Winter - 70th Infantry Division Association

Seems LikeOld Timesent from our training exercises? What doyou think?Speaking of pictures: *Our printer cannot use colored Polaroids. So please don' t send 'em to me.And any 1940-vintage photos can't beused if they have:I. Any traces of brown color in them;2. Are the least bit fuzzy in focus; or3. Have faces smaller than the size of adime.I know how much these pictures aretreasured by you. I know how much pleasureit would give you to see them in themagazine. So it makes me feel like an ogrewhen I have to tell you " Sorry, can't usethis."Please-just don't send them to me!The people of Stiring-Wendel * in Francehave been awarded the Croix de Guerre.Some of our members have been in correspondencewith the mayor of that city.There have been suggestions that Stiring­Wendel might confer honorary citizenshipon the 70th Division for rescuing it fromNazi rule. Several other French cities sohonored have shared that honor with theirAmerican liberators.If we are awarded citizenship, all Trailblazerswould be eligible for the Cross.Kevin Corrigan, U274, is one of the correspondents.So is your editor, me .Last time around, * Claude Schiller(WA9FCM) sent out a call for Trailblazerham radio operators. Thomas (Pat) Patterson,H/274, responds. His call lettersare WSUKY . Claude, C/276, and Pat inviteany other hams to give them a call andsend in their names to ''The Trailblazer.''*Bid farewell to Joseph Colucci,AT/275, who died last year. Jack Horan,D/275 , sends us the belated news. Joe wasawarded a Bronze Star and the PurpleHeart during the January campaign in theVosges. He was wounded by shrapnel. Alittle later, at Baerenthal, he was a tankgunner and destroyed six German tanks.He received another Bronze Star andanother Purple Heart then. We have noexplanation of how he got from anti-tankto tank. Anyone fill us in?4Norman Gauch , Sv/276, and EdApelgren, HQ/274, had a mini-minireunionin Atlanta, Georgia, in August.Each is in the fishing tackle manufacturingbusiness, Norm in New York, Ed in Minnesota.Each had a display at the annualtrade show of their industry. So they wereon a working trip but still found time toswap a few war stories.They had known each other as industrialcolleagues for many years. But they didn'tknow they had served in the same division.This estimable magazine brought themtogether.The two are pleased as can be that theNashville Reunion will be in October sothey can attend. Previously the Reunionhad always conflicted with their tradeshow.An appreciated note * comes from LouiseRichardson , widow of Lt. Gen. JamesRichardson. He died early in 1987 and hisobituary ran in the Fall issue of the magazine.Mrs. Richardson points out an errorthat we repeated from a San Francisconewspaper. The general commanded the25th Division from 1960 through '62.He was G-3 for the Trailblazer duringWW2.*It is little short of amazing how a mancan drop out of memories and records. Forthe 70th History Book--Dn which I havebeen laboring madly the past twomonths-! have been trying to find detailsabout two of our Division commanders:Gen. Allison Barnett and Gen. PeterRodes. (Few of us remember that Rodeswas CO while the Division moved fromAdair to Wood in '44.) The only records Ican find ended in 1945 . Both men are deadand , apparently , so are their widows. I'vetried the obvious sources, the Army HistoricalSection, National Archives, newspaperfiles, etc. No soap. If anyone hasany information about these two men afterWW2, or can suggest sources, please letme know soon.George Kwant, * C/275, died of canceron September 14, 1987. He leaves his wifeIda, who lives in Grand Ledge, Michigan.*Twenty five people from 11274 assembledin Oshkosh, Wisconsin September18-20, 1987 for a mini-reunion.Recently located Clarence "Snuffy"Smith was delighted to renew old acquaintanceshe had not seen since 1945.Help!The post office has returned the last"Trail blazer" sent to the followingmen. If they're in your area, will youtry to track them down by phone andlet us know the correct address? Wehate to lose contact with any 70thman.Edward Kimmle, O'Fallon, Illinois62269;Ovila Lambert, Danielson, Connecticut06239;Eugene Volz, Holland, Pennsylvania18966.Special guests were Delyle and IreneOmholt.Attending were: Vernon & MarieBergstrom, Ron & Jane Garrett, Norm& Ann Grover, Ralph Larson, Ray Ludwick,Byron and Gwen McNeely, Charlieand Jo Munie, Frank ''Bud'' and WimRenning, Jake and Thelma Noll, Joe andMarie Wagner, Jack and Betty Walshand Clarence Smith.A ceremony in memory of HaroldSchindler, a regular participant, whopassed away July 29, was part of the program.*A few copies of Charlie Pence's finebook, "Ordeal in the Vosges," are availablefor $14, postage paid. This is theauthoritative history of the 275th Regiment'sbloody January, 1945 . They maybe ordered from Charlie at 285 FairwayLane, Carolina Trace, Sandford, NorthCarolina 27330. Include your check withyour order. Eugene Peterson is coauthor.While preparing * for a hunting trip, CecilKing, B/725 FA, died of a heart attackin October. He had celebrated his 80thbirthday-making him one of the oldestTrailblazers-and his 60th wedding anniversaryin June.He had retired from Trans World Airlinesin 1972 after 21 years service. EugeneRegan, a battery mate, relays the sadnews.After a colostomy * and suffering osteoarthritis, Charles Link, B/275 is yet ahappy man. He has discovered the Associationafter all these years! He joined the70th at Leonard Wood and was a prisonerof war for five months in Saarbrucken. Heand his wife Lillian live in Gillespie, Illinois.70th Division Assn TRAILBLAZER

