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MessageSujet: 82nd Airborne Officers June 1944   82nd Airborne Officers June 1944 Icon_minitimeJeu 9 Fév 2017 - 16:48

82nd Airborne 505th 3 Battalion I Co. June 1944 England.
My Dad's Officers Group picture taken before D-Day in England 1944.
Front row left to right:
Lt. Shelby Irwin Lt. James Howell Lt. William Brunsman Lt. George Clark
Back row left to right:
Lt. Joseph Meath Lt. Walter Kroenor Capt. Harold Swingler  Lt. Joseph Vandervegt
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Many thanks for your posts gwbman
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"Swede" Swingler is one helluva hero. He was with Regimental HQ company in Sicily. On july 11th 1943 he's walking along Biazzo ridge when he bumps into a bunch of German tanker guys. He throws a grenade at them, killing them all. Next to the bodies he found a huge Tiger I tank of the Herman Goering Panzer Division. The first to be captured by US paratroopers...
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Great !
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My Dad called him "The Square Jawed Swede". He said he was a tough individual and Great Leader. Dad said they were greatly saddened when he was KIA on D-Day. When my Dad took out a German Tank in Sicily, Dad received shrapnel in his back. His Medic dug it out with his knife.
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Swede was in the boxing team... no wonder...
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