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d o g f a c e
s o l d i e r s
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Third Signal Co. of
the 15th Regiment
of the U.S. Third
Infantry Division-
WWII
by Denis Toomey

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Calendar for 2008

January 26, 2008
Outpost 22 Meeting
Home of Jack and
Anita Sneddon

February 24, 2008
Outpost 15 Meeting

Brothers Cafe-11:00am
Peoria, Arizona

April 3rd - 6th, 2008
Outpost 2 Reunion &
Meeting
Quality Inn
Heritage Park,
Kissimmee, FL

April 13, 2008
Outpost 18 Spring
Meeting
Holiday Inn Select-
11:00AM
Hook & Ladder Room
Appleton, WI

April 26, 2008
Outpost 22 Dinner
Meeting
Home of Jack and Anita Sneddon

May 1-4, 2008
Anzio Beachhead
Veterans of WWII
St. Louis, MO
Contact: John Boller
631-691-5002
1 Harbor North,
Amityville, NY
11701-3810

May 3, 2008
3ID Gate Rededication
Ceremony
Camp Pike , AR
POC - David Madison
1-501-771-8722

May 3-4, 2008
Outpost 12 Spring
Meeting
Country Inn & Suites
Albert Lea, MN

May 4, 2008 (Tentative)
Plaque Dedication
Ceremony

Berchtesgaden, DE
POC Monika Stoy
1-703-912-4218

May 4, 2008
Outpost 5  Spring
Meeting-11:30 AM
Bath American Legion
Post
278 Race Street,
Bath, Pennsylvania

May 17, 2008
Outpost 13 -
Spring meeting

 at 12:00 noon at
Bakers of Milford,
Milford, MI

May 2008
Anzio Beachhead

Veterans of 1944 WWII
Washington, D.C. area 
Contact Clyde E. Easter
276-728-7293
299 Panorama Drive,
Fancy Gap, VA
24328-2751

May 25, 2008
WW1 Marne
Campaign Ceremony
Chateau-Thierry
POC Monika Stoy
1-703-912-4218

May 26-June 5th, 2008
64th Anniversary
Battlefield Tour
of Italy

Clyde E. Easter at
276-728-7293
299 Panorama Drive,
Fancy Gap, VA
24328-2751

May 30, 2008
Outpost 7 Meeting-
3:15 PM, Friday
Arlington Natl.
Cemetery
Washington, DC

June 12-15, 2008
OP Harry Survivors
Association Reunion
Renton, WA
POC Jerry Cunningham
1-803-783-4491

June 27-28, 2008
Audie Murphy Days
Greenville,TX
www.cottonmuseum.com
1-903-450-1990

July 12, 2008
Outpost 22 Annual
Picnic
Yorba Reg. Park, CA

July 27, 2008
Korean War
Anniversary
Ceremonies
KW Monument-
9:00 am
Arlington Cemetery -
 2:00PM
POC Monika Stoy
1-703-912-4218

August 15-17, 2008
Operation Dragoon
60th Anniversary
Provence, France
POC Monika Stoy
1-703-912-4218

September 18-21, 2008
89th Annual Reunion
Society of the 3ID
Columbus Airport
Hotel
Columbus, GA

October 26, 2008
Outpost 18
Fall Meeting

October 2008
Cubs Win World Series
100 Year Drought Ends
Chicago, IL

Nov. 11, 2008
Veterans Day and
WWI
90th Anniversary
Chateau-Thierry,
France

POC Monika Stoy
1-703-912-4218

Nov. 11, 2008
Veterans Day
OP 7 Ceremonies
Arlington Cemetery
POC John Insani
1-703-370-4586

August 10-23, 2009
65th Anniversary
Battlefield Tour
For the Society of the
3rd Infantry Division
Italy, France

 

 

More 3rd Division Photos-WWII
Last Update April 21, 2008

    Click on  Some of the Images  for larger view   

Email your photos (files) to rheller@warfoto.com


Easter at Anzio - 1944 from Donald R. Christian

3ID / 15th Infantry / Regular Army: California, Washington,
"Fedala to Salzburg" –
 People Jo Kindlarski met in the 3ID


