Battle of the Bulge

[Subdeacon Joe]

This da, 1944,  the Battle of the Bulge started: A Salute to the Veterans of the 83rd Infantry Division

Staff Sergeant Joseph "Sonny" Arnaldo of New Bedford, Massachusetts, from Company A, 331st Infantry Regiment, 83rd Infantry Division is photographed after he had just come off the line after 10 successive days of fighting. His hood and face covered with snow, Arnaldo had recovered from temporary blindness when an 88 mounted on a German tank was fired a few yards from him. 

Joseph J. "Sonny" Arnaldo passed away on April 28, 1977, he is buried at the Rural Cemetery, New Bedford, Massachusetts. He was 59 years old. Lest We Forget.

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Original description and photo sourced by US Signal Corps Archive, National World War II Museum, US Army and ancestry.com

 

[Subdeacon Joe]

 Remembering the Veterans

Leonard Russo, of Norwalk, Connecticut, Headquarters Company, Third Battalion, 9th Infantry Regiment during the Battle of the Bulge. After the war Leonard returned to Connecticut. Sadly, he passed in 2000 at the age of 74. He was 18 years-old in this photo. Lest We Forget.

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Original description and photo sourced by US Signal Corps Archive, National World War II Museum and ancestry.com

 

 

[Subdeacon Joe]

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[Warden Callaway]

Dad was in an Engineering Battalion out side of Bastogne when they were told to grab a rifle and throw up a defensive position on the road. Said included cooks and everyone.  I think he said they had one machine gun. Said if Bastogne had fallen,  the Germans would have rolled over them. 

[Subdeacon Joe]

The 76th Anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge: A Salute to the POWs of the 17th Airborne Division

Jack H. Pulliam, of Homer City, Pennsylvania, 
was a paratrooper assigned as a light machine gunner to Company G of the 513th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 17th Airborne Division. Jack was captured  on his 20th birthday during the Battle of the Bulge on January 7th, 1945 in a small village twelve miles outside Bastogne; known as Dead Man’s Ridge. He was sent to Clervaux, then to Prüm. He was wounded at Garolstein, Germany and escaped the Germans on February 7 with fellow POW Ed Summers. During the escape he commandeered a German officer's hat with the eagle removed as pictured below. They reached Prüm on February 9 and went into hiding until the town was taken by the men of the 4th Infantry Division on February 13, 1945. Jack spent two weeks in the hospital  recovering from malnutrition and was unable to return in his unit because of Prisoner of War status. He returned to the US in March and completed his military duty as an automatic weapons instructor at Ft. Benning. At the time of honorable discharge he was promoted to Staff Sergeant. Jack returned to Pennsylvania and sadly passed away on June 19, 1993 at the age of 68. Lest We Forget.

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Original description and photo sourced by US Signal Corps Archive, National World War II Museum, ancestry.com, US Army Archive and portraitsofwar.com

 

 

[Alpo]

Warden Calloway's post reminded me of this.

 

It's from the movie Battleground, which is about the Battle of the Bulge.

 

Dennis the Menace's father, Henry, is in the 101st,

and is wounded and sent back to the town to the hospital. Then the word comes back that everybody that can handle a gun - cooks, bakers, band members, clerks, and walking wounded - get a rifle and go back on the line.

 

So here goes Henry with this huge dressing on his right shoulder, and walking next to him is a guy that's got to be at least 10 years older than him. I think he's a cook. Don't remember for sure. But he tells Henry that the last time he fired a rifle it was a Springfield. "Tell me about this thing."

 

So Henry starts in. "The US rifle, caliber 30 M1, is a shoulder fired eight shot semi-automatic..." And the other guy interrupts him and says, "I don't want to know how to build it. I want to know how to load it."

 

So Henry shows him how the gun works as they're walking back to the line.

[Red Gauntlet , SASS 60619]

A great topic, Joe. My contribution is this man, a state Court of Appeals judge, a Silver Star medalist, who lost a leg to wounds suffered at the Bulge. I was a law clerk in 1973-74 to a fellow judge on that Court who was a Navy vet of the war.

 

Harold J. Petrie:

 

Washington State Courts Washington Courts

 

Illustrates, too, how these men left the war behind and had great careers.

 

 

[Sedalia Dave]

[Capt. R. Hugh Kidnme]

[Subdeacon Joe]

The 76th Anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge: A Salute to the 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion 

 

Paratroopers of the 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion preparing for a patrol, Bande, Belgium, 15 January 1945. Approximately 55,000 troops of the British Army, including the 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion, also participated in the battle.

 

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Original description and photo sourced by The Library and Archives of Canada.