“29er” MAGAZINE INDEX - 29th Division Association

July 1999
Vol. 43, No. 2
55 Years and Counting: D-Day Remembered 1-4, 43-45
Joe Farinholt Gets Silver Star License Plate From Maryland 5
St. Lo Day in Hagerstown, MD 7
D-Day Dodgers (song about the British 8 th Army in Italy) 8
ADA Conference in Springfield, MO 11
Life in the Foxholes of Normandy, by Harold J. Gordon (H Co., 175 th Inf.) 12-14,42
Memory of Sgt. Ekkehard Priller (German POW of 116 th , Brest) 15-16
Visit With Grandson of General Gerhardt, by Phil Sherman 17
Legion of Honor Presented to WWI Veterans by Jacques Chirac 22
A Tribute to William H. Pentenney (obit), by John Schildt 23-24
Saving Private Ryan (a battle critique), by John Hartley (175 th Inf.) 26
Cecil Breedon, 29er Hero (obit), by Hal Baumgarten 27
DAR Honors Bob Slaughter 27
What’s Wrong With Stephen Ambrose’s D-Day, by Thomas Cadwalader 28-29
Witness to History: Bud Willis and Joe Joseph visit 5 th graders to talk on WWII 29
Francis Talbot (WWI 29er) warded Order of St. Barbara in MD 30
Vierville monument replica 30
Message from Governor of Florida for 81 st National Convention 32
29 th Division Association Week in Florida for 81 st national Convention 33
Remarks at Bois de Bretel by Walter Carter 34
Organization chart, 29 th Div. in WWII, by Don McKee 36
D Co., 116 th Inf. 1999 Reunion, by Bob Slaughter 38
Final Journey,The Story of Michael “Frenchy” Kubaritz, by Billy Melander 39-40
The Medal, for Father Eugene O’Grady, by Billy Melander 40
LCI 492, by Bill Muldoon 41
Maryland Boy Scouts Rmember D-Day on 29 th Div. Memorial Highway 43
From D-2 to V-E Day and Beyond, by Vincent Bognanni (L Co., 115 th Inf.) 47
Baltimore Orioles Honor Two 29ers (Joe Farinholt and Marvin Geyer) 47
The Queen of the Blue and Gray, 1945 (Dorothy Jean Memering) 48
The Brotherhood (F Co., 116 th Inf. in St. Lo, by Doug Ryan (F Co., 116 th Inf.) 49
We’ve Found Private Ryan (Doug Ryan, F Co., 116thInf.) 49
Surrender advice to German soldiers in Brest, from US Army 50
War Bride Memoir, by Ann Porcellini 51-52
Bergen Belsen, by Len Horowitz (104 th Med Bn) 53