and snow could This was to put us on the defensive as the bring sickness and disease. ~ow we were be ,\rmies on the front were shifted..\ swing to ginning to see the dreaded "Trenchfoot" . Feet the left found us in the town of Siersthal. burned and discolored by a disease which Another small French town where you will knew no preference. In our position it did not find those tiled roof houses huddled closely come within our means to help these men. together at the foot of the hills, and, like other Our only help was speedy evacuation. localities in France, one could see that war T~c. 5th Wallace L. Stevens has a memento of' nin,fS white tape and the glaring red sign that Enchenberg, for it was while we were there said "Mines" by the side of the roads. Yes, he learned the sted pressed to make the doors Siersthal was just another stop with a new for his ambulance would not keep out the name. Another two days and we were in the flying steel of bursting shells. It was in town of Enehenberg. Enchenberg too that Technicians Stanley Here we will remember the snow and the J. Siegl"lheim and Lonny R. Tachenko per white clad Infantry boys as they worked in haps learned the thoughts of a litter bearl"r the fields outside of town, building new dl" under fire. It was dark that night with the fenses. Here we will remember a Christmas only light coming from the enemy's shells but far from home. :\ Christmas made ehel"r)' by when the call for medic came it was these those who had cut a large tree and decorated two 'vvho answered. Yes this was now a defensive war and an all out defense for us. Jerry had made a spear head and was forcing units around us to "Jerr)' lost this one" withdraw. Attack after attack was made by I the enemy. An enemy determined to do here, :" what he had done further north. He had mustl"rrd strength and 'vvas throwing it at points alung our entire line. It was during these attacks that our Combat Team was shifted farthn north, to take up secondary defenses and to as<:i:it ane>ther Combat Team in stemming the cnt:my's attack. \V(: took our place in the town of Oel'mingen, ready to aid those who were in need. It was ber~ some of us were introduced to jerry's so called

36 "Rocket". A bundle of Hell, witll a scream that sends those ieey li ttle needles running up and down a man's spine. Maybe that is the feeling it gave aid men, litter bearers, and ambulance drivers as they crawled over territory aliw with the bursting of these same "Rockets". Surdy those whu feel the bite of The Citadel nf '".For/ress nitrhe" their steel have a feeling indescribable. Maybe someday those members of this unit who have had that feeling might try to describe it to us. Men like Corporal Henry had seen. Forward of this town we had set J. Andersen, Pfc. Francis H. Chase, and PIC.. up an Aid Station and it was from this Station Edward F. Ronan might try, but then it we first used a sleigh in the evacuation of the would he very hard. wounded. It was our Commanding Officer, The smoke of battle had cleared now and it Captain Paul H. Goodman, who conceived showed we had not given in and those to the idea that it would be much easier and whom we owe so much, had proven our faith a more rapid means of evacuation over these in them. We in a Collecting Company, could snow covered bills in Alsace. It worked, and not have appeared to playa large part in well too, as I am sure men will testify. Then: this melodrama of life and death, but during was only an Clccasional roar from the front the days of this bitter struggle we did our job now and it appeared that winter was holding with courage and faith, and a determination its hand over war and that we must wait that we too werc part of the outfit that would and plan our moves for the days to come. change the tide of battle. The ~ew Year had On the 20th day ofJanuary 1945 we moved seen this little medical outfit staying doggedly our tired Company back to the town ofDieme close to those who needed us. It bad seen ringen, away [rom the reaches of those little us give all our efforts and more, somc of our guns that make life at the front so unpleasant. men. Jerry had tried and lost. I t was now a This way we were able to rest a group of rase ofsettling down and holding what we had. men while another group maintained the All around could be seen thc preparations for forward station, nov\' located in the town (If better defenses. Day after Jay we would Montbronn. Thae arc no streets in Dieme watch the huge bombers flying overhead, ring-en that cannot be described by all the .leaving behind their trails of vapor in a sky members of this Company. The little canal clear and cold. Things were now ber:oming that ran through the town and flooded it in very quiet and action was limited to patrols the days to C8mc, when the weather warmed and artillery duds, with an occasional thrust and the sun began to shine; its busy people at straightening and shortening the fran t lines. kno\ving the war had passed them, now AOW our Combat Team was to take up posit beginnin,Q; to rebuild what had been destroy ions in the forward line, so onr:/>, again we cd; these things all spell Diemeringen to us moved forward to the town of Rahlingen. \vho spent the many days of winter in that Rahlingen with its ancient buildings and town. winding streets, its battered appearance and During the time we spent in Dicmeringen the weary people was much the same as all we casualties were very light, that is to say the

37 casualties inflicted by the enemy were light, assault on the Fortress of Bitche. Combat but something else struck amongst us, somt> Team "8" was to make a frontal assault thing that turned the skin of man yellow and against the once impregnable line. turned his insides upside down until that Against the determination of the men we fol awful feeling of nasuea overcame him. lowed, no enemy could hold. So on the second Hepatitis or Jaundice are the names given day ofthe attack the city "Bitche" was entered. it by the Medical Officers who have tried so We all remember the constan t shelling and the hard to obliterate it. diving planes; the nights that were bright Our forward station in the town of Mont from the burning of surrounding towns; the bronn worked very smoothly all the time days that brought the wounded, telling their they were there. They handled all the ail stories of a "Citadel" high on a hill and a ments brought on by winter, the ever increas city spread out at its feet. Our stay in Bitche ing Hepatitis and those sudden results of the was short for the enemy was running. enemy who never ceased to throw some Swinging northeast, crossing the Hardt amount of artillery and mortar fire, with mountains and through the Siegfried Line, sureness and sincerity of veterans who had Combat Team "8" penetrated the borders of learned much since that day in the November Germany on the 22nd day of March giving past. us memories of our first German towns and The winter months were growing short and their houses, decorated with a single white the sun shone more brightly as the month of flag. A drive of sixty miles found us in the February passed and March came into being. town of Hassloch, Germany. Here we were A month that was to hold many new exper to see for the first time, at close range, the iences for us and new data for the pages of German people. All during this lightening history. On March 15th we continued the drive the casualties remained very light and thus our part was made easy. Now the roar of the guns seemed far away as our Combat Team remained in reserve and the enemy continued his running. Hassloch, for us was uneventful and soon our flag was moved to the town of Dannstadt. With our Station set up in Dannstadt, we were ever drawing closer to the River Rhine. The highway that passed our door carried the never ceasing flow of men and materials that were soon to bridge this very same river. As we waited our turn to cross, we trained in the things we were yet to usc and rested for the harder days yet to come. Who amongst us can forget that day in Dannstadt when the screech and roar of a diving plane brought

Top: "Frankie clips 'em" Bollom: "The .I\![aintcnance Shop"

38 "Dragons teeth in the Sie~fried Line" "IFe crossed th" Rhine here"

us all to attention. The deafening crash of an ached the Neckar River the battle grew in exploding bomb struck fear in the hearts of madness. Once again the stories we had seen men, for there was no warning. Now another enacted many times before were being played dive and another crash, but this time not a on the dark roads leading from the river and bomb but the plane itself had struck the on the fields that lined its banks. The con ground. We learned then why there had been tinual roar of artillery and the steady stacallo no warning, for the plane was ours and the of machine guns could l>e heard now as men bomb had been dropped by a quick think and equipment were pushed across the river, ing pilot for our protection and not our with the city ofHeilbronn as their objective. destruction. As the pilot was treated for minor In the many months that preceeded this en wounds, we learned the story of his troubled gagement we had learned many things but plane and his desperate attempts at landing never had we evacuated casualties across a it. These things all made Dannstadt eventful river under such heavy fire. There was no but it ~hall always be remembered as the bridge by which an ambulance could cross place we stopped before crossing the "Rhine". and the hasty foot bridge laid down by the At 1730 hours the 31st day of March 1945, Engineers could not be used by a litter team our convoy, marked with its blazing red carrying a wounded man. Assault boats were crosses moved along the highway towards our only answer and these were made into the city of Ludwigshafen. A city once "Ferries". With the necessitated slow move beautiful, now destroyed by the marksman ment by the ambulances and tht' long litter ship of the "Bombadiers". Over a pontoon hauls, evacuation might have been slowed, l::::':d~e, under the protection of a dense smoke so a dressingstation was set up near the river's cloud, to the eastern bank of the Rhine and bank while the bulk of the Company was the city of Mannheim moved this same con moved along the river to Bad Wimpfen. voy. Southeast along the great highways of Never before had we faced an enemy so Germany we witnessed the damage done by determined. From everywhere and everyone a retreating enemy and our relentless In came the stori<>s of the fight that was ensuing fantry and Air Corps. A one night stop in the for the city of Heilbronn. town ofFriedrichsfeld and then on to the town Bad Wimpfen is the place where men of this of Schwetzingen. Now the enemy was retre Company watched a drama so real ,md ating very fast and it wasn't long before we stirring that it could never be reenacted by were once again on the highways. This time the mind and hand of man. Looking across a long trip to the town of Bad Rappenau. As the river to the fields on the opposite bank we moved along we began to see signs of a we could watch the Infantry boys as they once retreating enemy, fighting. The casual pushed their desperate enemy back. We ties came and were treated. As we appro watched shells burst above their heads, yes,

