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Post by connie on May 8, 2009 10:14:55 GMT -5
I'm looking for more information on Lt. Coleman of the 590th Field Artillery Battalion
Lt. Coleman was, I believe, a heavy set man, known to his fellow officers as a gentleman. He was mentioned in my father's letters from England. And, much later his death (from pneumonia) at a German POW camp was noted.
He was an officer in battalion hq. or one of the firing batteries of the 590th Field Artillery Battalion. I do not know his first name, his hometown, or whether he left family behind.
Not even positive of the spelling of the last name... I first had Coleman, but I think it may have been Colman.
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Carl W.
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Post by Carl W. on May 8, 2009 15:26:19 GMT -5
Connie,
I believe he was in A-Battery. That's all I could find up untill now.
Did not find any mention of first name (just Lt. Coleman). He doesn't show up on NARA's POW listing either...
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Post by gemcmeg on Nov 4, 2011 20:40:35 GMT -5
connie, i don't remember dad (paul eanes) mentioning 3 different firing batteries (but then again i have not worked on this in a good while - so) i guess with a partial process of elimination, gathering a few names with dad's (gertsner, fitzgerald, schuler come to mind off the top of my head) (there are also names from dad's tn man pics. i think i read ? somewhere they were not suppose to have cameras while on maneuvers ? - leave it to dad to break the rules! esp over pics! some are posted on the site under 590th. again i need to sort thru, some were sent in dark and may still be there - i should have checked this before writing!) in any case (& nothing like asking this years! after your posting!) do you know what group/firing battery dad was with? thx talk to you soon (ya know what, i took a quick look at dad's story. he says he unloaded at C battery the nite the bulge broke. he also mentions Lt. Smith (told him to stay w/c battery that nite). so does that mean on his ammo run that nite, the four trucks were delivering to the 3 batteries? schuler is the one that disappeared in the nite and we later found out he was captured - the 19th per his discharge papers/per his son, steve. another note, i have a lt sutherland as c bat ofcr that nite as well. skimming back thru his story, this was prob the group he was captured with. (he says 30-40 men who eventually take cover on a tree covered hill. the 12/21 they surrender after being told they will be blow with the hill if they don't - after destroying &/or burying anything ammo related they had left & stacking rifles at the designated tree).
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Post by connie on Nov 5, 2011 10:08:27 GMT -5
Gail,
Yes, like the other field artillery battalions, the 590th had 5 batteries: headquarters, service, and three firing batteries-- A, B, and C. Your Dad was in 590th Service Battery at the time, as were Lt. Smith, Gerstner, etc. (There were 70 some men in Service Battery. Typically a battery ran in the neighborhood of 100 men.) It was to the 3 firing batteries, located (by road) 7 miles southeast of the Service battery, that your Dad and the other 3 trucks were delivering ammo. It sounds from your account like your dad spent his time with with men from C Battery when the way back to Service Battery was blocked by German troops.
Good to hear from you again.
Connie
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Post by connie on Jun 3, 2014 12:25:14 GMT -5
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Post by connie on Jun 3, 2014 16:13:19 GMT -5
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