New Member helping a 407th AAA Gun Bn vet

Greeting to all you heros. My name is Duane and I am attemtping to help a Simon Lurie-87 yrs old- who is trying to locate any information on his 74 New Haven, CT. boys that he served with in the 407th AAA Gun Bn. WWII. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Even though I just turned 48 years old on Feb. 8th, my dad served in the Navy and I served as an officer in our towns VFW Auxiliary for 6 years to honor you military heros. Any help would be greatly appreciated> I am looking for the 407th AAA Gun Bn. roster from 1944. My email is Bloodhound62 at comcast.netand my home office # is 1-800-730-9984. Thanks to you all.

spGuerre- greetings. I am trying to help a Simon Lurie of the 407th AAA Gun Bn-WWII- locate his brothers in arms. Your grandfather may have served with Simon Lurie and his info would be greatly appreciated. My email is bloodhound62 at comcast.net and I thank you for your attention. Duane.

Smokey-your uncles geralds last name would be very helpful. I am assisting a Simon Lurie of the 407th AAA Gun Bn WWII in locating his brothers in arms from the New Haven, CT. area. He has contact with only 2 other surviving members and is looking for more. I did find that a Frank Watson- Pfc- passed away in 1954. My email is bloodhound62@comcast.net Thank you in advance.

I am trying to help a Mr. Simon Lurie- 87 yrs old- from Hamden (New Haven area) CT. find any surviving members of his unit. He fought in the Battle of the Bulge. My email is bloodhound62@comcast.net and any assistance would be very much appreciated. My name is Duane and I thank you......

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welcome duane, sure someone will point you in the right direction...

 

another link to that thread.. 407th AAA BN - World War II Forums
Not much in Stanton's book on the 407th AAA Gun Battalion (Semimobile) Formed 10 Jan 1943 Camp Haan, Cal. Departed US 27 Feb 1944 from Boston ...
www.ww2f.com › General Discussion › Information Requests

 

Not sure if this helps - I have a book written by Robert J. Katz - THE BUZZ BOMB KINGS - A HISTORY OF THE 407TH AAA BUN BATTALION - COMMANDED BY LT. COL. CLEO E. COLES -
DAYTIME PHONE - 914-941-4018
ASK FOR LEE

 

SIMON LURIE - RADAR CREWMAN - 27 GREENWOOD ST, NEW HAVEN CT - IS LISTED IN THE ROLE CALL AS A PRIVATE FIRST CLASS - THIS IS IN THE BACK OF THE BOOK

 

My Father in law is Ewald Hessinger C Battery 407th AAA Gun BN (SM)

 

for those that have facebook access I have a pic of my father in law and a neat picture that was painted on a k ration box by a german pow depicting the 407th

 

Dad still has his ww2 uniform and the jacket still fit him like a glove!

 

can you post the pics on here?

 

Ill try-i think i will have to take pics with my camera and get them on my puter then try to post. My wife tookthe pics with her I phone but they are on her laptop. Dad has some sort of a,for lack of a better word ,"yearbook" about the 407th. He cant find it however. Damn, we visited with him today and I forgot to bring the camera! Im sure he will pose in his uniform jacket for me or at least I can get a pic of the uniform.

 

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let me see if i can do this---if it comes through its a pic on some of the men of the b65th Combat Engineer BN C Company Xmas day 1942 on Guadalcanal My dad ssgt Reed Buchanan is kneeling first on the left. not 407yh stuff...just a test View attachment 17283

 

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with the help of the lovely Mrs B ........here is SGT Ewald Hessinger C Battery 407th AAA Gun BN (SM) Dad was from new haven ct. he was a furniture maker/re-finisher a skill he and his brothers learned from their father a german immigrant. They ran their own business for years and Dad worked up to age 86 when he closed his shop. The picture above this one was painted on the wood top of a k ration box by a german pow. the ship is the ship that the 407th came to europe on. under the buzz bomb is the number 94, the number of confirmed v1 buzz bomb kills by Charlie Battery 407th AAA Gun BN I belive that Dad said the 407th had 200 confirmed buzz bomb kills

 

Great Photos !! Christmas Day on Guadalcanal...

Give him a big handshake from me. We sure would like to hear more about him.

 

Thanks Steve Well sadly Dad, my best friend and Hero passed in 2005 at age 88. He was in the Army from 1935 to 1956 and retired as a 1st SGT. He was in a chow line at Schofield BKS Hawaii at 0755hrs 7 Dec 1941 when the attacking planes straffed the guys waiting to get breakfast and he (with many others of course) returned small arms fire upon the attackers. he then fought in Guadalcanal and the northern solomans. I have many of his pics from the war that he either sent home or brought home with him

 

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Welcome, KMB57

Thank you for sharing the photos and reviving a number of interesting threads. I hope you start a new thread on your father's service. Pre-war soldier stories are rare.