39 and we saw them burst at their feet. We and we were chasing. To whcrc no one could watched the diving Air Corps and we listened answer. The list of towns and places stopped to the ripping sound of their guns and the mounted. Such towns as Jagstfeld and dull thud of their bombs. We watched all of Neckarsulm were merely heaps of rubble for this and more. We watched it because the these were the towns where the cnemy made part we played was to come to the aid of his last stand. The town of Rappoch with its those who had fallen, smitten by these very ever present incoming mortar fire will be same implements of war. It was great to look remembered as the town where Lt. Wallace out across this field, upon the stage of life, A. King and Sergeant Joseph E. Gross capt but it was a privilege to watch the group of ured five enemy prisoners of war. men that eased the pains and kept life in the Towns like Wills bach, Weinsberg, Mainhardt bodies of the actors. and Murrhardt, were next on our list but Ambulances come and leave Collecting Sta they too held very little memory other than tions all day long. The one driven by Pfc. the same white flags of surrender and wide Michael De Nardo had made many trips to eyed people as the might of America passed the Station in Bad Wimpfen with its loads their doors. Through these towns to the town of wounded. How very odd it was that this of Winnenden {or a fev\' days and then on to same ambulance was to bring him this time, the town ofWaiblingen. among the wounded. Yet he l'aughed that The war had ended for us in this town of day and no one could keep him from con Waiblingen for at long last we had been tinuing his work. Yes, it seems there were relieved and were now to get the rl'st we had many towns that could be remembered by waited for so long. Yes, this phase of the war the spilled blood of our own men. was over and what the future held we could It was in Bad Wimpfen that we said goodbye not tell. It was on April 24·th that we moved to our Company Commander Captain Paul into the town of Waiblingen and it \vas the H. Goodman and greeted a new Comman 8th day of May that the War in Europe came der, Captain Archibald D. MacDougal. Cap to its end. Somehow there was not thc joy tain Goodman had worked hard in molding that this would be expected to bring. Perhaps us into the unit we were and now he was it was the thoughts that many thousands of going higher. The war was by no means, miles aways there was a booming ofguns such over and there werc many more problems as we had heard many times ourselves, and still to come and for the solving of these we maybe the thoughts of those who were nill must look to our new Commander. giving lives took away some of the glory of Across the river, the city of Heilbronn had this great victory. fallen and once again the enemy was running With this part of the job finished Collecting Company, Combat Team "8" looks to its Rendezvous with Destiny with determination and a lighter heart, gained with its experiences and now stands ready "To The Service Of All."

Our Senegalese 411ies parade in Stuttgart Water covered street ofRambervillers onroute to Fraipertuis Convoy" We are on our way"

t is hard to describe the feeling of nerv however, morale was excellent among the 93 I ousness and anxiety that each indivi enlisted men and five officers as we proceeded dual has upon his first arrival at the front. on our way. There is always talk and discussion that The long trip, more than 400 miles, was fcat evolves into a moody silence of thought and ured by two excellent bivouac areas-the first fear. On the night of November 1,1944, the night at Valence, the second at Dijon, and the men of Co. "c" were no different in that third stop at Fremifontaine, France, where respect from the first unit which landed on the ominous rumbie ofartillery pieces attested the rocky coast ofNorth Africa back in 1942. to the fact that we were now in the vicinity Orders to proceed to the front had come of the front lines. quickly for us, perhaps more quickly than to It was 1830, on Nov. 1, 1944, that we did any oth~r combat unit. Thus, it was on the proceed to the front lines. Due to confusion, morning of October 29, 1944, that Co. "C", inevitable in a first night in combat, we found commanded by Capt. Robert E. Johnstone, ourselves within range of small arms fire on joined Brig. Gen. (then Colonel) Andrew a muddy road near La Salle, France. Enemy C. Tychsen's 399th Combat Team in the mines and the tactical situation made it motor convoy which made that regiment the impossible for us to retrace our course that first in the Century Division on the line. Cert night, so the men were ordered to beddown ainly, the lightning speed with which we were under what cover they could find until the assigned to combat, surprised most of us; next morning.

41 With the dawn, we moved to a starch factory while at Fraipertuis, the first of a senes of in the vicinity of Fraipertuis where prepara shows for which "c" Co. became locally tions were made fur evacuation to begin at famous was presented for the enjoyment of 1600. The first casualty to be treated by personnel and patients. The director was Pfc Captains Richard V. Meaney and]ames F. Robert]. Samp. X. O'Rourke was Pfc James C. Carver of But, this brief period of relaxation was just a "K" Co., 399th Infantry. He had a penetrat temporary thing, for the casualties continued ing wound of the left flank caused by shrap to be moderate as the 100th Division, along nel. None of us who were there that evening with the rest of the Seventh Army, intensified will ever forget the scene that unfolded its attack in the Vosges Mountains. before us. To see the doctors and able station The Collecting Company moved to St. Benoit technicians work on the casualties under the and then set up for a few days in Baccarat. flickering candle light was stirring and vibrat From here, there was a succession of quick ing and a perfect example of the cooperation moves to Bertrichamps, the strategic Raon that makes the American Army, yes, America L'Etape, and Senones, where welcoming what it is. liberated th rongs greeted our arrival with For the next few days, casualties were fairly wine, song, and "beaucoup" kisses. The final heavy, but evacuation was continuing well breakthrough along the entire Seventh Army due to the efforts of ambulance drivers, their front had been achieved, and we proceeded platoon leader 1st Lt. Richard E. Snyder, and to Plaine and Schirmeck, the latter within platoon sergeantJohnJ. Boesen. 35 miles of the famed Rhine city of Stras On Nov. 5, 1944, Maj. Gen. Brooks, com bourg. The Vosges Campaign was now offi manding general of the VI Corps, visited and cially over, and we were ordered to retrace inspected our station. That same evening, our course to the town of Moyenmoutier

"GI Wash.in~ machine" "l~ul.lin,g up the canvas"

42 where the 399th regiment would regroup. Company "C". Resistance in our first assault It was for the action around Raon-L'Etape on our new position was moderate and, in that the 1st Battalion, 399th Infantry, event close support of the infantry, we moved ually received a Presidential Citation. Our quickly and successfully to the Alsatian towns litter bearers deserve mention at this time for of Veckersviller, Petersbach and Wingen. On they were really kept busy forward of the aid Dec. 7, 1944, Pearl Harbor Day, we entered station, helping hard pressed boys of the Goetzenbruck which was still under heavy medical detachment. Tec 4 William H. Shaw, enemy mortar and artillery bombardment. Pfc Yale Rubin, Pfc Cornelius J. Moynihan, Our station in Goetzenbruck was located in a and Pfc Leonard Landsford were among the partially bombed out Gasthaus (Beer Hall) many fellows whospentseveral days and nights at the road junction upon which the main up there, "sweating it out". Our ambulance German fire was directed. Our kitchen was drivers-Tec 5 Thomas J. Rykaceski and PEc on the opposite side of the crossroad and here John G. Callahan, Tec 5 Robert J. Burwell in the early evening we suffered our first and Pfc Vincent J. Paparella, Pfc Samuel F. casualty. First cook, Tec 4 Eric P. Rogall of Yanz and Pfc Ray Astin also did much ~ew York, City, was seriously wounded by evacuating in this encounter. mortar shrapnel when a lightning barrage On Nov. 28, 1944, we departed for a new landed close by the kitchen truck. He was sector which eventually proved to include the rushed to the station for immediate treat vaunted Maginot Line. Our first rest since ment, evacuated to Clearing Company, then we entered combat came at Niederweiler, to a field hospital. A week later, we received France, as the 399th combat team was placed the unfortunate news that he had died on in division reserve. Dec. 13, 1944. During a 14-hour period On Dec. 2, 1944, it was back to the wars for Dec. 7th, we evacuated 146 casualties.