Treasurer's ReportAlvin ThomasIt was a small "congregation. " Justthree men and a chaplain, celebrating aCommunion service in an abandonedschool near Forbac, France. But it made atremendous impression on Lowell Campbell, HQ/882 FA. Perhaps that is why helater became an ordained Presbyterianminister and served in parishes in Alaska,Illinois and Colorado where he is nowpastor of Grace Presbyterian Church inLittleton.''I joined the 70th with the very firstfillers at Camp Adair. As I grew up inOregon, I was only 140 miles from home." In our first combat engagement, wewere setting up our surveying instrumentson a hillside in France and immediatelyreceived an incoming shell. The shinybrass legs of our aiming circle provided anexcellent target. We soon remedied that;the legs were covered with dirt."It made me feel good to learn that theinfantrymen were really concerned withour safety when we worked in the forwardarea. They wanted to be sure that we wereproperly dug in ."When the Trailblazers were assignedto different units at the end of the war, Iwent to the 78th Division where mybrother was Finance Officer. When I admittedbeing able to type, they made me apersonnel sergeant. I stayed with the 903rdFA HQ Btty till coming home in the springof '46."He married Betty Fisher in Edgington,Illinois in 1951 . They have three sons, twodaughters and nine grandchildren.Arnold Sherrick, H/274, was one of*the air cadets who were transferred to theTrailblazers when their program washalted. After the war ended he worked fora year as a civilian in Information & Educationin Germany. Back home he workedin several occupations, the last twentyyears as a supervisor and bridge builder forthe state of Ohio.He married Ellie Schornstheimer inHoechst, West Germany, in 1947. Theyhave four sons and two daughters whogave them seven grandchildren. Arnoldand Ellie live in Crooksville, Ohio.Please tell me what * to do:When a member has been dropped fornon-payment of dues and then "reenlists,"should he be listed as a " newmember'' in our quarterly report?And should I run a list of those men whohave dropped their membership? I am reluctantto do so; if they don't want tocontinue their membership, that's theirbusiness. On the other hand, there may besome men who have moved and so neverreceived notice that dues were due. And itmay be that an old buddy can persuade aman to renew his membership.What do you think?And as I ask for * your opinion on that,might as well ask for another.This column has been set in 10-pointtype. This is about II percent larger thanwhat has been used in past issues. Thereare a few stories in this issue still in the oldsize. ow here's the problem: If we use alarger type, obviously we can't get asmuch material in our 16 pages. So what dowe choose? A larger type for easier readingor old type and-in effect-about apage and a half more stories?Floyd Buresh, Sv/275, * "was one of thebest truck drivers in the business", saysMilton Schacter of that company whosent word that Floyd died in August, 1986.His wife Frances had died in 1984. Theylived in Rochester, Minnesota where theirdaughter, Barbara, is a nurse at MayoClinic.Joseph Yeargain, also of Service, sentalong the sad news, too.Eugene Daern, A/270 Engineers,stood his last retreat on September 6,1987. His wife Dottie, of Greensburg,Pennsylvania, told the news. He was 69.*Among Trailblazer "youngsters:" isFrank Kimble, F/276. Born Feb. 10,1926, he rates 24th on the list of youngest'Blazers.''I joined Fox Company as a replacementoutside ofForbach early in 1945. Wewent through Forbach and headed forSaarbrucken. Just outside that city, whilein a foxhole, I was wounded by shrapnelfrom a tree burst. I was taken back toNancy, France, where I stayed till near theend of the war.''Frank lives in Louisville, Kentucky.*~q.-Balance 7-1-87:First Bank of Eureka ..... ......... 0 •••••••••• •••• 0 0 ••••Citizen Saving &loan Association (Eureka) .... ..... . 0 •••••••••• •• •• 0 0 •• •Total Balance ................... . 0•••••• •••••••• 0 0 ••RECEIPTS:Dues-Regular (14@$7) ..... . $ 98(358@$10) ... . 3,580-life (19) .. .. ...... . . . . 1,886 $5,564.00Interest ................. 0Stationery Sales ........ 0Decals ................ . 0Donations ............... .. ...... 0••••• • •• • ••••••o ••••••• o 0 •• • ••••••••••••••••••••0 ••••••858.9974.009.001.50Total Receipts ...... o •••••••••• 0 ••••••••••••• 0 •••••••$ 6,157.0637,493.19$43,650.256,507.49$50,157.74DISBURSEMENTS:Trailblazer Expense .................. .. . 0New History Book Expense ............... 0Trail blazer Seals .. ...................... 0Postage ............................... 0.Flower Expense (F. Moran) ...... 0Supplies Expense ...................... 0Total Disbursements .............. 000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0••$2,029.77100.00387.7771.0749.0014.22• •• •••••• ••••••••••Balance 9-30-87:First Bank of Eureka. . . . . . . . . . $4,397.86Citizen Saving & loan Assn (Eureka):CD Due-12-26-87. . . . . . . . . . $11,101.572-28-88. . . . . . . . . . 21,506.489-30-88. . . . . . . . . . 7,000.001- 6-92 . . . . . . . . . . 3,500.00 43,108.05Total Balance ....................................... .2,651.83$47,505.91Winter, 19885

''~The costlypatrol"This is an order," said Lt. Bussy Holmes."Come into my fox hole, one at a time. Try andwarm up a little (from a tiny Coleman stove)and write a Jetter home." Later he passed thestove from one fox hole to another to give alittle comfort to the 2nd Platoon, Co. C, 275th.It was at Angelsburg on January 6, 1945. Theyhad climbed up from Philippsbourg on a darkand freezing night and arrived early in themorning.Bill Rorabaugh recalls a costly patrol.T/Sgt Sig Rusley was killed at Hill 364 just afew yards from where Sgt. Tom Higley waswounded and evacuated. Rusley was awarded aposthumous Silver Star. Highley remembers:"We had only frozen K rations which wecarried in our pockets for five days. I oftenwondered where our mess was."Here's Rorabaugh's recollection:It was about the 5th (correct) or 6th of January1945, that the scattered remnants of Cregrouped at the end of Philippsbourg (towardNeiderbron) and moved from there up into thehigh mountains to the Angelsburg area. It wasbitterly cold, icy winds and deep snow, and wehad only the clothes on our backs. I had myBAR, a full belt of magazines for it, my entrenchingtool, and a large hunting knife, muchlike a Bowie knife, which my father had hadmade for me. (I still have it.) I believe that wehad a few 10-in-1 rations but no water as Iremember melting snow in Joe Sueltenfuss'canteen cup (mine had a hole in it from either abullet or shrapnel).We had no contact with the enemy sinceleaving Phillippsbourg and after reaching