Thank you to Mike Dover for creating this memorial to our father to honor his service.
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Our father, Gene, was in the Army Signal Corp during World War II. Per his discharge papers, he first served as a “message center chief in the European Theater of Operations with the Headquarters Battery, 401st Artillery Battalion, working under direct supervision of Corps G-2, encoding and decoding classified messages originating from Corps G-2 and the German High Command.” As with many veterans of the invasion of Normandy on D-Day and subsequent action during the rest of the war, he did not speak often of that time. From the little that he did share, he was attached to the 29th division and landed on the 2nd wave at 7:00 am on the Dog Red sector of Omaha Beach. From comparing what he did say about the action that day and throughout the succeeding months and our research on the 29th, he was probably with the 116th regiment. It is unclear which company he was with, but he took part in the heavy fighting for the capture of St Lo. He also spoke of his unit being halted on the way to Berlin to await the arrival of the Russian allies. It is based on these two events, that we think that he was with the 116th. Among his medals from World War II is a Presidential Unit Citation with an oak leaf cluster, indicating that his unit received 2 of the awards. He was honorably discharged from the Army in 1946.
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Equally a University of Georgia and Georgia Tech fan unless they were playing each other, then it was Bulldogs all the way. A loyal Braves fan from the beginning; he was gone before the good years arrived. There was a tender heart beneath the gruff exterior and he was loved and he is missed.
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Our father, Gene, was in the Army Signal Corp during World War II. Per his discharge papers, he first served as a “message center chief in the European Theater of Operations with the Headquarters Battery, 401st Artillery Battalion, working under direct supervision of Corps G-2, encoding and decoding classified messages originating from Corps G-2 and the German High Command.” As with many veterans of the invasion of Normandy on D-Day and subsequent action during the rest of the war, he did not speak often of that time. From the little that he did share, he was attached to the 29th division and landed on the 2nd wave at 7:00 am on the Dog Red sector of Omaha Beach. From comparing what he did say about the action that day and throughout the succeeding months and our research on the 29th, he was probably with the 116th regiment. It is unclear which company he was with, but he took part in the heavy fighting for the capture of St Lo. He also spoke of his unit being halted on the way to Berlin to await the arrival of the Russian allies. It is based on these two events, that we think that he was with the 116th. Among his medals from World War II is a Presidential Unit Citation with an oak leaf cluster, indicating that his unit received 2 of the awards. He was honorably discharged from the Army in 1946.
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Equally a University of Georgia and Georgia Tech fan unless they were playing each other, then it was Bulldogs all the way. A loyal Braves fan from the beginning; he was gone before the good years arrived. There was a tender heart beneath the gruff exterior and he was loved and he is missed.
Thank you to Mike Dover for creating this memorial to our father to honor his service.
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Our father, Gene, was in the Army Signal Corp during World War II. Per his discharge papers, he first served as a “message center chief in the European Theater of Operations with the Headquarters Battery, 401st Artillery Battalion, working under direct supervision of Corps G-2, encoding and decoding classified messages originating from Corps G-2 and the German High Command.” As with many veterans of the invasion of Normandy on D-Day and subsequent action during the rest of the war, he did not speak often of that time. From the little that he did share, he was attached to the 29th division and landed on the 2nd wave at 7:00 am on the Dog Red sector of Omaha Beach. From comparing what he did say about the action that day and throughout the succeeding months and our research on the 29th, he was probably with the 116th regiment. It is unclear which company he was with, but he took part in the heavy fighting for the capture of St Lo. He also spoke of his unit being halted on the way to Berlin to await the arrival of the Russian allies. It is based on these two events, that we think that he was with the 116th. Among his medals from World War II is a Presidential Unit Citation with an oak leaf cluster, indicating that his unit received 2 of the awards. He was honorably discharged from the Army in 1946.
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Equally a University of Georgia and Georgia Tech fan unless they were playing each other, then it was Bulldogs all the way. A loyal Braves fan from the beginning; he was gone before the good years arrived. There was a tender heart beneath the gruff exterior and he was loved and he is missed.
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Our father, Gene, was in the Army Signal Corp during World War II. Per his discharge papers, he first served as a “message center chief in the European Theater of Operations with the Headquarters Battery, 401st Artillery Battalion, working under direct supervision of Corps G-2, encoding and decoding classified messages originating from Corps G-2 and the German High Command.” As with many veterans of the invasion of Normandy on D-Day and subsequent action during the rest of the war, he did not speak often of that time. From the little that he did share, he was attached to the 29th division and landed on the 2nd wave at 7:00 am on the Dog Red sector of Omaha Beach. From comparing what he did say about the action that day and throughout the succeeding months and our research on the 29th, he was probably with the 116th regiment. It is unclear which company he was with, but he took part in the heavy fighting for the capture of St Lo. He also spoke of his unit being halted on the way to Berlin to await the arrival of the Russian allies. It is based on these two events, that we think that he was with the 116th. Among his medals from World War II is a Presidential Unit Citation with an oak leaf cluster, indicating that his unit received 2 of the awards. He was honorably discharged from the Army in 1946.
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Equally a University of Georgia and Georgia Tech fan unless they were playing each other, then it was Bulldogs all the way. A loyal Braves fan from the beginning; he was gone before the good years arrived. There was a tender heart beneath the gruff exterior and he was loved and he is missed.
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