Post by connie on Aug 30, 2012 15:31:45 GMT -5
Floyd,
When you spoke of where you were when you left the 106th and where you were when the A Bomb was dropped, I was surprised. 106thdivision.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=remembering&action=display&thread=731
"The transfer took place past the middle of July at Camp Lucky Strike. By the first week in August 1945 I was in Camp Baltimore, near Rheims, France."
To my knowledge my father was never at Camp Lucky Strike. I was vaguely aware (or believe) many members of the 106th who had been liberated from German POW Camps were processed through that spot before going home. But I know that you were in the 424th and remained with the division throughout the war and that you spent time in Germany before July.
I saw many German towns in Dad's return addresses in July and early August of 1945.
The last place where I know he was still with elements of the 106th was Golhausen Germany on August 6, 1945. From there he got his orders to report to a reinforcement Depot in Marburg Germany, and was there August 8 waiting to be shipped to Antwerp and home. This was planned to be a month's leave followed by assignment to the Pacific. The A Bomb was dropped while he was in transit, thoroughly confusing the planned shipment. But that's another story.
The point is that he was still with elements of the 106th in Germany in early August.
So who all was at Camp Lucky Strike in mid July? Where there a lot of former POW's there when you were there? Were they processing the division through there a little at a time?
I haven't researched this time period in division history yet, but I'm curious.
Anyone else with information/ observations about 106th locations during July/ August of 1944 feel free to chime in too!
Connie
When you spoke of where you were when you left the 106th and where you were when the A Bomb was dropped, I was surprised. 106thdivision.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=remembering&action=display&thread=731
"The transfer took place past the middle of July at Camp Lucky Strike. By the first week in August 1945 I was in Camp Baltimore, near Rheims, France."
To my knowledge my father was never at Camp Lucky Strike. I was vaguely aware (or believe) many members of the 106th who had been liberated from German POW Camps were processed through that spot before going home. But I know that you were in the 424th and remained with the division throughout the war and that you spent time in Germany before July.
I saw many German towns in Dad's return addresses in July and early August of 1945.
The last place where I know he was still with elements of the 106th was Golhausen Germany on August 6, 1945. From there he got his orders to report to a reinforcement Depot in Marburg Germany, and was there August 8 waiting to be shipped to Antwerp and home. This was planned to be a month's leave followed by assignment to the Pacific. The A Bomb was dropped while he was in transit, thoroughly confusing the planned shipment. But that's another story.
The point is that he was still with elements of the 106th in Germany in early August.
So who all was at Camp Lucky Strike in mid July? Where there a lot of former POW's there when you were there? Were they processing the division through there a little at a time?
I haven't researched this time period in division history yet, but I'm curious.
Anyone else with information/ observations about 106th locations during July/ August of 1944 feel free to chime in too!
Connie