Chow line "The Infant.ry moves up" .. Scenes like chis were cmhmon" We "IIit the road"

Shelling continued heavily for ~he next sev inspiringjob, consoling the sick and wounded eral days and, at times, swift and immediate as they passed through the station and con evacuation seemed almost impossible. All of ducting services both for us and the 399th . this was combined with steady snow and Infantry boys. Our comparatively swell frigid weather. Credit must be given to all Christmas celebration was concluded with ambulance drivers including such men as much revelry on the part of the boys. How Tec 5 Harold J. Seebeck and Pfc John A. ever, another popular memberofthe company Montecalvo, Pfc James D. Stocker and Pfc was missing for S/Sgt Wilfred Buckman, our Nathaniel Raichelle, and PEc Notley D. Tom supply sergeant, had his right femur fractured lin and Pfc Ralph D. Priest. in a truck accident. Yes, those weeks at "petite" Goetzenbruck Soon the New Year would be here and Vic were mighty rugged. When we left the town tory in Europe, we hoped. We knew that the on Dec. 22, 1944, we thought we had seen boys in the Ardennes were having it tough, it for the last time, but, on Dec. 24th, we for most of the heavy artillery that had been returned and it was there we enjoyed the plastering Fortress Bitche had left us for that massive Christmas dinner, and on Christmas front. Were the Germans strong enough to night the third and outstanding show of Co. counterattack here now that we were under "C's" ETO series. The show included a manned? paroely on our own collecting company, Early morning of the New Year, Jan. J., 1945, appropriate songs by an eight-man choral brougllt the answer to this question. The group, and a talk on the meaning of Christmas enemy started to counterattack; his artillery, by Chaplain Thaddeus Koszarek. Father mortars, and small arms began popping. We Koszarek, incidentally, along with Chaplain were awakened at 0300 by a heavy barrage William P. Fraser, Protestant chaplain spent falling around us. Hurriedly packing, we much time with us during combat, doing an pulled out shortly after dawn and set up in

• Montbronn. Our casualties were very light in Co. "C", along with the rest of the 399th contrast to those of the fanatic Germans who combat team and the division moved out obviously, crazed by drunkenness and blind Mar. 22, 1945, on a two-day rat race that fanaticism, forgot all basic rules of ground took us as far as the Rhine River. On our warfare and were literally moved down by move we passed through the Siegfried Line our alert infantry. defenses. Our first night in Germany was The 100th Division had stemmed the tide in spent in Waldfischbach; the second night we its sector. However, it was now clear, for the set up in Dannstadt and, after moving to and time being, we would have to assume an spending several days at Mutterstadt, we aggressive defense. The company was split, crossed the Rhine at Ludwigshafen-Mann the station moving to Meyerhof and the rear heim on March 31st. While at Mutterstadt section to Ratzweiler. For five days at :Meyer our first sergeant Everett D. McGinnis took hof the shelling which we had experienced sick and had to be evacuated. in Goetzenbruck _continued day and night. Our first stop east of the Rhine was at Bri.ihl. Battery and counterbattery fire was fierce. Resistance was very light and, in quick There were movements again. The forward succession in the first week of April, we station went to Enchenberg and the rear to stopped over in Waldorf, Sinsheim, Massen Diemeringen. It was here the company re bachhausen, and Frankenbach-the latter, a ceived the shocking and sorrowful news of the few kilometers from what proved to be one sudden death of Paul L. Becker on Mar. 12, of the fiercest battles of the final campaign 1945, from pneumonia. He was our second on the 'vVestern Front. This, of course, was member to fall. As the month ofMarch arriv the battle for Heilbronn on the Neckar River. ed and the push on the other sectors of the Western Front had already begun, we knew it wouldn't be long before we would be on The remains of Heilbronn the move again. Certainly that was what everyone wanted, for offensive war at best is hell but the war of nerves which we had been playing often was as trying to the individual. On Mar. 15, 1945, our infantry made its second attack on Bitche, and two days later the proud Citadel fell. After moving into Bitche the forward section of the company moved to Haspelscheidt and, later on in the afternoon of the 18th of March, the rear section, for the first time sinceJan. 1st. joined it to make a full company. This latter town was a ghost town, ruined during the German breakthrough in 1940 and later used by them as a target for artillery practice.

45 separated the fighting men and mediccl1 in stallations, evacuations continued success fully. Our litter squads were posted at the batta lion aid stations from whence they carried the casualties over rough terrain and oh.,tacles down to the east bank of thc river. Here the wounded were loaded on a rope-towed ferry or assault boats and rowed by German pri soners to the opposite bank. Once on thc west bank other litter squads picked up thc wounded and carried them up the bank to the rear aid station. The ambulances would Whcrp the Battalion assembled in Stuttgart then carry them to the collccting station. At all times during this crude evacuation the whine, whistle, and thunder of the 33's and rockets were constant. Yes, our litter bearers Here, all parts of the collecting company, as saw plenty of the Neckar River that second all other units of the division, functioned at week of April. Such men as Tec 5 :'-Jathaniel full speed in doing their part to insure the Levine, PiC Stanley D. Hoisington, Pfc .success of this battk. The station platoon and Richard ]. Camarota, and Pfc Rerno De t.he platoon leader at this time, Capt. Robert Marco can attest to this fact. Ambulance M. Rose, s\viftly and efficiently treated the drivers as Pfc Morris Horowitz and Pfe Gary many casualties. It is difficult. to de~ignate Greenway, Pfc Ndson B. Clark and PfcJark indi\·idual credit in this platoon where all Parry, and Pfc Thomas E. Floyd and pre nine men have an equal hand in keeping the William C. Rogers will agree that it was station in operation twenty-four hours a day, rt:ally rugged. seven days a week. Finally, on Apr. 13th, we crossed the river on 1st Lt. Richard E. Snyder and driver, Pfc a pontoon bridge and moved into Heilbronn. Reamer R. Floyd, made many tfips ofrecon Resistance continued to be heavy for severa! naissance down to the heavily shelled hanks days; but, concluding a month of intense of the Neckar to determine the quickest pos action, our infantry did achieve a fast sible opportunity to move the collecting sta hreakthrough. To keep in close contact we tion across for better su PPOft. We were unable maintained a split mobile station. Yet, during 10 move, however, for abou t a week as each the time of the breakthrough, 3rd Battalion, time the rugged engineers would "throw up" 399thlnfantry movi ngswifdy, were ambushed a bridge, ] erry artillery, aided hy direct near Lehrensteinsfcld on April 13th. Once

observation from surrounding hiUs and well acrainb , the ambulances evacuated the wound- camouflaged observation towers, would ed with sperd fl-om the aid stations to the knock it out. Despite the fact the river collf'cting station and frum collecting station

46 to clearing station. T~c ;) Charlie B. Barretl War certainly had knit our company into a and Pfc Elton Smith moved 45 of the wound cohesive unit. Working and sweating and ed, ten ofwhich were litter cases, in five trips. suffering and laughing together in such close For the next week, we moved steadily toward contact had broug'ht this about. And, really, the big objective of Stuttgart in ajoint drive there were plenty of laughs. Morale had con with the French. Our station treated few tinued well during combat. It's amazing casualties in Stocksberg, Backnang, Winnen when one comprehends the amount of stimu den, and Endersbach. Finally, with the whole lation that one gets out of a common brother division we convoyed to Stuttgart on April hood-slogging through the mud, sleeping in 26th. The French had taken Stutt,gart a few a hay loft, sharing a cold ration, all born or hours after the Century Division had sur simplicity and the animal-like, make for a rounded it on three sides. We moved from our common understanding among men. This original billets to a huge former Wehrmacht cooperation among all components of Co. training camp on the outskirts of the city "e"-the station, ambulance platoon, Iitter where for the first time since the 29th of platoon, headyuarters, and the kitchen October, 194.4, in Septe-mes, France, Co. becomes stronger and stronger during each "e" rejuint:d the other companies of the succeeding day in combat. 325th Med. Bn. It was now thought, after Yes, and now that it is all over and we arc approximately 180 days ofaJmost continuous once again enjoying the comparative comforts combat, we would get a rcst and would prob ofa garrison life, we can look back with pride ably not go back on the line again. The war and wi th thlllightfulness, contem p1 ate the with Germany was fast drawin?; to an end individual values that are perceptible in a and on May B, 1945, Victory was here. W.lr of migh t and Llood and horrur. Perhar:; Yes, it was at last here. But, our reaction, we have gained something despite it all. typical of most combat men, was not one of wild unrestrained laughter and cclebra tiva; rather, it was an outwardly, unemotio "Chow Time" nal period of thought. Imide each man's heart was thankfulness for his own well-being and the victory in which our 'Utopia, called America, had played such a big part in achieving. It wa, nut so much that the men were thinking of furth ",1' fighting in anuther theater, but mlJre, each individual, aware of it or not, had become a thinker. He had seen war in all its futility-blood, horror, and de struction. Was it a time for celebration or were thought and prayer proper! Only a man who has seen war directly accepts the latter with full understanding.

47 lllPA T ,

ight marches, after the first few receiving and checking our trucks. Many or N minutes, arc usually quiet, and the the men visited Marseille and near-by Aix on men of Company D weren't talkative on that passes for their first good glimpses of French early morning hike from Marseille, where cities. they had disembarked from the troopship, A 500 mile train ride in the famed "Forty George Washington, onto a flood-lighted and Eight" can took most of the personnel beach. It was October 21, 1944, and we had of the company from the staging area to been welcomed to the ETa by German Thaon, and after a few more miles by truck, planes attempting to get through the port's they arrived at Fremifontaine. Meanwhile defenses. Standing on the deck of the ship, our equipment was trucked up in our own we could see the few lights of the ci ty black vehicles and arrived the folJowing day. out, and behind the hills inland the flash of Our clearing station set up for the first time anti-aircraft guns. in combat on November 7 on the- outskirts of We reached our bivouac in the staging area Rambervillers, where the 100th Division was near Septemes about 2 a. m., after a hike of relieving the 45th Division. nearly 10 miles. By the time we settled down On that day 56 patients were admitted to it was raining, and we were soon to learn the station, 38 of them battle casualties. Our that rain was quite common in France. official opening at noon was to mark the be \1ajor Robert C. Thompson (then Captain) ginning of an unbroken series of operation assumed command of Company D on Oc days in combat that had reached 182 when tober 24, and led us durin~ most of our com V-E day came the following May. bat time. We stayed at RambervilJers until November Several days were spent at Septemes in un 24, and while there admitted over 1700 pa packin~ and organizing our equipment, and tients, many ofwhom were held at the station,

Sojourn in Seplemes "40 & 8 Pullman DeLuxe"

48 Tent Cit.Y- Diemeringen ------_.. __._------

which grew into a tent city of unimagined exhaustion cases were able to r~Jom their size, for treatment and return to duty. Here units. as in future days the clearing station played When the men of the company found time, an important part in the division's efforts to they cursed the seemingly bottomless mud conserve trained men and maintain the high that surrounded the station. Board and gravel standards of unit efficiency wilh which this walks between tents helped some but many division entered combat. a luckless medic wandering around, outside Many of the classical idei1.s of clearing station at night, when strict blackout had to be ob operation were discarded in the ligh t of ex served, soon was literally lifting himself out perience we gained in those first few weeks. of the mud by his bootstraps. It was quickly seen that complete separation A siege of diarrhea, with the latrine set 40 of equipment, vehicles and personnel by yards out in the mud taught us that all that platoons was impractical under the tactical talk about mess and personal sanitation situation we faced. One platoon's equipment wasn't just day-room time-killing. was insufficient to operate as large a station Our first casualty occured on November 23, as was found necessary for the number of when Tec 5 Jonas B. Harrell was killed in patients we were holding, and soon second action near Moyenmoutier while on tempor platoon tentage was erected and their equip ary duty with Collecting Company B as a ment in use. When it was found that even this truek driver. Though we had become accust was not enough, additional tents, blankets, omed to wounds and death, we were sad cots and stoves were drav.:n from the Quarter dened at this personal loss of a man who had master. been with us and a part of us since our early Also established at the clearing station was training days. the Division Exhaustion Section, under Major With the fall of Strasbourg, resistance in our William H. McCullagh. This section remain sector collapsed, and on the morning of ed with us during our entire combat period, November 24 the second platoon packed and and through rest and various types ofpsycho loaded preparatory to moving to a new posi therapy provided there, the great majority of tion.That afternoon the second platoon moved

49 23 mites to Senones, where a station was opened at l8na on the gruund floor of a civil ian hospital. The city was still in tbe throes ofits liberation celebration, and all American Soldiers were enthusiastically greeted. The first platoon continued in operation at the old station until the following day when it moved up to join the second. The problem of moving thc great amOllnt (If equipmetlt we had accumulated and the many patients we were holding and treating was met ancl solved wLthout confusion and with an effi ciency that spoke well for future operations. We stayed at Senones for only three clays. At

3 :1. m. on ~ovember 27 t.1lt' first plat.oon loaded up and prepared to mO\'e out. As the convoy wa~ forming, Sgt Gibson was caught bC'twecn two trucks and injured. He was Ilospitalized in the station and was soon able to resume duty. At noon on :\ovembcr 27 the first platoon pulled intu its nev'" location, three miles southeast of Sarrebourg and 1\.9 miles [rom Senones. The station was set up in what had been a dairy plant, alter the mess the Germans had left was cleaned up. The fullowing day as the secnnd platoon was moving up to the new location, one of our one and a half ton trucks, c1ri\ en by prc

H "Colne and Gel lL - Dicnl.eringen

,. nagged Down faT the DUTation" .. .Jerry Tank

Ti'e Kitchen Sink DiemeTinxcll

"Thc 1\fovie Palace" - DienwTingen

5U Stubbs and carrying kitchen equipment and p('rsonne!, was forced off the road by an ambulance a short distance from Sarrebourg. The vehicle overturned and rolled down a steep embankment, scattering men and equipment. Stubbs was the most seriously in jured and had to be evacuated. The oth('r occupants were Jess seriously injured and most of them were able to r~sume duty aftfT treatment. Two days later, on 1\ovemher 30, the second platoon moved 10 miles to the small village of Rauwiller and opened its station. The town, badly sheJ1ed, was still smoking and burning when we moved in, and a few car c.asses of dead animals had to be mo\·ed from the st£ltion site for sanitation's sake. At Rauwjller the mud made the Ramber viller~ area seem like a smooth beach by comparison. Adding to the general disc.omfort was another widespread outbreak ofdiarrhea. From that time un, future moves were prrc eded by a work detail who went to the selected new areas and prepared roads and walks before the whirl of trucks and men could grind a smooth field into mud, in the activity of setting up a station. The first platoon moved forward to a field outside La Petite Pierre on Dcrember 7 and

The Tonsorial Parlor _. Diemcrin~en

"iVlail Call at Tpnt City"

"All Clear in Admissions"

"Merry Christmas" - Diemeringen

51 two days later was joined by the second we had up burned down one dark night) platoon, where movies were shown three times daily, On December 13, as division troops began Board walks and a solid ambulance turn pounding into the outer defenses of the city around were constructed by the men of the of Ritche, key point of the famed Maginot company, Tents were heated and electrically

line, th~ second platoon moved to a new lighted. site, high on a hill overlooking the town During our stay in that area, more than 5,000 ofMeisenthal.Thatstationstayed in operation patients were admitted to the station, Many until December 24, Often the men had a of these were held for treatment and eventu grandstand view of the terrific artillery ally returned to duty, At all times a maxi bombardment then in progress against the mum number of patients were held in the Bitcne forts, and at night found sleep some station. times difficult as the ground shook and the As l'\ew Year's approached, we WfTe alerted air lignted up from the big guns, for air attack several times. On ~ew Year's A new station was opened between Butten day, in the early morning, the enemy launch and Diemeringen by the first platoon on the ed a powerful attack on the east of the evening of December 24, and on Christmas division's right boundary, That night, in anti day the second platoon moved up and join cipation of a possible hurried rear movement, ed it. we loaded five trucks with equipment and

We stayed In that area for nearly three sent them back to the vicinity of Rauwiller, months, as the division reverted to a defen The division front held, howe\-er, and the sive position, During this time we developed danger passed, and expanded a clearing station such as The clearing station's record day for admis rarely, if ever, has been seen in combat. sions was on January 3, when 217 patients Two large ward tents were pitehed together passed through. At this time patients were and used as a theatre (after the single tent received and evacuated from units of the

Raskillg in Bilche "(nrl Service il/. Ihe MislreS,1 of Ihe Magillol" -- Bilr:lw

52 36th, 63rd, 45th and lOOth Infantry Divisions, and the American 14th and French 2nd Armored Divisions. The evacuation became 1 such a problem that for some ti me a 2 / 2 ton truck from Headquarters Detachment was used to evacuate the walking wounded. On January 13, Company D, with other units of the battalion, was awarded the Meri torious Service Unit Plaque.

The station was strafed by several planes un General Von Claer leaving Clenrin!! Station - Hackllollg March 3. Although several vehicles were hit and minor cuts received by some men in taking cover, there was no serious damage. j ng that IJad been a girl's school Gut more The strafing occured during mid-morning of recently a German hospital. a clear day, when the Red Crosses on our For the first time we had a chance to see what vehicles and trucks must have been visible the war had done to German cities, most or for several miles. which were thoroughly leveled. The roads On March 18 the second platoon moved into we traveled were lined vvith released displac a large mili tary building in the city ofBi tche, ed personnel of all nationalities; scattered which had fallen to our division at the start German soldiers lYL

53 Rhine on a pontoon briclg-e between \1ann slugged their way across the )Jeckar River beim and Ludwigshafcn and moved to the and into the city of Heilbronn. On April 14 small, undamaged village of Seckenheim. we moved through the battered city into mili The station here was set up in a school house. tary barracks on the outskirts of the city. The first platoon moved up to Seckenheim The new station was opened that afternoon by on A.pril 1, and the following day moved out the second platoon and two days later was again, IranJing 27 miles to Sinsheim, where joinecl by the first platoon. a German hospital was appropriated. The At Heilbronn Capt. Paul H. Goodman as station opened just before noon and that sumeJ command of the company, relieving evening the second platoon joined the first. Major Thompson. Here, too, the division Here at Sinsheim many of the men first got rehabilitation center and division dental to knOl\· well the displaced personnel, who clinic became adjuncts to the clearing station. at that time werr teeming over all the con On April 21 the first platoon moved to quered sections of Germany. Backnang, where" it was joined the following We stayed at Sinsheim while division troops clay by the second platoon. The station here was set up in a large school building on a hill overlooking the city.