Ruth and Jo Kindlarski

Jo Kindlarski, my father, was always connected to this 3ID division, sometimes to various HQ and at other times to the 15th Infantry, 2nd Battalion, Company G between 1940-1947 during “The walk from Africa to Germany". These are some of the photographs that he kept for up to 67 years, as this was the definitive experience of his life, by far. If the photo is in poor quality, Jo carried it in his wallet at the frontlines at some point. The names of soldiers that Jo Kindlarski fought with in Italy are also described in the book, “Artist at War: Tunisia-Sicily-Italy” by George Biddle, by name and actual quotes for this Battalion in Italy. See the Father/Padre Moore photo.

- Kate Kindlarski, September 2007

War Biography for JOSEPH KINDLARSKI
September 3, 1917 – May 16, 2006

Jo Kindlarski was born Sept. 3, 1917 in Hamtramck, Michigan, and died peacefully of natural causes at the home where he lived for 56 years on May 16, 2006, at the age of 88.  Jo enlisted in 1940 in the Army before the United States entered World War II, called “regular” army.  After the fighting ended, Jo was a Non-Commissioned Officer with the 7782nd Special Troops in Berlin, where he met his future wife, a Third Infantry Division Staff Sergeant, Ruth Hacke.  After his discharge in 1947, their 50 year marriage began in 1948, when they moved near his wife’s home town to Sheffield Lake, Ohio.  

Jo fought from Africa to Germany with the Third Division, 15th Infantry, 2nd Battalion, Company G, and was attached to various Headquarters within the 15th/3ID.  Jo was one of the longest-serving soldiers in WWII, and one of the few infantry Rifleman men that survived so many major campaigns and battles, especially in the early years of WWII.  He earned 2 Hershey Bars, each representing 3 years of military service, and 7 Eisenhower Stripes, each representing 6 months of active combat (3.5 years) during his 6.5 years of service. 

Jo fought in 7 invasions and 13 campaigns, however the government stopped issuing ribbons after these 9 campaigns: French Moroccan, Tunisian, Sicilian, Naples, Foggia, Rome-Arno, Southern France, Rhineland, Central European Bronze Service Arrowhead for Southern France landing and Fedala (Morocco), and French Moroccan landing.  He fought in Algeria-French Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Sicily, Italy, Sardina, France, and Germany.  This included these legendary battles such as the Kassarine Pass (Feb. 14-22, 1943; oral history only) in Tunisia, Casablanca-Fedala, Sicily, Salnero, Acerno, Naples, Mt. Rotundo (Cassino-Migano), Anzio-Cisterna-Rome and Southern France.  Jo’s German battles included the Winter War at Strasbourg, the Colemar Pocket/Battle of the Bulge (Dec. 16, 1944 – Jan. 16, 1945), and crossing the Rhine River near Heidelberg, Germany, and the Battle of Nurnberg (April 17-20, 1945). 

Jo earned the following medals and ribbons, in order of importance: Bronze Star Medal (1944), Purple Heart, 1st Oak Leaf Cluster, 2nd Oak Leaf Cluster, (wounded three times, Aug 1943 in Sicily, and Feb and March 1944 in Italy), American Defense Service Ribbon (1942), Euro-African Mid-East Campaign Medal (EAME) Service Ribbon (1944), World War II Victory Medal, Army Occupation Service Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Good Conduct Medal (1944).  He also received 2 distinguished Unit Citations and the Croix de Guerre, with Fourragere braided rope, a high military award from France. 

Jo Kindlarski was also a bodyguard for George Biddle, a wartime artist and reporter.  Mr. Biddle described U.S army soldiers’ war exploits in vivid detail, with several drawings and quotations of Jo Kindlarski in his 1944 book published by Viking Press, “Artist at War - Tunisia-Sicily-Italy.”  