thehigh ground in Angels burg area we dug in. (Mysquad was lucky! We just moved into somevery good 2-man oversize foxholes.) We set updefensive positions. Joe and I shared one andhad the BAR set up, well camouflaged withunderbrush and branches. Once we were dug inand inactive the bitter cold got to us and it waspure misery-nothing to do but let your teethchatter, shiver and shake.We had no contact with the enemy and only a6general idea of where they were; so it wasnecessary to send out a lot of patrols to try todetermine their movements and locate theirpositions. Sig Rusley led a number of thesepatrols and had little trouble getting volunteersas it was a way to get warmed up somewhatrather than freezing in your holes. On oneoccasion he approached Joe and me and 1volunteered as he wanted a BAR to go along forsome firepower. Since we were spread out sothin, (it is the estimate by Major D. C. Spence,275th historian , that the I st Bn, 275th had nomore than 80 to 90 riflemen left in action atAngelsburg!) It was the policy to have one manin each foxhole at all times so Sueltenfuss wasleft behind over his objections.Odd how you remember little things of nosignificance-! recall taking the bi-pod off theBAR and handing it to Joe as I was leaving. Hewas a bow-legged little Texan who never saidanything that didn't start with "yu-all" and hesaid, "Yo-all come back now-Yu hear?' '(Joe died just a few years ago.)It was a 6-man patrol with T/Sgt. Rusley inthe lead, armed with a carbine, four men armedwith M 1-s, and myself with the BAR. (Sig wasone of the few men I ever knew who wasactually very, very accurate with a carbine.)We traveled quite some distance throughmostly wooded terrain, taking advantage of allthe cover we could find , and staying just belowthe crest of the hills . We saw and heardnothing-no sign of the enemy-and subsequentlyturned back, having traversed a largeloop in our search.It was shortly after turning back that wesighted some Germans below us on the sameslope some 70 to 80 yards away. They were justcoming out of the woods into a clearing andfollowing around the contour of the hill-eightmen all together in single file, moving slowlythrough the snow with about 4 to 5 feet betweenthem. They wore the long overcoats and thoseduck-billed field caps and carried those cylindricalcannisters slung as though they were on amarch rather than a patrol. They were blacksilhouettes against the snow. We had droppeddown into the snow when we first sighted themand now Rusley was passing the word down theline that we should open fire when he fired andwork from the ends to the middle of thecolumn. We all took up kneeling positions andwhen Rusley's carbine cracked we all openedup with rapid fire-! was firing the BAR inbursts of 3 and 4 until the magazine was empty.It was over in a matter of seconds and wemoved out on the double and kept going, expectingpossible fire from the woods below usbut all was quiet. We returned to our positionsand reported to the company CP. Rusley waselated. but I had mixed emotions, even thoughwe had evened some scores for those we hadleft behind in Philippsbourg. As near as I canremember that patrol was between the 7th andlOth January 1945.The hills were coldand Angelsburg was darkLife list zoomsAnd still the list lengthens ....Life Members now number 264. Seventeennew Lifers have been enrolled inthe past quarter.While regular membership dues wereset at $10 last year, the Life Membershipfee remains the same, $100. There areadvantages to all concerned. The Liferneedn't remember to keep his dues upto date. The secretary-treasurer needsto do no bookkeeping. The Associationbenefits from the interest on such dues.The newest Life Members, as of November10, 1987, are:Thomas A. Barthelemy, Dayton, Ohio;Robert E. Buhl, New Kensington,Pennsylvania;Paul R. Conwill, Nettleton, Mississippi·Harold I. Hicks, Houston, Texas; 'Calvin L. Jones, Portland, Oregon;James A. Kearley, Nashville, Tennessee;Robert Markland, Holiday, Florida;James D. Meador, Lee's SummitMissouri;'Robert L. Miller, BloomingtonCalifornia;'Robert W. Miller, Freeport, Illinois;Robert L. Mingle, Portland, Oregon;Chester L. Morgan, Hamilton, Ohio;Henry T. Murphy, Yorktown, Texas;John L. Simonetti, Brunswick Ohio·John E. Sims, Donaldsonvill~ Geo~gia·Donald A. Tousignant, Lakeland'Florida and'F. Gerrit Veldman, Lansing, Michigan.If you are a Life Member and yourname has not been announced in the"Trail blazer," please notify the editor atonce.The 70th Division * had more thanone set of twins, despite what the"Trailblazer" magazine said sometime ago. To prove it, we even havea set that has just become Associationmembers.They are Charles and DeanMiller, both of H/27 4 and both ofUhrichsville, Ohio."Reports of my*death are greatlyexaggerated." That's what MarkTwain said and that's what GeorgeHoger says.George, a C/275 veteran, was erroneouslyreported deceased in arecent issue of this magazine.He's not only alive, he's the newmayor of Bull Shoals, Arkansas.70th Division Assn TRAILBLAZER

My mostunforgettable charaderBy ANDY MARTINEZC/274Sgt. Malcolm Ruthven, joined Co. C,274th shortly before the Division leftCamp Adair, Oregon for Ft. LeonardWood in Missouri .He had been stationed at Dutch Harbor,in the Aleutians, when the Japs bombedthat installation. He was no newcomer tobeing on the receiving end of enemyunpleasantness.Sgt. Ruthven , a tall and stalwart manfrom Arkansas, had one shoulder thatlisted to starboard. He claimed that whenhe was a small boy, his father had madehim jump from a high barn roof to provethat he was not afraid, and as a result hadone shoulder lower than the other to showfor it. We never did find out whether hewas spoofing us.Being tall (6'2") he walked with anambling motion , somewhat resemblingthat of a moose. We promptly nicknamedhim "Moose.., A good natured personwho talked with a soft drawl , Moose had akeen sense of humor that kept us howlingwith laughter.Once we entered combat, Sgt. Ruthvenproved himself a good man to havearound. Raised in the backwoods countryof Arkansas, the rifle was like a part ofhim . Hunting game or Germans was all thesame to him. He would