15-300 Garand Picture of the Day - 5th Rangers D Day
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E Co men in their British LCA ready for the D-Day operation –
back row, from L to R > 1st Sgt Sandy MARTIN Jr (ASN 35201316) and Tec 5 Joseph J. MARKOWITZ (ASN 32534313) –
front row, from L to R > Cpl John B. LOSHAVIO and Pfc Frank E. LOCKWOOD (ASN 32796105)
Sandy Martin Jr.
First Sergeant, U.S. Army
5th Ranger Battalion
Entered the Service From: Kentucky
Service #: 35201316
Date of Death: June 07, 1945
Memorialized:
Tablets of the Missing
Normandy American Cemetery
Colleville-sur-Mer, France
Awards
Bronze Star
Purple Heart
The other three are not listed in US Cemetery ABMC Burials and Memorializations
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Biography of Victor J. "Baseplate" Miller
Sgt., Co. E, 5th Ranger Battalion, U.S.A.
My Life With the Rangers
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It might have been mid-morning when we heard a call that an armored vehicle was approaching. They called for Joey Markowitz. He was our bazooka man, and he had carried his bazooka ashore on D-Day, lugged it ever since all across France and around in Germany, and we had never encountered an armored vehicle before. The men in the vehicle saw the mines and stopped to look. Joey ran over to the area, loaded his bazooka and fired. He apparently hit it, for they called to us that the men in the vehicle had jumped out and ran into the woods! Joey was proud! He went down with the riflemen to inspect his prize. Then, the others went back to their positions but Joey stayed-but too long! The next shout to us was that the German soldiers came back out of the woods, captured Joey, and they all disappeared back into the forest!
