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| Campaigns Battle of the Bulge Rhineland |
| Roy H Martin Cpl US |
| Mar 1926 * Oct 1960 |
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| 3rd Army |
| 76th Division |
| 304th INF |
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| His Diary He kept while in England |
| Traning: 11APR43 Camp Croft S.C. |
| Advanced Training: SEP44 Cmp McCoy WI. |
| Embarkation: Mike Standish MA. UST: Brazil |
| Dembarkation: So. Hampton, England 12DEC44 |
| Engagements |
| Jan 1945 Bastogne, Belgium (buldge) 76th Div 304th Inf Units: 1st 3rd Armies Under fire 72 hrs Results: Germans retreated to Siegfried Line |
| Feb 1945 Siegfried Line 76th Div 304th Inf Units: 87th 5th 3rd & others Under fire 30 days (consecutive) Results : Germans retreated to Moselle & Prum Rivers & again to Ruhr & Rhine |
| Mar 1945 1030hrs Treir, Germany 76th Div 304th Inf Units: 11th Arm'd & others Under fire ? Results: Captured Treir, Germany |
| Mar 1945 Surgery : Liege , Belgium Hospital England : 1MAR44 - May46 Machinegun wounds to neck and shoulder He was 1 of 12 out of 200 that survied a ambush against his company near Treir Germany Awarded the Purple Heart |
| Principal Military engagements: Central Europe Battle of the Siegfried Line Crossing Saur River |
| These Notes were taken out of a book called Service Record. A diary given to him in while in training in Mass. Filled out in England, while recooperating from his wounds.... since this information was not allowed to be written while in combat..Book was given to him with compliments from The Eagle Tribune, Lawrence Massachusettes. All info came from this and his disharge papers(WD AGO form 53-55 (now known as DDfrom214). This is a little dedication to My Dad and his time in WWII He died of a heart attack on 03OCT60 when i was 5yrs 10 mnth old. I have a slight memory of him which will last me my lifetime. Would like to pass on his memory to others So we all will never forget what people like my dad and others did During wartime then and now . Also during the War i have to mention that my Mother worked for DOD making the following planes: B24 Bomber, F4U Corsair, P47 Thnderbolt during WW2 |