Articles for tag: 6th Armored Division
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To this day, I don’t like snow!
A forced march as part of the 3rd Army thrust, fate placed us outside the City of Bastogne. A Christmas time night infiltration through the city had us replacing our comrades of the 4th Arm...
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Growing up, no one talked about daddy or the war
My dad, Roy E. McDowell was born October 19, 1914 in Buffalo, Kentucky, a farming community. His parents, John and Mamie Miller McDowell, had 9 children. Daddy had 3 older siblings, Ruth, E...
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Andy Giambroni receives high French honor
A Red Bluff man will be honored by the country of France on Friday when he is decorated with the title of Chevalier or Knight of the Legion Medal of Honor at a ceremony at the Elks Lodge.
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S/SGT Harry L Pillow's helmet
February 2014 a post appeared on Mark Bando's Trigger Time Forum in which a regular forum member requested more information about a helmet he found in the vicinity o...
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A soldier's story
The following story was published on the website of the Hoosick Township Historical Society:
Frank Cipperly, a local man, is one of five soldiers highlighted in the book “Fiv...
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Dutch girl who tended soldier's grave visits his parents in U.S.
Allen Willis Rucker, Jr. moved with his parents to Lexington, MA as a young boy. In 1938, he was enrolled in the 8th grade at Valley Forge Military Academy in Wayne, PA. He went to Valley F...
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Conrad Herman Pennartz
Inducted into the U.S. Army on 19 may 1942 at Camp Joseph T. Robinson, North Little Rock, Arkansas.
Reported for initial training with Company M, 2nd regiment, quartermaster corps at... -
General Robert Walker Grow
Most of the data available for Major General Robert W. Grow centers on only two events in his career:
- His command of the U.S. Army's 6th Armored Division during...
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Corporal Charles Bascom "Charlie" Upchurch
Duffield, Va. - S.Sgt. Charlie B. Upchurch has been officially reported by the U.S. War Department as "killed in action" somewhere in France, September 23. He had been...
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St. Augustine WWII vet remembers fighting in the trenches
Jack Worley, 91, keeps his story inside a manila folder marked “Landed in trench full of German soldiers.
”In 1942 he was 18 years old and a private in intelligence with... -
Cyrus Shockey isn’t one to talk up his military service
His friends outside of the military might never know that he earned the Silver Star, Bronze Star and Purple Heart. If people ask to recognize him for his service, he’ll likely brush...
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Motorcycles in the 6th Armored Division
In the section below, some veterans of the 6th Armored Division talk about the use of motorcycles within the division:
Mel Rappaport – H...