The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1945-07-23

puDncAta0n In TINS column, are
invited by the journal. COntri-
buttons should be mailed to the
Service Editor of the Journal,
or telephone to Mrs. w. c.
Behrens. Phone 4-2671.
Warren L. South, M.M3/c, who
is in the Seabees, is on his way
home, after serving 25 months in
the south Pacific. Before leaving
the PHILIPPINES where he was last
stationed, Machinist Mate South
sent his wife a beautiful finely
woven, miniature luncheon set,
made of pink straw.
Machinist Mate South is the son
of Mr.. and Mrs. M. A. South, of
J, Watkins. His wife and children live
at All Z. Seventh st.
Pvt. Victor F. Nelson, whose
wife, Mrs. Victor Nelson, lives at
238 Chestnut ST., MaFysville, is now
home on furlough. While fighting
with the 104th Infantry Climber
wolff Division he participated in
the Rineland and Central Europe
campaigns and was awarded the
Meritorius Service Unit award.
The 104th Infantry Climber
@-wolf Division) was the first to traV-
ell directly faom the States to
France. Little more than a month
after landing, the TimberwolveS,
led by Major General Terry Allen,
went into the line and remained in
continuous combat for over six
months. After fighting with the
First Canadian Army in the sue
ceSsful Holland campaign which o.
pened the part of Antwerp to
Allied shipping, the Timberwolves
took their place in the First Army
\ line at Aachen. In a slaShing cam
paign that was featured by night
attacks the Division drove through
the industrial Eschweiler area,
then assault -boated the Roer,
pushing ahead to take Cologne.
Once across the Rhine at the
Remagen bridgehead, the Division
stabbed furiously into the heart
land of the Reich, taking part in
the Ruhr pocket encirclement.
The final phase of Tir11BerWolf
combat in Maitland saw the men of
the 104th racing to the Nude river
where the last remnants of the
Wehrmacht were crushed between
the Russians and the American
First Army making that sector the
first to be cleared and completely
conquered.
This victorious division which
has never given an inch is in the
i United States now. While here,
combat veterans will be granted
furloughs and will then be given
training to prepare them for furth-
er battles in the Pacific against the
Japanese.
WIT u. S. FORCES In Germany
-S/Sgt. Lee w. Mcmahon. Marys-
vile, is supply sergeant for an ord
nance company which is repairing
combat vehicles being transferred
= from the European Theater OF OPP
erations to the Jacific.
Part of the advance section,
Communications Zone service for
the redeployment of troops, the
3110th Ordnance Base Armament
Vehicle company dispatch as teams
of versatile mechanics to units
alerted for Pacific shipment. These
teams examine each vehicle care
fully and make the necessary re-
pairs. In case that a vehicle can
not be repaired on the spot, it Isl
evacuated to the ordnance shop
and is replaced by combat SER
viceable machine.
The 3110th now has a two-fold
job. In addition to replacing the
usual flow of supply and combat
vehicles, the outfit also services
small arms and optical equipment.
When the Allies opened their
spring offensive in Germany, the
3110th followed 1t. Gen. William
II. Simpsin's Ninth Army. A large
German factory was converted in
to an ordnance shop and several
tons of debris and scrap iron were
cleared to make this possible
When this outfit arrived in Eng
land in February 1914, the unit
supplied and repaired vehicles of
all types for many of the armored
forces which rolled toward Berlin
and the Czech border during the
great spring offensive.
Sgt. Mcmahon, husband of Mrs.
Mary E. Mcmahon, Fifth and
Court sts., has been with the com
pany since its activation at Camp
Sutton, N, c, He was field repre-
sentative for the Universal FL
nance Company in civilian life and
his wife is bookkeeper for the AS
man Meat Market. They have one
son.
Pvt. Harold l.. GroSe, son of Mr..
and Mrs. Emor L. Grose, of Rich
wood RI. l, is now stationed some
where in Germany He entered SER
vice Nov. %, 1914, and received his
training at Fort Mcclellan, Ala.
Will stationed in Alabama, he