by Nace Mefford | 09 Nov 2001 | Personal Accounts
Colonel Cubbison was the BN 334 CO and I became his voice radio operator once overseas – in his command car. We arrived as a green division in the Saar Basin. The first night a couple of GIs walked into our farmyard – I think from the 26th division, the...
by Robert J. Watson | 09 Nov 2001 | The Fallen
Curtis Shoup was posthumously awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor, the United States highest military award. He was the only soldier in the 87th Division to be so honored during World War II.
by Jules Korn | 09 Nov 2001 | Personal Accounts
For three days, I was in a foxhole with Delmer Johnson in the snow. He was a good-looking young man of Scandinavian descent. I remember the two of us sitting there with canteens and K-rations, which were in wax cartons. We would light the cartons and melt snow. We...
by Dr. Charles F. Ehret | 09 Nov 2001 | Personal Accounts
MEMORIAL DAY 1997 VFW Hinsdale Post 4946 At Clarendon Hills Cemetery In this age of LITE beer and LITE ice cream, some may prefer their Wartime Anecdotes to be light-hearted as well. But this is Memorial Day, and I prefer to Spend this moment remembering those not...
by Earle R. Hart | 09 Nov 2001 | Personal Accounts
Captain William Annesley Kromer was killed on 30 December 1944 while leading his infantry company in an attack on the village of Moircy. He was the commanding officer of A Company, 345th Infantry Regiment. Having just completed a 350 mile redeployment from the Saar...
