Posted by Allan Wilford Howerton on February 4, 2007, 4:15 pm, in reply to "334 infantry Company "M"" The best source of information as to the deployment of the 334th Infantry is the division history, "The 84th Infantry Division in the Battle of Germany" by Lt. Theodore Draper (Viking, NY, 1946). That book is now out of print but used copies and reprints may often be found at various Internet booksellers. As to your grandfather's personal records, about 80% of World War II personnel records were lost in a fire at the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) facility in St. Louis, Missouri in 1973. To request information, if any, pertaining to your grandfather go to: http://www.archives.gov/st-louis/military-personnel/standard-form-180.html For a view of what it was like to serve in an 84th Division combat unit consider my memoir at the link below.
Link: Story of an 84th Company
172.132.217.228
The 84th Division roster lists Private Robert A. Williams of Florence, Alabama as a member of Company M, 334th Infantry. If he was your grandfather, he served in all three of the division's campaigns (Rhineland, Ardennes, and Central Europe and was not wounded in action. Company M-334 was the heavy weapons company of the 334th's Third Battalion. It fought with the 84th Division from November 1944 to the end of hostilities in May 1945: the breaking of the Siegfried Line, the Battle of the Bulge, and the crossing of the Roer, Rhine, and Weser rivers to finish on the Elbe river forty-five kilometers from Berlin where we met the Russian forces at war's end. Fifteen Company M-334 men were killed in action or died of wounds and three were missing in action or became prisoners of war.
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