Saturday 12/02/2006 Name: Henry Koontz 65th Div. Unit: M Company, 261st Reg. City/Country of current residence: Woodbine, MD E-Mail: koontzhg@msn.com 65th Div. Assn. Status: I am a family member of a 65th Division Veteran Relationship/Veteran (if family member): Son of Karl G. Koontz Comments: My dad, Karl Koontz, recently passed away. I was reading his tribute on the WWII memorial website, and found this site. I am trying to piece together his service records. He also served in Korea. Referred By: www.65thdiv.com

Friday 12/01/2006 Name: Mason ( Mickey) H. Dorsey 65th Div. Unit: 71st Cav. Rcn. Trp. City/Country of current residence: Johns Island, SC E-Mail: mickeydorsey@gmail.com Homepage: http://members.aol.com/famjustin/Dorseybio.html 65th Div. Assn. Status: I am a fellow veteran Comments: Have traveled to Europe with Bob Patton and several other 65 members . A most wonderful and memorable time . Great admiration for all you guys . Mickey Dorsey Referred By: www.65thdiv.com

Wednesday 11/29/2006 Name: Elbert Jackson 65th Div. Unit: Service Btry. 869th Field Artillary City/Country of current residence: North Carolina E-Mail: elbertjackson@hotmail.com 65th Div. Assn. Status: I am a 65th Div. Veteran but not a member of the Association Comments: I would love to speak/email with anyone that was in the 65th Division from the formation to the disbanding of it. You can reach me at elbertjackson@hotmail.com. Referred By: www.65thdiv.com

Tuesday 11/28/2006 Name: Anthony J. Frioni 65th Div. Unit: Co. G. 261st Inf.. City/Country of current residence: 3327 HarvardCt. N. Irving, Tx. 75062 E-Mail: abfrioni@comcast.net 65th Div. Assn. Status: I am a member of the 65th Division Association Referred By: www.65thdiv.com

\ Sunday 11/26/2006 Name: Thomas Mahovlich 65th Div. Unit: A Battery 867th F.A Bn. City/Country of current residence: Eastlake, Ohio E-Mail: mahovlich@sbcglobal.net 65th Div. Assn. Status: I am a member of the 65th Division Association Comments: I now have a new and different e-mail address. Referred By: www.65thdiv.com

Monday 11/13/2006 Name: Ken Hill 65th Div. Unit: 260th (Company C) City/Country of current residence: Revere, MA E-Mail: khill@apslaw.com 65th Div. Assn. Status: I am a family member of a 65th Division Veteran Relationship/Veteran (if family member): Nephew Comments: My uncle, S/Sgt. James J. "Hoodsie" Hill was a medic in the 260th - I believe in C Company. He was from Revere, Massachusetts and earned a bronze star in Treuf, Germany on 20 April 1945. He died at Fort Devens on April 18, 1946, upon his discharge, after reacting to a vaccination. I am putting together a memorial to my uncle, and would like to hear from anyone who may have known him while he served our country. Any help is appreciated. Thank you. Referred By: www.65thdiv.com

Thursday 11/02/2006 Name: Alexander M,Guilmin 65th Div. Unit: CO.D.260TH.INF. City/Country of current residence: Placerville,CA. E-Mail: Gilly01@earthlink.net 65th Div. Assn. Status: I am a 65th Div. Veteran but not a member of the Association Referred By: www.65thdiv.com

Friday 10/27/2006 Name: Dallas Brent Hyden 65th Div. Unit: 259th Regt. 3rd Btn Company M City/Country of current residence: Kermit, WV 25674 E-Mail: cabh28@yahoo.com 65th Div. Assn. Status: I am a member of the 65th Division Association Comments: I've been a member since 3/2003 and I have enjoyed the issues of the Halbert and all it has to offer Thanks to all who take a part in it. Referred By: www.65thdiv.com

