Picture below is from winter training maneuvers prior to deployment after D-day invasion.
Pine Camp, NY
These are the things/people penned onto my Dad's war trophy Nazi flag.
Mg Sqd 3d PLAT --- not sure this is very faint
1. Leo Fowler – Lisbon Ohio * Leo Fowler
2. Gerald H. Petersen – 1013 California Ave. Butte, Montana Gerald H Petersen *
3. Ralph D Olson – Effie, Minnesota * Ralph Olson
4. Edward Swieca – Groton, Mass. * Edward Swieca
1 st Rifle Squad
1. Anthony J Ritch – Penna. Anthony J Ritch
2. Scotty Schofield – Syracuse, N.Y.
3. Pat Flaherty – 257 E St. So. Boston, Mass. Pat Flaherty
5. Larry Steubing – N.Y. **
6. Arthur Goquen – Mass.
7. Charles Harrison – W. Va. Charles Harrison ? ***
8. Glen Byrd – Moiss Point, Miss. (Perhaps Moss Point?) ****
9. Vincent T. Stolarczyk
10. Grover Peffers – Geneva, N.Y. Grover H. Peffers
11. Anthony J. Dispoto – Lodi, N.J. Anthony J. Dispoto Sr.
12. Cecil L. Bryant – Fort Worth, Texas Cecil Lee Bryant
Co A. 41st Armd. Inf ^
Machine Gun 5AD |
\_ findagrave.com
memorial links
* I am adding the ones in findagrave.com to wikitree.com
with some notes/link to this page in hopes of contacting
relatives of these heroes for my late dad.
** There are two Larry A. Steubing's that can be found here: Nationwide Gravesite Locator (NGL) part of the VA
Both of these gentlemen were born after WW2 ended, they may or may NOT be sons of this Mr. Steubing. Both seem to have served our country one in Vietnam the other apparently in the Persian Gulf and both are interred at Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery.
*** In addition to this findagrave.com link above. I searched NGL and found 234 Charles Harrison's who have proudly served our country and are interred in national cemeteries! Many of those 234 served in the WW2 time frame. Apparently that particular name is second only to John Smith?
**** There is a Glen Elbert Byrd who served as a PFC in WW2 buried at the Florida National Cemetery. I don't have a way of confirming if this is him or not. There are three other Glen Byrd's in the NGL but none of them fit the Army WW2 specs.
Late in life, my dad wondered what became of all these men that rode in his halftrack after the war ended. I've now linked all that I could find on findagrave.com to this page and placed links (via virtual flowers on all their memorial pages) to this page in hopes of finding out more about them and their lives since the service in WW2. I also searched NGL (see additional asterisk denoted items above) for possible interments in national cemeteries (3/2/2024). Some of those links above are missing and some may be inaccurate but most seem to be pretty reliable. The others may still be living or just haven't been added to findagrave at this point (6/9/2020). The odds of any being still living is diminishing here now as I write this (3/2/2024).
Leave comments below if you know any information about any of the above individuals or even unit information that I may be unaware of.
Thanks to all these brave soldiers for saving the world from the tyranny of the axis powers.
If you liked this page you might also like this: Link to my father-in-law's tribute page
