U.S.Airborne

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Attached Units - The U.S. Airborne during World War II
1st Special Service Force (FSSF)
Roll of Honor - Officers


 LastName FirstName MI Tle Rank CO/Reg  Location Date    Status Cemetery

Airth William A 1/Lt 1/1 Italy 5/22/44   Photo on Trooper Pictures  ITALY (C)
Ariott A James 1/Lt 6/2 Cassino 12/4/43   Photo on Trooper Pictures  ITALY (C)
Atto Frederick B Capt 3/1 Anzio 5/23/44   Photo on Trooper Pictures DSC ITALY (C)
Baughman Albert W 2/Lt 4/2 Italy 12/6/43 USA/PA (US)
Borders Elden C Capt 3/1 Italy 12/6/43   Photo on Trooper Pictures  S-R (US)
Boyce Wayne E 1/Lt 5/2 Italy 12/5/43   Photo on Trooper Pictures  S-R (US)
Coleman George R K Lt 5/1 Italy 5/30/44   Photo on Trooper Pictures  ITALY (C)
Cotton Miles A Capt Hq2/1 Italy 12/26/43   Photo on Trooper Pictures DOW ITALY (C)
Cox Fern E 2/Lt 5/2 Italy 1/4/44 S-R (US)
Coyston Albert R 1/Lt 5/2 Wirdum 4/28/45   Photo on Trooper Pictures  HOLTEN (C)
Cuddy David W 1/Lt 5/3 Anzio 2/3/44   Photo on Trooper Pictures  S-R (US)
Eiwen Frank W 1/Lt Hq/1 Italy 12/3/44 S-R (US)
Ekberg Donald J 1/Lt Hq2/2 Italy 1/4/44 S-R (US)
Fortune Ernest J 1/Lt 3/1 Italy 5/21/44 ITALY (US)
LaPorte Paul G 1/Lt 6/2 So France 9/9/44   Photo on Trooper Pictures DOW FRANCE (C)
Mac Willam Thomas C LTC Hq2/2 Italy 12/3/43   Photo on Trooper Pictures  ITALY (C)
Marshall Alfred C Jr Col Hq/1 Italy 6/4/44   Photo on Trooper Pictures CO/1 ITALY (US)
Mc Dougall Kenneth D 2/Lt 3/1 So France 9/15/44   Photo on Trooper Pictures  FRANCE (C)
Mc Lean Robert G Capt 2/1 So France 8/16/44   DOW ITALY (C)
Merritt William H Capt 3/1 So France 8/17/44   Photo on Trooper Pictures SS RHO (US)
Moore James D 2/Lt 4/3 So France 9/6/44   Photo on Trooper Pictures  RHO (US)
Ojala Sulo V Maj Hq2/1 Italy 12/3/43    USA/MI (US)
Painton Robert J Lt 1/2 So France 9/13/44   Photo on Trooper Pictures  FRANCE (C)
Pearce Thomas E Jr Maj Hq1/1 Italy 1/9/44 S-R (US)
Perry Weldon B Capt 2/3 Italy 1/11/44   Photo on Trooper Pictures  ITALY (C)
Richardson John H 1/Lt 5/1 La Difensa 12/3/43   SS ITALY (US)
Rothlin W T Capt 1/2 La Difensa 12/3/43 USA/CA (US)
Samuel Ross L Lt 4/2 So France 8/27/44   Photo on Trooper Pictures DOW FRANCE (C)
Scoggin Charles R 1/Lt 5/3 Italy 2/2/44 USA/CO (US)
Secter John M Maj Hq/3 Italy 5/28/44   Photo on Trooper Pictures  ITALY (C)
Smith Omar H 1/Lt 6/1 taly 12/26/43   SS USA/SC (US)
Woolhiser Roy E 1/Lt 3/1 Italy 1/10/44 Arlington (US)

THE ORIGINAL LIST IS from the book
        BY ROBERT D BURHANS
THE FIRST SPECIAL SERVICE FORCE









books
R E L A T E D   B O O K S

Ambrose, Stephen E D-DAY June 6,1944: The Climatic Battle of WW II. 6/93, Simon & Shuster ISBN: 0671673343
Badsey , Stephen & Chandler, David G (Editor)  Arnhem 1944: Operation "Market Garden" (Campaign No.24) 1993 96p. ISBN: 1855323028
Breuer, William B Geronimo! American Paratroopers in WWII. New York: St. Martin Press, 1989 621 p. ISBN: 0-312-03350-8
Breuer, William B Operation Dragoon: The Allied Invasion of the South of France. Presidio Press, Sept 1987 261 p. ISBN: 0891413073
D'Este, Carlo  Patton: A Genius for War 1024 pp ISBN: 0060927623
De Trez, Michel  At the Point of No Return : Pictorial History of the American Paratroopers in the Invasion of Normandy 7/98, D-Day Pub, 200 p. ISBN: 2960017617
De Trez, Michel  First Airborne Task Force: Pictorial History of the Allied Paratroopers in the Invasion of Southern France 7/98, D-Day Pub, 500 p. ISBN: 2960017625
Gassend, Jean-Loup Operation Dragoon: Autopsy of a Battle: The Allied Liberation of the French Riviera August-September 1944 Schiffer Publishing, Ltd. (May 28, 2014), 560 p. ISBN: 076434580X
Gavin, James M.  On to Berlin : Battles of an Airborne Commander, 1943-1946 ISBN: 0670525170
Golden, Lewis Echoes From Arnhem Penguin ISBN: 0718305213
Hicks, Anne The Last Fighting General: The Biography of Robert Tryon Frederick Schiffer Pub Ltd, 320pp, ISBN: 0764324306
MacDonald, Charles B  A Time For Trumpets: The Untold Story of the Battle of the Bulge Wm Morrow & Co (P), 720 p. ISBN: 068151574
McKenzie, John  On Time, On Target Novato, CA: Presidio, May 15,2000. 304 p. ISBN: 089 141 714 1
Ryan, Cornelius  A Bridge Too Far 670p. ISBN: 0684803305
Wildman, John B All Americans 82nd Airborne. Meadowlands Militaria, 6/83 ISBN:091 208 1007
The Center of Military History The War in the Mediterranean: A WWII Pictorial History Brasseys, Inc., 465 p. ISBN:1574881302
Yardley, Doyle R  Home Was Never Like This. Yardley Enterprises, Aug, 2002, 312 p. ISBN:0971743908


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