Jo Kindlarski is best described by a paragraph in the December 9, 1944 letter awarding him the Bronze Star Medal for meritorious achievement in actual combat: 

“On the night of 8 November 1943, at Mt. Cesima, Italy, Corporal Kindlarski volunteered to lead a pack train loaded with badly needed ammunition seven miles through a hazardous enemy artillery concentration to the forward companies which had repulsed four enemy counterattacks.  At no time was Corporal Kindlarski more than 400 yards away from the enemy, but despite the relentless hail of shell fragments that narrowly missed him, and on several occasions struck the ammunition boxes carried by the mules, he made his way to the companies and delivered the sorely needed ammunition.”   

Medals and honors from his military service record never meant that much to Jo, because he fought as courageously in many other battles where he wasn’t recognized.  Jo always said he witnessed many fellow soldiers die in the fighting and that all of them deserved medals, but didn’t matter because none of them were alive to receive them.  
Here are some of their photographs:

California Training 1940-1942


"Patton" Joe in Rabat, Morocco

Artists at War
Jo in Rome, Italy

Fort Lewis 1940-1942

Named Soldiers



Sgt Byers and Sgt De Spain
Ft. Lewis with 15 Inf Regt sign

Ovidio Boschiou

 

Father Mitchell Kaprowski
Southbridge MA

  
Bernstein & Sgt. Mc Donald
Unknown  Soldiers

Camp Grant, IL


Recruit from Hamtramck, MI

Rifleman Sergeant
 
No Name Soldiers Section

Here are some of the names with military rank in Jo Kindlarski’s address book. They may be the people in these photographs.

1 Lt Col Geo or Leo Paul 9 Schiller St Tel 2064 Guest house near the Circle Hotel

2 Capt S. More 2659 - 262659

3 Sgt, Everett Johnson Company G, 15th Infantry Fort Geo. Wright Washington

4 Sgt McQuirk 443 Bleeker St Brooklyn, NY

5 1st Lt, 23rd Corps Artl Paul Sieden NYC #0552514 Military Intelligence

6 Pfc, Company G, 15th Infantry Harvey Lippincott #37755156

7 Edward Przekota USS Sagamore ATO 20 New York, NY

8 Earl Olmstead 7750 13th Southwest Seattle Wash.


War Buddies

 



Father Moore-Known as Padre Moore in the book
"Artist at War" by George Biddle


 

 



Pfc W. L. Rains

Note written on the back of the Ovidio Boschiou photo
 from June 1944.


Smiles Shipping Out



Cpl Ray Jones 15 Inf. Regt. Co H

Jo & 1st Sgt Reecler-Italy


 

Headquarters


 


 
Other names

9 Joseph Gray 5405 South Shields

10 Henry W. Warrnecke Horak, Minn

11 John Kagan Detroit, Mich

12 Jack Krakawski Cleveland, Ohio

13 Mick Visceglio Bronx, NY

14 Jack Caudell Ashville, NC

 

15 Alexis M.Tournion or Tournien  New Orleans, LA

16 Lewis Adams Deeker, Indiana

17 Joe Hill Washington, DC

18 Nick Green Hamtramck, Mich

19 Al Palmer Hamtramck, Mich

20 Lloyd Field Detroit, Mich

 

Photos from Joe Fournier of Russ Cloer


Russ in the Colmar Pocket in France..

amphib was
probably at the Rhine River crossing..

 his I&R platoon of the 7th Reg...


what's left of a jeep after hitting a tellar mine in France..


Enclosed is a pic of 3 of us, me Joe Fournier on the left, John Morael, center and Ed Garrow on right.
A few days after the Rhine River crossing I think. Yes, we were a tired dirty looking bunch but who wasn't.

 

Pfc Charles Yarnold, 15th Infantry Regiment

I enjoyed your website honoring the 3rd Infantry Division, and thought I  would send you some memorabilia I have of my father, Pfc Charles Yarnold, 15th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division in WWII.
There is an interesting story behind the Photo.jpg. My mother, who at the time was my father's girlfriend back home in NJ, was at a theater in Newark, NJ, and they played the local news from the war front. To my mothers astonishment, there was a newsreel of my dad slogging up a hill in Italy. She ran back to the theater manager, and they made a print of the picture. They were married when he came home at the end of the war. She gave the picture, and other memorabilia of my fathers service in the war, to me 40 yrs later.
 My dad was very proud of the time he served in the 3rd Infantry Division. 
Yours,
Doug Yarnold

Memories

Newspaper article

Photo.jpg

ID

 

S/Sgt. Charles Cole Jr.

