US Army World War II
1st/Lt. Donald D. Brownell Died as Prisoner of War under German control December 20, 1944
Unit 423rd Infantry Regiment, 106th Infantry Division
Hometown:Cambridge, New York,
Father, Duane Gifford Brownell, Mother, Jessie M.
service# O-1284463
Awards: Bronze Star, Prisoner of War Medal, Purple Heart
Details of career here.
Immediately after Thanksgiving, the units of the 423d Infantry started moving from their billets in the Cotswolds to embarkation points. Members of Regimental Headquarters and Special Units, on the Empire Javelin, went down the rope nets onto the LSTs and debarkation in the vicinity of Le Havre was completed on 1 December 1944.
8 December, Regimental Combat Team 423, with various attachments, commenced the motor move following the road markers of the "RED BALL" express, the convoy reached St. Vith, Belgium, a distance of 270 miles, in two days. Rumor had it that the one truck containing part of a platoon of C Company, which was corralled by one of Capt. Spence's men on 11 December, was detoured through Paris by a British M.P.
December 10th was spent in reconnaissance of positions down to and including Platoon Sergeants. On the morning of 11 December the regiment moved out of St. Vith through Auw and Schonberg,. The vehicles arrived in time to join their units which were moving into the lines.
The Regiment, less 2nd Battalion in Division Reserve at Born and Medell, Belgium, with Troop B, 18th Cavalry Squadron attached, occupied and took over the defense of a Sector of the 106th Division Area. The Sector included a portion of the former German fortified area approximately twenty miles east of St. Vith, Belgium. Due to the extreme width of the Sector, approximately seven and one half miles frontage, the position could not be occupied in depth, and reserves, except for Service Company and Clerks were not available. Orders were to take over, man for man, and job for job. The period 12 to 15 December was spent in familiarization and readjustment.
THE 423 IN THE BULGE
Preceded by intense artillery and mortar concentrations, the German Infantry supported by armor, attacked the right of the Regimental Sector prior to daylight, 16 December.
The stubborn resistance of the 423rd Infantry delayed the Germans in their seizure of the necessary road point at St. Vith by four days thereby materially slowing the flow of German armor into the communication routes of Division, Corps and Army. Many heroic acts of individuals have been acknowledged by awards, many of them posthumous awards.
1st/Lt. Donald D. Brownell Died as Prisoner of War under German control December 20, 1944
Unit 423rd Infantry Regiment, 106th Infantry Division
Hometown:Cambridge, New York,
Father, Duane Gifford Brownell, Mother, Jessie M.
service# O-1284463
Awards: Bronze Star, Prisoner of War Medal, Purple Heart
Details of career here.
Immediately after Thanksgiving, the units of the 423d Infantry started moving from their billets in the Cotswolds to embarkation points. Members of Regimental Headquarters and Special Units, on the Empire Javelin, went down the rope nets onto the LSTs and debarkation in the vicinity of Le Havre was completed on 1 December 1944.
8 December, Regimental Combat Team 423, with various attachments, commenced the motor move following the road markers of the "RED BALL" express, the convoy reached St. Vith, Belgium, a distance of 270 miles, in two days. Rumor had it that the one truck containing part of a platoon of C Company, which was corralled by one of Capt. Spence's men on 11 December, was detoured through Paris by a British M.P.
December 10th was spent in reconnaissance of positions down to and including Platoon Sergeants. On the morning of 11 December the regiment moved out of St. Vith through Auw and Schonberg,. The vehicles arrived in time to join their units which were moving into the lines.
The Regiment, less 2nd Battalion in Division Reserve at Born and Medell, Belgium, with Troop B, 18th Cavalry Squadron attached, occupied and took over the defense of a Sector of the 106th Division Area. The Sector included a portion of the former German fortified area approximately twenty miles east of St. Vith, Belgium. Due to the extreme width of the Sector, approximately seven and one half miles frontage, the position could not be occupied in depth, and reserves, except for Service Company and Clerks were not available. Orders were to take over, man for man, and job for job. The period 12 to 15 December was spent in familiarization and readjustment.
THE 423 IN THE BULGE
Preceded by intense artillery and mortar concentrations, the German Infantry supported by armor, attacked the right of the Regimental Sector prior to daylight, 16 December.
The stubborn resistance of the 423rd Infantry delayed the Germans in their seizure of the necessary road point at St. Vith by four days thereby materially slowing the flow of German armor into the communication routes of Division, Corps and Army. Many heroic acts of individuals have been acknowledged by awards, many of them posthumous awards.