Thursday 09/21/2006 Name: David J. Loughlin 65th Div. Unit: 2nd Battalion HQ Company, 260th Infantry City/Country of current residence: Hicksville, NY 11810 E-Mail: oleary54@aol.com 65th Div. Assn. Status: I am a member of the 65th Division Association Comments: It's about time I put myself on this @#%$! website. Referred By: Friend

Saturday 09/16/2006 Name: Robert C, (Bob) Steger 65th Div. Unit: Co. G, 259th City/Country of current residence: Brownwood, Texas E-Mail: bamsteger@bwoodtx.com 65th Div. Assn. Status: I am a member of the 65th Division Association Comments: Would like to hear form David O. Gronen,and any other 259th Co. G member. Referred By: www.65thdiv.com

Sunday 09/10/2006 Name: Daniel Kadden City/Country of current residence: Olympia, WA E-Mail: dkadden@comcast.net 65th Div. Assn. Status: Other Comments: I am searching for information about the liberation of the area just south of Erfurt, Germany in early April 1945. I am co-authoring a memoir with a Holocaust Survivor named Curt Allina who, following escape during the Death March from the Ohrdruf camp to Buchenwald, was picked up by an MP patrol probably somewhere southwest of Erfurt on 13 April 1945. Without knowing his exact location, we think there is a high probability that he was in the zone where the 65th was operating while in reserve behind the 89th Division. Your historical overview section describes "mopping up stragglers at Arnstadt" at this time. We have reason to believe the outdoor holding facility ("cage") Mr. Allina was taken to by the MPs was located at Arnstadt, where the 65th CP was set up at this exact time. For the sake of accuracy and the personal need to piece together details over six decades later, Mr. Allina wants to establish more precisely where he was and what events were occurring around him (he certainly had no way of knowing at the time!). Of particular interest to Mr. Allina is the identity of a US army captain named Schreiber (first name unknown) who interviewed him at the prisoner holding pen and who showed extraordinary kindness and humanity in arranging for his needs. This encounter with Captain Schreiber has remained a powerful memory all these years. We have no idea if Captain Schreiber was attached to G-2 of the 65th or another arm of Third Army (Counter Intelligence Corps?) operating at the prisoner cage. There is also a possibility Schreiber was attached to UNRRA (the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Admin). But there is no doubt he was a US Army captain. To help us, I wonder if any vets of the 65th who were part of that last sweep into Central Europe have information relating to the following questions: 1. On or around 13 April 1945, was the 65th administering the Arnstadt "PW cage?" Is this where MPs in the area south of Erfurt took captured German prisoners and others (including escaped slave workers) who were picked up in the countryside? 2. Are there any 65th vets in your community who served in the division's MP platoon and who remember patrolling and picking up wandering DPs and various escaped slave workers? 3. Does anyone have any knowledge of UNRRA personnel arriving in liberated areas at this time and beginning their humanitarian work? On or about the 15th of April 1945, Captain Schreiber personally transported Mr. Allina and a fellow liberated prisoner by jeep about 80 miles west to Bad Nauheim and handed them over to an UNRRA team. Did the 65th have any official contact with UNRRA or was that handled at a different level at 3rd Army? 4. Finally, does anyone recognize the name of "Captain Schreiber" so that we could learn more about him? Thank you for any help you can provide. With gratitude for the service the 65th performed in World War II, and also for your more efforts to tell the story of the campaign to liberate Germany, Sincerely yours, Daniel Kadden, PhD Olympia, WA dkadden@comcast.net Referred By: www.65thdiv.com

Wednesday 08/23/2006 Name: Carolyn K. Elgin City/Country of current residence: Rutherfordton, NC E-Mail: canterburybell@yahoo.com 65th Div. Assn. Status: Other Relationship/Veteran (if family member): Friend Comments: Your website is so informative and well-done. I spent at least an hour reading and learning about the 65th. Thank you for this opportunity. What a great legacy this web site is! Referred By: www.65thdiv.com

