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Marion J Chard
Proud Daughter of Walter 'Monday' Poniedzialek
540th Combat Engineer - H&S Company
I found a book at my local library last year that listed all the MOH winners of WWII and short stories about them with a photo.
I think it was called "Heros of WWII".
Brooke
God bless those heroes who suffered and died, for plain folks, like you and me.
War is a crime. Ask the infantry and ask the dead.
I found a book at my local library last year that listed all the MOH winners of WWII and short stories about them with a photo.
I think it was called "Heros of WWII".
Brooke
A couple years ago I saw an auction on ebay for the names and addresses of over 300 War Heroes, including many MOH winners. I instinctively bid on it and won. Long before it ever arrived I began to ask myself why the hell did I do this??? Still don't have a good reason, but I only used this list one time, and that was to express my gratitude to one of the men who destroyed the guns of Point Du Hoc on D-Day, then-sergeant Leonard Lomell, of the 2nd Ranger Btln. Since that one time I am glad to say that I've never used the list again or showed it to anyone else. BTW Brooke...all this has absoloutely nothing to do with your original post, other than to remind me of one of my impulsive acts 
From that point on I decided to read about these guys like you are doing instead of bugging them at home, just to satisfy my curiosity. 
Dogdaddy 1
Oh my, Jim. I think I would have done the same thing and got that list just like you did, even if I never done a thing with it but protect them from some wierdo who may have gotten it who would have harassed them. Ah, I know I've said this before, but if we lived closer.... I'd be at your house everyday.
I think I would have had to write John Finn, though. He's amazing and still going at 95.
I saw Leonard Lommell on the History Channel a few days ago. Were you aware that there is a Point du Hoc veteran registered on WBG? He's only posted a few times and I've pm'ed with him a couple times. He did report that he was going to be extremely busy and unable to participate on the forum until about March or April of this year. I sent him a pm a few days ago and haven't gotten a response yet, it usually takes him a few days to respond.
Brooke
God bless those heroes who suffered and died, for plain folks, like you and me.
War is a crime. Ask the infantry and ask the dead.
Hello Brooke,
No, I was not aware of that (Point Du Hoc Vet here) but that is wonderful news! The WWII veterans on Marion's site make it the best of it's kind in my book . I actually received 2 letters from Mr. Lomell, one of which I have framed, and it is displayed proudly in my tiny "WWII Room." BTW...I met with my cousin Dan last night, who's Dad (my Uncle Rusty) was a tank sergeant in the 691rst Tank Destroyer Battalion. I am sending you a pic of Rusty and crew on the tank (in Germany).
Take Care,
Jim
ps- Rusty (Sgt. Wells) is the one directly beneath the barrel, in helmet.
Dogdaddy 1
Looks like some proud tankers there!
Jim: Tried to clean the photo up a bit. See whatcha think.
Marion J Chard
Proud Daughter of Walter 'Monday' Poniedzialek
540th Combat Engineer - H&S Company
Dogdaddy: Damn it, that pic you posted was so typical of the dirty, smellly, hungry,
tired typical combat soldier. Were we EVER that young. I will bet the farm that that pic was taken with a "liberated" camera that still had some film in it, then the camera thrown away and the film kept till a time came to get it developed. This seemed to be a S.O.P. back then. That pic reminds me so much of one of the few taken of me/us during ww2. Enclosing photo of some smelly, dirty G.I.s taken in Germany. Me on the left.
Even the expressions of the faces are similar.
Keep 'em coming...You dogfaces all look alike to me 
I'll bet you have one similar to this one too... Notice the "racoon eyes" on Rusty (far right) from wearing tanker's goggles. That ain't Rootbeer in those jugs either...
Dogdaddy 1
Sgt. Wells dogtags,stripes and the bronze star he won in 1944. During a heavy enemy shelling Rusty left the comparative safety of his own foxhole to assist one of his men who was wounded before he reached his foxhole. This involved crawling 100 yds. under artillary and mortar fire to reach the wounded soldier, who he covered with his own body, protecting the man from shrapnel. After the wounded man regained his strength Rusty assisted him back to safety. Rusty stood tall at 5'5", and was loved by all that knew him. He passed away on March 3,2006 at the age of 88.
Dogdaddy 1
Hello Brooke,No, I was not aware of that (Point Du Hoc Vet here) but that is wonderful news!
He's not here, but on www.wildbillguarnere.com.
God bless those heroes who suffered and died, for plain folks, like you and me.
War is a crime. Ask the infantry and ask the dead.
Joe, you handsome devil, you! Such young and handsome men.
Jim, the fellow in the middle of the photo with the different hat, wonder what the story is there?
Brooke
God bless those heroes who suffered and died, for plain folks, like you and me.
War is a crime. Ask the infantry and ask the dead.
I love it every time a new photo appears on our forum. Thanks to all for the time and effort.
I have another great photo that was sent to me this weekend, but I will place it elsewhere, don't want to get too far off the MOH topic. I wouldn't get any brownie points as a moderator!
The new photo will be under WWII Engineers. If this doesn't get you laughing and grinning, then nothin' will this morning.
Marion J Chard
Proud Daughter of Walter 'Monday' Poniedzialek
540th Combat Engineer - H&S Company
The 3rd Inf. Div. (ETO) had 39 MOH's awarded to its members in WW 2. The history
of each is in the "History of the Third Infantry Division in WW 2" book. The 3rd Inf.
Div. also had the highest number of battle casualies of any U.S. Division in WW 2.
The numbers Marion posted from "Order of Battle" seems to agree with the figures
in its own History. In fact it shows all figures for each major campaign/battle area,
by dates (from - to) with battle and non battle casualies and R.T.U.' s and replacements. Only thing not showing was Div. size each time which should have
been aprox. 15,000 but usually around 12, 000 or less, due to a lack of casualty replacements..
I don't have those two books,maybe someone ca find them in U.S, or maybe,Canada
Robert Hargis, Starr Sinton, Ramiro Bujeiro (Illustrator),
"World War II Medal of Honor Recipients (1) Navy & USMC (Elite 92)"
Osprey Publishing | ISBN 1841766135 | 2003 Year
Starr Sinton, Robert Hargis, Ramiro Bujeiro (Illustrator),
"World War II Medal of Honor Recipients: Army & Air Corps (Elite 95)"
Osprey Publishing | ISBN 1841766143 | 2003 Year
and this one