·iJi,,, lh" .Ha.ule in {{pilbrOIlIl Our troops, in conjunction with French for Eislingf!.T1 ces, were closing around the key city of Stuttgart, 30 mites away. The city fell, and on April 28 the second platoon moved there and established a station in the German mili tary barracks, distinguished by their filth and disorder. The first plato(Jn moved into this area the following day. Now the 100th division was relieved and reverted to 7th Army reserve, where it remained until hostilities ceased. From .l\ovember 6,1Q44, when the firsl battle casualty was admittf'd, until April 25, 1945, when the division went to Army reserve, nearly] 3,000 patients were admitted to the clearing stalion. Of these, nearly, 3,000 WfTe returned to their units for duty afler periods or treatmen tin the station. The men of Company D are proud of their record of service, and confident of the future

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* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * A"lVARD O:t~

Awarded to (tny indil'iduaI1.l:Jw, while serring in any caPOCl:ty l1L or with the Army oj' lhe United States, on or after 7 December 191/.], distinguished or has rlislin,!!,uished himse!{ by heroic or meritorious nchierernent or senice not inl'olrin~ participation in aerial flight. * *

Lt Col Emil J. Genetti Capt Willard F, Seaton T Sgt Thomas D.Maggipinto Capt Robert H. Draddy 1 Lt Paul A. Schneider Tec 4 John J. McMahon Capl Anthony S. Kazmierski WOJG George J. Schramm T Sgt Paul M. Prew '1 Lt Edwin R. Kelley *Maj John K. Webb Tee 5 Paul A, Wods Capt Samuel S. Morrison M 5gt William M. Bartlell Capt Robert R, Moylan Tec 5 Thomas A, Boger

eO:UPA~Y "A"

1 Lt William K. Farquhar 5 Sg! Michael Inter/andi Pic Gerald E, Rowen 1 Lt Joseph R, Pawl Tec 4 Truman R. Lowe Tee 3 Albert W. Siowick Capl Robert M, Rose Sgt Robert s. Pierall Pic Darell W. Stevenson Pic Roy Craig Pic Andrew B. Pribulka Jr. Pfe Harry A. Strandell Sgt Albert F, Droleskey Tee 5 Waller G. Roberts

*1 Lt Frederic C. Brown Pic Donald L. Charlton Sgt John E. McMahon 1 Lt Wattace A King Pfe Lory W. Clevenger 1 Sgt Joe L. Newman Capt Archibald D, Sgt Andrew P. Cocozza Pic Isaac J. Rosen Mac Dougall Tec 5 King A. Jackson Pic Harold K. Scribner "Capt Harry F. Mignerey Pic George Karaffa 5gt Andrew M. Sheehan Capt Knighton V. Waite Pic Thomas F. Kenny Jr. Pic Oscar N. Tolson Cpl Henry J. Andersen Tec 5 Alfred H. La Fleur 5 Sgt Benjamin T. Toomer Tec 5 Lawrence F. Tec 5 Leo Lefebvre *PIc George F. Traylor Bourgeois Pic Loren J. McGovern

(:OJJPANY "C'>

Cap' Kobert E. Johnstone S Sgt Martin Feldman Tee 4 Nathaniel Levine Capt Richard V. Meaney Tec 5 Thomas E. Floyd S Sgt John B. Rahl 1 Lt Richard E, Snyder 5 Sgt Charles F. Frowein Tee 5 Harold J. Seebeck Sgt Charles B. Barrell Pic Nick Gercis Tee 4 William H. Shaw 1 Sgl John J. Boesen 5 5gt Louis G. La Buda Sg! Samuel F, Yanz

COJU>.-\.l\'Y "1)"

Ma; Robert C. Thompson 1 Sg! John R. Barbour 1 Sgt Herman P. Kuebler Capt Harold W. Bly 5g1 Cliffon E. Coward Tee 4 Theodore R. Scanlon 1 Lt Richard J. Flading Tee 3 Mortimer S. Friedner 5 S9t George T. Shannon *Maj Paul H. Goodman Tec 5 Carlos M. Jacot! 'Tee 4 Argel W. Talkington Capt Lester B, Weiss

• Denotes cluster to above award

56 A"\VARD 01<' purple --+--+e (J rI j/tled(J ,

Alllarded to those who a.re wounded in action against an enemy of the United States, or as a dir~ct resu,[t of all. act of.~uch p.nem)', provided the

wound Heeds treatment b.y It medical ofJic~r.

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Tec 5 Michael J. Ambrosio Cpl Henry J, Andersen Pic Joseph J. Bravchok Pic Francis H. Chase Pic Roy Craig Pic Michael De Nardo Pvt Alton Eberhardt Tec 5 Leo Lefebvre 5 59! Michael Interlandi Sgl John E. McMahon Pic Charles A. Marsch Pic Albert F. Powell Pic Irving Wallach Pic Edward F. Ronan *PIc George F. Traylor

COli 1".\ X Y "C" C01IPANY"J)"

Pic George H. Gordon Tec 5 Ca rlos M. Jacott Pic Granville Shankles Tec 4 Theodore R, Scanlon Tec 4 Argel W. Talkington

.. Denotes cluster to above award

57 A'VARD OJ<~ ) £1oo£,/-- (" II (;

Il~EAOQl:ARTEUS& HEADQrAllTERSDETACHMENT

T 5gt Alfred J. Conrad Jr. Pie Rodney E. Marshburn Tec 5 Irving E. Rink Jr. Pic Douglas L. Fry M 5gt John Millar Jr. Tec 4 Paul E. Rock Pic Ray H. Gaston Tec 5 Robert F. Miller T 5gt Charles A. 5cutero Tec 4 Nicholas Hupalo Tec 5 William H. Moore 5 5gt Philip Sperling Tec 5 Rober! W. Karjala Pic James T. Pait Pic Anlhony R. Spino M 5g! William M. Bartlett Tec 5 Alexander L. Kay Tec 4 George Pagnotta M 5g! Roman F. Sikorski Pic Joseph Betheil T Sgt Alfred M. Kohl Tec S Waller H. Peters Tec 5 Robert W. Siemens Cpl Louis C. Blaszynski T 5gt Thomas D. Maggi Tec 4 Orville L. Petty Tee 5 Anthony 51. Angelo Tec S Thomas A. Boger pinto 5 5gt Gerard V. Pfaff Tec 5 Anthony T. Valenti Pic Jack Boswor!h Tec 4 John J. McMahon T 5g! Paul M. Prew Tee S Pau I A. Woods Pic John H. Carter Tec 5 Lloyd Marcus Tec 5 William C. Rimmer Tec 4 Joseph Yakowski

(:o:ur,,,"xY "A" Tee 5 Michael J. Ambrosio 5 5gt Anthony M. Pic Charles A. Marsch Tee S Joseph C. Nogaj Tee 5 Rober! H. Andersen De Angelis Pic Frank P. Martelli Tee 4 Raymond G. Orres Pic James W. Arant Tec 3 Edwin S. Denby Pfc Reuben E. Ma rten Pie Eugene 5. Osinski Pie Alador B. Ba las Pic William E. Dodd Pic Lowell A. Marlin Pic Lucas B. Perdue Sgt Louis F. Baldassano 5gt Albert F. Droleskey Tec 5 Frank E.McDonaldj;·. Cpl Joseph F. Pesce SSg! William W. Bottom- Pfc Philip E. Foley Tec 4 Bartholomew F. 5gt Rober! 5. Pieratt stone 5gt Ewen J. Fraser McDonnell Pic Andrew B. Pribulka Jr. Pfc Claudie H. Bradshaw 5gt James A. Fuller Tee 4 George J. Pic Herman R. Pseny Pic Louis R. Bratton Pfc Robert H. Hannon McDonough Pic Frank Radicella Pic Ouen!on D. Brewington Pfc William D. Heagney Pic Richard T. McLeod Pic Joseph M. Reed Pic James L. R. Brown Pic Oscar T. Hendrickson 5 5g! Aaron B. Milam Tec 5 Walter G. Roberts Tee 5 Charles G. Burkert SSg! Michael Interlandi Tec 4 William H. Miller Pic Marvin Rosenberg Pic Boyce L. Carpenter Pic Cha rles J. Jackivicz Pfc Philip Millman Pic Gerald E. Rowen Pic Richard L. Childs Tec 5 Mack J. Jordan Pfc Winifred L. Millwood Pic Johnny 5. Sizemore Pic John P. Clancy Tec 5 Abraham Kaufman 1 5g! Arpad A. Molnar Tec 3 Albert W. 510wick Tee 4 William W. Cox 5g1 John G. Kennedy 5gt Leon N. Morse Pfc Clarence L. Spearman Pic Roy Cra ig Pic John J. Keppner 5 5gt Bryce L. Moschel Pic Darell W. Stevenson Cpl Charles W. Cropley Tec 5 Sol N. Kosofsky 5gt Emery D. Nelson Pic Evan G. Thomas Pic John W. Curran Pic Wilmer L. Laney Pic John P. Nelson Tee 4 James F. Walters Pic Nicholas D. D' Abate Pic Dominic A. Locurcio 5 5gt Umberto A. Neyroz Tee 4 Daniel Weissenberg Pic Donald P. Darsch Tee. 4 Truman R. Lowe Pic Theodore I. Nigri Pfc Joseph W. Zebracki

COJIP:t.xy;on"

