A-Battery 319th Glider Field Artillery Group Photo
Epinal, France
Photo taken June 20,1945
Photo courtesy of Joseph Covais, author of BATTERY.
Days preceding this photo the 319th traveled from “Camp Chicago” at Marchais, France, arriving in Epinal, France on June 16, 1945. The men were assigned quarters in an old stable. They spent the next few days preparing for an ordinance inspection on the Howitzers and participating in the usual athletic program. The men also attended a training film and movie on Nazi atrocities.
The following soldiers were either absent/sick or on furlough, therefore, not present for the group photo; Rene Picher, Robert Miller, John Hardin, Emil Hydukovich, Hjalmar Olkonen, Genarro DeAngelis, Ralph Radosh, James Thousand, Russell Sykes, Frank Gyuresko, Anzlee Price, Casimir Sobon, Carl Salminen, Donald Swanson, Stephen Palmisano, Steve Pongracic, and Joseph Mullen.
Top Row, Left to right: Kenneth Smith, Billy Cadle, Norman Dwyer, Eugene Varner, Russell Tyler, Robert Dugger, Lloyd Cattell, Hildure Madison, Norman Beyert, William Kennedy, William Lucas, Francis Siler, Harold Mell, Flag, David Stelow, John Sievwright, Louis Sosa, Marshall Brown, John Spicer, Arthur Brodelle, Thurman King, Alex Peto, Lester Crooke, Flavious Carney, Thomas Legg.
Second row, left to right: Lester Newman, Leslie Niemi, Joseph Tatreau, John Girardin, Edward Spencer, Charles Grigus, Calvin Hightower, Arthur Forsman, Morrisey, Leroy Miller, Francis Tobin, Leroy Samples, Willie Hall, Charles Youngblood, Arno Mundt, Paul Massie, Fred Van Hassel, Leslo Karney, James Jones, Robert Dickson, Ernest Schilson, Harry Kerr, Rogers.
Third row, left to right: George Romanus, John Thomas, Herbert Gost, Stanley Bichefski, Jack LaHue, Marion Litchfield, Theodore Simpson, Oscar Fields, Clovis Thompson, Fred Fitzke, Duel Elmore, Milton Susman, Albert Hein, Charles Sartain, Irving Gelb, Marvin Ragland, Laurence Cook, Marvin Fellman, George Nederoscik, William Forsythe, James Gwaltney, Mahlon Sebring, Victor Buinowski, Robert Rappi, Calvin Pouncey, Talmage Glenn, Arthur Pease, Harold Walz, William Bonnamy.
Bottom row, left to right: Donald Kane, Raymond Smart, Robert Carte, H. Harvey, Otto Porche, Vernon Edge, James Russell, Louie Wall, Silas Hogg, B.Carpenter, Charles Shaw, Roland Gruebling, Ted Covais, Thomas Ludwick, Ercie Holcomb, Severino Scarsella, Robert Storms, James Fitzsimmons, Warren Jones, Barney Brighton, Louis Doherty, Richard Millard, Howard Dearwester.
See B-Battery and HQ-Battery photos taken the same day.