Gunner Gronbeck Prisoner During 13th Mission Rescue
Romer M. Gronbeck, a gunner on the 39th Bomb Group, was shot down over the Ruhr on his 13th mission and taken prisoner. He endured confinement at Barth, Germany, and later liberation by the Russians on May 2. He describes hunger, Red Cross aid, and the chaotic end of the war as he and other prisoners were repatriated to the United States.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gunner
Romer M. Gronbeck
Sgt
Gronie
Ruher Valley
Sheridan, Ill
Jefferene Mo
Las Vegas
Nev
A Air Force
Col
Moeller
Bien
Ruhr
Pist
George Sullivan
Sullivan
la Crosse
Ham
Res
Barth
Germany
Gronbeck
Red Cross
Rheims
France
le Havre
States
Ragnar Gronbeck
George Street
Miami Beach
Francis S. Gabreski
Europe
Snorre
Morris
Manila
76th Division Marks Third Anniversary in Saxony Region
The 76th Infantry Division celebrated its third anniversary on June 15, 1945 in Saxony Germany after two years of training in the United States. The unit fought in Echternach the Siegfried Line Trier and Langensalza and joined General Patton's Third Army in Belgium marching toward Czechoslovakia. The division crossed rivers including the Moselle and Rhine and advanced 400 miles capturing 35 000 prisoners and seizing 120 aircraft before halt orders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
States
76Th Infantryvision
Saxony
Germany
Echternach
Siegfried Line
Trier
Wittleich
Langensalza
76Th
Camp McCoy
Boston
Bournemouth
England
Champion
Belgium
George S. Patton
Third Army
Bastogne
Luxembourg
Iwo Jima
Prum
Nims
Moselle
Kyll
Rhine
Sixth Armored
Czechoslovakia
Reich
Wisconsin
France
Meuse-Argonne
Camp Devens
Mass
Ft. George G. Meade, Md
John Hay Satisfies Dinners With Ambergrease Tarts
John Hay Earl of Carlisle during James I era served tarts costing about ten pounds each. The small delicacies were described as ambergrease magisterial pearl and musk and valued at fifty pounds for his dinners.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Hay
Carlisle
Navy Officer Gave Flag for Mt Suribachi Marines
Lieut Stanley Christensen of La Crosse provided the flag for the Mt Suribachi flag raising. His wife’s letter to Mrs Grover Eggenberger notes the flag was autographed by no, but Christensen’s flag appears in the famed photograph. Christensen enlisted in the Navy in July 1931 after graduating from Central high school.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mt. Suribachi
la Crosse
Stanley Christensen
Grover Eggenberger
Farnam Street
Christy
Christensen
Navy
Central High School
Discharged soldier recalls four years with Red Arrow Division
George Jenks of 403 Island Street, La Crosse, reflects on four years in the Pacific with the 32nd Division, earning American Defense, Asiatic and Philippine Defense ribbons and two battle stars. He left Luzon on furlough, returned to civilian life within days, and married Selma Powers. He says the experience was invaluable though he would not relive it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Army
George Jenks
Island Street
Red Arrow Division
Corp
Luzon
la Crosse
Ft. Sheridan
Philippines
Pacific
Jenks
Selma Powers
Sgt. Schneider
La Crosse Man In Army Air Force Since 1941 Boasts He Has Yet To Ride In An Airplane
Sgt. George Schneider, the first local inductee into military service on June 21 1941, served 35 months as a welder with the Army Air Corps. In England he learned about teamwork and tea rituals while awaiting his civilian life postwar. He plans to marry Norma Lee in La Crosse on July 21 after reporting to Camp Grant Illinois on July 27 following a 30 day furlough.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
LA Crosse
George Schneider
Army Air Corps
Shipbow
Eng
England
Sat
Schneider
Italy
Norma Lee
Allis-Chalmers
Heapon
Ripley
Air Corps
Camp Grant
Ill
Paulson Receives Bronze Star in Bomb Disposal Unit
T Sgt Robert E Paulson son of A M Paulson 916 South Fourth Street awarded the Bronze Star for heroism after he and three others defused by hand an unexploded German bomb beneath Ludendorff bridge near Remagen Germany March 15 1945 while under heavy artillery fire. He trained at Savannah Illinois and Ann Arbor Michigan and served in France Belgium and Germany before reporting home on furlough.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert E. Paulson
A. M. Paulson
South Fourth Street
Paulson
Ludendorf Bridge
Ordnance Department
126Th Ordnance Bomb Disposal Squadron
United States
Remagen
Germany
T. Sat. Paulson
Rhine River
Central High School
State Teachers College
Savanah, Ill
Ann Arbor
Mich
Aberdeen
France
Kelsey Now On Nevada Aboard the USS Nevada
Milton N. Kelsey, seaman second class USNR, serves on the battleship USS Nevada. The ship survived Pearl Harbor’s attack, dodged enemy planes, and later supported Attu landings, then fought in European waters including the Normandy invasion and the southern France invasion in 1944. His wife, Mrs. Milton Kelsey, lives in La Crosse Wisconsin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nevada
Milton N. Kelsey
USNR
Milton Kelsey
Onalaska Avenue
la Crosse
Wis
Pearl Harbor
Arizona
Oklahoma
Attu
Mediterranean
France
Richmond Register Office Closed After Years Of Service
The Richmond register office in England closed recently after years of operation. It recorded births including that of the former Prince of Wales at White Lodge in Richmond Park.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
England
Prince of Wales
White Lodge
Richmond Park
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Gabreski
Tribune
Phete Sgt
Gmer
Lestell Gamble
Hoeschlers
5Th Ave
Fenweve
Austelle
Bayon
Cynthia
Fred C. Manske
Luella H. Nack
State
Archie G. Kritchman
Walter Kritchman
Redfield
Manske
Luke Field
Ariz
Kritchman
Pecos
Tex
398Th
8Th Air Force
Munich
Leipzig
Chennitz
Berlin
Dorsein
Fort Sheridan
Lieut. Christensen
32Nd
Camp Livingston
120Th Field Artillery
Australia
Brisbane
Red Arrow
Tribbune
Paris
United States Army
Don Evans
Walter Bahr
LA Crosse ST
Kelsey
Gladstone Tavern
North Third ST
John Gospeter and
Fred Hillman
West Ave. South
C. Gilles
Heileman’s
Civil Air Patrol
French Island
Chamber of Commerce
John K. Rice
Stoddard
Wisconsin State Guard
South Avenue
Isle la Plume
the Shadow
WABH
Kiwanis Club
Hotel
South Avenue Armory
Rotary Club
Stud
Shrine Club
Masonic Temple
Chamber of Commerce Waterway Committee
West Ave
Eagies
Roosevelt—Auto-Lite
Milwaukee
R. R. Hogan—Northern Engraving
Heile
Heileman
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