Pvt William J. Abbate Cpl John E. Cronin 5 5gt Trowbridge L. Pfc John L. Luzzi Pic Walton N. Adams 5gt Arthur N. Curtis Higgins 5gt Thomas J. McGowan Pic Herber! R. Aemisegger Pfc Michael DeNardo pic James J. Holden Pic Loren J. McGovern T/S Wade W. Benson Pfc Harold Edelson Pic Charlie T. Hudson Pte Richard L. McKiddy Pic Michael Bender Jr. Pie Sylvester E. Erlman Pic Thomas G. Hun! Pfc John E. McMahon Tis Lawrence F. Bourgeois Pic Francis L. Estes T}5 King A. Jackson Pic Lester B. Meltesen Pic Frank A. Bunn Pic Roscoe M. Evans Pfc George Jacobs T! 5 Joseph Mikorzewski Tis Ewell B. Bramble Pfc Fred J. Fawcett Pic: PeteI' M. Jannuzzi Pic George F. Moore TI4 Dale O. Bright Pfc John Feczkanin Pic Paul W. Johnson 1 5gt Paul Naumchik 5gt James A. Brooks Pic Frank E. Florio Pfc George Karaffa T/S Harry R. Naylor Pic Richard E. Carpino Pic Russell V. Guidry Pic- Thomas F. Kenny Jr. Pfc Lloyd R. Neaves pic Donald L. Charlton Pfc William H. Graeff T!5 Alfred H. La Fleur Pic George E. Newton Pic John Chvostal TiS Edward F. Grillo T!5 Leo Lefebvre Pfc Wallace B. Nolen Pic Lory W. Clevenger 5 5gt Joseph E. Gross T!4 Paul Libri Pic Harry T. Oldland Pic Charles E. Crandell T:4 Abner L. Head Jr. Pic Bobbie B. Little Pic Lawrence J. O'Leary

58 /Iwarr!pd to thos(! enlisted mw who hal'e demonstrotcd Jiddity through faithftd and l!xaCl performance of duty, ejp,cip.ncy through capacity to produr.e desired results, and whose bllhavior has been such (l,~ to desel'l;e emulation.

Pic Albert F. Powell Sg! Andrew M, Sheehan Pfe Warren T. Svenson Pic Manley C. Vinson Pic Arthur F. Reichel T,4 Stanley J. Siegelheim r.13 Lonny R. Tachenko Sgt Harvey B. Waterman Pic Edward F. Ronan Cpl Joseph M. Skrodenis Pvt Vincent Taranti k Pvl Cecil s. Watkins pic Isaac J. Rosen Pic Elmer O. Smith Tis Charles N, Tardiff TI4 Frank 1. Wheeler T!S Oscar Schoar S Sgt Paul F. Smith Pic Oscar N. Tolson SSg! Frank L. While Pic Harold K, Scribner Cpl Bill F, Stephenson S Sgt Herman Traystman Tis Ernest Yannaee Pic Earl K. Secord TiS Wallace L. Stevens Pic George Trombino Pic Albert J. Shafer Ti3 Alfred R. Stinard Pic Frank E. Vest

(; 0 ;U )' ANY "C" Pic Joseph Anuskowitz Sgt Herbert N. Goldberg Pic Everett L. McDowell Tec 4 Thomas 1. Rykaceski S9t Anthony J. Augenti Pic George H. Gordon Pic Joseph V. McNabb Pic Robert J. Samp Tee 4 Andrew W. Babon Pic Gary Greenway Pic Eugene W. McPherson Tec 5 Harold J. Seebeck 59! Charlie B. Barrett Pic Henry Hamlett Tec 4 Alfred H. Meads Pic Samuel I. Shaffer Tec 4 David B. Berschler Pic Paul I. Harshberger T Sgt Charles Mickey Tec 4 William H. Shaw 1 Sg! John J. Boesen Pic John Herrmann Pic Elmore Miller Pic Myron H. Shells Pic Louis Boitano Pic Stanley Hoisington S Sgt William M,Moschelto Pic Edward E. Smith Jr. Pic Harold R, Bowden Pic Glenn M. Huff Cpl Cornelius J, Moynihan Pic Elton Smith Cpl John T. Brock Cpl Thomas W. Jacobs Tee 4 Paul R. Mundell Pic Lovely B. Smith Tec 4 William BrumbC!lrg 5 Sgt Lawrence W, Jennings Tee 3 Leonard T. Murphy Pic Alvin 1. Smitansky Sgt Robert J. Burwell Pic Martin Kaplan Pic Vincent J. Paparella Tec 3 Charles W. Stonkas Pic John G, Callahan Pic Paul T. Kelty Pic Jack Parry Pic Charles H. Tate Jr, Cpl Richard J. Cama rota Tec 4 Anastaze W. Kupiec Pic Ralph D. Priest Tec S Notley D. Tomlin Jr. Tee SNelson B. Clark 5 Sgt Louis G. La Bud" PIc Albert P. Puzauski Pic David M, Torsell Tec 3 Charles J. Coleman Pic Leonard C. Lansford Pic Lenwood B. Ragan lec S Edgar 1. Viseecchia Pic Remo L De Marco Pic Rocco T. Lettiere 5 Sg! John B, Rahl Pic Harry W, Webb SSg! Martin Feldman Tec 4 Nathaniel Levine Pic Nathaniel Raichelle Pic Frederick J. Werner Tec S Thomas E, Floyd Pic Melvin J. Lobell Pic Curtis Reed Jr. Pic James C. West 5 Sgt Charles F, Frowein Tec S Norman C. Martin Pic Milton B, Richey Tec S Walter W. Woodbury Sgt Thomas H. George Pic George D, Mason Pic William C. Rogers Cpl Stuart H, Woodrull 5 S9t Biagio Guisto Pic Johnnie W, McCranie Tee S Yale Rubin Sgt Samuel F. Yanz

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Tec S Frank Y. AdalT's Pic Barney J. Friel Tec 4 Edward G. Kevorkian Tee 3 Jon P. ~reslon Pic Fernando M. Alfonso Pic Robert F. Gaddie Pic Kenneth 5, Kirby Tee 5 Donali2l M. Puffer Pic Cloyd L. Arbogast Pic Howard L, Gentry Tee 4 George C. Kilgore Pic Frank MI. Reagan SSg! John R, Barbour Sgt Peter Gibson Pic Andrew J, Kite Cpl Rex J./ Robertson Cpl Arthur J. Barnes Pvt William J, Gilleather Tee 4 Matthew C. Koehler Tec 4 Theodore R. Scanlon Pic Lawrence L. Bennett Pic Israel G)iner 1st Sgt Herman P, Kuebler Tee 3 Donald W. Schaum- Sgt Frank A. Bellissimo Pic Paul J, Gowan Pic Guy W. LaFevers berg Pic Paul C. Blumenstock Tec S Harold J. Grainger Pic John E, Lester SSg! George T. Shannon Pic Nelson H. Brown Pic Steve O. Greer Pic Archie R. Litton Tec S Nathan Skolnick Tec S James H. Cain Pic James W. Hall Tec S Fred A, Malone Jr, Pfe John W, Stewart Pic Leon W. Caldwell Pic Hugh C. Hamilton Sgt James M, Malloy Pic Leonard H, Stiles Pic John J. Clark Pic Edward J, Hanus Pic Lloyd Marcus Tee 4 Argel W. Talkington Pic Timothy L. Cronin Tec S David J. Harmer Jr. Pv! Howard D. McCann Tec S Samuel Tucker Sg! Clifton E, Coward Tee 4 Julian C. Helms Tee S Joseph Mecus Tec S Gerald E. Turner Pic Neil J. Cox Tee S Walter M, Holland Pic Alber! J. Miller Tee 5 Calvin L. Wilder Pic Bernard DiStefano Pic William A. Hopper Jr. 5 Sgt Alexander E. Muras Cpl Russell O. Wood Pic William S. Donta Tec S Carlos M. Jacott Tee 4 Gilbert H. Nastasia Pic Donald R, Woodbeck Sgt Milo J. Dunbar Sr. Pic Irwin W, Johnson Pic Leslie M, Nelimark Pic Burie L, Wright Sr. Pic John C. Eichenauer, Jr, S Sql Lander J, Johnson Tec S A lien B. Nelson Pic Jack Friedman Pic 'Garland G. Jones Tec 4 Norman H, Penfield Tec S Mortimer S, Friedner Tex S Walter P. Joyce Jr. Pvt Norbert J. Perry

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11.1<;.'- J) Q 1: .A ItT t: R S &: H F. .-\. J) Q I.' AUT.: "R S ".E '1' A (. J{ JI t; -" T MECHANIC Tee 5 Thomas A. Boger Tee 4 Paul E. Rock o Tee 5 Robert Karjala Tee 4 Joseph Yakowski

('O;1rPANY"A" (;OJII'A;\," "U" Tee 4 Truman R. Lowe Tee 4 Lloyd R. Neaves Sgt Harvey B. Waterman

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KEA IH-tL-\.RTI<~lti!'l &: ]( J<:.4. " (t lJ ,\ It T I': R s n J<; 'I' ..... (. H :U J<: ]\" T Pic Ray H. Gaston Pic James T. Pait Tee 5 Anthony SI. Angelo Tee 5 Alexander L. Kay Tee 4 Paul E. Rock Tee 5 Paul A. Woods pfc Joseph Betheil Tee 5 Robert F. Miller Tee 5 Rob~rt W. Siemans Tee 4 Joseph Va kowski Tee 5 Thomas A. Boger Tee 5 William H. Moore Pic Anthony R. Spino

Tee 5 Robed H. Andersen Pfc Harold A. Dugan Pic William F. Melton Pic Johnny S. Sizemore Pfc Claudie H. Bradshaw Sgt Ewen J. Fraser Pic Philip Millman Pic Burnell Z. Willbanks Tee 5 Charles G. Burked Tee 5 Mack J. Jordan Pic Winifred L. Millwood Pic Joseph W. Zebracki Pfc Boyce L. Carpenter Tee 4 Truman R. Lowe Pic Theodore I. Nigri Pic William E. Dodd Pic Reuben E. Maden Tee 5 Walter G. Robeds