say, tongue in hi scheek: " Them deer back home never didshoot back." He was always calm andnever did get excited. He seemed unafraid,or at least always gave that impression,even when the going was rough!A good leader, he took on the dangerousmissions himself. He never asked any manto do anything he wouldn't do himself. Hepreferred to sleep on top of the groundinstead of in his foxhole which he claimedgave him claustrophobia. We secretl ythink that no foxhole was long enough forhim to stretch out in.At Phillipsbourg, Moose used to play agame of cat-and-mouse with a Germanmortar crew. Every morning just beforesunrise, he would brew himself a canteencup of coffee over a small primitive stove,alongside his foxhole. Even though theflame from the stove was very small, theGerman observer could see it in the predawndarkness and would lay in a fewrounds, to keep in practice and to let usknow that they were there. It was always asource of amusement to the rest of ourplatoon, to see the Moose hopping in andout of his foxhole in between mortar8Mooserounds, tending to his coffee and all thewhile directing a steady barrage of choicewords, concerning the ancestry of the enemy,in all directions.During the mopping up at Stiring­Wendel , while directing some of the platoonmembers in the flushing out of theenemy, from cellars and houses, Moosewas wounded in the face by a shot comingfrom one of the cellars. He retained presenceof mind to lob a grenade down thecellar where the shot had come from.Erase those German soldiers from the records!Even under these trying circumstanceshe never lost his sense ofhumor. With a big bandage covering oneeye and half of hi s face, he turned to abuddy of his and said: ''Even with one eyeyou still look uglier than me."Sgt. Ruthven recovered in time to makethe push with us into the fortifications ofthe Siegfried Line, outside Saarbrucken,Eastern Blazers had m1n1-reunion" Our mini-reunion in Worcester, Massachusetts,July 24 and 25 was a success,as it was two years ago. It turned out to bethe hottest weekend we have had all summer.Most everyone arrived on Fridayafternoon and the hospitality room was infull swing from then on,'' reports EdwardCloonan, D/275 and Association Vice­President East." We had a prime-rib dinner on Saturdayevening and then adjourned to thehospitality room for a little more socializing." It was a very congenial group and allare looking forward to Nashville.'' The 55members and wives who attended are:Hugh and Carolyn Andrews, HQ/70;Frank and Adeline Balzano, B/275;George and Ortha Barton, HQ , 2ndBn./275; Francis Bergin, F/274; and Cliffand Louise Brown; F/274; RichardBrown, D/275; Paul and Doris Buehler,L/275; Nathan and Alice Calk, 1stBn ./275 ; Fred and Audrey Cassidy,G/274; Ed and Pat Cloonan, D/275; JoeDutra, L/276; Tom Dickinson, E/274; Iraand Winona Hatch, HQ, 2nd Bn ./274; Tedand Madeline Herman, K/276; Jack andDorothy Horan, D/275 ; Cal and Pat John,G/276; Bill and Fran Kiefriter, Sv.Bn./883 F.A.; Karl and Leora Landstrom,Play Taps for the Moose.Malcolm Ruthven succumbed to meningitisSeptember 11. It was the secondattack of the dread disease. He hadovercome it in 1984 but this time wassick only two days before death.An active and Life Member, he andhis wife Gennie attended every Reunionand made a Return to Europe pilgrimage.A retired driver, he was a nationallyrecognized rifle shooter since1937. He was a certified rifle, pistol andblack-powder instructor.He leaves his wife, Geneva, fivedaughters, 10 grandchildren and agreat-grandchild. He was 66 and livedin North Little Rock, Arkansas.and was one of the first men from the 27 4thinto that bastion of the enemy, leading apatrol on to high ground overlooking thatcity on the 20th of March, 1945.Of such men as Moose Ruthven , werecomposed the forces that brought the enemyto their knees, in Europe and the restof the world, and will continue to do so inthe future. Bless them all.HQ, 3rd Bn./274; Reino and Dorothy Luukko, B/274; Hugh and Blanche Mac­Barron, HQ/70; Robert A. Magay, HQ,I st Bn./275; Harold and Myrtle Pike,L/275; Lee and Dot Miller, D/275; Bernieand Evelyn Morgan , C/276; Ed and JeanSands, F/274; Stan and Shirley Smith,F/274; Hy and Vivian Schorr, H/274; Ottoand Barbara Weigand, L/276; AI andThelma Veronelli, G/275; Will and SylviaWight, L/276, and Ed Zimpfer, F/276.Making bookAnyway you look at itit's still a gambleHy Schorr, H/274, tells us that thepublication of the book " OperationNorthwind" has been snarled in financialtroubles. The original publisher declaredbankruptcy. Reorganization is in theworks. If it succeeds, Stein & Day will putout the book. If not, Crown Publishingmay do so. Meanwhile the paperback editionin England is scheduled forNovember.*And speaking of books: As the author of70th Division Assn TRAILBLAZER

COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES ....This pontoon bridge, thrown across the swollen LuckiamuteRiver by Company B, 270th Engineers, was asuccessful demonstration that the men had mastered abasic skill in basic training.This test was one in a series that the Fourth Armyadministered to the Division as its basic training phaseended.Results were a telling indicator of the superior trainingthat Trail blazers had received. There were 122 excellentratings: 569, satisfactory and only 39 unsatisfactory. Lt.Gen. William Simpson, CO ofthe Fourth Army personallyviewed the tests.two dozen of 'em, I can tell you the publishingbusiness is an incorporated madhouse.Latest example: That wonderfulbook ''The Men of Company K. ''This istruly one of the great accounts of the Infantryin World War II. The initial paperbackrun was 90,000 copies and some 75,000have been sold.So now the geniuses at Bantam BookWinter, 1988have decided to destroy the remainder.Paul Gartenmann, B/275, who runs abook store in Upper Virginia surmises: "Isuppose they want the shelf space for anew book by Jane Fonda." At any rate, ifyou want one, look-fast-on the racks inyour neighborhood drugstore.The hardback edition is still available,at $18.95. Paul has some-and a fewpaperbacks. Order from him at BarcroftBooks, 6349-A Columbia Pike, Bailey'sCrossroadfsm, Virginia 22041.Paul has a friend in London who willsell you "Operation Northwind." Hardback,$32; paperback, $12. That includespostage and handling charges. Send checkto J. A. Brailey, Bookseller; 78 ThorpewoodAve., London, SE26 48Y, England.9

