“29er” MAGAZINE INDEX - 29th Division Association

July 2005
Vol. 49, No. 2
29er Plaques in Nat’l D-Day Museum 1
Making History Come Alive (Ned Shawkey HQ3, 115 th Inf.; Joe Joseph B Co., 116 th Inf.;
Ernest Rutherford USN visit to Middle School), by Paul De Gaeta (Sarasota Herald-Tribune) 3
D-Day Plus 50 Years, by Holbrook Bradley (Baltimore Sun War Correspondent with the 175 th Inf.)
(Sarasota Herald-Tribune) 5
Rate Hike May Kill Purple Heart Stamp, by Paul DeGaeta (Sarasota Herald-Tribune) 7
French Remember D-Day 8-9
Leaves (a poem) by Marion Gray (116 th Inf.) 9
The Major of St. Lo, by Stan Federman (WWII History Magazine) 10-13
John Barnes (A Co., 116 th inf.) Awarded NSDAR Medal of Honor (The Rural Oneida) 13
Military Decorations (analysis of Medal of Honor in WWII) by Don McKee (104 th Med Bn) 15
Discovery of 29er Dog Tags in U.K. (belonging to William Shimek, 29 th Div.)
by James Blandon (The Cornishman) 16
A Father Lost, A Friend Found (60-year search for Ewal Erman, I Co., 116 th Inf. and
friend Clyde Gorum I Co., 116 th Inf.), by Joyce Garrett Cox 17-20
These Americans Aren’t Bloody Well Trained to Shoot (training, 1995), by Charles Bury 21
The Thomas Pope Story (Culpepper Minutemen of 1775), by Mark H. Johnson 22-23
A Meeting of Heros, by Charles Bury, Jr. 23
Famous Old Montrose Chapel to be Rededicated, by Joe Balkoski 24
My Life in the E.T.O., by Walter P. Shawd (L Co., 116 th Inf.) 25-26
Ma Nuit, by Hippolyte Vauclair (French memoir of German occupation of France) 26-27
U.S. Route 15 in Maryland Designated 115 th Inf. Highway 30
The Wartime Letters of PFC Gordon P. Golding (175 th , 115 th Infs.), Chapter 1 35-38
447 AAA Automatic Weapons Battalion, attached to 29ers for D-Day 40
Greetings From Taj, Iraq 44
Armed Forces Day, message from Donald Rumsfeld 45
National Infantry Museum Fundraising 45