Newspaper Clippings

[connie]

From the papers of Thomas Dunn (424th Infantry Regiment):
officials division activation ceremony at Ft. Jackson in S.C showing commanding General (then Brigadier General) Alan Jones and others on platform:
trevilians.com/106th/images/01%20Gen%20Alan%20Jones.jpg
troops at division activation ceremony seated on the grass: trevilians.com/106th/images/02%20106th%20Newspaper.jpg

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Blue Barron joins 424th SV Battery Gillespie post on this board:
106thdivision.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=looking&thread=447&page=1#1504
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Article on 106th in charge of POW's
Floyd typed up language from an article he has in his collection:
106thdivision.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=german&thread=735&page=1
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Clippings from a Mobile Newspaper on 106th infantry Division's story and one on the fate of area men in the division:
from a post by Sam Hodges, Grandson of WWAnderson 423G
106thdivision.proboards.com/post/3657/thread

106th Handling POW Camps June 14, 1945; Transcription of Newspaper Clipping posted by Floyd: 106thdivision.proboards.com/thread/735

106th Honor Guard turns Bad Ems over to French Pennsylvania Clipping from 1945-09-05 tells of PA members of that honor guard (clipping found by Jim West):

[connie]

(Relocated post from February 29, 2020)

Jim West has posted links to newspaper clippings he has collected on the Indiana Military Site:

www.indianamilitary.org/106ID/NEWSPAPERS-PDF/Newspaper-PDF.htm


Here's one example: It tells the story of a 106th watch traded for food in a POW camp and eventually making it back to the original owner's family. The soldiers mentioned in the article are Thomas Willis Pitts and fellow POW Theodore Young. There is a Theodore Young T5 Chaplain's Assistant from the 423rd SVC listed on the Indiana Military Site roster.