-
Contributing Member
15-058 Garand Picture of the Day
US soldiers stand with a little boy in Eindhoven, Netherlands - September 1944. The man on the right was later identified, 62 years after the photo was taken by veterans visiting Eindhoven, as 1LT Herbert Viertel, B Company, 1st BN, 506 PIR, 101st Airborne Division."
Information
 |
Warning: This is a relatively older thread
This discussion is older than 360 days. Some information contained in it may no longer be current. |
|
Last edited by Mark in Rochester; 03-03-2015 at 05:45 PM.
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose
There are no great men, only great challenges that ordinary men are forced by circumstances to meet.
-
The Following 8 Members Say Thank You to Mark in Rochester For This Useful Post:
-
03-03-2015 05:42 PM
# ADS
Friends and Sponsors
-
Contributing Member
1LT Herbert R. Viertel was in 2nd Platoon, B Company, 1st BN,
506th PIR. There are a couple of stories about 1LT Herb Viertel on
WWII historian Mark Bando's web page Market-Garden Souvenirs
including his winning $200 as the first B Company Currahee to kill a
German
soldier in Holland; being WIA in Bastogne; and taken prisoner
when the 101st Division hospital near Crossroads 'X' was captured
There is also a mention of him on page 280 of Hell's Highway: Chronicle of the 101st Airborne Division in the Holland ...
By George Koskimaki
Last edited by Mark in Rochester; 03-04-2015 at 01:18 AM.
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose
There are no great men, only great challenges that ordinary men are forced by circumstances to meet.
-
Thank You to Mark in Rochester For This Useful Post:
-
PM
