5/18/1945 T/5 CPL George H. Beggs, CPT Raymond Lawrence Battershell, and T/5 CPL Harry Pollack were killed on 18 May 1945. They were assigned to 154th Ordnance (Bomb Disposal) Squad, Fifth Army. The team was investigating an abandoned truck in Italy that was loaded with German munitions when it exploded killing
5/18/1945 T/5 CPL Harry Pollack, CPT Raymond Lawrence Battershell, and T/5 CPL George H. Beggs were killed on 18 May 1945. The team was assigned to 154th Ordnance (Bomb Disposal) Squad, Fifth Army. They were investigating an abandoned truck in Italy that was loaded with German munitions when it exploded killing
5/14/1945 Ensign Charles William Grice, Sr. was born on June 12, 1918, in London Mills, Illinois. He graduated from the Navy’s Bomb Disposal School, class #52, then took assignment to Mobile Explosives Investigation Unit Four. On 3 May 1945, Grice mustered aboard the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CV-6). At the
5/14/1945 John Stanley Parker, Jr. was born in Boston on June 2, 1918. He prepared for college at St. Mark’s School in Southborough, MA and graduated from Harvard in 1941. He was one of 60 in his class to also graduate from the R.O.T.C. Afterwards he attended Tufts Medical School
5/11/1945 Lieutenant Junior Grade Gardner Treible Hutchins was born 28 August 1920 in Severna Park, Maryland. He graduated from the Navy’s Bomb Disposal School, class #18, 23 February 1943. He was then assigned to Mobile Explosives Investigation Unit Four. Hutchins mustered aboard the aircraft carrier USS Bunker Hill (CV-17) on 24
5/7/1945 1LT Earl M. Hamilton was killed on 7 May 1945. 1LT Hamilton was assigned to the 55th Ordnance (Bomb Disposal) Squad, Fifth Army. 1LT Hamilton was killed-in-action during bomb disposal operations in Verona, Italy. *This bio was researched and authored by SGM Mike R.Vining, USA (Retired). Please send any additional
4/27/1945 SGT Homer M. Baer was killed on 27 April 1945. SGT Baer was assigned to the 231st Ordnance Service Platoon (Bomb Disposal) in the European Theater of Operations. SGT Baer was killed while attempting to inert a German hand grenade. SGT Baer was posthumously awarded the Purple Heart Medal. *This
4/20/1945 LT(jg) DV(G) Marvin Winfred Johnson, USNR, was a graduate of Navy Mine Disposal Class #10. He Johnson was assigned to Mobile Explosive Investigation Unit 4 (MEIU-4). LT(jg) Johnson was killed by enemy fire on Ie Shima, Okinawa on 20 April 1945 while assigned temporary duty to Group Pacific 12.
4/19/1945 SGT Roland H. Engwall was killed on 19 April 1945. SGT Engwall was assigned to the 46th Ordnance (Bomb Disposal) Squad, Ninth Air Force stationed at the airfield at Kassel/Rothwestern (R-12), Germany. SGT Engwall was killed during disposal operation of an “abundant supply” of 2-kilogram SD-2 (Sprengbombe Dickwändig or Splinter Bomb-2)
4/18/1945 CPT George Clifford “Clifford” Sarauw, 2LT Arthur J. Zellmer, T/SGT Francis H. Zurn, and T/5 CPL Elmer J. Craddock were killed, and T/5 CPL Raymond J. Rondeau was presumed killed on 18 April 1945. They were assigned to 92nd Ordnance (Bomb Disposal) Squad. They were participating in the assault landing on
4/18/1945 2LT Arthur J. Zellmer, CPT George Clifford “Clifford” Sarauw, T/SGT Francis H. Zurn, and T/5 CPL Elmer J. Craddock were killed, and T/5 CPL Raymond J. Rondeau was presumed killed on 18 April 1945. They were assigned to 92nd Ordnance (Bomb Disposal) Squad. They were participating in the assault landing
4/18/1945 T/SGT Francis H. Zurn, CPT George Clifford “Clifford” Sarauw, 2LT Arthur J. Zellmer, and T/5 CPL Elmer J. Craddock were killed, and T/5 CPL Raymond J. Rondeau was presumed killed on 18 April 1945. They were assigned to 92nd Ordnance (Bomb Disposal) Squad. They were participating in the assault landing
4/18/1945 T/5 CPL Elmer J. Craddock, CPT George Clifford “Clifford” Sarauw, 2LT Arthur J. Zellmer, and T/SGT Francis H. Zurn were killed, and T/5 CPL Raymond J. Rondeau and presumed killed on 18 April 1945. They were assigned to 92nd Ordnance (Bomb Disposal) Squad. They were participating in the assault landing
4/18/1945 T/5 CPL Raymond J. Rondeau was presumed killed, and CPT George Clifford “Clifford” Sarauw, 2LT Arthur J. Zellmer, T/SGT Francis H. Zurn, and T/5 CPL Elmer J. Craddock were killed on 18 April 1945. They were assigned to 92nd Ordnance (Bomb Disposal) Squad. They were participating in the assault landing
4/8/1945 Corporal Clellie Clayton Whited Jr. was born 21 July 1925 in Ravenswood, West Virginia. He enlisted in the Marine Corps Reserve on 9 October 1943 in Charleston, West Virginia and attended Recruit Training at Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, South Carolina. Upon graduation from Recruit Training in April 1944
3/20/1945 T/5 CPL Joseph F. Fedele was killed on 20 March 1945. T/5 CPL Fedele was assigned to 67th Ordnance Bomb Disposal Squad stationed at Verdun, France. The 67th Ordnance Bomb Disposal Squad (Separate) was clearing unexploded bombs near Bar Le Duc, France. T/5 CPL Fedele was killed, LT Joe F. Petit
3/20/1945 T/5 CPL Donald W. Vickers was killed on 20 March 1945. T/5 CPL Vickers was assigned to 50th Ordnance Bomb Disposal Squad. The 50th Ordnance Bomb Disposal Squad was in Braives, Belgium, checking some captured German munitions prior to moving them to a holding area. T/5 CPL Vickers picked up a booby-trapped
3/14/1945 T/SGT Jack B. Duddie was killed on 14 March 1945. T/SGT Duddie was assigned to the 114th Ordnance Bomb Disposal Squad. T/SGT Duddie was killed defuzing a German signal bomb. T/SGT Duddie was posthumously awarded the Purple Heart Medal. *This bio was researched and authored by SGM Mike R.Vining, USA
3/5/1945 CPT Robert Stuart Abbott, Jr. was killed on 5 March 1945. CPT Abbott was assigned to the 127thOrdnance Bomb Disposal Squad. He was killed in an unknown location in France at the age of 33 yrs. Cpt Abbot was from Alexandria, Louisiana and is buried in the Epinal American
3/3/1945 The fourteenth of fifteen children born to Arthur and Lempi Heideman, Lawrence Leopold Lionel came into the world on December 3, 1912. His first exposure to the military was when he enlisted as a private in the Finnish-American Legion on December 26, 1939 (ranking him among the first Americans
