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 | "TEXAS RANGER INDIAN WAR PENSIONS" abstracted by Robert W. Stephens
Attached as reference for Reuben Davis Ross's Indian War Pension.
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 | 1945 "Allied Victory Pattern in the Pacific"
"The map details the major phases id Allied ground, sea and air campaigns to defeat japan. The Tokyo radio Saturday expressed a willingness of the Japanese government to accept the Potsdam ultimatum if the emperor may be retained. (AP Wirephoto Map). )See Wire Stories)."
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| 1945 Allied Victory Pattern in the Pacific (World War II)
The caption reads: "The map above details the major phases of the Allied ground, sea and air campaigns to defeat Japan. The Tokyo Radio Saturday expressed a willingness of the Japanese government to accept the Potsdam ultimatum if the emperor may be retained. (AP Wirephoto Map).
The map, printed in the Shreveport Times on Monday, 13 August 1945, was in the collection of Sergeant James Elvie Pate's niece. She so very kindly shared it with the site's webmaster. Linked to it on this site are the servicemen known to have served in the Pacific Theater during WWII. If others should be linked, please advise.
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 | At least one living or private individual is linked to this item - Details withheld.
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| 31st Infantry Regiment (Philippines Division) 7 Dec 1941 - 9 Apr 1942
Operations and Movement. This reference is added for those interested in learning of the wartime experience of PFC Harvey Lee McKee.
This document is a monograph written by Major Everett V. Mead while he was a student in Class #2 of the Advanced Infantry Officers Course at Ft. Benning, GA in 1947-1948. It discusses the movements of the 31st Inf. Regt. (US) from December 7, 1941 - April 9, 1942. The original document included six maps that could not be located. Readers can refer to the maps in "The Fall of the Philippines" by Louis Morton to find the location of the 31st Inf. Regt. (US) - click on http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USA/USA-P-PI/ and scroll down to the list of maps.
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 | 34th Infantry Division 1945 - Trail of Red Bull
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| 38th Infantry - The Battle of Zigzag Pass
Private Troy Mack VAUGHN was killed during the battle.
"This monograph deals with the battle of Zigzag Pass. It covers the actions of the 38th Infantry Division from the time they established a beachhead on the island of Luzon until the battle of Zigzag Pass had been completed and the Japanese escape route into Bataan peninsula had been cut of t. This article principally concerns the 149th Infantry Regiment. of which the writer was a member during the entire battle."
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 | 44th Infantry Division attack of the Voyages Winter Line 1944 Map 2
Division operations in the vicinity of Foret de Parroy.
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| 680th Glider Field Artillery Battalion - Battery A History
A Short History of Battery "A"
Complied, written, edited, and illustrated by four soldiers of the battery under the supervision of the battery commander before the unit was deactivated in September 1945.
Commanded by Captain John Henry Featherston, Jr. until he was killed in action.
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| 680th Glider Field Artillery Battalion - 1945 - Operation Varsity After Action Report
Captain John Henry FEATHERSTON, Jr., a January 1943 graduate of West Point, was commander of Battery B, 680th FA BN during Operation Varsity. He was killed by small arms fire as he led an assault against a German stronghold that threatened the establishment of a firing position for the battery. The battery history added that after "clearing the houses, [they] discovered the sniper to have been a twelve year old German boy - who will never shoot another American soldier." Captain Featherston was posthumously awarded the Silver Star Medal for his actions. The linked document conveys the wide dispersal of gliders during the assault, the aircraft damage incurred, casualties taken, and the fierce defense made by the Germans who occupied the area of the landing zone. General Eisenhower was able to observe the landings from a vantage on the west side of the Rhine River.
After the war the battalion was awarded the Presidential Unit Citation. It read:
The citation reads as follow :
The 680th Glider Field Artillery Battalion is cited for extraordinary heroism, efficiency, and achievement in action against the enemy during the assault crossing of the Rhine River near Wesel, Germany, on 24 March 1945. Coming in by glider through the heaviest concentration of antiaircraft fire yet experienced in an airborne operation, the 680th Glider Field Artillery Battalion landed widely dispersed in open fields covered by enemy artillery, automatic weapons, and small arms fire, under direct observation from enemy strong points throughout the area. With complete disregard for their personal safety, the members of this field artillery battalion unloaded their gliders under a withering cross-fire, assembled in small groups, and fought their way through occupied enemy strong points and field fortifications to the assembly area, using howitzers, bazookas, grenades and carbines to reduce enemy position. During the assembly, this field artillery battalion captured and destroyed an enemy 105-mm. artillery battery and a 155-mm. artillery battery and captured 150 enemy soldiers. With 19 killed, including both howitzer battery commanders, and 56 wounded during the assembly, the aggressive action of all members of this battalion enabled both howitzer batteries to occupy position and the battalion to assume its artillery mission within 1 hour of the initial landing. One hour later, this battalion had completed its survey and had established complete wire communication within the battalion. Within 5 hours after the initial landing, 9 howitzers were in position and 900 rounds of ammunition had been assembled at the position area. The efficiency and aggressive action of the 680th Glider Field Artillery Battalion in the face of great odds and a defensively prepared enemy, cleared a large portion of the division area and resulted in the provision of adequate artillery support, which assisted materially in the ultimate success of the operation and subsequent exploitation of the gains achieved.