The pictures I have sent you are of my father S/Sgt. Charles Cole Jr. of Mt. Juliet, Tennessee. He was with Company M of the 7th Infantry Regiment attached to the 3rd Inf. Division. He was a squad leader of a Mortar unit from what his papers say. He did not talk much about the war unless someone was there. He would then talk about it.

He went through the entire war with out any real problems until March 26, 1945 near Worms, Germany. He states he was standing up while American artillery was coming in and one fell behind him and a piece of shrapnel got him in the Butt.

His story went on that when the word came over that the war was over, he was flat on his stomach in a French area and all the men were drinking French wine and celebrating and he was unable to partake in the celebrating. What Luck! At least he came home. I remember night after night of my father waking up screaming from nightmares of the war.

Because of him and others like him I have been able to live in the best country in the world.
I am proud of the fact that from the Revolutionary War to WWII the COLE family has been involved in bringing freedom to our country.

I would like to say your web page has help me understand better what my father went through during WWII.
Thanks
Michael C. Cole
Old Hickory, TN
 


 

 


CPL Ralph C. Gerstung 30INF/F

My name is Keith Gerstung, and I am writing to you to inform you of my father's passing. I am a former Marine and a current member of American Legion Post 703 in Fox Lake, IL. My father, Ralph C. Gerstung, was a member of American Legion Post 911 out of Wauconda, IL for over 10 years but rarely attended meetings due to a prolonged illness. He was also very proud of his affiliation with the Society of the 3rd Infantry Division and the Disabled American Veterans Association. He passed away on September 10th, 2006.

My father was a decorated World War II veteran from 1943-45. He belonged to the 3rd Infantry Division, 2nd Battalion, 30th Infantry, Company "F" and served under General Patton and General Eisenhower as an infantry soldier, mechanic and radioman. In 1944, he was wounded by enemy fire in France and taken prisoner. He spent the remainder of the war in captivity in Limburgh, Munich (Stalag 7A) and Muhlberg (Stalag 4B), Germany, before being liberated by the Russian army in 1945.
I am extremely proud to have had a father who felt so strongly about home, family and his country, and I will carry on his traditions and values until the day I die.
Thank you for your continued support of United States veterans.

Keith C. Gerstung
McHenry, IL

 


 



 



 

 


Photos contributed by
Gilles Guignard

Unfortunately I don't know where these pictures were taken and I don't know the name of the soldiers.

I'm sure 3rd ID people will be glad to see my website.  I was told not so long ago by a 36th vet that "3rd ID soldiers were our brothers - we fought along together all the way since Italy!"

Ill keep you posted with new photo related to the 3rd ID when I get some!

Best wishes from Switzerland,
Gilles
rotmcook@yahoo.com
http://dogface44.skyblog.com/

 

Sigolsheim  60th Anniversary Commemorations

Wreath laying at Sigolsheim Memorial Dec. 12, 2004

"On December 12th the towns of Kientzheim, Kaysesberg, Ammerschwihr and Sigolsheim will commemorate the 60th anniversary of their liberation. Indeed they were liberated from Nazi occupation but they were reduced to a pile of rubble and the civilians had either perished, burnt alive in their basements, or fled. The towns are located at the exit of the Vosges Mountains, near the last elevation overlooking the Alsatian plain. The fighting for the possession of that vantage point was fierce between the SS and men from the 36th and 3rd US Infantry Divisions.

The toll was heavy and the Sigolsheim heights were nicknamed "Blutberg" (Bloody Mountain) by the Germans. The winter weather added to the discomfort. The area is now peaceful and beautiful and only the French cemetery where hundreds of French colonial troops are buried reminds us of the vicious battle that was waged here so Colmar could be liberated without destructions. Close by, an impressive American monument installed by the Rhine and Danube Association bears witness to the ties between the two armies: a rare fact in our history, American divisions fought under the command of the French Army!