Pic Herbed R. Aemiseggar Pic Harold Edelson Pic John L. Luzzi Tee 5 Harry R. Naylor Sg1 Ewell B. Bramble Pfc Frank E. Florio Pic Patrick J. McCormack Pic George E. Newton Pfc Donald L. Charllon Pic Casimir C. Kaminski Pic Richard L. Mc;(iddy Pic Arthur F. Reichel Pfc John Chvostal Pic Francis T. Kennedy Sgt John E. McMahon Pfc Michael DeNardo Pic Bobbie B. Lillie Pic Lester B. Meltesen

('·0,11 ]-' ANY "(;" Pic Raymond Astin S Sgt Biagio Guislo Pic Vincent J. Paparella Pvt Dominick Saponari Tee 5 Andrew W. Babon Pic Morris Horowitz Pic Jack Pa rry Tee 5 Harold J. Seebeck Tee 5 Robert J. Burwell Cpl Thomas W. Jacobs Pic Ralph D. Priest Pic James D, Stocker Tee 5 Thomas E. Floyd Pic Leona rd C. Lansford Pic Nathaniel Raichelle Sgt Samuel F. Yanz Tex 5 Thomas E. Floyd Tee 5 Alfred H. Meads Pic William C. Rogers Pfc Gary Greenway Pic John A. Montecalvo Tee 4 Thomas Rykaceski

Pic Fernando M. Alfonso Pic Nelson B. Clark Pic Garland G. Jones Pfc Leonard H. Stiles Pic Cloyd L. Arbogast Pic Meil J. Cox Pic Walter P. Joyce pic James J. Stubbs Tee 5 Lawrence L. Bennett Pic Irwin W. Johnson pic John W. Stewad

60 AlVA:RD OJ!' llEBIT(tRIOUS ~_EBV

Awarded to service units for superior pCljormance of duty, or outstanding decotion to duty, in the performance of exceptionally dljficult tasks and achievement and mainten

ance of a high standard of discipline.

By dirp,etion of the President, and under th(: provisions of Section I, Circular

Number :345, War D(~partment, dated 23 August 1944" The Meritorious Service Unit Placque is awarded to the 325th Medical Battalion for superior performance of duty and the achievement and maintenance of a high standard of discipline during the period from 1 October 19't4 to 31 December 1944.

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0(;0 you who died on foreign soil, 0(;/1ll1 our land mighl slill be free, We raise our hearts in lDords of prayer, GWe relJere Ihy memory.

0(;0 you we dl1ml the Dic/OT'S strllin °lD/lidl comes when ball/es cellse, oro you who died lor Dic/ory's sake We dedicllle Ihe peace,

0(;0 you wllO made Ihe peace complete. GLOho haDe so nobly seroed. We giDe 10 you IIlis solemn vow: "0(;he pellce shall be vreseroed,"

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MC MAHON, JOHN E. PHILLIPS, JOHN STEPHENSON, BILL F. VINSON, MANLEY C. 31 Pearl Street Sand Run, W. Vll. 409 E. 11 th Street Route 1 New Hartford, N.Y. Pawhuskll, Okla. Jonesville, So. Carolina

MELTESEN, LESTER B. POWELL, ALBERT F. STEVENS, WALLACE L. WATERMAN, HARVEY B. 10347 Weddington Street 109 Pleasant Street 97 Huron Street RFD 3 N. Hollywood, Cal. Pleasantville, N.J. Oakland Beach, R.1. Gorham, Maine

MIGNEREY, HARRY F. REICHEL, ARTHUR F. STiNARD, ALFRED R. WATKINS, CECIL S. 3230 Upton Avenue 7133 65th Place 340 E. 32nd Street 839 Bergen Street Toledo, Ohio Glendale, LI, N.Y. New York, N.Y. Brooklyn, N.Y.

MIKORZEWSKI, JOSEPH ROBERTSON, WILLIAM W. STONE, HOWARD A. WHEELER, FRANi< J. 94 Willillms Street 21 Crocus Avenue BaileysviJle, W.Va. 27 Harvard Avenue Chelsea, Mass. Floral Park, N.Y. Dorchester, Mass.

MOORE, GEORGE F. RONAN, EDWARD F. STRICKLAND, RUDOLPH L. WHITE, FRANK L. Lll/llyelte Road 285 Hllwthorne Street Route 1 Route 1 Slliisbury, Mass. Brooklyn, N. Y. Nllshville, No. Carolina Hunterville, No. Carolina

MORRIS, ALBERT F. ROSEN, ISAAC J. SVENSON, WARREN T. YANNACE, ERNEST Route 1 316 E 28th Street 2130 N. 73rd Avenue 21 Monllco Place Ripley, Ohio Plltlerson, N.J. Elmwood Park, III. Brooklyn, N. Y.

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ANUSKOWITZ, JOSEPH BULLIS, EDWARD F. FROWEIN, CHARLES F. HUFF, GLENN M. 23 Brunswick Avenue North Avenue 705 State Street MTD. Route 38 Metuchen, N.J. Pleasant Valley, N.Y. Albany, N.Y. Milledgeville Rd. Augusta, Ga. ASTIN, RAYMOND BURWELL, ROBERT J. GEORGE, THOMAS H. JACOBS, THOMAS W. 17144 Cameron Street Creedmoor State Hosp. Central Islip General Delivery Detroit, Michigan Queens Village, N.Y. Long Island, N.Y. Saulsbury, Tenn.

AUGENTI, ANTHONY J. CALLAHAN, JOHN G. GERCIS, NICK JANUSZEWSKI, LEON 279 River Street 2969 Briggs Avenue 16061 Via Segundo Box 22 Nanticeke, Pa. Bronx, N.Y. San Lorenlo, Calif. Worthington, W.Va.

BABON, ANDREW W. CAMARotA, RICHARD J. GIUSTO, BIAGIO JENNINGS, LAWRENCE W. Bergen Pines 2116 South Broad Street 180 E. 206th Street 1 Holmehurst Avenue Caramus, N.J. Philadelphia, Pa. Bronx, N.Y. Catonsville, Md.

BARRETT, CHARLIE B. CLARK, NELSON 8. GOLD, MAX JOHNSTONE, ROBERT E. Route 3, Box 20 2230 Walkley Avenue 117 S. 9th Street 19 Bay Street Manning, S.C. Montreal, Canada Brooklyn, N.Y. Newport, VT.

BECKER, PAUL L. COLEMAN, CHARLES J. GOLDBERG, HERBERT N. KAPLAN, MARTIN R.D.3 492 Park Avenue 909 E. 5th Street 474 Hinsgale Street Spring Grove, Pa. East Orange, N.J. Brooklyn, N.Y. Brooklyn, N.Y.

BERSCHLER, DAVI D B. CONRAD, ABE GREENWAY, GARY KELTY, PAUL T. 730 Pine Street Route 2 7902 Bay Parkway 1035 E. 5th Street Philadelphia, Pa. Steubenville, Ohio Brooklyn, N.Y. Brooklyn, N.Y.

BOSEN, JOHN J. DEMARCO, REMO L. GREENWOOD, J. W. KUPIEC, ANASTAZE W. 18 Pulaski Street 41 Myron Street Route 1 RFD 2 Stanford, Conn. Clifton, N.J. Elba, Alabama Rome, N.Y.

BOWDEN, HAROLD R. DUNCAN, GEORGE E. HALL, ROBERT C. LABUDA, LOUIS G. Chestnut Hill Road 48)4 Water Street 821 47th Place No. 169 Bay 28th Street Farmington, N.H. Pontiac, Mich. Birmingham, Alabama Brooklyn, N.Y.

BROCK, JOHN T. FEENEY, DONALD P. HAMLETT HENRY LANSFORD, LEONARD C. Route 2 R.D.2 R.F.D. 1 2900 River Road Monlicello, Ga. Uniontown, Pa. Bainbridge, N.Y. River Grove, Illinois

BROWN, WILLIAM l. FELDMAN, MARTIN HOISINGTON, STANLEY D. LEHMANN, HERMAN C. 411 E. Elila Street 2129 East 33rd Street 615 Notre Dame Route I, Box 76 S"hoolcraft, Mich. Brooklyn, N.Y. Grosse Pointe, Mich. San Marcos, Texas

BRUMBERG, WILliAM FLOYD, THOMAS E. HOROWITZ, MORRIS LEVI, JAMES E. 4631 Bay PJltkway Route 1 241 E. 198th Street Osgood, Indiana Brooklyn, N.Y. Gallivants Ferry, S.C. Bronx, N.Y.

BUCKMAN, WilFRED A. FLOYD, REAMER R. HOSKINS, CARL M. LEVINE, NATHANIEL 657 Northumberland Rd. Route I, Box 48 Route 1 2321 E. 21 st Street Teamed<, N.J. Scranton, S.c. Lake City, Tenn. Brooklyn, N.Y. 69 L'HOMMEDIEU, GEORGE MURPHY, LEONARD T. RYKACESKI, THOMAS J. THOMPSON, DENNIS S. G. 77 W. Santa Clara Street 107 Cherry Street Route 1 417 St. Johns Place Ventura, Calif. Freeport, Pa. Elkton, Ky. Brooklyn, N.Y.

