Pfc W L Rains
U.S. 3rd Infantry Division

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Col Arthur H Rogers
CO 30th Infantry Regiment

June 1942 - Oct 1943

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Pfc Roland R Romberger
30th Infantry Regiment, Company H

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Pvt Wilburn K Ross
30th Regiment
Company G

Awarded CMH for action near St. Jacques, France

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T3 Lionel E Roy
9th Field Artillery

Africa to Austria; radio operator; Awarded Silver Star for action on Sept 11, 1943: during the assault on Sicily Roy was forced to vacate his position under heavy enemy artillery barrages but later crawled into the continuing artillery assault to relay messages to friendly artillery batteries to concentrate fire on enemy positions; Purple Heart during the southern France landings

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Pvt Allen J Rubinfeld
15th Regiment

Wartime sketch by T4 Ladislaus J Skrzypczyk of Division HQ

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Cpl Max Ruple
Tank Unit - 7th Army

killed in action on April 12, 1945 in Germany
Buried in Lorraine American Cemetery, Moselle France Plot D, Row 16, Gravesite 21

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T/Sgt Salvatore J Salemi
2680th HQ Co.(MIS.) — 10th Mtn Div

Africa to France attached with the 2680th to the 3rd Division and northern Italy with the 10th Mtn Division; Bronze Star in spring of '45 and the Purple Heart (Po Valley campaign); the 2680th was a prisoner interrogation unit under the AFHQ

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Capt Jerome Sapiro
15th Regiment

Retired from U.S. Army Reserve as a Colonel after 32 years

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Pfc Henry Schauer
15th Regiment — Company E

Awarded CMH for action near Cisterna, Italy
presenting CMH is Gen Patch

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Lt Art Schmidt
30th Regiment

Fort Lewis to Salzburg
Battlefield Commission

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Pfc Robert Seesock
3rd Signal Company

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Pfc Anthony P Sergi
15th Regiment
Company G

Morrocco-Sicily-Italy

killed in action near San Pietro, Italy, DeC 21, 1943
when the 15th Regiment relieved the 143rd Regiment
and attacked Mt Lungo and Mt Maggiore with
the 36th Division from Dec 19-29th, 1943

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Brig Gen William Sexton
CO 3rd Division Artillery - CO 3rd Division (1945-46)

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Brig Gen Whitfield P Shepard
Asst Division Commander (FeB-AuG 1944)

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Sgt Paul Shimer Jr
15th Regiment

The "Millionth Yank" to embark from
England's Southampton docks during WWII

KIA April 14, 1945


» click for the "Millionth Yank" story «

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Lt John Shirley
15th Regiment — I and L Company

Anzio - Austria

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Sgt Roland E Simkins
3rd U.S. Infantry Division

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T4 Ladislaus J "Skript" Skrzypczyk
30th Regiment prior to 3rd Division HQ G3

Awarded Bronze Star
some of Ladislaus' wartime sketches appear in the Gallery

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Sgt Lester B Smiley
10th Engineers

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Pfc Joseph Specht
30th Reg M Co & 15 Reg/AT

photo taken on outskirts of St. Die

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Cpl Raymond M Sreboth
562 Signal Aircraft Battalion - Radar/Radio Operator

Unit moved from Marseilles north up the Rhone Valley
and attached to the French First Army for the
Rhine Crossing - photo taken at Camp Crowder, MO in 1943

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Stanley W Strejcek
3rd U.S. Infantry Division

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T5 Carl E "Ed" Swanson
30th Regiment — F Company

from Moline Illinois: machine gunner in the
attack across the Maison Rouge Bridge; reassigned to the
703rd Ordnance Co. after hospitalization from exposure in that action;
received the Bronze Star 62 years after fighting on the
front line in the Vosges Mountains and the Colmar Pocket

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Pfc Francis Sweeney
7th Regiment

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Pfc Arthur L Symonds
7th Regiment

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S/Sgt Joe Tardif
601st TD Battalion

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Lt Col Walter E Tardy
CO 601st Tank Destroyer Battalion

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1st Lt John J Tominac
15th Regiment
Company I

Awarded CMH for action at Saulx-de-Vesoul, France

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T4 William J Toomey
15th Regiment - 3rd Recon Battle Patrol - 3rd Signal Company

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Lt Gen Lucian K Truscott Jr
CO 3rd Division (March 1943 - Feb 1944)
CO VI Corps (Feb - Oct 1944)
CO Fifth Army (Nov 1944)

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Sgt Vladimir L Twelkmeyer
10th Field Artillery — Battery A

22-year Veteran in the same unit - 7 hitches; Russian native from Seattle, Washington

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Capt Jesse G Ugalde
30th Regiment
Company E

2 Silver Stars (Morroco - Nov 8, '42; Italy - June 1 '44)
Bronze Star (San Agata Sicily Aug 8, '43)
retired as a full Colonel with 33 years service

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Pfc Cyril Verbeke
15th Regiment

Wartime sketch by T4 Ladislaus J Skrzypczyk of Division HQ

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T5 Joseph Walton
Company A - 13th Armored Regiment - 1st Armored Division

Algeria-French Morroco, Tunisia,
Salerno-Naples-Volturno-Anzio-Rome-Arno - from Hartford, Michigan
1st Armored lead the Anzio breakout, May 1944

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Lt Col Keith L Ware
CO. 15th Regiment – 1st Battalion

Awarded CMH for action near Sigolsheim, France


» click for bio on Keith L Ware «

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Sgt John Raymond Weingarden
7th Inf Rgt, 1st Bn, Co A

Salerno, Volturno River, Anzio, Southern France & Vosges
KIA 31 Oct 1944 at Le Haute Jacques during Operation Dogface
Buried in US Cemetery at Epinal, Plot B, Row 16 Grave 5

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Pfc Franklin Wells Jr
30th Regiment – Company B, First Battalion

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Sgt Herson L Whitley
3rd Division HQ G4

Designer of the 1941 Studebaker front grill and dubbed
the "company clown" pictured peering from the back
window of the G4 trailer

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Florence Wick
American Red Cross

Clubmobile Captain assigned to the 3rd Infantry Division in Italy from May 1944 until March 1946.

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Pvt Robert G Willenbaker
30th Regiment
Company G

KIA Italy July 3, 1944

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Kenneth L Wise
7th FA (First Division) — 9th FA

Silver Star for action at El Guettar, Tunisia, March 30, 1943 (7th FA)

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Brig Gen Robert N Young
Assistant Division Commander
Oct 1944 - May 1945

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Pfc Richard K Zoellner
7th and 15th Regiments

from Marinette, Wisconsin; enlisted 1939 to Camp Bonneville, Washington state; Africa to Rome; first American to cross the Volturno; wounded entering Rome

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2nd Lt Raymond Zussman
A Co / 756th Tank Battalion

from Hamtramck, Michigan — Killed in Action near
Noroy le Bourg, France on Sept. 22, 1944
Awarded CMH for action on Sept. 12, 1944 for leading
a two-tank assault that killed 18 enemy soldiers and captured 92

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Unknown
3rd U.S. Infantry Division

Photo marked: Fotol-Dunkel ESCHWEGE
contributed by Gilles Guignard

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Unknown
3rd U.S. Infantry Division

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Unknown
3rd U.S. Infantry Division

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Unknown
3rd U.S. Infantry Division

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3rd U.S. Infantry Division