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Your Nov. 10 report on the SS meeting in Verden, Germany, addressed by ex-Paratrooper General "Papa" Ramcke, reminded me of the circumstances of his capture by our 13th Regiment of the 8th Division . . . on Sept. 19, 1944. Word was received that General Ramcke desired to surrender. He and his staff were in a bunker 75 feet underground, on the Crozon Peninsula outside Brest . . . At 1830 hours, Brigadier General Charles D. W. Canham . . . appeared to accept surrender. Very haughtily, Ramcke demanded of Canham his credentials. Canham pointed to the accompanying Tommy-gun and BAR men and replied: "These...
HERMAN G. FELHOELTER, 36, Roman Catholic; killed in action July 16, 1950, while serving with the 19th Infantry Regiment. He, also, had stayed behind with his unit's wounded when the lines were overrun. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross...
LAWRENCE F. BRUNNERT, 35, Roman Catholic; missing in action since Dec. 2, 1950, while serving with the 32nd Infantry Regiment...
...years ago this month, the 8th Regiment of the U.S. 1st Cavalry Division was pressed inside a tiny perimeter on the Korean front by steady Communist attacks. The Reds pierced the lines and cut off the command post and the regiment's medical station. While the colonel organized his headquarters troops for a breakout, Chaplain Emil J. Kapaun kept up the spirits of the wounded and helped prevent panic among those left to fight. At dusk the survivors fought their way back to the U.N. lines. Kapaun stayed behind, doctoring the wounded who could not be moved, and praying...
...French army. La Tour d'Auvergne was a grenadier captain of such legendary courage that his superiors gave him the title of "First Grenadier of France." Ever since his death in battle, at Oberhausen in 1800, his name has been called at formal musters of his old regiment. Each time, a noncommissioned officer steps up to answer: "Dead on the field of honor...