Axe-head Archives"Remember this date, May 8, 1945.THE WAR IS OYER IN EUROPE."That was the message on a huge signhung across the railroad depot as WilliamLundy, 70 Recon , got off the train in Parisfor an R&R leave. Just as memorable butfar from happy is his recollection of thedeath camp at Dachau. He got there a fewdays after its liberation and saw manyvictims who were far beyond medicalhelp. "Bill was a member of the NationalGuard-in the cavalry-and was put in theArmy early in '41. He was sent to OregonState for ASTP training and joined the70th as it was activated. While on campus,he met Ruth Bell. They correspondedwhile he was overseas and she sent cookiesand other goodies. He came home, finishedschool and married her in '47 ." Ruth 's son by a previous marriage becameas close as any son could be and wehave six beautiful granddaughters," hesays.Bill was an engineer for several telephonecompanies for 25 years. The Lundyslive in Pasadena, California.Once a sergeant, * always a .Well, not quite for Elbert Williams,H/276. He wound up as a Chief WarrantOfficer and put in 28 years with the Army.He was top-kick for H when the Divisionwas activated and remembers thebasic trainees coming in. Among themwas DeLyle Omholt, our president. Theol' sarge is having a bit of illness but hehopes to be " back on track" again so hecan attend the '88 Reunion.As the Allies closed * in from the southduring the Battle of the Bulge, JohnBatko, B/884 and H/275 , recorded hismost memorable moment in the service. Afar sadder memory is that of a corporal inhi s outfit-who, ironically , neversmoked , drank or cussed-was killed by abooby trap in a German wine cellar.He also remembers quite happily, beingaboard the USS Mariposa on the high seaswhen word came of the Japanese surrender.John's wife Geraldine died in1983. He has three stepchildren and threegrandkids.The inquiry in * the last issue about"Crash" Campbell stirred a few recollectionsof Arthur J. Smith , HQCo./70. ''There were a lot of stories aboutol' Crash. One day he took a jeep and wentto the front line to ' liberate' some stufffrom some houses. He was shot throughthe leg and put in for the Purple Heart. Butsomeone got the idea of court-martialinghim because he had no orders to go to thefront. I never heard how it came out.Maybe someone does. lt would be interestingto hear."*A union journeyman electrician, hewent into the wholesale electrical businessfor himself in 1953 . Today, age 72, he stillkeeps his hand in the business. He says helikes to " dabble in politics," not as acandidate but as a fund-raiser and in gettingout the vote.He has a son, two daughters and fivegrandchildren. He lives in Houston ,Texas." Would you believe it? The little blackbook that I carried all through my timewith the 70th went through the washingmachine?"That's the lament of Charles Langridge,G/274. But there are a lot of thingsyou don't need a book to remember-andCharlie has many of those. He sailed onthe Liberty Ship, James Whitcomb Rileyand went to Oran, North Africa. Then onto Naples and Leghorn, finally arriving atMarseilles and joining the 70th "sometime before Forbach."''As we got off the truck, a Sgt. Blair,checked us off and warned us, 'This is nodry run! ' I was assigned to a machine guncrew as an ammo man. I was with the firstbunch to cross the Saar River and with theoccupation forces at Rudisheim. 1 transferredto the 3rd Division and returned tothe states in '46."Continued on next pageBURESH, FloydSV Co/275?ied August 8, 1986CERIBELLI, Carl F.2923 Snyder AvenueBrooklyn, NY 11226G/274Died July 28, 1987COLUCCI, JosephAT/275Died in 1986TapsDAERR, Eugene A. LAWRENCE, James C.534% W. Otterman StreetP.O. Box 8542Greensburg, PA 15601Chattanooga, TN 37411A/270A/275Died September 6, 1987 Died March 1987FILISIEWICZ, Zygfryd H.Crystal lake, IllinoisC/274Died December 27, 1985GARSTECKI, HerbertH/274Died April14, 1979.KING, Cecil4551 N.W. High DriveKansas City, MO 64150B/725Died October 13, 1987KWANT, George7 439 Pine Manor, Rt. 4Grand ledge, Ml 48837Died September 14, 1987NICKUM, Robert8896 Marselles Galion RoadMartel, Ohio 43335H/274Died 1978RUTHVEN, Malcolm R.5801 Walnut StreetNorth little Rock, AR 72116C/274Died September 11, 1987SCHINDLER, Harold D.1844 11th AvenueGreen Bay, WI 543041/274Died 1987SMITH, Andrew J., Jr.913 Abbott Street #2AAlbert lea, MN 56007G/274Died August 28, 1987SMITH, John W.3943 N. Claridge StreetPhiladelphia, PA 19124BN HQ/882 FADied June 11, 1987THOMPSON, Francis l.718 Perry StreetHelena, AR 72342K/274Died September 1985WILK, Aloysius J.Chicago, IllinoisU274Died January 29, 1975*No other information available.1070th Division Assn TRAILBLAZER

Let's hear it for theCOOKS!And now let's hear it for the usually unsung guys who made Armylife a mite more comfortable: THE COOKS!Eugene (Moose) Musso, 3rd Bn HQ/275 , who came to the Blazerswith the 91 st cadre, makes some good points. "I believe we had thebest damn kitchen crew in the 70th. Overseas our men were fed two hotmeals a day, no matter where the hell they were. And we did our ownKP!!''There were several occasions when we had to lay down our servingtools and grab our rifles. There isn't much written in your history aboutthe 75th but believe me we were there."We left Boston on the USS United States in early December, 1944and landed in Marseilles, France. We bivouacked in the mud outsidethe city for a couple days. Then we were loaded in 6x6s and headed upthe Rhone River in convoy. We were in St. Etienne, Lyon, Dijon.Strasburg, Nancy , Metz and Bitche. We had a hill of a time there.Snow everywhere and we stuck out like sore thumbs in our ODuniforms. The Krauts wore white and it was hard to see them." There was another town in the Saar area where civilians from ahigh building were calling in Kraut artillery on us. We lost quite a fewvehicles and our field kitchen was wiped out before the signallers wereput out of commission with some rifle