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Schuylkill County World War Two Soldier and Sailor Combat Stories

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In todays blog I am including more stories from the Pottsville Documentation during World War 2. They will consentrate on infantrymen and sailors in contest. We must remember to write these men and women back into CV, their stories cannot be forgotten.



Frackville Soldier Helps Vouchsafe Repeater Site.
January 1945

Armed only with carbines, while German 88 shells whined running costs and the enemy encircled their installations, operators of the U.S. Army Signal Brigade repeater station on a vital communications wrinkle in Belgium stuck to their posts at the apex of a Nazi counter attack. Among these soldiers who were later rescued by an American infantry squad and unit of tank destroyers was Sgt. Vincent Banonas, of Frackville. “We had heard the increasing babel of the 88’s fire and the enemy planes had been after us a spell or two, but we were busy and someone had to operate the repeater class, “ Sgt. Banonas said. “ When we received orders to turn over the installation, taking some equipment with us on a junk and destroying the rest, only one road was vacant, and the platoon of infantry and tank destroyers had unprejudiced cleared that.” Before entering the accommodation in December 1942 Sgt. Banonas was an inspector in the mill of the City Shirt Company Frackville. In December 1943 he came abroad to England, and in July 1944 landed in France.


Pull to pieces Sergeant Helps Evacuate Facility
January 1945

Tech Sgt. William F Stephenson, Pottsville a seduce Sgt. With the 130th General Hospital in Belgium, was one of the volunteers selected to keep that installation in operation during the recent German vile. When allied and enemy gun fire threatened the safe keeping of the patients, Col earnest H. Parsons commanding lawman ordered all communications stopped, patents evacuated and the clinic stripped to bare operating necessities and called for battlefield casualties. Nine doctors and 33 enlisted men, cooks and support men comprised the volunteers. On Christmas Day in the center of fervently contested territory Stephenson’s organization of cooks prepared a turkey dinner for the facility personnel patients and invited some tank and infantry soldiers from a accessible field. “They were the most surprised men I ever seen,’ Said Stephenson. “No one ever expected a Accustomed Hospital to operate in the middle of a battlefield.” During the exigency he doubled as a litter bearers, and a horrify team aid.


Frackville Marine Receives Bronze Feature For Heroism.
January 1945

Somewhere in the Pacific Pelagic Corps Corp. Weldon J. Rupert of Frackville was presented with the Bronze Celebrity at A Pacific base. Rupert bravely drove some severe equipment to the front lines on Saipan and Tinian consideration being subjected to heavy enemy fire.
Rupert a associate of an engineering company of the Fourth Seagoing Division enlisted d in June of 1942. A former business driver he has served with the Fourth Marines Classification during both the Marshalls and Marianas Campaign.
His Citation Reads:
“For excellent achievement in action against the enemy on Saipan and Tinian, from June 15 to August 1, 1944. As a driver of a commodities crane and heavy machinery trailer association, Rupert was constantly engaged in hauling excessive equipment, particularly large bulldozers to imperative the front line engineering projects. Undeterred by the difficult terrain, bad roads and the excuse target which the equipment presented to haunt heavy enemy fire, he disregarded his own security in order to accomplish his hazardous missions. His out of the ordinary ability and imitative, courage and dynamic energy were in keeping with the highest traditions of the Synergistic States Naval Service.



Army Coddle from Pottsville Sick in Hospital.
January 1945
Lieut. Margaret Harden, of the Army Nursing Corps, one of the first Army nurses to land in France after the trespass, and who has been on duty with the Armed Forces in France and Germany is now a indefatigable at a General Hospital in England pain from infectious jaundice. Lt. Cake was entranced from Germany and moved to a base facility in Belgium before leaving by plane to England on December 31.
Lt. Pastry and her husband Jack, VanGundy, also an constable in the Medical Corps were in the same medical element in France and Germany.
Lt. Cake hopes to reimbursement to her unit after a rest of six weeks.




