Post by connie on Nov 7, 2015 23:33:04 GMT -5
Setter, Leon J. 422nd 2nd Bn HQ. POW IV-B & Gleina farm village
Leon Setter passed away on July 9, 2014
CUB MAGAZINE MEMORIAM April-July 2015 issue p. 46. 106thinfdivassn.org/CUB/CUB-Vol71%20no2-July2015-web2.pdf
..."Setter was captured on December 19, 1944 during the Battle of the Bulge. As a prisoner of war, he was led into the small village of Schoenburgh and held for a short time in the town’s Catholic Church. He was moved through the German cities of Prum, Mayen and Koblenz before arriving at POW Stalag in Limburg and finally Stalag IV-B. Mr. Setter was eventually selected by his captors for work duty in the small farm village of Gleina, Germany, where he was held until liberation on April 14, 1945. It took three to four months for him to recuperate from his injuries and malnourished condition..."
OBITUARY: obits.dignitymemorial.com/dignity-memorial/obituary.aspx?n=Leon-Setter&lc=2157&pid=171692609&mid=6043564
Leon J. Setter, 89, decorated veteran of WWII and former POW, technical writer at Boeing and Cessna, Boy Scout leader, and volunteer at Robert J. Dole VA Medical Center entered eternal life July 9, 2014...
INDIANA MILITARY SITE:
*Roster notes middle initial and fact that his unit within the 2nd BN was 2nd BN HQ
* # 16 onHandwritten list of Ex POW's that worked @ Arbeit Kommand #1348 at Zeitz & Gleina: www.indianamilitary.org/106ID/Rosters/REFERENCES/101-Arbeit%20Kommand/101.htm
* Detailed Account written by Setter:
"I was an ammo bearer and on December 16, 1944, I was quartered in a wood shack atop the Schnee Eifel in the first belt of pillboxes of the Siegfried Line which had been taken the previous fall..."
www.indianamilitary.org/German%20PW%20Camps/Prisoner%20of%20War/PW%20Camps/Unknown%20Camp/Leon%20Setter/Setter-Leon.pdf
WAR STORIES OF THE BATTLE OF THE BULGE by Michael Green and James D. Brown includes a brief account by Leon Setter: books.google.com/books?id=6QEuiiGYmYgC&pg=PA19&lpg=PA19&dq=Leon+Setter+106th+Infantry+Division&source=bl&ots=qmHfoGj0E7&sig=BFrZ-s3sEyE37geXAtBHfzTOA4E&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CBoQ6AEwAWoVChMIytj3sIeAyQIVU-NjCh33uAhK#v=onepage&q=Leon%20Setter%20106th%20Infantry%20Division&f=false
(one digit error in regiment name in this selection-- says 42nd instead of the correct 422nd)
for discussion and reviews on this book see: 106thdivision.proboards.com/post/3882/thread
BULGE BUGLE NOV. 1991, Newsletter from Veterans of the Battle of the Bulge pp. 9-10 account by Leon Setter: www.veteransofthebattleofthebulge.org/vbob/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/1991-Nov.pdf
same account as found on Indiana Military Site; same unit name error as found in War Stories account (says 42nd instead of 422nd Infantry Regiment)
POW CAMPS THAT HELD MEMBERS OF THE 106TH: See IV B- 106thdivision.proboards.com/thread/255/camps-held-members-106th
Leon Setter passed away on July 9, 2014
CUB MAGAZINE MEMORIAM April-July 2015 issue p. 46. 106thinfdivassn.org/CUB/CUB-Vol71%20no2-July2015-web2.pdf
..."Setter was captured on December 19, 1944 during the Battle of the Bulge. As a prisoner of war, he was led into the small village of Schoenburgh and held for a short time in the town’s Catholic Church. He was moved through the German cities of Prum, Mayen and Koblenz before arriving at POW Stalag in Limburg and finally Stalag IV-B. Mr. Setter was eventually selected by his captors for work duty in the small farm village of Gleina, Germany, where he was held until liberation on April 14, 1945. It took three to four months for him to recuperate from his injuries and malnourished condition..."
OBITUARY: obits.dignitymemorial.com/dignity-memorial/obituary.aspx?n=Leon-Setter&lc=2157&pid=171692609&mid=6043564
Leon J. Setter, 89, decorated veteran of WWII and former POW, technical writer at Boeing and Cessna, Boy Scout leader, and volunteer at Robert J. Dole VA Medical Center entered eternal life July 9, 2014...
INDIANA MILITARY SITE:
*Roster notes middle initial and fact that his unit within the 2nd BN was 2nd BN HQ
* # 16 onHandwritten list of Ex POW's that worked @ Arbeit Kommand #1348 at Zeitz & Gleina: www.indianamilitary.org/106ID/Rosters/REFERENCES/101-Arbeit%20Kommand/101.htm
* Detailed Account written by Setter:
"I was an ammo bearer and on December 16, 1944, I was quartered in a wood shack atop the Schnee Eifel in the first belt of pillboxes of the Siegfried Line which had been taken the previous fall..."
www.indianamilitary.org/German%20PW%20Camps/Prisoner%20of%20War/PW%20Camps/Unknown%20Camp/Leon%20Setter/Setter-Leon.pdf
WAR STORIES OF THE BATTLE OF THE BULGE by Michael Green and James D. Brown includes a brief account by Leon Setter: books.google.com/books?id=6QEuiiGYmYgC&pg=PA19&lpg=PA19&dq=Leon+Setter+106th+Infantry+Division&source=bl&ots=qmHfoGj0E7&sig=BFrZ-s3sEyE37geXAtBHfzTOA4E&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CBoQ6AEwAWoVChMIytj3sIeAyQIVU-NjCh33uAhK#v=onepage&q=Leon%20Setter%20106th%20Infantry%20Division&f=false
(one digit error in regiment name in this selection-- says 42nd instead of the correct 422nd)
for discussion and reviews on this book see: 106thdivision.proboards.com/post/3882/thread
BULGE BUGLE NOV. 1991, Newsletter from Veterans of the Battle of the Bulge pp. 9-10 account by Leon Setter: www.veteransofthebattleofthebulge.org/vbob/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/1991-Nov.pdf
same account as found on Indiana Military Site; same unit name error as found in War Stories account (says 42nd instead of 422nd Infantry Regiment)
POW CAMPS THAT HELD MEMBERS OF THE 106TH: See IV B- 106thdivision.proboards.com/thread/255/camps-held-members-106th