grenades.' ' A FTER Spicheren, Saarbrucken and Zweibrueken, we gotinto Koblenz somehow. We liberated a warehouseful ofchampagne and had a ball. My buddy S/Sgt Ray Christiansen(now deceased) and I climbed up the framework to the very top.Boy! What a view! We could see most of the town and where theMoselle River flowed into the Rhine ." From there we wound up in Frankfurt. I don't know if the 275thgets credit for liberating Frankfurt, but the 3rd Bn liberated a winery.What a sight' Dogfaces running down the street with helmets, dundermugsand anything that would hold wine. Best wine lever drank!Shortly after the 275th was pulled off the line and ordered to clean upFrankfurt of any German troops and make it safe so Eisenhower couldJ'et up the SHAEF command there. The regiment was held in reserve to'protect the supreme Allied headquarters; We were in the town ofHofheim am Taunus."Shortly after VE Day I was sent to the States (and then on to Japan ,I suppose.) l was at Camp Lucky Strike (on the English Channel) whenthe A-bomb went off at Hiroshima. Next day l was aboard a Victoryship for Camp Kilmer, New Jersey, where I had a real steak . . . withfresh lettuce!l was flown out to California and given a 30-day furlough fromCamp Beale near Sacramento. This was extended 15 days because the7th US Fleet had landed in San Francisco and was given top priority fortransportation. I was sent to Fort Belvoir, Virginia, then back to Bealewhere I was finally discharged in January, 1946.(Editor's note: Come to think about it , l ate better in Europe than Idid in the states. When l was with a rifle company in the 274th, our firstsergeant and mess sergeant allegedly were selling the best of our rationson the black market down in Corvalis. We often had only jellysandwiches to eat while out on field exercises.WHEN l edited the "Trailblazer" weekly newspaper in Franceand Germany, I was put on detached service with "Stars &Stripes. " There l really ate well. " Stripes" had taken overthe Marshall Foch Hotel and with it acquired a whole French family.They'd take Gl rations to the city market and swap it for fresh food.Mama was the best soup-maker I've ever known. She even whipped upa grits-and-Spam soup that was absolutely ambrosia. (So I join MooseMusso in saluting the good cooks who did their important jobs soadmirably.)"If this is the dessert, what's it doing under the mashedpotatoes?"Another air cadet who was transferredback to the Infantry is Harold Hicks,K/274. He was taken as a POW in thePhillipsbourg battle and held in StalagXII-B. He was freed in May, almost fivemonths later.As a civilian he was general manager ofGulf Oil Corp. for 29 years and vicepresidentof Texas Medical Center for twoyears. He's now retired in Houston. Heand his wife Patricia have four daughtersand a son who is a West Point graduate inthe class of '74. They also have sevengrandchildren.It takes an extra page * to list all the unitsAndrew Tomko, B/884 FA, has servedin. Let's see if we can count 'em up:Start with June 11, 1941 and go to July,1962. Field Artillery Cadre Training12Center; Officers Candidate School; ArmyAir Force Ground Training School, FortSill, Oklahoma; Russian LanguageSchool, Presidio of Monterey, California;Military Intelligence General Headquarters;Counter-Intelligence GeneralHeadquarters; Military IntelligenceGroup, Fort Bragg, North Carolina; MilitaryIntelligence, 7th Army HQ, Germany;U.S. Army Support Group (CIA)Washington, D.C.; Army G-2, US­ACRAPAC (And don't ask us what thatstands for.)He joined the 70th at Adair in May,1944, but also had service in the Africanand Middle East theaters. He also servedin two Occupation forces, Germany andJapan.He was one of only 10 students of allranks who were accepted to the RussianLanguage School and that started his careerin Intelligence after a year of mostconcentrated study. He recalls happilywhen he was doing a project for the CIA inWashington as an intelligence analystwhile his wife was working for the CIA onanother project.He married his teenage sweetheart,Hilda Franks from their home town ofMcKeesport, Pennsylvania, in 1942 inDuncan, Oklahoma. Now retired, theylove back-packing and white-water raftingin Alaska but live in Indian Lake Estates,Florida. They have two daughters andthree grandchildren."Conversion to the * Catholic faith atMarseilles, France" is his most memorableexperience in the military. So saysGuy Beane, HQ/274. He joined the Trailblazersat Adair and was discharged inApril, '46. Seven months later he marriedMary Runge with whom he has a daughter,three sons, II grandchildren and a greatgrandson.In statistical quality control for theFormica Corporation, for which heworked 40 years, he has been active inmany professional associations. He livesin Highland Heights, Kentucky.70th Division Assn TRAILBLAZER

MaiJ CaJJThey volunteered!Lee Miller, D/275, thinks the old 29thCavalry deserves a little recognition oftheir infantry volunteers. Lee headed agroup of 39 and I had 15. Contingents of29th men also went to the 42nd and 63rdDivisions.Gen. Herren (then Col.) issued ourtravel orders. His arrival at Adair immediatelyafter ours was coincidental, I think!But interesting.The 29th Cavalry was a creature of TheCavalry School. With the closing ofOCS,and a winding-down of school activity, wewere going to miss . the boat as a unit.Hence, the "defections" .I "nominate" Lee Miller, a H.M.G.squad leader, as spokesman for the 29thtroopers. Lee was a mechanic in the 29th,being an M8 armored car expert.Of my contingent of volunteers , FrancisBergin, Raymond Hahn and I aremembers of the 70th Assn. Lee may knowof more, including Earl Koontz, F/275, inhis group.Basement or loft?In the Fall TrailBlazer-you ask 'Wereyou a prisoner in the basement of thechurch at Wingen?" My answer: yesand no. I was a prisoner with about fiftyto sixty others in the church-but wasnot aware of any basement. Most of ushuddled in the rear under a balcony orloft so as to provide, in effect, two roofsover us. The day before we were rescuedthe mortar and artillery fire wasintense; in fact the church sustained anumber of direct hits. One shell camethrough a window and exploded upnear the altar wounding me slightly. Thenext day we knew our guys were gettingclose because the artillery fireceased and the rifle and machine gunfire grew in intensity. Some of the prisonerswould from time to time yeii"Nogrenades-GI's in here" and otherswould yeii"Shut up!