By Order of the Secretary of War
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Chief of Staff
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 | 702 Ordnance Company, Second Infantry Division (2ID) (June 1942 - May 1945)
The document lists the bivouac sites occupied by the 702nd Ordnance Company during WWII beginning on 09 June 1944 at Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer, France just inland from Omaha Beach, to 08 May 1945 at Plzen in the present day Czech Republic - a straight-line distance of 1232 kilometers. The eastward journey would be made in 36 segments; as short as 3km and as long as 701km. It does not include the return legs used to reach the French port (Le Havre) from which the 2ID would return to the USA. Those legs would not have included T-SGT John Edgar Scott. He was reassigned to the 799th Ordnance Light Maintenance Company in June 1945 and almost immediately began his redeployment to the USA - an indication of how quickly the Army was redirecting its operations towards Japan - even though some units remained as occupation forces in Germany. Regardless, how T-SGT Scott traveled back to the USA is not certain since the National Archives advised that the shipping records for all unit re-deployments were intentionally destroyed in about 1951.
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 | A Short History of the Kelly Family (author & date unknown)
The author of this document is not unknown. A copy was received from Ann, Thomas Kelly O'Malley's wife Ann HUTAFF, although numerous copies are attached to Ancestry.com trees - none found with attribution.
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| At least one living or private individual is linked to this item - Details withheld.
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 | Abanathy, Carl: 1942 Headstone Application
KIA
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 | Abanathy, Carl: 1942 WWII Draft Card
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 | Abanathy, Carl: 1942 WWII Draft Card
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 | Abanathy, Carl: 1942 WWII Draft Card (back)
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 | Abanathy, Cecil: 1942 WWII Draft Card
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 | Abanathy, Cecil: 1942 WWII Draft Card back
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 | Abanathy, John L: 1918 WWI Draft Card
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 | Abanathy, Thomas: 1942 WWII Draft Card
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 | Abanathy, Thomas: 1942 WWII Draft Card back
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 | Abels, Ann Austin (Staudinger): 2001 Obituary
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 | Abels, Walter J: 1929 Aboard SS Leviathan
Sailed from Cherbourg, France on 30 March, 1929; arrived New York on 5 April
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 | Abels, William: 2001 Obituary
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 | Abend, John W/; 1956 Obituary
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 | Abend, John W: 1956 Obituary
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 | Abernathy, Claude: 1917 WWI Draft Card
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 | Ackerman, Edna (Hillis): 2002 Obituary
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 | Ackerman, Edward J: 1973 Obituary
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 | Ackerman, Edward Russell: 1990 Obituary (Hackensack, NJ)
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 | Ackis, J S: 1864 CSA wounded Wilderness
This cannot be James Septimus Ackis since the battle of the Wilderness occurred in 1864; James was wounded and captured in 1863. Nevertheless, the file was listed under James Septimus in the archives.
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 | Ackis, J S: 1865 CSA Oath Release June 22
This cannot be James Septimus since this soldier was captured shortly before the surrender at Appomattox; nearly two years after James Septimus was wounded and captured in 1863. Nevertheless, the file was listed under James Septimus in the archives.
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 | Ackis, James S: 1930 Application for Headstone
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 | Ackis, James S: 1930 Application for Headstone (back)
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 | Ackis, James Septemus: 1865 CSA, POW at City Point, VA
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 | Ackis, James Septimus: 1863 CSA DEC Bear Station TN
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 | Ackis, James Septimus: 1863 CSA Enlistment
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 | Ackis, James Septimus: 1863 CSA wounded & transferred to provost marshal
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 | Ackis, James Septimus: 1863 CSA wounded Gettysburg
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 | Ackis, James Septimus: 1863 CSA wounded Gettysburg throat gunshot
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 | Ackis, James Septimus: 1865 CSA POW Release
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 | Ackis, James Septimus: 1875 Charleston City Directories
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 | Ackis, Richard W: 1861 Enlistment
Capt. A.B. Rhett's Company (9), 2nd Regiment, South Carolina Volunteers
Note: "This company subsequently became Company K, 2d (Palmetto) Regiment South Carolina Infantry. The regiment was called into State service about April 9, 1861, for twelve months. It was mustered into the Confederate States service May 22, 1861, and re-organized for war in May 1862. About April 9, 1965 the 2d (Palmetto) Regiment South Carolina Infantry was consolidated with the 20th Regiment South Carolina Infantry and a part of Blanchard's South Carolina Reserves and formed the (New) 2d Regiment South Carolina Infantry, which was paroled at Greensboro, N.C., May 2, 1865."
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 | Ackis, Richard W: 1861 Reenlistment Bounty
Richard was present at Charleston, SC where his enlistment was extended for 2 years so he was due a bounty of $50. Dec. 28, 1861.
It is not clear if this record is incorrectly associated with the same Richard W Ackis who was assigned to Captain Fickling's Artillery Company, or if Richard transferred between this infantry unit and the Artillery company.
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 | Ackis, Richard W: 1861 Unit Description
Company Muster-in Roll at Camp Davis near Richmond, VA, on 22 May 1861
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 | Ackis, Richard W: 1862 Centerville, Virginia
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 | Ackis, Richard W: 1862 Muster-in at Manassas, Virginia
Note: "Colonel W.R. Fitz Gerald's 1st Regiment Confederate States Light Artillery did not complete its organization and this company subsequently became Captain Fickling's Company, South Carolina Light Artillery. It served for a while in a battalion which was known as Lee's Reserve Battalion, Light Artillery; Alexander's Battalion, Light Artillery; and Huger's Battalion, Light Artillery. This battalion was composed of companies from various States which subsequently served as independent commands."
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