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HELLCAT NEWS
Sept. 1980
CONTRIBUTORS
THE PATTON MUSEUM
Fred Caravelli
Charles Kotula
Charles Carlson
Ernest Pymson
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Carl Moore
Joe Stankunas
Bruno Tomchesson
Ambrose Gam ache
Jerome Andrews
Clarence Waurzyniak
Bill Joyce
Amidio Passero
Lambert Hary
George Branson
Leland Win and
Dorrell Moore
Wolfe Nichols
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visiting with his children. He is
alsp busy now compiling albums of
pictures that he has gathered and
collected for over 40 years. He
already has completed an album of
pictures taken while in the service
with the 12th. Paul keeps in touch
with Woody Shuster in Beaver
Falls, PA and also with Floyd
Kettler at Christmas time. Both
were with Division Trains. He
closes with best wishes to all and
would like to hear from other men
who served with Division Trains.
Bernard Raff (Div Tns) sends
dues from Long Beach, Washing-
ton and a short note asking for
help. He's trying to locate Ther-
mon Huckleberry formerly of Ken-
tucky, a member of Trains Hq Co
and McGurn of Newport, Rhode
Island. Any assistance out there?
Bernard's address is Route 1, Box
2, Long Beach Washington, 98631.
We had a pleasant surprise in
latter July when "Jeep" Camarata
visited his sister here in River-
head. And who did he and wife
Betty bring along with them? 66
AIB Unit Rep Gene Raddant and
lovely wife Bea who were visiting
our Island Paradise for the first
time. We spent two afternoons
just sitting around and making
with idle conversation. They had a
good time while here and vowed
that they were going to try to
make it a yearly visit. Bea saw the
Atlantic Ocean for the first time
and Gene enjoyed having lobster
dinners that are a feature here on
the island. While Gene and Jeep
were at my home one of the days,
they flipped when I brought out
my Eisenhower jacket still intact
and complete with all decorations
and in such good condition that it
looked like it only came off
recently. They were sad that they
no longer have possession of such a
valuable property.
So how did the Seattle reunion
go? Was it well attended and did
all have fun? Let us know and we'll
inform all through the column.
It's re-up time once again so let's
go with those dues. I am advised
that the sooner they are received,
life is made more simpler for our
hard working Exec. Sec. George
Moss.
Dues and no news from Ed
Baysek and Tom Boyle (Div.
Hq/CCA); Frank Campo and Nor-
man Miller (Div. Hq.); Herbert
Spanbock and Ralph Erwin (Div.
Arty.); Paul Bergmann (Div. Hq/
G-2); J. Rush (Div. Hq/Fin); Ralph
Brandeberry (Div. Band) and Rob-
ert Clement (B/17 & CCR).
Hope to resume on a regular
basis but I need your help. Send in
news with your dues. I ad lib and
try to keep you up on my doings
that keep me out of trouble . . .
How about you guys doing the
same. REMEMBER: We have a
great organization that has not
even been matched by others.
"IT'S GREAT TO BE A HELL-
CAT"!!!!!!!!
23rd
Tank
Battalion
FORREST SMITH
16929 LECLAIRE AVE.
OAK FOREST, IL 60452
Telephone 312 560-0284
BOOSTERS
Forrest Smith — Hq
Vern Thomas — Sv
Art Niedbalski — B
Bill Rix — Hq
Adrian Elvod — C
Chris Mugavero — Sv
Leland Winand — Sv
Here it is the end of July, the
summer almost over, it seems like
it just started. Before I start on
communications from the member-
ship I want to remind you all dues
paying time is here. Do it right
now before you forget, and take no
chance of not receiving the Hellcat
News.
A Letter from Robert Comery
Hq. Co: This letter is prompted by
two things you mentioned in your
column a couple of issues ago. One
of them but was the village of
Rohrbach in Alsace, where the
Battalion had a short but rather
heated engagement. I remember
the place vividly because that is
where I got my purple heart. It
was a fine sunny morning in
December of 44, and suddenly my
mortar squad began attracting
shells from what seemed like the
whole German army. A fragment
from one of them hit me in the
foot, and a short time later another
got me in the left eye. That was
the end of my short and not very
illustrious combat career. I did
earn a second battle star, but I
never wore it, for I won it in
hospital beds in Dijon and Mar-
seilles.
My squad was vertually wiped
out that morning. Our driver,
Virgil Hicks (from North Carolina)
and our second gunner, Virgil
Rosenquist (from Minnesota) were
both killed. The name of the
greatest Ror^an poet was not a
lucky one to bear that day. Our
first gunner, Howard Hall, was
wounded but later returned to the
unit. The sixth man in the squad,
named Forrestes, had recently
been transferred to us from an-
other Division, and I can't remem-
ber his first name. He was badly
wounded and according to what I
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These men of Division Trains in France, December 1944
are [rear] Ed Harrington, Paul Hempfling, Amos Black,
[front] Luther Harrington, Jack Wong and Capt. Wm
McCarthy.
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Twelfth Armored Division Association (U.S.). Hellcat News, (Springfield, Ill.), Vol. 35, No. 1, Ed. 1, September 1980, newspaper, September 1980; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth410394/m1/4/: accessed July 11, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum.