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Miscellaneous Photos and
Memorabilia Images- Page 143

In September 2019 I began to enter 75th Anniversary dates on the 63rd Infantry Division Facebook page.
The first two related to the award of a Meritorious Unit Citation to the 63d Quartermaster and 763d
Ordnance Companies. The most recent reported the departure of the three Infantry Regiments (253d,
254th and 255th) from Camp Van Dorn, MS for movement to the European Theater- 6 November 1944.
The response to that announcement was quite good and several respondents provided photos of their
family member participating in that move. So I am including the information and photos provided this past
week-Nov 2019:

T/5 Bernard Beckman, Hq
1st Bn 254th Inf Regt.Not
identified in photo- sent in
by Sharon
Beckman-Daughter

1st Lt Garland Black
Jr- Hq 63d Inf Div, Hq
1st Bn , G Company,
Headquarters
Company and Service
Company 255th
Infantry Regiment-
Photo sent in by Jim
Black- Son

Pfc George W.
Hollabaugh- E
Company 253d Inf
Regt- Photo sent in
by Mark Hollabaugh-
Son

Pfc Kenneth Cox, L
Company 253d Inf
Regt- Photo sent in
by Randy Cox-
Grandson

Pfc Memo Robbins, G
Company, 255th Inf
Regt. Photo sent in by
Connie Robbins-
Daughter

Sgt Wayne Scott, M Company 254th Inf
Regt. Photos sent in by Connie Bates
Scott- Daughter

Pfc Robert Cochran-
K Company 253d Inf
Regt. Photo sent in
by Randy Cox-
Grandson

Pfc Steve M. Cvitonavich, E Company, 254th
Inf Regt and A Company 255th Inf Regt.
Photos sent in by Melissa Cvitonavich
Daughter

Pfc Vincent Brancato- C Company
253d Inf Regt. Photo sent in by
Vincent Brancato- Son

Change of address card sent by Pfc Robert Creamer-A Company 253d Inf Regt- Image sent in
by Kathy Creamer Silvester- Grand Daughter

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Robert Creamer on the left and James
Fleming on the right- A Company
253d Infantry Regiment-

Leo Langenbach- B Companyt 254th
Infantry Regiment

Pfc Herman K. Phillips M Company 255th
Infantry Regiment. KIA 8 April 1945.
Buried at Big Bend Cemetery, Upshur
County, West Virginia

Pfc Walter Hannig, E Company 253d
Infantry Regiment. KIA 4 March 1945

The following photos were furnished by Kathleen Riley, daughter of WOJG Joseph E. Smith who
served in Headquarters Company and Service Company 254th Infantry Regiment and in the 763d
Ordnance Company

WOJG Joseph E. Smith- Hq Co and Service Company
254th Infantry Regiment and 763d Ordnance
Company- Date and place of photo unknown

WOJG (T/3), center. Probably taken when he was in the
763d Ordnance Company. Others in the photo are not
identified.

Pfc James G. Steinwinder, B Company 253d Infantry
Regiment. Pfc Steinwinder was captured by the Germans
along with 28 other members of his platoon on 22 February
1945 near Kleinblittersdorf.

Members of D Company, 254th Infantry Regiment meet for a mini-reunion at the home of Sgt
Bill Pink in Slippery Rock, PA. in 1992. Back row- L-R: Lt Edward J. McConnell, TSgt Maurice
Etcheson, Sgt William Pink, Pfc Jack Bender, Col Frederick Clinton. Front row L-R: Sgt Robert
T. Ziemke, Sgt Raymond L. Wise, T/5 Clement C. Fox, Capt Jack Shumate and Maj Edward H.
Bundick. (note: Ranks listed are the ranks they held at time of their discharge from the
Army)-Another photo of this group, in black and white can be seen on
Miscphotospage21.html. This photo was submitted by the daughter of Sgt John L. Wilson
D/254th- Nancy Jensen

Sergeant Glenn E. Pitts, D Company 253d Infantry
Regiment receives the French Legion of Honor 22
Nov 2019

all pages , including this one- posted to Alpha photo list.

The two photos above were sent in by Mr. Michael R. Caron. The show his father, T/5 Roland
Caron, Cannon Company, 255th Infantry Regiment, celebrating his 65th Birthday in September
1989. Unfortunately T/5 Caron passed away on 9 November 1993.