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XIX Corps "German Organization of Deliberate Defense in Depth"...south of La Meauffe, France
823rd Tank Destroyer Battalion December '44 After Action Report PDF file
Mortain....series of reports, overlays, maps of the Battle of Mortain. Aug. 6th - 12th.
National Archives report of the 119th IR Unit Journal from Sept. 10th to 15th. PDF file
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Film of the Liberation of Heerlen...Part 1...YouTube link.
Film of the Liberation of Heerlen...Part 2...YouTube link.
Film of the Liberation of Valkenburg...YouTube link.
Film of the Liberation of Maastricht...You Tube link.
Crossing the Roer River...You Tube Link
National Archives report of the 120th fighting Nov. 16-28, 1944...PDF file
National Archives report of the 120th fighting Jan. 1945....PDF file
Book by Roger P. Casey....119th Infantry Regiment, Company D.
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119th, Co. G, September 2007 Reunion, Gettysburg, PA.
LAST MAN GUIDON....click to enlarge.
SEE THIS
LINK FOR More on reunion and Co. G history
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XIX Corps Commendation:
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30th items of Tech Grade 4 Joseph M Serena, Jr. 105th Engineer Battalion:
105th Map
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30th items of Pvt. First Class Kenneth A. Boel of the 119th Headquarters 3rd Battalion:
Date Feb. 25th, 1943 not sure where or who is Pvt. Boel.
Left: 1st Sgt. Philip Paul Greenville, NC Right: Staff Sgt. Mack Legget,
Washington, NC both of the 113th FA.
Left: Cpl. Leroy Fee Right: Pfc. Max Aginik SP?????
Top: Pfc. Catlett (maybe T/Sgt Robert S. Catlett, 105th Med.) & Max Aginik
Bottom: Pfc. John Zabassky, Unknown, Pfc. Jim Walher SP???
On the block: John (Adolph) Zabassky Holding Helmet: Max Aginiki
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113th Cav. Group - Red Horse website
Article copied from National Archives 120th IR file.
Diary of George R. Schneider.....120th IR...... GREAT Reading!!! Link courtesy of www.IndianaMilitary.com
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Words cannot express the
gratitude and admiration I have for Mr. Jo Smeets, his family and all those who
have adopted the graves of our loved ones. I'm certain it took Mr. Smeets
considerable time and effort in locating our family to send us pictures and to
let us know that he adopted Stanley's grave.
Pfc. Stanley Stephan Jamraz, 120th Infantry Regiment, 30th Infantry Division was
killed in Lohn, Germany, on his 23rd birthday, March 26, 1945 .
His younger brother Joseph was already serving with the 115th Infantry Regiment, 29th Infantry Division somewhere in France when in October 1944 Stanley was shipped overseas. I am told there was an occasion when Joseph thought he might be able to meet up with Stanley for a few minutes...... when across the field one day Joseph saw the Chaplin walking towards him.......... he knew he would not see Stanley again.
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Stanley Stephan Jamraz (right) with friend
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Stanley was the third child born of a family of 10 children to John & Victoria
Jamraz who emigrated from Poland.
He excelled in school and was a great athlete. During the "Great Depression" he
was one of three million young men who enrolled in President Roosevelt's most
popular experiment of the New Deal the Civilian Conservation Corp. One of the
Corps projects was in renewing our nations decimated forests by planting over
three billion trees. Each month $25.00 was sent to the family back home and he
received $5.00. He was assigned to the 9th Corp. based in Nevada.
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Stanley Jamraz with friend sitting at tree
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During WWII he received four deferments from military service due to his employment at "Kellogg's Switchboard & Supply Company." He was a handsome guy, a great friend , very kind and always caring brother and son who made our family so very proud of him.
He leaves two living brothers Joseph, who served in WW II, Edwin who served in Korea with the 8th Army, 64th Field Hospital, (Helen) and five living sisters. Evelyn, Alice, Jean. Sylvia and Diana.
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Stanley Jamraz' Statement of Service
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30th ID Patch
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The 30th Infantry Division was made up of the existing National Guard units from the States of North and South Carolina and Tennessee at the beginning of WWII. During WWII, The 30th Infantry Division served in Europe with distinction, and was designated as the #1 Infantry Division in the European Theater by Gen. Eisenhower's Chief Historian, Col. S.L.A. Marshall. Although the 30th Infantry Division was not involved in the actual invasion of Normandy, the 30th served valiantly at St. LO and at Mortain in France; it was the first infantry division to enter Belgium and The Netherlands, liberating the southern part of the Dutch Province of Limburg, where Stanley Jamraz found his final resting place.
The 30th was also instrumental in breaching the Siegfried Line in October 1944, and the capture of Aachen, Germany, the 1st large German city to be captured by the Allies in WWII.
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The
30th Infantry Division was one of the main liberating U.S. units of
the south of Limburg in September 1944. Local people were eager to
show their gratitude to any liberator in many ways. This picture was
taken in the vicinity of Meerssen, the town where caretaker Jo
Smeets lives
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The 30th made a rapid advance
around the north side of the Ruhr Industrial Pocket, capturing Brunswick and
finally capturing Magdeburg on the Elbe River on 17 April 1945.
Here the 30th Infantry Division met the Russians and remained in occupation of Magdeburg throughout the month of May, when it was turned over to the Russians for their permanent occupation, as this was their designated occupation territory. This brought the end of the war to the 30th Infantry Division.
After a brief occupation of an area on the Czech border, the 30th was alerted to return to the United States for further deployment to the Pacific. However, enroute to the U.S.A., the war in the Pacific came to an end by the dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan.
The 30th Infantry Division was proudly called "Old Hickory" after Andrew Jackson, the 7th President of the United States.
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Pfc. Stanley Jamraz´ grave
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