US Army World War II
1st/Lt. Donald D. Brownell Died as Prisoner of War under German control December 20, 1944
Unit 423rd Infantry Regiment, 106th Infantry Division
Hometown:Cambridge, New York,
Father, Duane Gifford Brownell, Mother, Jessie M.
service# O-1284463
Awards: Bronze Star, Prisoner of War Medal, Purple Heart
Details of career here.
Immediately after Thanksgiving, the units of the 423d Infantry started moving from their billets in the Cotswolds to embarkation points. Members of Regimental Headquarters and Special Units, on the Empire Javelin, went down the rope nets onto the LSTs and debarkation in the vicinity of Le Havre was completed on 1 December 1944.
8 December, Regimental Combat Team 423, with various attachments, commenced the motor move following the road markers of the "RED BALL" express, the convoy reached St. Vith, Belgium, a distance of 270 miles, in two days. Rumor had it that the one truck containing part of a platoon of C Company, which was corralled by one of Capt. Spence's men on 11 December, was detoured through Paris by a British M.P.
December 10th was spent in reconnaissance of positions down to and including Platoon Sergeants. On the morning of 11 December the regiment moved out of St. Vith through Auw and Schonberg,. The vehicles arrived in time to join their units which were moving into the lines.
The Regiment, less 2nd Battalion in Division Reserve at Born and Medell, Belgium, with Troop B, 18th Cavalry Squadron attached, occupied and took over the defense of a Sector of the 106th Division Area. The Sector included a portion of the former German fortified area approximately twenty miles east of St. Vith, Belgium. Due to the extreme width of the Sector, approximately seven and one half miles frontage, the position could not be occupied in depth, and reserves, except for Service Company and Clerks were not available. Orders were to take over, man for man, and job for job. The period 12 to 15 December was spent in familiarization and readjustment.
THE 423 IN THE BULGE
Preceded by intense artillery and mortar concentrations, the German Infantry supported by armor, attacked the right of the Regimental Sector prior to daylight, 16 December.
The stubborn resistance of the 423rd Infantry delayed the Germans in their seizure of the necessary road point at St. Vith by four days thereby materially slowing the flow of German armor into the communication routes of Division, Corps and Army. Many heroic acts of individuals have been acknowledged by awards, many of them posthumous awards.
1st/Lt. Donald D. Brownell Died as Prisoner of War under German control December 20, 1944
Unit 423rd Infantry Regiment, 106th Infantry Division
Hometown:Cambridge, New York,
Father, Duane Gifford Brownell, Mother, Jessie M.
service# O-1284463
Awards: Bronze Star, Prisoner of War Medal, Purple Heart
Details of career here.
Immediately after Thanksgiving, the units of the 423d Infantry started moving from their billets in the Cotswolds to embarkation points. Members of Regimental Headquarters and Special Units, on the Empire Javelin, went down the rope nets onto the LSTs and debarkation in the vicinity of Le Havre was completed on 1 December 1944.
8 December, Regimental Combat Team 423, with various attachments, commenced the motor move following the road markers of the "RED BALL" express, the convoy reached St. Vith, Belgium, a distance of 270 miles, in two days. Rumor had it that the one truck containing part of a platoon of C Company, which was corralled by one of Capt. Spence's men on 11 December, was detoured through Paris by a British M.P.
December 10th was spent in reconnaissance of positions down to and including Platoon Sergeants. On the morning of 11 December the regiment moved out of St. Vith through Auw and Schonberg,. The vehicles arrived in time to join their units which were moving into the lines.
The Regiment, less 2nd Battalion in Division Reserve at Born and Medell, Belgium, with Troop B, 18th Cavalry Squadron attached, occupied and took over the defense of a Sector of the 106th Division Area. The Sector included a portion of the former German fortified area approximately twenty miles east of St. Vith, Belgium. Due to the extreme width of the Sector, approximately seven and one half miles frontage, the position could not be occupied in depth, and reserves, except for Service Company and Clerks were not available. Orders were to take over, man for man, and job for job. The period 12 to 15 December was spent in familiarization and readjustment.
THE 423 IN THE BULGE
Preceded by intense artillery and mortar concentrations, the German Infantry supported by armor, attacked the right of the Regimental Sector prior to daylight, 16 December.
The stubborn resistance of the 423rd Infantry delayed the Germans in their seizure of the necessary road point at St. Vith by four days thereby materially slowing the flow of German armor into the communication routes of Division, Corps and Army. Many heroic acts of individuals have been acknowledged by awards, many of them posthumous awards.
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Entered the service from New York.
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