help with fathers discharge papers

Hi
I am trying to decifer my father's discharge papers and I have no idea where to look!
here is the information and maybe someone can tell me atleast what unit my dad was in.........thank you in advance.........

4. arm or service- CAV
5. component- AUS
6. organization- 1st RCN TROOP
32. battles and campaigns- ARDENNES RHINELAND GO 33 WD 45 AS AMENDED
33. decorations and citations- WOLD WAR II VICTORY MEDAL, PURPLE HEART GO 20 HQ 52ND GH 3 APRIL 45, GOOD CONDUT MEDAL, ARMY OF OCCUPATION MEDAL, EUROPEAN, AFRICAN MIDDLE EASTERN CAMPAIGN MEDAL
34. wounds received in action -ETO 2O MARCH 45
40. reasons and authority for seperation- CONV OF THE GOVT AR 615 365 15 DEC 44 RR 1-1 DEMOBALIZATION
55. remarks- LABEL BUTTON ISSUED 95 DAYS LOST UNDER AW 107 ASR SCORE 2 SEP 45 9


thank you to anyone who can help me with getting information or translating this for me

 

If anyone can help and translate this for me! lol......what unit was he in, campaigns he was in? etc. I have no idea what I am looking at and searching on the internet didn't help. I do know he was at Rhineland where he was wounded.......
thank you in advance
Gail

 

Hi again

To start with he was a radio operator in a cavalry reconnaissance troop (1st) although I haven't figured out which formation that was attached to yet, most infantry divisions had an independent cavalry recon troop attached as divisional resources (don't worry we'll get there)

When he was wounded he was treated in the 52nd General Hospital

More will come

 

If you want to see what a Mechanised Cavalry recon Troop was all about, have a look here;

1st US Volunteer Cavalry - Mechanized Cavalry Troop (1944)

and I think I've found his unit;

from;

Cavalry Histories

"32d Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron, Mechanized

Designated 27th Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron 14 March 1942, absorbed 1st Cavalry Troop (Sep) 1 April 1942. Conducted reconnaissance in Canal Zone and Panama. Attached to 4th Cavalry in Texas in September 1943, reorganized on 1 November 1943, redesignated 32d Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron, Mechanized, on 1 December 1943. Arrived in UK 3 September 1944, disembarked across Omaha Beach 27 September. Committed to action attached to 83d Infantry Division 24 October in vicinity Basse-Kontz. Assigned 14th Cavalry Group 10 November, moved to Luxembourg 15 November, operated along Our River. Shifted to Belgium 15 December, hit by German Ardennes offensive. Reorganized and re-equipped in January 1945, returned to Belgium 28 January where attached to 82d Airborne Division. Drove to Rhine by 8 March, secured Remagen crossing beginning 12 March. Troop C provided communications across II Corps front beginning 27 March. Advanced to Lahn River attached to 9th Infantry Division. Transferred to Third Army 19 April, deployed to Fürth. Reconnoitered 42d Infantry Division advance to Danube, crossed river 29 April. Mopped up near Landshut in early May, ceased offensive operations 3 May."

So assuming that info is correct;

(almost certain, but 1st Recon Troop (Cavalry) and 1st Cavalry Troop (Recon) might possibly not be the same thing) (where they served fits)

He was attached to a lot of different formations, so to get his whole story you will need to do a lot of reading! I'll start looking for stuff a little later

Hope this helps so far

 

Ah - Lou and I have conflicting info we must confer, sorry Gail

I think Lou has it right, ignore my last post

 

Thank you gentlemen for all your help. I am really appreciate it. My son in law is 2ng Lt. US Army stationed in Iraq out of Ft. Stewart GA and my daughter is expecting a baby any day, he will be coming home for r & r for the baby for 2 weeks then go back and with my father in failing health, I would like to give my son in law my fathers purple heart so having some information to go with it is going to be great. This journey is bitter sweet knowing Dad will be gone soon and a new baby will be born almost at the same time.
So thank you very much .........
Gail

 

Gail, I don't want to upset you for saying this, and please forgive me if I do, but I for one would like to see your father's memory honored here on the site when the hard time finally comes.

So when the inevitable finally happens, please feel free to give an announcement of it to our roll of honor and memories thread:

Roll of Honor & Memories - WWII Obituaries - World War II Forums

We have the deepest respect for these great Americans here, and we wish you and your family all the best.

God Bless!

 

Thank you Gentlemen for your help! This is very exciting for me.

-Darren- It would be an honor, thank you Sir for your kind gesture.

Everyone has been so helpful, as you can imagine, this is a very difficult time in my life, although my father was an American hero, he was always my personal hero.
Gail

 

Lou,
Sir, where would I file to get his medals and ribbons? I do have his purple heart but haven't been able to find any of the other ones.
Gail

 

Gentlemen,
Yesterday there was a strange twist of fate and not for the best. My ex husbands wife had taken a horrible fall down a flight of stairs causing her many severe, life threatening injuries, including brain hemorraging and all her ribs, pervis and 3 vertibra in her neck and back broken. She had brain surgery yesterday morning to releave the swelling. As not the usual case, she and I got along great since she was married to my ex for 30 years now, and my children always called her mom.
Today I called my father in hospice, I am 3000 miles away from where he lives and could not get out there due to my own disability and finances...anyway, my dad has been non responsive for 4 days now and not eating at all. My last phone call to him was about 2 hours ago. I told him that it was his time to go home. That all my uncles were waiting for him to go on a huge fishing trip(my dad loved fishing). And I told him that if God had an empty chair in heaven that had to be filled, it was his time to go not Melinda's. That when he gets there, to look down on her, Frank in Iraq, the new baby coming, the rest of the grand children and great grand children and me.
My father passed at 11:44 pm eastern time, 10/15/10.
I am the proud daughter of Salvatore Lombardo. He will live in the middle of my heart and his spirit shall shine in the great grandbabies Justin, Ashley, Abigail, Anabelle(due 10/29) and the new unborn one due May 1, 2011.......
I love you Daddy........

 

My condolences go out to you and your loved ones.

 

Sorry to hear that Gail - i hope we can do his story proud here