-the Germans arestill out there." A very tense and nervoustime.William H. BirnieA & P PlatoonHQ, 1st Bn/27 6Winter, 1988After the Portland Reunion, Lee visitedthe museum at the Cavalry School andfound that the 29th Cav. was listed amongthe regiments, but that's all! We infantryvolunteers escaped an indecent buriaLJames H. PendletonHQ 3rd Bn/275Did you know Dad?My father, Charles E. Fuquay, C/725FA, served wi th the 70th in World War II.My wife and I do genealogical researchand thought that maybe some of his oldcomrades might still be active in yourorganization.I do research at the Washington NationalRecords Center (National Archives)on the 725th and also plan to look up oldstill pictures at the main building of theArchives on the 70th. My father is deceasedbut I know he would appreciate anyhelp that you could provide on his service.Please do write.Steven Fuquay5729 Wooden Hawk LaneBurke, Virginia 22015I'm the Tower observerLast week I received a call from HaroldVickory, an Association member innearby Walnut Creek, who wanted to confirmthe fact that I was a former Trailblazerand further, whether I was the mortarobserver referred to in your latest issue.After reading the article, Harold, on ahunch, looked in the telephone book andlo! and behold, there was an Albert Crumli sted. A call determined that it was mynamesake son who, upon questioning,thought I might be the man in question.My son furnished the proper phone numberand as a result I learned about theassociation and the article from Harold.Needless to say, I was dumbfounded! 1was unaware of the Association and delightedto hear the news. I've often wonderedwhat became of Hilman Knapp,Steve Liptak and the others mentioned inyour article. I plan on writing to them soonhoping, perhaps, to arrange a rendezvousof sorts.I am enclosing my check for a lifemembership.Oh yes, I am the mortar observer-anexperience I' ll never forget.AI CrumM/276Seals for saleOrville Ellis recently acquired and sentme 3,000 Trailblazer seals. We will beselling them for 15¢ each.Alvin Thomas, secretary-treasurer203 So. Major StreetEureka, Illinois 61530Who remembers George?I have just recently begun to try to finddetails of my brother' s death in France onJanuary 4 , 1945, while fighting withCompany C of the 275th Regiment.He was Pfc George Mead. The familyassumed, in light of the date of his death,that he was in the Battle of the BelgianBulge. However, through our Congressmanwe learned that three regimentswere shipped out before the 70thDivision-which landed in France onJanuary 18 . So George was with that advancegroup, Task Force Herren.The Center of Military History in Washington,D.C. has suggested that I writeyou. If any of your readers served withGeorge and is willing to engage in correspondencewith me it would be greatlyappreciated.Lorraine Mead27 Bridge StreetGardnerville, New York 10923Reading "Ordeal*in the Vosges," thatfine book by Charlie Pence and GenePeterson, brought back a lot of memoriesfor Merrill Holliday, M/27 5 ."I was supply sergeant forM Companyand spent about a week in and out of thecompany CP in the south side of Phillipsbourg.I had the unhappy job of identifyingLt. Zahora' s body. He had been shotthrough the temple." After things had quieted down a bitthere, a lookout in an upstairs room alertedus to ' a column of Germans marchingnorth on the Phillipsbourg road.' They hadno weapons. They had been cut off fromtheir outfit so they just threw away theirguns and looked for a way to surrender.' '"There was a lieutenant and about 70enlisted men. The lieutenant was so scaredhe was trembling from head to foot. OurCO, Capt. Oliver, ordered me to assemblefive or six other G ls and to march theGermans back to Battalion."Our company clerk, Clyde Wooley,had the great idea of having an M Companyreunion. This time it was in St. Louisin June. We had about 16 men present,twice as many as we started out with. Nowwe' re looking forward to Nashville. "13

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RIDGWAY, King3578 Von Teylingen Dr.Colorado Springs, CO 80917SHOAP, Wolter6128 Greenbriar LoneFayetteville, PA 17222STUVER, Harold660112th Ave. W.Bradenton, FL 34209WAGONER, Bert770 Chestnut St., #23Conneaut, OH 44030RUBIN, Willard1203 W. Crestwood Dr.Peoria, IL 61614SKEEN, John3206 T ropicol DriveBradenton, FL 34208TOUSIGNANT, Donald3803 Old Hwy. 37, Villa 115Lakeland, FL 33813WARD, William6305 Cumberland Pl.Stockton, CA 95209SHERRILL, Wilbur14999 N.E. Lownview CircleAurora, OR 97002STAMEY, G. S.1137 Prospect Ave., S.W.Canton, OH 44706VICKERY, Harold2721 Son Antonio Dr.Walnut Creek, CA 94598Happy .. .Unhappy .. .experience recalledHappy expenence: Joining the 70th.Unhappy expenence: Leaving the 26thDivision.That's how Angelo Pegnato, B/884FA, sums it up. He took his basic artillerytraining at Fort Bragg, North Carolina,served with the 26th and joined the Trailblazersat Leonard Wood.He retired in 1983 from his occupationas an uphosterer for 33 years. You mayhave slept on his handiwork; he madeSerta mattresses.He and his wife Irene have a daughterand a grandchild. For 18 years he wassecretary-treasurer and business agent forhis union local in Pittsburgh.ASTP From cap and gown to helmet and field jacketBy Henry NortonHQ 1st Bn/274 andGale ReadyMedic/274It was in the spring of 1943 that our army life took a distincttum for the better. No longer, it seemed, would we have to slogabout in mud . The Army was sending us back to college,apparently in the hope that the mental acuity presumably indicatedby high AGCT scores could do the Army some good evenif we were slow at stripping down M-1 s and sometimes awkwardin close-order drill.The War Department had high hopes for the Army SpecializedTraining Program, and so did we. We traded barracks lifefor the relative comfort of hastily converted women's dormitoriesat the University of Idaho in Moscow. While we wereadjusting