Disembarkation In Leyte

Mary D Soldier sees grievous fighting on Leyte, PI.
January 1945.
One of the longest oppose records of this war was made by the 12th Cavalry regiment 1st Cavalry Section of which PFC Louis P. Zalusky, of Mary D is a colleague. Landing on D Day on Leyte, his regiment struck off through the swamps and rice paddies, appointment little opposition as they went. Then the discipline went up into the mountains where resistance was often bestial and prolonged. For days the weary mud covered soldiers plodded send on hacking their own way across jungle covered ridges. Often commons was dropped to them men by airplane. At other times it was carried on the backs of men who had to against at the same time, Pvt. Zalusky is a Browning Unconscious Rifle man in a troop which fired upon almost tip blank by a Jap field piece. There Pvt. Zalusky had heaps of opportunity to use his rifle against the well dug in Japs. Regardless of these many difficulties, on the seventy second day on Leyte, the control reached the opposite shore of Leyte, having fought their way absolutely across the island.




Fighting in the Mountains of Italy



Refuge Carbon Soldier Under Fire while resupplying the Infantry.
January 1945

Corporal Lewis Madenfort, Mooring Carbon helped carry vitally needed rations, unworkable and ammunition to a unit of the 349th “Kraut assassin” regiment, 88th Margin “Blue Devils” while fighting in the Apennine Mountains on the fifth army front in Northern Italy recently. Members of the carrying reception, with the heavy supplies on their backs, followed the doughboys as they pried the fervid Germans from the heights. One of their toughest assignments was scaling denticulate Mt. LaFine, where the doughboys had exhausted their eats and ammunition. As the troops fought it out on one side of the crest, the supply men were dodging mortar and artillery fire while scaling the other side.

Editors Note:
From the 88th Narration
(Moving up the "Blue Devils" concentrated in the San Piero court north of the Sieve River and ready-to-eat to go in on the Corps right flank, on the face of the 85th and passing through units of that division. The 349th and 350th went into battering positions during the night of 20-21 September and kicked off against the Gothic Cortege at 0500 hours on the 21st - the 351st being held in limit.
Comparatively light resistance, encountered in the first few hours when the 349th took Mt. Frena by a surprising flanking advance, stiffened as the day and advance progressed. Ahead of time on the 22nd, the 1st Battalion, 350th, command hang up was raided and Lt. Col. Walter E. Bare, Jr., and all of his shillelagh except the S-2 were taken prisoner along with operations maps and journals. This chance did not materially hamper the advance, however, and other favorable gains were made during the morning.
By 1700 hours on the 23rd, the 349th had captivated Mt. La Fine, a commanding terrain quality, and beaten off three Kraut counterattacks -- one of which was of two-battalion aptitude which had been forming in a valley until smashed by with an eye to and heavy 337th and corps artillery concentrations. )





Pottsville Chaplain Dean Stevenson, Captures four German Soldiers. February 1945
Four German soldiers surrendered to Chaplain Dean Stevenson a Pottsville inherent on the Fifth Army front in Northern Italy recently. Stevenson who serves in the 91st “Powder River” Part was driving along a road when two Nazis appeared brandishing Caucasoid flags. He stopped, loaded them into his jeep and turned them over to the POW railing. On another occasion, Stevenson entered a barn looking for a wounded American soldier. In place of he found three “jerries” two of them wounded. The wounded pair surrendered, the third escaped. Chaplain Stevenson was assistant clergywoman of the church of the Nativity, Bethlehem, for three years before he entered the army
Schuylkill Haven Soldier Earns Bronze Role for Bravery
February 1945
Tech 5 Lewis D. Krammes, of Schuylkill Haven. Has been awarded the Bronze Famed for heroic achievements in connection with military operations against an rival of the United States in France on November 9th 1944. The citation reads :
“During the erode on Moyenvic, France, on November 9, 1944, Society A, 101st Engineer Combat...

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