The civilians from this area are most thankful to the Americans for their participation and sacrifices. The town square in Sigolsheim has been named the Square of the 15th Regiment. Over the course of the years the towns have given numerous receptions to American veterans. They would like to honor them one more time for the 60th anniversary. In recent years the weather has been very decent at this time of the year, unlike the winter of 1944-45. Your presence at the commemorations on December 12th would be most meaningful. If you think you are able to attend, please contact the "French connection" and your occasional tour guide:

Lise Pommois, 8 rue des cerisiers, 67110 Niederbronn, France. Phone and fax: (country code) + 3 88 09 05 63.
E-mail: pommois@wanadoo.fr.
Everyone will work hard to make your stay a pleasant one.

Lise is a wonderful friend of the Society, and now needs our help in providing veterans at an important event in France in December. Anyone who is fortunate enough to be at this commemoration will have a wonderful time. The French people are truly grateful for all we did in 1944 and early 1945. Thanks for your help.
With warmest regards, John Shirley

 

The Other D-Day
France Pays Tribute To Soldiers Of Operation Dragoon
By CHRISTINE OLLIVIER
Published on 8/16/2004

Aboard the Charles de Gaulle -- France on Sunday honored soldiers, including tens of thousands of Africans, who staged an assault on the French Riviera 60 years ago to break the Nazi grip — one of the least-remembered military operations of World War II.


Photo by Claude Paris

French President Jacques Chirac, left, awards the Legion of Honor to American World War II veteran John Shirley, 1Lt 15th Inf. Reg., 3rd Infantry Division, during a military ceremony aboard the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle Sunday. The ceremony marked the 60th anniversary of the assault of Allied forces on the southern shores of France 10 weeks after the Normandy landings.

King Mohammed VI of Morocco, 13 African heads of state and representatives of eight other nations joined President Jacques Chirac for the belated tribute to the Aug. 15, 1944, landings in Provence — codenamed “Operation Dragoon” — which helped change the course of the war.

Aboard the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle, anchored off the Mediterranean port of Toulon, Chirac pinned France's prestigious Legion of Honor award on the chests of 21 veterans representing countries that had contributed troops.

Chirac called the landings along France's southern shores a “new stage ... in the merciless struggle that would decide the fate of our nations” and said they “opened a major new front.”

“Sixty years ago, at the cost of immense sacrifices, the forces of freedom pursued their assault to smash the machine of death and hatred that was on course to enslave Europe,” Chirac said in a speech on the deck of the Charles de Gaulle.

U.S. soldiers and British paratroopers also were honored in two ceremonies on Saturday, with 18 among them receiving the Legion of Honor.

Overshadowed by the bigger and bloodier D-Day landings in Normandy 10 weeks earlier, the southern landings have been largely overlooked and are often referred to as “The Other D-Day.”

While veterans of Operation Dragoon were honored 10 years ago, on the 50th anniversary, Sunday's ceremony was the first time African vets were so remembered with such military pomp and fanfare.

White-robed African veterans stood proudly to receive their honors and kisses on both cheeks from Chirac. Many expressed mixed emotions at being honored so long after combat.

“Sixty years after, they've remembered. It took a long time,” 83-year-old Hamady Gadio of Mauritania said at a morning ceremony in the village of Cavalaire.

In an unusual gesture, the French president also gave a special award, the Cross of the Legion of Honor, to the city of Algiers, then part of France and the seat from 1943-1944 of the Provisional Government of the French Republic — the government of Gen. Charles de Gaulle opposed to the collaborationist Vichy regime.

Chirac said it was important to recognize the “crucial and singular” role of Algiers, which had been “the capital of fighting France.”

A Naval parade of 21 French and five foreign ships moved westward from Antibes to pass the Charles de Gaulle during the ceremony. A dozen airplanes also flew by.

“Those valiant soldiers came from metropolitan France and from every horizon of France's overseas empire,” Chirac said. “The sons of your nations joined their names to the military legend of France and forever mingled their blood with ours.”