to life without urinals, some coeds were disguising theurinals in former men's dorms with potted geraniums. Situationnormal , all you-know-what.But for 212 universities and colleges, ASTP was a welcomemeans of keeping faculties busy while the draft decimated themale contingent of their normal student bodies. For the Army , itwas a way of honing intellectual skills and shaping them formilitary use. For the 250 or so of us at Moscow and our peerselsewhere-all told , we numbered 135 ,629 at the program'speak in late 1943- it was a welcome and challenging change ofpace.Gale, who already was fluent in German- before the war hehad lived for more than a year with relatives in Germany and hadtaken courses at the University of Hamburg-intensified hisknowledge of that language. Henry ended up studying Russianafter having first been assigned to bone up on psychology, inwhich he had minored in college; when that course wasdropped, he became, briefly, a Spanish student, but the Armyapparentlywith considerable insight-saw a greater need forRussian linguists, although Henry , who nevertheless found theWinter, 1988course informative and also kept in practice as a writer for theASTU 3926 yearbook and its page in the campus newspaper,did not really become one.Gale, on the other hand, later saw a considerable amount ofservice as an interpreter after both of us had ended up inGermany with the 274th--Gale (who had been best man atHenry's wedding shortly before the 70th left Ft. Leonard Wood)in the regimental medics, Henry in 1 BnHqCo and eventually inthe regimental news section.The ASTP, whose concept and teaching methods were thesubjects of dozens of scholarly articles in academic and professionaljournals while it was in existence, was abruptly phasedout early in 1944 when it became evident that World War II washeating up and the Army's need for warm bodies on troopshipsand in combat was more urgent than its need for scholars.We ASTUdes in French, German, Russian and Engineeringat Idaho were formally graduated before we were sent back tothe Infantry. We might have been more disappointed had weknown that one of the original hopes for ASTP was that it mightproduce a pool of brainpower ready for assignment to OCS. Asit was, Gale remained a sergeant, Henry a Pfc. Presumably theIQ average within the Army's enlisted ranks remained a littlehigher than it might have otherwise.Anyway, it was fun while ASTP lasted and we hope Idaho'scoeds and Moscow civilians missed us , even if our marchingsongs were a bit raunchier than they should have been.Wonder what other ASTU alumni within the 70th rememberabout it.ASTP's archival record Army's Center of Military History inWashington is somewhat meager- but the program must haveproduced some rich memories for those who graduated with itsbig Class of '44.Editor's note: AllASTP graduates who were transferred into the70th Division are urged to report to Henry Norton, 1359 N.Broadway, Wichita , Kansas 57214, or to the editor.15

Members approveHistory Book"The Book" has been okayed andwork is well under way!"The Book" is the history of the70th Division which will be given toeach member in good standing whenit is published in late 1988. It is beingwritten and illustrated by Edmund Arnoldand Chester Garstki, editors of"The Trail blazer" magazine as farback as 1943.Balloting has been running about96 percent in favor of the project.Votes will be accepted until January 1but the margin is now so great that allconcerned have begun the project inhigh gear.The only opposition has been mild.Not a single man is against the book;a few, though, believe that somecharge ought to be made. Details willbe announced in the next issue onhow new and re-instated memberswill be able to buy the book at areduced price. Old members will beable to order extra copies at cost.That cost cannot be determined untilthe work is well under way. It mayeven be possible that members will beasked to pay for the postage to deliverthe book. That possibility is veryslim, however.Members were asked in the lastissue of the magazine to send inreminiscences of their Trailblazer experience,both in training and incombat. These should be typewritten,double-spaced, if at all possible.It can't be guaranteed that everyone of these submissions can besqueezed into the book. But any thatdon't get into the book will be publishedin the magazine.Such material should be sent immediatelyto Arnold.NO REST ROOM ...BUT PLENTY OF ROOM TO RESTAh, that precious moment when you can get off thatinfernal truck! Stretch legs! Breathe deep! This picture of aconvoy's rest stop was taken by John Krochka, 1/27 6. (Sowhy is the trailer in the lower left labelled "Sv/27 4"?No details are known of this scene. If you were there,please fill us in. The field jackets indicate that this wastaken during our Oregon stay. Absence of helmets showsthat it was not on a field exercise.K/27 4 holds Michigan reunion" Any history of the war that I couldwrite would only cover about 30 yardsaround my foxhole.'' So writes Bill ColemanK/274. He thinks that most in fa n­trymen would agree. That's why he' slooking forward to the 70th History Bookwhich will give him " the big picture." Orat least a bigger one.Bill and his K buddies had their sixthreun ion in Lansing, Michigan, an oldhome town of mine. ''It cost me two of my'Trailblazer' magazines ," he writes . " Igave them to two new men of CompanyK." We replaced those copies for Bill , ofcourse.If you want to show an old buddy justwhat the Association is doing, there's nobetter way than to send him a copy or twoof the magazine. Matter of fact, it's ourgreatest recruiting tool. Just send yourbuddy's name and address to AI Thomas ,seck-trez, address at foot of page 2. AI willbe happy to mail a sample copy. If anyother K men who are not members of theAssociation would like a look at the magazine,please do send in their names. That Kreunion had 67 people at their big banquet.One of its members, John Whelan, diedjust before that event.I T~AIL?}BLAIEREdmu nd C. A rnold3208 Hawthorne A ve .Richmond . V irg inia 23222INON -PROFITO RGANI ZA TIONU S POST A GETH IRD CLASShJPERM IT - 1310RIC HMON D V A