Post by connie on Jan 29, 2017 18:15:01 GMT -5
Wilson, Thomas, F., 1st Lt., 424th Infantry Regiment, Company G. Commander, KIA
Post by Great Nephew: 106thdivision.proboards.com/post/4052/thread
Accounts of attack of Company G at Ennal by Floyd Ragsdale: 106thdivision.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=dates&action=display&thread=458
Floyd, who was wounded in this attack, mistakenly came to believe that his Company Commander was killed in this attack.
But the death actually occurred later
again mentioned by Floyd Ragsdale: 106thdivision.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=remembering&action=display&thread=749
Accounts of death at Mendell
*Carl notes error of location in Floyd's account & lists Mendell as actual location: 106thdivision.proboards.com/post/4056/thread
*Links in thread on Milton Schober 424 F give more information: 106thdivision.proboards.com/post/4057/thread
* Schober's Account in Veterans of the Battle of the Bulge Site: www.veteransofthebattleofthebulge.org/2012/06/21/milton-j-schober-106th-id-a-collection-of-memories/
a quote from this account beginning at the end of the 12th paragraph:
"on January 15 “F” Company took Ennal.
After our capture of Ennal, the 30th and 75th Divisions pushed forward and pinched us out of action. For the next ten days we were living in the frigid out-of-doors, but not engaged in combat. On January 25 we moved into an area just west of Hoch Kreuz, the meeting place of the highway and the road into Medell. “F” Company was in reserve and “G” Company was to make the attack on Medell. In the early morning three tanks of the 7th Armored Division came from our rear and moved ahead of us behind a line of evergreens which acted as a screen. When “G” Company commenced the assault the tanks moved out in support and we awaited the results. It must have been several hours when word came back that “G” Company had been hard hit and that “F” Company had to join the attack.
As we moved forward it was disconcerting to see the wounded being carried back. I recognized one as the commanding officer of “G” Company – who was being carried by several German prisoners on a board used as a stretcher, blood coming out of his mouth. He may have already been dead. The snow we were moving through was deep until we came to the plowed roads. As we moved onto the road running into Medell we could see the three Sherman’s tank, more or less immobile, in a field to our left. An anti-tank gun was firing at them and the noise of the shells exploding near me scared the hell out of me as I crouched behind a snow bank offering me cover but no protection."
American Battle Monuments site: www.abmc.gov/node/377225#.WI5xZrGZO88
Buried in Henri Chappelle Cemetery
Service # O-519431
Rank:First Lieutenant, U.S. Army
Unit: 424th Infantry Regiment, 106th Infantry Division
Entered Service From :Texas
Date of Death :January 25, 1945
Buried:Plot C Row 10 Grave 62 Henri-Chapelle American Cemetery
Awards: Bronze Star, Purple Heart
Texas Honor States Post www.honorstates.org/index.php?id=328723
Roster Listing 106thinfdivassn.org/roster106/rosterw.html
If you knew Tom or have more information, please feel free to add that information in a reply. It would be nice to get to know him as the person he was and not just a name.
Post by Great Nephew: 106thdivision.proboards.com/post/4052/thread
Accounts of attack of Company G at Ennal by Floyd Ragsdale: 106thdivision.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=dates&action=display&thread=458
Floyd, who was wounded in this attack, mistakenly came to believe that his Company Commander was killed in this attack.
But the death actually occurred later
again mentioned by Floyd Ragsdale: 106thdivision.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=remembering&action=display&thread=749
Accounts of death at Mendell
*Carl notes error of location in Floyd's account & lists Mendell as actual location: 106thdivision.proboards.com/post/4056/thread
*Links in thread on Milton Schober 424 F give more information: 106thdivision.proboards.com/post/4057/thread
* Schober's Account in Veterans of the Battle of the Bulge Site: www.veteransofthebattleofthebulge.org/2012/06/21/milton-j-schober-106th-id-a-collection-of-memories/
a quote from this account beginning at the end of the 12th paragraph:
"on January 15 “F” Company took Ennal.
After our capture of Ennal, the 30th and 75th Divisions pushed forward and pinched us out of action. For the next ten days we were living in the frigid out-of-doors, but not engaged in combat. On January 25 we moved into an area just west of Hoch Kreuz, the meeting place of the highway and the road into Medell. “F” Company was in reserve and “G” Company was to make the attack on Medell. In the early morning three tanks of the 7th Armored Division came from our rear and moved ahead of us behind a line of evergreens which acted as a screen. When “G” Company commenced the assault the tanks moved out in support and we awaited the results. It must have been several hours when word came back that “G” Company had been hard hit and that “F” Company had to join the attack.
As we moved forward it was disconcerting to see the wounded being carried back. I recognized one as the commanding officer of “G” Company – who was being carried by several German prisoners on a board used as a stretcher, blood coming out of his mouth. He may have already been dead. The snow we were moving through was deep until we came to the plowed roads. As we moved onto the road running into Medell we could see the three Sherman’s tank, more or less immobile, in a field to our left. An anti-tank gun was firing at them and the noise of the shells exploding near me scared the hell out of me as I crouched behind a snow bank offering me cover but no protection."
American Battle Monuments site: www.abmc.gov/node/377225#.WI5xZrGZO88
Buried in Henri Chappelle Cemetery
Service # O-519431
Rank:First Lieutenant, U.S. Army
Unit: 424th Infantry Regiment, 106th Infantry Division
Entered Service From :Texas
Date of Death :January 25, 1945
Buried:Plot C Row 10 Grave 62 Henri-Chapelle American Cemetery
Awards: Bronze Star, Purple Heart
Texas Honor States Post www.honorstates.org/index.php?id=328723
Roster Listing 106thinfdivassn.org/roster106/rosterw.html
If you knew Tom or have more information, please feel free to add that information in a reply. It would be nice to get to know him as the person he was and not just a name.