Birk, Gereonsweiler, Lindern, Marche-en-Femenne, Rochefort, Bure, Grupont, Tellin, Chanly, Givet, Devantave, Ourthe, Roer, Hoven, Krefeld, Rhine, Weser, Eisbergen, Hannover, Restorf-Pevestorf, Elbe: LEST WE FORGET!

Luther D. Foster

Posted by Allan Wilford Howerton on December 29, 2007, 4:13 pm, in reply to "Re: Luther D. Foster"
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He was a member of "I" like in Item Company. If you have, or should obtain, more information about the circumstances of your grandfather's death, please post it here. To have lost one's life one day before the end of the war in Europe was tragic indeed. The Division had reached the Elbe River, about forty-five kilometers west of Berlin. There was little activity except taking German prisoners, who were crossing the river and surrendering in large numbers, and greeting the Russian forces as they came up on the east bank of the Elbe. That story is told for my segment of the front along the Elbe (Company K, 335th Infantry) in my memoir, "Dear Captain, et al.: the Agonies and the Ecstasies of War and Memory."

Link: More on "Dear Captain, et al."

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