![]() ![]() Some members of the 3820th were recruited by Graves Registration to assist in burying the bodies of dead Americans in temporary graves. The shelling from the Germans, the mangled bodies of American soldiers strewn about the beach as they struggled to clear from the beach and up the shingle. Here's my first addition of a dog tag worn by a soldier with the 3820th Quartermaster Gas Supply Company who landed at the Easy Red sector of Omaha Beach on June 6-7th 1944, in support of the 29th Infantry Division.Īn account of the landing by another member of the 3820th described the carnage he witnessed upon landing. The ship landed troops on D-Day onto Omaha Beach. McDonnell was aboard the USS Henrico in Normandy. Young was in the 44th Field Artillery Battalion, 4th Infantry Division. Began combat in Normandy on July 9.īlakeman was in Company K, 325th GIR, 82nd Airborne Division. Mashlonik was a tank commander of an M4 Sherman tank in Company E, 33rd Armored Battalion, 3rd Armored Division. Began combat in Normandy hedgerows on July 11. Jumped on D-Day and was later wounded in Normandy.Įrwin was in Company E, 2nd Battalion, 134th Infantry Regiment, 35th Infantry Division. Henderson was in Headquarters Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th PIR, 101st Airborne Division. Received a Silver Star in Normandy on July 7. Landed by glider on D+1.įurrer was the commander of Company G, 117th Infantry, 30th Infantry Division. Rooskes was in Headquarters Company, 325th GIR, 82nd Airborne Division. Landed at Easy Red on Omaha Beach on D-Day. Hemple was in Headquarters Company, 16th Infantry, 1st Infantry Division. He jumped into Normandy on D-Day and fought there until mid-July. He landed on D+2 and fought in the hedgerows in Normandy until being captured July 7.īeach was in Company G, 508th PIR, 82nd Airborne Division. Shipp was in the 357th Infantry Regiment, 90th Infantry Division. M/SGT Gallant was in headquarters battery, 47th Field Artillery Battalion and landed after D-Day in June, fighting during the Normandy breakout. Since we already did Iwo related dog tags, I thought it would be interesting to post some dog tags related to the Normandy invasion. ![]()
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