Articles for tag: 50th Armored Infantry Battalion

To this day, I don’t like snow!

A forced march as part of the 3rd Army thrust, fate placed us outside the City of Bastogne. A Christmas time night infiltration through the city had us replacing our comrades of the 4th Arm...

Growing up, no one talked about daddy or the war

My dad, Roy E. McDowell was born October 19, 1914 in Buffalo, Kentucky, a farming community. His parents, John and Mamie Miller McDowell, had 9 children. Daddy had 3 older siblings, Ruth, E...

Andy Giambroni receives high French honor

A Red Bluff man will be honored by the country of France on Friday when he is decorated with the title of Chevalier or Knight of the Legion Medal of Honor at a ceremony at the Elks Lodge.

S/SGT Harry L Pillow's helmet

February 2014 a post appeared on Mark Bando's Trigger Time Forum in which a regular forum member requested more information about a helmet he found in the vicinity o...

A soldier's story

The following story was published on the website of the Hoosick Township Historical Society:

Frank Cipperly, a local man, is one of five soldiers highlighted in the book “Fiv...

Dutch girl who tended soldier's grave visits his parents in U.S.

Allen Willis Rucker, Jr. moved with his parents to Lexington, MA as a young boy. In 1938, he was enrolled in the 8th grade at Valley Forge Military Academy in Wayne, PA. He went to Valley F...

Al Brodbeck, The man who died by mistake

Grave 5 in the 18th row of box C is the final resting place of soldier 1st class Alvin A. Brodbeck, a family man from Louisville, Kentucky, who by an administrative error was called under a...

Days not forgotten

I had tied in with the l0lst Airborne Division. At that time we were spread out mighty thin. We lost more than half the men in our company, including all of our officers. First Sergeant Rim...

John Napoleon

John Napoleon enlisted in the New York National Guard in 1940, to escape life as a Depression era farmer in Rochester, New York. He enlisted for a period of one year, and following Pearl H...

Bernard Paul Posey

The search for deceased and missing US soldiers went on for years after the end of WWII.

Many men and vehicles were left at the battlefields, often found by accident by ...

2nd Lt Max Lebida

2nd Lieutenant Max Lebida of HQ Company 50th Armored Infantry was killed in action on August 5th 1944 in the vicinity of Le Cloitre, France. Max was bron in Kanna, Poland in 1909,...