Evening star., 1945-08-02
3 District Veterans
With 18th Division
Units Due Tomorrow

The liner MOrmacport is Sched-
uled to dock at New York tomor-
row, bringing home the first units
of the veteran 28th Division, includ-
ing eight men from the District
area.
TWenty-nine more Washington
men arrived yesterday at Camp Pat
rick Henry, Va, from Europe, and
three others from the area were
listed as arriving in New York.
The 28th, known as the Bloody
Bucket" Division, saw vicious action
from Normandy's hedgerows to the
heart of the Reich. Starting July
80, 1914, at st. Lo, the Bloody
Bucket" men battled across Nor
mandy, paraded through Paris,
fought east through Belgium and
Luxembourg, and smashed into the
Siegfried Line last September IL
the first troops to enter Germany
in strength.
After its November fight in the
Hurtgen forest, the 28th moved to
the Luxembourg sector and, on De-
cember 16, caught the force of Won
Rundstedt's Ardennes offensive. De-
spite this setback, the 28th con-
tinued to drive into Germany and
within a month entered Coblenz
near the Rhine.
Larger Units to Come.
Larger units of the 28th are
scheduled to leave ports in Europe
soon for the return trip home The
local men in the group arriving to-
morrow are:
Sergt. Give c. Bailey, 1902 Fifty
ninth street Sc; Sergt. Walter R.
Thompson, 4425 Yuma street NV:
Pfc. Bernard L. Patlen, TIT Quebec
place NV; Pfc. William A. Criss-
man, 4048 North Twenty-first street,
Arlington, Va; Pfc. Robin H. Houk,
1862 Thirty-siXth street NV; TIA
Charles C. Gillette, 4400 Silver Hill
road, Silver Hill, Md; T/5 Anthony
j. Flaccomio, 2140 N street NV, and
T/5 Alvin A. Bean, TOT A street NE.
At Camp Patrick Henry, 20 Wash
lngton men arrived yesterday after
docking at Hampton Roads, Va,
aboard the troopship West Point.
They are:
lst 1t. Thomas A. Flannery, 3O18
Gainesville street Sc; 1st 1t. Peter
M. McEvoy, National Press Building:
lst 1t. David S. Stevens, 1920 Arkan-
saS avenue Sc. Corpl. Alfred NJ
Lacho, 4730 Homer street Sc; Corpl
Alfred D. Lanier, II Tennessee ave-
nue. NE; LIST. Sergt. Robert A. Keefe,
10l5 N street NV; lst 1t. Raymond
McGivern, 6 Danbury street S.W.;
1st 1t. Philip B. Reading, 4337 But
terWorth place NV; 1st 1t. Robert
F. Young, GOT Monroe street NE:
ID 1t. Albert G.. Mire, 1904 Trini-
dad avenue NE; T/Sergt. Roy A.
Wyatt, 1861 Irving street NV; I'd
1t. Richard T. Sterling, 1920 Brandy
wine street NV: S/Sergt. Xavier
M. Brock, 1920 Nineteenth street
NV; 1t. Col. Nathaniel M. Osborne,
2129 Florida avenue NV.
Other Local Returnees.
Also Pfc. Anthony j. Antoniai,
201 Anacostia road Sc; Pfc. Will
liam H. Crist, IA Jib Green S.W,:
lst 1t. Willard M. Huff, jr., 113
Fifth street NE; SISergt. George A.
Campbell, 1912 Erie street Sc;
S/Sergt. James J. Kelly, 1915 Kalo-
rama road NV: Sergt. Alfred War
dell, 1921 Twenty first place Sc;
Corpl. Leslie Nelson, 1906 Meridian
place NV; Pfc. Richard T. Mason,
215 East Howell avenue, Alexandria,
Va; I'd 1t. Carroll Wooge, 1908
North Utah street, Arlington, Va:
Capt. Sidney G. Newman, 1904
Bunker Hill road, Mt. Rainier, Md:
S/Sergt. Carl w. Giesier, 127 West
Patrick street. Frederick, Md; Pfc.
Eugene w. Cissel, 100 North Van
Buren street, Rockville, Md;
S/Sergt. Charles E. Cabeu, 60S Cam
eron street, Alexandria, Va:
S/Sergt. James E. Conlon, 2707
Hemlock ave-;ue, Alexandria, Va,
and Sergt. George L. Griesbauer,
4318 Lynbrook drive, Bethesda.
Three men who were scheduled to
arrive in New York yesterday aboard
the Alexander are: Sergt. James E.
Finks, Culpeper. Va; Corpl. James
L. Phelps, Silver Spring, Md, and
Pfc. James B. Thomson, Colmar
Manor, Md.
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