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I've been researching on and off for the past four years the 1945 29th Infantry Division Blues and Grays baseball team and preparing an article about the ball club. The article has finally been posted on the Chevrons and Diamonds military baseball website and I'm including a link to it here.
Edgar Derendinger was my father on the right; he was in Co. D, 116th Inf, 29th Div
I have a digital copy of a map 6F/2 which is referenced as 6F/2 1:50,000. What would have been the scale of the map i.e. 1 inch = X feet and who would have carried and used it for the Morning Report? What else was its purpose?
Spent 24 years as a member
I have had the most amazing thing happen. Mike van den Dobblesteen from France notified me that my father's canteen from WWII was advertised for sale. Another man had purchased it, but after hearing it was my fathers, he told the seller to sell it to me. It's Home! It disappeared sometime after a 1993 event - apparently someone took it and sold it into the military collectible market. I wish it could talk so that I could find out who - I have my suspicions. It came with a "note from the family" that bore my signature, but I did not write it, and whoever did plagiarized my words from elsewhere [the note was fraught with misspellings].
But it is home were it belongs thanks to some amazing folks on the US Military Collectibles "Deal or No Deal" page. What are the odds of this happening? I am beyond ecstatic. I love a story with a happy ending!
S/Sgt. Edward R. Elburn, 115th Infantry, 29th Division.
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I do so hope somebody can help me within this group.
My Mother has tried fruitlessly to trace and find her father Robert Vayden Payne.
She only knew he was from Virginia and he died 4 days before her 1st birthday.
Her birthday is 20th August 1944.
Through GITrace we have learned so very much and believe he served in the 29th inventary.
If anybody can send me any information Re this division or where we could get photos, we would be for ever appreciative.
Ann -Marie Rennie
I am trying to find out more about my oldest brothers birth father, a Robert Clarke Potter ?
He was only 22 years old. He was in the 29th division, and the 110th AAA. He was wounded on June 24th or 25th and died two days latter on the 27th.
"Pfc Robert Clarke Potter, of Battery "C" 110th AAA Bn, died in a field hospital on June 27, 1944, from wounds received in battle against the enemy during the big Normandie push two days prior to his death. "
Apparently he got his Texas girlfriend pregnant in about late February/early March of 1943, and was shipped from Texas where he was apparently training, and had met his girlfriend, to elsewhere in the states. and then in Dec of 1943 he was shipped to England for Operation Overlord. So very likely he never knew he had a son. My parents adopted him at birth in late Oct of 1943.
Any info would be greatly appreicated, even if it is just about Battery "C". I just discovered that this is my adopted brothers father via DAN, just two weeks ago. I am trying to compile as much info as I can for my brother, as a Christmas present.
Does anyone have definitive info on when the 115th IR went ashore at Omaha? I'm finding conflicting details. Any response or direction in clarifying would be greatly appreciated.
My dad, 1st Sgt VR Schmalbach, was with Cannon Co 115th IR in June of '44 and originally with 110th FA at Pikesville Armory from 1937.
Thanks in advance.
My father Corporal Charles James Herlihy Jr from Holyoke, Massachusetts served in the 29th Infantry WWII. Normandy, Middle Eastern African Theater, Central Europe, Ardennes, Rhineland. Distinguished Unit Award, Purple Heart and more.
My hero. Want to know as much as I can.
Unfortunately he passed on when I was a girl.
I have so much to learn. Our local Veteran Agent is trying to help me.
He is in an unmarked grave. Never had military honors at his burial in 1966 and never a marker or flag on his grave, ever.
I recently saw the picture of GIs returning from Europe to New York City on the RMS Queen Elizabeth. I know that my father, Staff Sergeant Charles William "Bill" Burgoon, Company H, 115th Infantry, 29th Division, returned to New York by ship. Does the archive have information on what ship brought Company H home?
My father, Charles Allen Adair, is on the far right, second row.
Followers of this group may be interested to know that the Stories Behind the Stars project to write stories of all the Americans who died on D-Day is more than have done. When the accompanying smartphone app is ready, anyone will be able to scan the fallen's name from any gravesite or memorial and get an immediate link to read his story. This will include all the 29th ID D-Day fallen.
My Dad, Major Merl1098 (TD) teaming up with the Virginia National Guard Soldiers assigned to the Norfolk-based 1st Battalion, 111th Field Artillery Regime… See Moree Preble served in the 29th Infantry in WWII. His CO was Col Bagby. I have a number of pictures of his group in Iceland in 1943 and later in France. I would like to locate the group which makes these photos of history available to others. I have a few names for some of the pictures; Capt, Tucker, Capt. Shilling, Capt Mitchmer (although i am not sure i am spelling them correctly) . I also have a 29th Infantry book my Dad obtained in the 1940's
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29th Infantry Division Association, Norfolk Post 5
Final found this on my Dad's computer been looking for months now
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