LOBELL, MELVIN J. MURPHY, THEODORE F. SAMP, ROBERT J. THOMPSON, IVY, k French Settlement 611 W. 171 st Street 2229 Eton Ridge 1516 Castle Street Livingston, La. New York, N.Y. Madison, Wisconsin Willington, N.C.

MARTIN, NORMAN C. MUSSELMAN, ROLAND P. SAPONARI, DOMINICK A. TOMLIN, NOTLEY D. 1345 Abbott Street 510 5th Avenue & B Street 761 Chaterine Street 610 Davie Avenue Detroit, Mich. Glenburnie, Md. Utica, N.Y. Statewille, N.C.

MCCRANIE, JOHNNIE W. PAPARELLA, VINCENT J. SEEBECK, HAROLD J. TOMLINSON, EDWIN Page Street 219 So. Main Street 315 Caton Avenue 83 Cedar Street Eilstman, Ga. Mt. Vernon, N.Y. Brooklyn, N.Y. Kingston, N.Y.

MCGINNIS, EVERETT D. PARRY, JACK SHAFFER, SAMUEL I. TREVEY, NORMAN A. Oran, Miss. 914 Stiles Street 962 E. Princess Street 306 Winchester Avenue Youngstown, Ohio York, Pa. Roanoke, Va.

MCNABB, JOSEPH V. PRIEST, RALPH D. SHANKLES, GRANVILLE TRUESDALE, DONALD E. 87 Cottage Street 1214 Boscobel Street Route 2 Hess Road Melrose, Mass. Nashville, Tenn. Fyffe, Alabama Appleton, N.Y.

MCPHERSON, EUGENE W. PROVENCHER, ALPHONSE SHAW, WILLIAM H. VISCECCHIA, EDGAR J. Rockport, W. Va. H. 1562 Greene Avenue 63 Broad Street 138 Main Street Brooklyn, N.Y. Williston Park, L.1. N.Y. Manchaug, Mass. MEADS, ALFRED H. RAGAN, LENWOOD B. SMITH, EDWARD E., Jr. WEBB, HARRY W. House 781 Route 2 130 N. Crescent Drive Route 5 Marin City, Calif. . Campobello, S.c. Colonial Park, Rome, N.Y. Crown Point, Ind.

MEANEY, RICHARD V. RAHL, JOHN B. SMITH, ELTON WERNER, FREDERICK J. Box 609 291 Richards Street Route 2 SlOE. 79th Street Punta Gorda, Fla. Kingston, Pa. Colquitt, Ga. New York, N.Y.

MICKEY, CHARLES RAICHELLE, NATHANIEL SMITH, GEORGE W. WOODBURY, WALTER W. Box 58A 325 Central Avenue Route 3 124 Maple Street Mc Clellandtown, Pa. Brooklyn, N.Y. Latta, S.C. Lynn, Mass.

MI LLER, ELMORE RICH, JOSEPH R. STOCKER, JAMES D. WOODRUFF, STEWART H. 2414 Bank Street 136 W. 4th Street 640 E. 29th Street 8451 Beverly Road Louisville, Ky. E. Liverpool, Ohio Brooklyn, N.Y. Kew Gardens, N.Y.

MONTECALVO, JOHN A. RILEY, GEORGE J. STONKAS, CHARLES W. YANTZ, SAMUEL F. 160 Carleton Street 358 S. Spring Street 77 Olive Street 1533 Hiawatha Avenue Providence, R.1. Lexington, Ky. Bridgeport, Conn. Hi Iiside, N.J.

MOSCHETTO, WILLIAM M. ROGALL, ERICH P. STRICKLAND, RUDOLPH S. 330 So. Main Street 312 E. 65th Street Route 1 Herkimer, N.Y. New York, N.Y. Nashville, N.C.

MOYNIHAN,CORNELIUS J. ROGERS, WILLIAM C. TATE, CHARLES H.. Jr. 2669 21 sl Street RFD 3 Brown Mill Route 2 San Francisco, Calif. Concord, N.C. Sedro-Wooley, Wash.

MUNDELL, PAUL R. RUBIN, YALE TENNIS, LOGAN S. 91 West Street 84 Stanley Street c/o James Rice Ballston Spa, N.Y. New Haven, Conn, Plainville, Jllinoi$

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ADAMS, FRANK Y. BRANDSTEIN, EDWARD DISTEFANO, BERNARD GIBSON, PETER 15 Norwood Avenue 1835 77th Street 208 Washington Street 851 Front Street Greenville, S.c. Brooklyn, N.Y. Quincy, Mass. East Hempstead, L.I., N.Y.

ALEXANDER, CARL A. BRAY, ROY E. DONTA, WILLIAM S. GILFEATHER, WILLIAM J. 2517 E. Garfield Avenue 713 Wood Street 1735 Sadie:. Avenue 203 Main Street Decatur, III. Gladewater, Texas Cleveland, Ohio West Rutland, Vermont

ALFONSO, FERNANDO M. BROWN, WILLIAM R. DUNBAR, MILO J., Sr. GLiNER, ISRAEL 2010 15th Street 1000 West Pierce Street Pelion, S.c. 1217 Nelson Avenue Tampa 5, Fla. Milwaukee 4, Wise. Bronx, N.Y. ARBOGAST, CLOYD L. BROWN, NELSON H. EATON, REUBEN W. GOODMAN, PAUL H. 316 W. Liberty Street 65 W. Essex Avenue Route 1 2612 Forrest Way Medina, Ohio Lansdowne, Pa. Kent, Conn.' Atlanta, Ga. ARCHER, EDWARD c., Jr. BUSSEY, ARTHUR F. ECKBERT, WILUAM F. GOWAN, PAUL J. 433 Third Street 570 S. Broadway 10 Page Street Route 3 Brooklyn, N.Y. Yonkers, N.Y. Southern Pines, N.C. Inman, S.c.

BALLING, JESS R. CAIN, JAMES H. EICHENAUER, JOHN c., Jr. GRAINGER, HAROLD J. 2529 E. Independence 119 West Street 2605 East Culver Street 116 West Moneta Avenue Tulsa, Okla. Harrington, Delaware Phoenix, Arizona Bakersfield, Calif. BARBOUR, JOHN R. CALDWELL, LEON W. FINCHAM, IRVING J. GREDIG, JOHN J. 3399 Posl Road Box 44 2018 Gasnell Street Route 1 Apponaug, R.l. Salem, Virginia Silver Springs, Md. Del Norte, Colorado

BARNES, ARTHUR J. CANTOR, HARRY FINKELSTEIN, JACK GREER, STEVE O. 324 DeMott Avenue 3860 West Girard Avenue 619 Avenue S. 125 Phifer Drive Teaneck, N.J. Philadelphia, Pa. Brooklyn, N.Y. Spartanburg, S.c. BELLISSIMO, FRANK A. CHUDY, HENRY A. FLADING, RICHARD J. GRODZICKER, HARRY 1885 Montrose Street 3144 S. 11th Street RFD 1, Lebanon Road 925 Prospecl Place Cincinnati, Ohio Milwaukee, Wis. Homestead, Pa. Brooklyn, N.Y.

BENNETT, LAWRENCE L. CLARK, JOHN J. FRIEDMAN, JACK HALL, JAMES W. 2124 Broadway Avenue Harriman, New York 2255 Grand Concourse 1263 Tremont Street Indianapolis 2, Indiana Bronx, N.Y. Roxbury, Mass.

BLUBAUGH, WILLIAM H. COWARD, CLIFTON E. FRIEDNER, MORTIMER S. HAMILTON, HUGH C. Shepherd, Michigan Route 1 1504 Sheridan Avenue 16225 Greenlawn Scranton, S.c. Bronx, N.Y. Detroit, Michigan

BLUMENSTOCK, PAUL C. COX, NEIL J. FRIEL, BARNEY J. HANUS, EDWARD J. 415 N East Street Hemingway; S.c. 2431 Elkheart Street 1902 Briar Avenue Carlisle, Pa. Philadelphia, Pa. Utica, N.Y.

BL Y, HAROLD W. COX, RAYMOND W. GADDIE, ROBERT F. HARMER, DAVID J., Jr. 250 Salem Street Purling, New York 11216 Mack 236 Wood Street Franklin Park, Mass. Delroi'l, Michigan Burlington, N.J. BORING, ERNEST L. CRONIN, TIMOTHY L. GARDNER, CHARLES W. HELMS, JULIAN C. 1625 Avenue H. 21 Chestnut Street Beals, Maine T07 Jacbon Avenue Fort Madison, Iowa Haverhill, Mass. Charlotte, N.C.

BRANCH, ERNEST C. CROWELL, ED. H. GENTRY, HOWARD L. HIGGINS, JOHN S. 947 West 8th Street Hohenwald, Tenn. 3715 Kenneth Street Route 1 Los Angeles 14, Calil. Beaumont, Texas Asheville, N.C.

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