Defense Minister Michele Alliot-Marie, speaking at the ceremony in Cavalaire, west of Saint Tropez, said the southern landings “marked the Renaissance of the French army,” fortified by Africans who “united with Europeans under the French flag.”

While meeting little resistance in many cases, soldiers who took part in the southern assault then made their way to the more dangerous north toward Germany.

The chaos of battle has prevented a definitive Allied death toll, but the French Defense Ministry says 1,300 Allied soldiers died in the operation's first two days.

Estimates for the numbers of the soldiers who fought in Operation Dragoon, one of the least remembered operations of World War II, vary widely. French military experts have put the figure of African soldiers between 50,000 and 120,000. The higher figure would be about half of the French contingent.

Associated Press Writer Jocelyn Gecker in Cavalaire contributed to this report.
© The Day Publishing Co., 2004

Photos of this event: Click here

More Photos from John Shirley's Tour to France

Here are two web pages of the French Tour from Mitchy

http://pageperso.aol.fr/rotmwwii/veterans.html

http://pageperso.aol.fr/rotmwwii/BESANCON2004.html
 

 



PFC Arthur L. Symonds

A couple of months ago I received a message from a friend in Jebsheim France advising me that they knew someone in the Colmar area that had found an ID bracelet with the name Arthur L. Symonds 39 141 259 and the name Donnie inscribed. They knew that my regiment, the 254th Infantry Regiment, had been in the area in January 1945 and thought that I might be able to identify the owner so that it could be returned to them or their family. Without going into a lot of detail, I was able to locate the son of Arthur L. Symonds (The father and mother (Donnie) have died).

He was put in contact with the people who found the bracelet and it is being returned to him. Also the son and his wife will travel to the Alsace area in January to participate in the 60th anniversary celebrations of the liberation of that area. Arthur L. Symonds was in the Third Infantry Division, at least his photo shows him with a 3d Inf Div patch. I am attaching a copy of the photo to this message. Just thought you might like to hear the story and have the photo of the 3rd Inf Div veteran.

Fred Clinton, Webmaster 63rd Infantry Division

  http://www.63rdinfdiv.com/ 

Pfc Arthur L. Symonds was a member of the 7th Infantry Regiment during WWII

 

Exactly  60 years ago, the little town of my father was liberated by the “Marne Division”. On the morning of 16 September, 1944, the 1st battalion 15th Infantry was the first to entered LURE, near the Vosges mountains. I am happy to send you some pics about that. I hope you will appreciate them. Best Regards and God Bless the marnemens

A French friend
Thierry JUIF

Hello, I am French and I have photos of 3rd Division 30 Inf. Regiment in south of France in 1944 in a village : Mirabel aux Baronnies. These two photos contributed by Luc Delescluse

 


Clipping courtesy of Frank Pistone

 

My uncle FRED MELFI. He was sergeant in the Third Division, and served from ST.Tropez, France  August of 1944 to Manheim, Germany in 1945. He was in Manheim when Gen. Patton was in the vehicle accident. Also he has four battle stars with his ribbon. Thank you, Louis Hodgson louhod@frontiernet.net
 
 

     

Hello from Melbourne, Australia
My name is Sam Cox, I am a collector of WW2 US Army Horse Cavalry from the second World War.
As you are probably aware the 3rd I.D used ad hoc Cavalry during the campaigns in Sicily and Italy. Attached are some pics of the unit from the cover of The Cavalry Journal. The 3rd Provisional Reconnaissance Troop was the brainchild of Lucian K Truscott and saw action in Sicily, Salerno and Anzio.
Highest regards
Sam Cox,  golpeo_rapidamente@bigpond.com
 

General Patton explaining to 3ID Officer, his position!

Patton picking his nose! (169134 bytes)
3rd Signal Company Photo

 

   
Karl M. Kindt Jr.
Killed in action while fighting in the 3rd Division
in a town called Gadheim, Germany
4/12/1945 killed 
buried in St. Avold, Lorraine cemetery

 

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This famous photo taken by the Signal Corps showing blood 
being given by 3rd Division Medic to a wounded GI. 
It has been used by the Red Cross urging blood donations, 
the Readers Digest in one of their films depicting the 1940's,  
Time-Life in their books on World War Two, 
and on
hbo.com for their movie "Band of Brothers".