Sunday 08/13/2006 Name: Mike Amonson 65th Div. Unit: Cannon Company, 259th Inf. Reg. City/Country of current residence: Philomont, VA E-Mail: amonson6@aol.com 65th Div. Assn. Status: I am a family member of a 65th Division Veteran Relationship/Veteran (if family member): son of SSgt Louis S. Amonson Comments: My Dad (SSgt Louis S. Amonson, passed away in 1995) was in the 65th Infantry Division. I just posted his European WW2 photos to the following website http://ww2amonson.shutterfly.com/action/?a=0AbsWbly3cMmLkQ Feel free to circulate the web address to interested others. Buddies identified in the photo albums are: Barnette, Bettini, Bollinger, Damann, Gerlach, Hatley, Hauck, Henderson, Hewitt, Kalfon, Karschner, Kotleske, Lehrmann, Littrell, McBroome, Melaneg, Mossberg, Newman, Schaefer, Joe Smith, Starn Pictures from Camp Lucky Strike all the way to Enns and Linz. Part of the Austrian occupation. Also newspaper clippings documenting the advance of the Division. Please contact me if I can additional help in sharing the story of the 65th Infantry Division's service to our country. Sincerely, Mike Amonson amonson6@aol.com Referred By: www.65thdiv.com

Saturday 08/05/2006 Name: Alan Banister 65th Div. Unit: 265th Combat Eng. Hq. Company City/Country of current residence: Crown Point, Indiana E-Mail: abanister@hotmail.com 65th Div. Assn. Status: I am a family member of a 65th Division Veteran Relationship/Veteran (if family member): son Comments: We lost a great man yesterday 8/4/2006 My Father, William I. Banister, passed away. Dad had some great stories always about the good times over seas. Never any bad stories he keep them locked away never to be forgotten. Referred By: www.65thdiv.com

Wednesday 08/02/2006
Name:	Andrew Kurucz
65th Div. Unit:	869th F.A.Bn. Battery B
City/Country of current residence:	Hopelawn N.J. 08861-2251
E-Mail:	kuruczsr1@verizon.net
65th Div. Assn. Status:	I am a 65th Div. Veteran but not a member of the Association
Comments:	Looking for Battery B 869th FA Bn. veterans to talk to.
Referred By:	www.65thdiv.com

Monday 07/24/2006 Name: Wilson P. Snyder 65th Div. Unit: 260th, Company K City/Country of current residence: Houston, TX E-Mail: reginasnyder2001@excite.com 65th Div. Assn. Status: I am a family member of a 65th Division Veteran Relationship/Veteran (if family member): Daughter Comments: I am looking for any photos of the 260th, Company K. My father, Wilson P. Snyder, who is 88 years old now, would like to see them. Also, if any family members or Company members would like to talk about the War, he would love to talk to you. Referred By: www.65thdiv.com

Monday 07/17/2006 Name: Karen Becker Martinez 65th Div. Unit: 261st Company G City/Country of current residence: Salt Lake City E-Mail: shoegru@aol.com 65th Div. Assn. Status: I am a family member of a 65th Division Veteran Relationship/Veteran (if family member): Daughter Comments: My father, John Henry Becker MAJ US ARMY RETIRED, passed away on July 3, 1994. Some years back, Dad was asked to render his personnal account of the Holocost. He (along with countless other brave soldiers of the 65th) assisted in the liberation of Ohrdruf. Would his account be on the Internet? I've searched and searched for something - anything regarding this. I would more than appreciate any help. Thank you from one middle-aged daughter who misses her Dad more than words could express. Referred By: www.65thdiv.com

Monday 07/10/2006 Name: Jim Zuidema 65th Div. Unit: Hdq. Btry Divarty City/Country of current residence: Muskegon Michigan E-Mail: JLZ65thdiv@aol.com 65th Div. Assn. Status: I am a member of the 65th Division Association Comments: Does anyone know Norman Kaplan or his where abouts. He was the switchboard operator with me. I would like to contact him. Thanks and God bless you all. Referred By: www.65thdiv.com

