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Houseman, Donelson, 1st Lt 423 D, POW VI-G
HIS STORY: on the Indiana Military Site: hit this link and click on POW Camp 6-G on the side bar. Then click on Houseman's name www.indianamilitary.org/German%20PW%20Camps/SoThinkMenu/GermanPW-START.htm
VETERAN'S HISTORY PROJECT:
October 2011
55 minute video interview: memory.loc.gov/diglib/vhp/story/loc.natlib.afc2001001.26674/
STALAG VI-G: 106thdivision.proboards.com/post/4992/thread
2002 TEXAS ORAL HISTORY notes: oralhistory.unt.edu/people/houseman-donelson-m-b-1923
HOUSEMAN, DONELSON M. (B. 1923)
Military Service: U.S. Army WWII Veteran, D Company, 1st Battalion, 423rd Infantry Regiment, 106th Infantry Division
Profession: Insurance executive, real estate investor
Insurance executive, real estate investor. His experiences in the European Theater during World War II; his experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Germans. Pre-war education and college at the University of Texas; his reaction to the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941; his decision to enlist in the Enlisted Reserve Corps; processing at Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, Texas, April, 1943; basic training, Camp Callan, San Diego, May-June, 1943; Office Candidate School, Camp Davis, Wilmington, North Carolina, 1943-44; his engagement to Kathryn Buckley, January, 1944; assignment to an antiaircraft battalion, Fort Fisher, North Carolina, 1944; infantry officer refresher course, Fort Benning, Georgia, 1944; assignment to the 106th Infantry Division, Camp Atterbury, Indiana, August, 1944; training as a mortar platoon leader; shipment to England, October, 1944; relief of the 2nd Infantry Division in the Ardennes, December 8, 1944; the Ardennes Offensive and the Battle of the Bulge, December 16, 1944; his description of the winter weather and the battle; his severe wrist wound; capture by German troops, December 19, 1944; Stalag VI-G, Cologne, Germany, 1944-45; his time in the prison infirmary; prison camp living conditions; his deteriorating medical condition; transfer to a German military hospital at Montabaur for the possible amputation of his arm; treatment of his wound with sulfa; liberation, April, 1945; further treatment for his wound at McCluskey General Hospital, Temple, Texas; his marriage on June 9, 1945; his return to the University of Texas and postwar business career.
Date of Interview: November 20, 2002
HIS STORY: on the Indiana Military Site: hit this link and click on POW Camp 6-G on the side bar. Then click on Houseman's name www.indianamilitary.org/German%20PW%20Camps/SoThinkMenu/GermanPW-START.htm
VETERAN'S HISTORY PROJECT:
October 2011
55 minute video interview: memory.loc.gov/diglib/vhp/story/loc.natlib.afc2001001.26674/
STALAG VI-G: 106thdivision.proboards.com/post/4992/thread
2002 TEXAS ORAL HISTORY notes: oralhistory.unt.edu/people/houseman-donelson-m-b-1923
HOUSEMAN, DONELSON M. (B. 1923)
Military Service: U.S. Army WWII Veteran, D Company, 1st Battalion, 423rd Infantry Regiment, 106th Infantry Division
Profession: Insurance executive, real estate investor
Insurance executive, real estate investor. His experiences in the European Theater during World War II; his experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Germans. Pre-war education and college at the University of Texas; his reaction to the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941; his decision to enlist in the Enlisted Reserve Corps; processing at Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, Texas, April, 1943; basic training, Camp Callan, San Diego, May-June, 1943; Office Candidate School, Camp Davis, Wilmington, North Carolina, 1943-44; his engagement to Kathryn Buckley, January, 1944; assignment to an antiaircraft battalion, Fort Fisher, North Carolina, 1944; infantry officer refresher course, Fort Benning, Georgia, 1944; assignment to the 106th Infantry Division, Camp Atterbury, Indiana, August, 1944; training as a mortar platoon leader; shipment to England, October, 1944; relief of the 2nd Infantry Division in the Ardennes, December 8, 1944; the Ardennes Offensive and the Battle of the Bulge, December 16, 1944; his description of the winter weather and the battle; his severe wrist wound; capture by German troops, December 19, 1944; Stalag VI-G, Cologne, Germany, 1944-45; his time in the prison infirmary; prison camp living conditions; his deteriorating medical condition; transfer to a German military hospital at Montabaur for the possible amputation of his arm; treatment of his wound with sulfa; liberation, April, 1945; further treatment for his wound at McCluskey General Hospital, Temple, Texas; his marriage on June 9, 1945; his return to the University of Texas and postwar business career.
Date of Interview: November 20, 2002