 

From Russ Cloer
I enjoyed your new pics on the 3rd Div Website.  They brought back
memories. 
    I was at Camp Croft in Spartanburg in October 1943, when you were
sporting your Camp Croft T shirt as a toddler.  I had just graduated from
Infantry OCS at Fort Benning (9/20/43) and after a 10 day delay in route, was
sent to Croft for a couple of weeks with a bunch of other new 2nd Lts.  The
Army had a village fighting course there as well as a live grenade range
which Benning didn't have.

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    The photos of the LST's lined up in Naples, brought back memories of
being shipped up to the Anzio Beachhead with a group of replacement 2nd Lts.
Infantry, overnight in February 1944.  I remember that the one we boarded had
huge white letters on the transom over the ramp reading, "Gateway to Glory." 
At the time, I didn't think it was funny!


    And the LST's for the Southern France D-Day!  My company was loaded
aboard an LCI (photo attached) and at H hour we went over the side on rope
cargo nets into LCVP's.

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I have found 2 pics about 3rd US ID, I join you for the website. hope you
enjoyed...
MITCHY

 

1st pic :  Private Harold STREICH (3rd ID) Chicago, a military policeman,
searches a bespectacled German prisoner, who with the other Germans in the
background were captured on the Salerno front  OCT, 3, 1943
 

2nd pic :   Yanks pass dead German. two American soldiers (one medic) ,
members of the Third Inf. Div., march past a dead German soldier at the side
of the road in a hilly section of the Italian front Dec. 18,  1943

 

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I scanned from the collection of photos taken by
Capt. Hugh A. O'Neill, surgeon, 3rd Medical Battalion, 3rd Infantry Division.
 He passed away last year, but luckily his daughter-in-law, Vickie O'Neill is
a secretary where I work.  She passed along these photos to me to look at and scan.  
The attached photo was taken in an unknown location.  I would almost swear
that the guy in the middle row, second from the left is Audie Murphy.  I
just finished reading "To Hell and Back" and I would swear that is him.  I
know he was wounded several times.  It makes sense he would have been around
the 3rd Med. Battalion. for treatment.  What do you think?  I am sending this
photo to others for their opinion. 
From Steve Mazak
whiskeyhoundog@aol.com

Capt. Hugh A. O'Neill of the 3rd Medical Battalion, 3rd Infantry Division.
  In the rear areas at Anzio.

 

I wanted  to email a photograph of my father while he was in bootcamp at Fort Ord in 1942. 
He was a forward observer in the 41st Field Artillery Battalion, Battery A. He was wounded 3 times.
His name was Jack C. Comer Pfc and is listed in the roster of the 41st Field Artillery 
in the book "History of the Third Infantry Division. He died in 1978.  
Jim Comer
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G. Murl Conner

Click on name to go to website
A Clinton County (KY) War Hero

 

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This photo was taken at Cavalaire France 1944. The pilot in the picture is Wilfred M. Boucher, 
formerly of the 41st Field Artillery.    
Boucher had an extra fuel tank, and when he switched over to it an air bubble caused him to stall out and plop in the ocean. The navy put him and his plane on the beach.

Photo from Dick Fietz with description by Capt. Alfred "Dutch" Schultz pilot of "Janey" an artillery spotting plane. 
By the way, "Dutch" even remembered all the details of Boucher's mission.  
He had a radio on the navy's frequency and was supposed to tell the naval gunners when to stop firing.  
He also told me a story that I had never heard.  A plane cut one of our balloons loose and the bomb hanging 
from the balloon cable struck and killed a group of German soldiers.

 

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Hopefully someone can tell me where this picture
was taken and who the other people in the photo are.
My father is in the first row far right.
Michael Lynch mlynch@uti.com

   
 

The attached photos are from my late father's WWII album. 
If interested you can place in your photo section.
                                    Thanks, Lee Hatfield, Jr.