Thursday 06/29/2006 Name: Sgt Neal Buckingham 65th Div. Unit: 260th Company C City/Country of current residence: Maryville, Tn E-Mail: troy.buckingham@us.army.mil 65th Div. Assn. Status: I am a family member of a 65th Division Veteran Relationship/Veteran (if family member): Grandson Comments: Hello Soldiers, I am the grandson of William E. Rasar. SGT Co. C 260th. Sgt Rasar was shot during the first battle in Germany. He is still with us but his memory is fading, if anyone out there knew him please contact me. I would like to correspond for him. Thank you SGT Neal Buckingham, US ARMY Referred By: www.65thdiv.com

Sunday 06/25/2006 Name: Theodore (Ted) Garza 65th Div. Unit: HQ Battery 869th Field Artillery BN City/Country of current residence: Houston, Texas E-Mail: garzie55@yahoo.com 65th Div. Assn. Status: I am a 65th Div. Veteran but not a member of the Association Comments: I am signing this for my father who does not have e-mail. Please contact him through me if you remember him and/or served with him in France, Germany, and Austria. Thank you. Diana Stevens Referred By: www.65thdiv.com

Wednesday 06/21/2006 Name: Dan Richardson 65th Div. Unit: Company G, 260th Inf. Reg. City/Country of current residence: Cleveland, Tn. E-Mail: leinad56@bellsouth.net 65th Div. Assn. Status: I am a family member of a 65th Division Veteran Relationship/Veteran (if family member): Johnny R. Richardson Comments: Dad (Johnny Richardson) passed away today. He was proud of his service in the 65th and his RCT the 260th, Co. G. 6-21-2006 Referred By: www.65thdiv.com

Tuesday 06/20/2006 Name: Terry Harshman 65th Div. Unit: Co. E. 261st Infantry Reg. City/Country of current residence: Indianapolis, IN E-Mail: tw.harshman@sbcglobal.net 65th Div. Assn. Status: I am a family member of a 65th Division Veteran Relationship/Veteran (if family member): Daughter Comments: Hi, everyone. My dad passed away in 1985. His name was William H. (Harrison) Webb, from Bowling Green, Ky. His papers say TEC-5. Does anyone out there remember him? He brought back pictures of Dachau when he came home, so I think he was there at the end of the war. I'm gathering together some of Dad's pictures in uniform along with one of his halbert arm patches, and a copy of his discharge papers to frame and display and someday hand down to my son. To my great surprise, I discovered my dad should have received 2 bronze stars, a good conduct medal, a victory medal, and an army of occupation medal after the war. He never got them. Did all of you men get your medals? Any info would be helpful. I'm going to pursue getting Dad's medals to put in with his other things to display. Dad never talked about the war. I love and miss him, and I wish I had told him how proud I was of him-for his honorable service to his country. But I'm only now realizing how much that means to me. But it's not too late to tell you who are still here. Thank you for putting your lives on the line for us. Thank you for your sacrifice. You guys are ALL brave and wonderful. God bless each and every one of you! And thank you for making this Web site possible! It's really a comfort to me. Terry Harshman Referred By: www.65thdiv.com

Monday 06/12/2006 Name: Steven Carl Swartz 65th Div. Unit: 26st Inf. Reg. City/Country of current residence: Ashville, New York E-Mail: swartz9780@hotmail.com 65th Div. Assn. Status: I am a family member of a 65th Division Veteran Relationship/Veteran (if family member): Grandson Comments: Hi I was wondering if anyone knew or served with my grandfather Carl Anthony Swartz, from Salamanca, New York? He was in the 261st Infantry Division in WWII. Referred By: www.65thdiv.com

Saturday 06/03/2006 Name: Michael Caulfield 65th Div. Unit: Company E. 259th Infantry Reg. E-Mail: cda_beachbum@yahoo.com 65th Div. Assn. Status: I am a family member of a 65th Division Veteran Relationship/Veteran (if family member): son Comments: Hello..anybody who knew my dad, Edward Caulfield, '43-'46 65th Infantry, Company E, 259th Inf? Please contact me..thank you, Mike Referred By: www.65thdiv.com