Pg. 23 (28 Sept) At 1400 the next day the Bn received orders to shift one btry to the right to cover an additional field of fire due to the...
I've returned!!
Grandpa Carter has similar pics. Maybe your dad mentioned his name Horace Carter from Pima Arizona.:)
I have searched and searched for any kind of info on Welch. I was starting to think he wasn't even real. Thanks for the photos! :p
Thanks, and I enjoyed the photos you posted. I'll start posting again tomorrow.
Wow, I can't believe Grandpa's story is getting any hits. I stopped posting the 980th's history because it didn't seem like anyone was interested....
Page 22 At 0010A 23 September 1944 the bn fired 24 rounds on an enemy battery two and one-half miles east of Eschweiler. Par 2 Field Artillery...
Page 21 (September 18, 1944) The bn commander and reconnaissance parties left at 1250A and the bn commander returned to the bn CP at 1431A. At...
Page 20 At 0825B the same morning, Btry "A", 557th CA(AA) which had been marching to join the bn arrived and replaced, 2nd platoon, btry "C", 103...
Page 19 At 0830B the next morning, Enlisted Men of Batteries "A & C" captured 2 and 8 prisoners respectively. At 1200B the Bn commander and...
Page 18 (The month is September 1944 and the bn is about to do battle with the Germans in and around Mons.) The nest morning the bn drained 200...
Page 17 Btry "A", 980th FA bn, commanded by Captain Byron W Todd, was attached to 1st Inf Div Artillery at 1300B 22 August 1944. A billeting party...
Page 16 (August 1944) At 0930B 29 August 1944 the bn left for a new rendezvous area and arrived at 1410B at coor VS3933, 1 mile south of...
Page 15 (Closing the Falaise Pocket) The next day Lt Wood was still unable to observe due to the heavy round haze. At 1105B 17 August 1944 the...
Page 14 At 1900B the bn received a schedule of fires from the 35th Inf div calling for 19 missions to be fired. At 0035B the next morning the bn...
Page 13 (German counter attack toward Avranches. Aug 6-12 Battle of Mortain) At 1150B August 6 1944 the bn was given close station march order by...
Page 12 (August 1944) The 456th AAA received a new mission and btry "A", 456th AA was replaced by btry "D", 438th AAA as bn AA security at 2315B....
Page 11 (not in the offical report. On this page "operation cobra" begins, the US take Coutances, we have the "breakout of St. Lo and the US reach...
Page 10 On the 11th of July about 0330B, Btry "A" was taken under light counter-battery fire and at 0410B an ME109 was fired on by the AA...
Page 9 (JULY 1944) On the 2nd of July, 1944, "A"btry of the 453rd AA left because of a new mission and the bn got word that "H" Hour and the...
