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By John Mike Kunnen. By now the company and convoy were way ahead. Nineteen years old; hearing guns fired in anger for the first time; joining an outfit that was committed to combat; so hungry I could eat a bear; not knowing anyone and scared. I said, Captain, we dont need the K rations. 331 days : the story of the men of the 709th Tank Battalion. All trademarks and graphics found on this site
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Before this though, Francis Healer limped back to our tank and collapsed to the ground.
By 2:30PM, things were set, so the maintenance officer,Lt. He welcomed me but was obviously engaged in more important matters than making a green replacement comfortable. About 8PM we developed loose rubber on another block and so had to take it easy.
My hunger was greater than my compassion in letting him sleep. The lead in the discovery came from two young Polish women, really young girls of about 16 years of age. Finally, I was discharged January 11, 1946 from Indiantown Gap and headed for home: Burbank, Ohio. The E-mail message field is required. Ten days later the division reported that it had sustained around 4,000 casualties from an initial strength of over 12,000. A page dedicated to the brave servicemen of the 709th Tank Battalion in WWII. The only man who greeted me was our First Sargent John Campbell.
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Later the next year, after the end of the war, he was discharged with other high pointers.
A buddy, Alabama Hullet and I got the job of getting the chickens. The E-mail Address(es) you entered is(are) not in a valid format. A high percentage of the division had no combat experience. Tank Destroyer Units; Field Artillery Units; Coast and Antiaircraft Artillery Units; Engineer Units; Signal Units; Army Aviation Units; Educational, School, Training and Replacement Commands and Establishments; Medical Units; Support units; Aviation [1920-1947] Temporar; Battalions
With the ham scavenged from a German attic, foraged potatoes and the tough hard cheese from our last tin can rations, we managed to feed ourselves. It was raised in May 1941 and used for occupation duties during the German occupation of France in World War II until the Allied invasion. The following day, Lt. Charles Ellis returned to our platoon.
I had no idea what the drill was about getting anything to eat.
He later told me of his war experiences.
The tank I was in backed off after Lt. Sylvests tank hit the mine.
Although after months of sustained labour work on coastal defences caused the combat readiness of its troops to be significantly reduced. Fifteen minutes earlier, the rest of the convoy behind us, took an alternate route, so we thought that only a retriever was behind us.
Horace Barrett crawled over Baun to get out of the tank. Please use the TRANSLATE button above to see machine translation of this post.
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The fifth tank dug itself in and the B company retriever had to pull it out before our retriever could push us to start the motor. July 12, 2000; copyrighted by Sheldon Schaffer
Yesterday at 5:30 AM, we left Rossbach in a Boy Scout convoy. They must have noticed that we were 20 and they were just 2, because they allowed us to take our needs, which was very kind of these guys. Shortly after dumping my duffel bag, I was accosted by a small, wiry, older guy, a long-time member of my new crew, who identified himself as Polish and hating Jews.
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There's a problem loading this menu right now. This incident, reported in the 709th Tank Battalion book 335 Days in Combat, is not the same as I witnessed. General Schlieben surrendered ‘Fortress’ Cherbourg to the Americans on 29 June 1944. Maintenance Problems
I was discharged on September 10, 1945 at Camp McCoy, WS. We left Luxemburg about two weeks before the Battle of the Bulge. Some features of WorldCat will not be available. Shortly after we arrived in Luxembourg, our Captain arrived with an explanation that the kitchen would not be set up for a few days. I was dropped off a truck as dusk was just over the horizon. We had a five flat car train. He threatened that the fight would occur only over his dead body and made it clear that, if there was to be a fight, it would have to be between him and my not so friendly new crewmate. Back To Top Enter your mobile number or email address below and we'll send you a link to download the free Kindle App.
After about one hour into the stay, a freight train loaded with food supplies rolled in right next to us.
At 10:30 we finally pulled in, opened our bedrolls and fell asleep.
When it was selected and it was announced where the reburial would occur, the owner of the property, a local, titled aristocrat and retired Wehrmacht colonel, who had previously been wounded on the Russian front, objected that his land was being taken without his permission or compensation.
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However, the 709th was acquainted with its sector and well trained for defense.
We laughed and said, We requisitioned em, Captain, As Memory Serves This mans grown son, a newly graduated physician, had been drafted, but refused to serve in the German army, and had been executed for his defiance. McCord told us to take off and burn up the road; hed follow as best as he could. The 709th Static Infantry Division was a German Army infantry division in World War II.
Despite his anti-Semitic attitudes and his other dysfunctionalities and obvious miseries, he was without question a real combat hero.
Two hours later, news of VJ day brightened everyones outlook. He offered a couple of cases of K-rations. What I found at the site was zigzag cut of heaped, brown earth, about seven- or eight-feet wide, with about 4 zigs and zags, each about 10 to 15 feet long, with roughly 70 or fewer people buried in the cut.
Our unit was under almost constant shellfire from our arrival in the ETO. There he was incarcerated for 24 hours, incommunicado and without food or water, with access only to a toilet. I got the shock of my young life.
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We took two sacks and went down the road and requisitioned 26 chickens.
Barrett proceeded to do this when the tank was hit by another 88, cutting Happy Baun in half. It was quite a day, but our stay in Reichmannshausen ended in our getting on a train bound for Camp 20 Grand, outside of Rouen, France.
A cluster of schoolboys, all neatly dressed, were also in the review group.
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