     
This photo was taken in February 1943 in North Africa.  
Left to right (top) : 
Sgt. Walter De Witt (Maine) Leland Dolezal - Ohio,  Pfc. Lee E. Hatfield - New London, Ct.
    The 3  "native sons of French Morroco "  are listed as (left to right) :
 Allah, Jake, and 'Satchel Mouth'

Salzburg Airport 1945 - German plane - 
(l-r)  Pfc. Lee Hatfield (2nd Battalion) Sgt. Harry Dotson

 

Group photo -Salzburg , Austria 1945
                left to right (top) - unidentified, Sgt. Harry Dotson (Parkersburg,WV),
Charles Quigley (Newark, NJ)
                bottom (l-r)   Pfc. Withold Pranckunas, unidentified
 
  


           
  

 

Scout Car Photo supplied by Melissa Saylor
ltsblsm@goldrush.com
 

Berchtesgaden

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7th Regt. 3d Inf. Div. troops at Berchtesgaden May 1945, 
have something to smile about after 3 years of intensive fighting .

Jerry Daddato, OP 18 sent the 1945 June issue of Yank magazine with this photo on the front page.

 

Blasts from the Past
Yank Magazine-October 1944

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from MichelMITCHY@aol.com

 

Photos by Russ Cloer of invasion of Southern France


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(L) KO'd Sherman tank after German night attack on 1st Bn. 7th Inf. CP in
Vagney, France. 

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(R) US ARMY Signal Corps" photo.

From Jeff Danby (grandson to Lt. Edgar Danby of Co. B / 756th Tank Battalion) : 
I just wanted to let you know that the knocked out tank at Vagney, France taken by Lt. Russ Cloer and featured in the "3rd Division Photos--ii" belonged to MOH recipient, 
Lt. James "Red" Harris of Company A of the 756th Tank Battalion. 
Lt. Harris and most of his crew were killed defending the 3rd Bn / 7th Inf Reg CP (which I believe is the white building in the right background, left photo). This photo shows the aftermath. The tank appears to have been hit three times. (twice in the transmission plate and once in the bow gunner's visual slot.)

His entire MOH citation can be read on page 382 of the 3rd ID History in WWII book by Taggert. Attached you will find that 2nd photo of Lt. Harris' tank at Vagney that I told you about. I got this photo from Ed Olson (former communications officer) of the 756th Tank Battalion. He got this photo from the National Archives but no longer had the 111SC number for it. 
I have also seen this photo published. In the book M4 Sherman by Michael Green (Motorbooks International, 1993) this photo appears on page 31. 
 

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D Day, H Hour, Southern France from LCI headed for smoke covered
beach.

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    88mm gun on Red Beach 1, D Day, Southern France

 
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Maurice Elowitch    3rd Division
              30th Infantry Regiment  Company L
                            (Italy, Anzio, Southern France-end of the war.)
            Photos taken just prior to September 1944. Other names not known.

   
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Captured German officer talking to 3rd Division  GI.
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Here's a couple of photos  I made, from  some negatives I found while looking for pictures to put on my website.
World War II Memoirs-3rd Infantry Division

 
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Concerning this photo which I just sent:
The fellow at the upper right
is my father, John D. Stavola.
The guy next to him
(2nd from left to  right)
is an Italian POW,
as is the guy on the top right.


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My Dad, John D. Stavola was an infantryman with the 15th Inf Reg.,
Co. I, 3rd Batt. He is a member of the 3rd Div. Society and attends many
reunions down in Georgia. He asked me to send along these photos in the
hope that some of his buddies from that time may recognize him.
   Hope you can use some of them. Rock of the Marne!     
Regards, John A. Stavola amychao@home.com

 

 
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A Unit Zippo

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A Unit Crest

I was assigned to the 3rd combat aviation battalion in Schweinfurt at Conn Barracks.
The 3rd CAB was headquartered in Kitzingen, 
along with Audie Murphy's old unit the 2nd of the 15th Infantry. 
Sincerely; Rich Mooney SGT USA RET

 
First Sgt. Francis Jacob Keller,
Company B, 110th Medical Battalion
from Ashland Pennsylvania
at the liberation of Dachau
 

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