if the Royal Air Force doesn't win the Battle of Britain in 1940....England sues for peace and the Soviets are toast in 1941. No way the Russians...
My dad served in the 5th Infantry Division of the 3rd Army.....he had very mixed feelings about Patton. He told my brother once that Patton would...
Just started Lost Victories by General Erich von Manstein. Anybody know of a good book on the battles of Voronezh and the Korsun-Cherkassy...
That is pretty cool that my dad's division was rated the best! He enlisted in October 1939 and was assigned to the division. I remember him...
Reading my dad's book: The Fifth Infantry Division in the ETO. I came across this letter from General Patton to the troops of the 5th Division....
My mother is a full blooded German.....dad had a quarter German in his blood...so I'm roughly 60% German when it is all said and done. Rest is...
My dad served in the 5th Division, at first in the 46th F/A as a Forward Observer then with the 10th Regiment Co. A. Three things he would tell...
My German great grandfather's brother (my great uncle?) Josef Pröll served at Verdun in the 13th Bavarian Reserve Infantry regiment. He was at...
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I was thinking that also that it was a regiment number but it doesn't match what he said...so I'm confused also. I went ahead and looked up the...
In November they began researching my grand uncle Johann Pröll...so I guess I just have to wait one more year!
Here is a picture of my grand uncle Simon Proll (wish I could figure out how to put the two dots above the o in his last name) he is the one that...
I just reread his Silver Star letter for action in vicinity of Frankfurt....It was dated March 26, 1945....it lists him in Co. A of the 10th...
My mother took me to visit Germany in 1986 to see my German relatives. I met two of my uncles who served in the German army during WW2. They...
LRusso216...we did some major rearranging in the house so I will have to do a search for his discharge papers. His name was Russell Jones. He...
Thanks TD! I will check out these links! I have checked out the Society of the 5th Division some. But the others I haven't so I will have to do...
Hello everyone....my father served in the 5th Division during WW2. He was originally in the 46th F/A serving as a forward observer with the 10th...
Thanks everybody! Slipdigit....no war time photos unfortunately. A couple times he thought he saw himself in photos of the time but he is...
Hi...I'm the son of a WW2 vet that served in the 10th Infantry Regiment in 5th Division. My dad served in North Africa, Normandy, Patton's drive...
