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Wartime memories of Battery G veterans reunion
Photographs and memories from a weekend reunion of 120 veterans and their wives from 19 states of Battery G 185th Field Artillery and the 634th Tank Destroyer Battalion. Attendees included Carlton Smith Tom Anderson Fred Barrett Leo Samek and C J Danny Pochobradsky, organizers for the gathering at the Sheraton Inn. Battery G began in 1941 in Cedar Rapids with 82 volunteers from Linn and Benton counties and its unit landed on Omaha Beach in Normandy June 29 1944.
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185Th Field Artillery
Carlton Smith
Largo
Fla
Tom Anderson
Oxford
Ohio
Fred Barrett
San Antonio
Texas
Leo Samek
Teresa Drive
C.J
Danny"’ Pochobradsky
Victoria Drive
Sheraton Inn
Cedar Rapids
Linn
Iowa
Benton Counties
Omaha Beach
Normandy