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112th Infantry Regiment, US Army If you can provide any additional information, especially on actions and locations at specific dates, please add it here. Those known to have served with 112th Infantry Regiment, US Army during the Second World War 1939-1945. Bailey Eugene G.. Staff Sgt. Bailey Eugene G. Staff Sergeant Bailey Eugene G. Staff Sergeant Barnett Thomas Eugene. Cpl. Edwards Arlin Clay. PFC. Leyba Jose Dolores. PFC Osborne CIB, GCM. Raymond Homer Joseph. Pte. Spreeman Carlyle Willis. PFC. The names on this list have been submitted by relatives, friends, neighbours and others who wish to remember them, if you have any names to add or any recollections or photos of those listed, please Add a Name to this List Records of 112th Infantry Regiment, US Army from other sources. The Wartime Memories Project is the original WW1 and WW2 commemoration website. Announcements 1st of September 2024 marks 25 years since the launch of the Wartime Memories Project. 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The Wartime Memories Project will give them a good home and ensure that they are used for educational purposes. Please get in touch for the postal address, do not sent them to our PO Box as packages are not accepted. World War 1 One ww1 wwII second 1939 1945 battalion Did you know? We also have a section on The Great War. and a Timecapsule to preserve stories from other conflicts for future generations. Want to know more about 112th Infantry Regiment, US Army? There are:-1 items tagged 112th Infantry Regiment, US Army available in our Library   These include information on officers, regimental histories, letters, diary entries, personal accounts and information about actions during the Second World War. Staff Sgt. Eugene G. Bailey Company K 112th Infantry Regiment My Dad, Staff Sergeant Eugene G. Bailey 28th Division 112th Infantry Company K. Was caputured during the Battle of the Bulge on December 17th, 1944. He never talked about his time in the war. However, he was in four campaigns, Normendy, Northern France, Rhineland and the Ardennes. He received a bronze metal for following a line which lead to a Germen Bunker. In turn the bunker was taken out. As a pow he was held at both Stalags IXB and IXA. He arrived at Stalag IXB on December 26, 1944 and was transfered to Stalag IXA on January 26, 1945. I found in his Bible a picture of a group of men all in uniforms on the back of the picture it is written it was taken in April 1945 after liberation of pow camp. I really would like to know who the other men are in the picture and if they remember my dad. I do not know if this was his unit or the other men from the Stalag IXA. Eugene Bailey (back row, fifth from the right) after his liberation, in Paris during April 1945 I also have his hand written journel it reads: December 12th 1944 - left for Paris December 13th 1944 -arrived Paris December 14th 1944- sick December 15th left Paris stayed in Reames December 16th arrived Orwen on Belgium Luxburg Germany Boarder - Heavy Arty-bombing December 17th Heavy arty, bombing 2000 - Town surrounded 2010 - Captured Watch taken Walked all night December 18th walked all day- 1/3 Loaf bread cheese, marmalade December 19th in PW cage December 20th walked all day December 21st walked all day December 22nd walked all day December 23rd Boarded train no food December 24th on train no food no water December 25th on train no food little water December 26th 1/6 loaf, little meat 0100 on train December 26th left train at 0900 Bad orb Stallager (IXB) Stew at 1200 Bread 1/6 at 1600 December 27th Life in Pw Stew ¾ lieder per day Bread 1/6 loaf …… No recreation at all December 28-31 Same Jan 1-24 continue Same-meat -cottage cheese - marmalade One or twice a wk Jan 25th 1945 Boarded train Jan 26th Arrived STL. 9A No food Jan 27th- Stew & Bread Food Tea better Jan 28th Same Jan 29th Same Food Better but very insufficient French PW donating a few smokes From RC packages Jan 30th Situation unchanged Getting very thin & weak News excellent Russians - 65 miles from Berlin Jan 31 Food same-cottage cheese no butter A break in the weather thawing At this point in the journal I do not know if the dates are for Feb. or March the first entry looks to me like it is 3-1 Situation unchanged 2-3 same 3-4 shaved 1st time since Dec 14 1944 5 war news0 rosins 25miles from Berlin 6 situation unchanged 7 2 letters one card 8 red cross Box 1 per 4 men 9 dined well, smoked well 10 same 11 grub gone smokes too. 12 -20 grub poor-no smokes recreation (I can not tell what it says) This ends the dates however there is more on the paper. Marshall imaan 19098805 Blankets-NO GI Bed NU 8 Alex Justus = 36376532=2456 Blankets=No-GI Bed Ndill Landberg+36220111=2430 Blankets (unreadable) Lam Mrchunee=20320737=24015 Blankets NO GI Bed NO 108 Wed- 1000-1100 Stockseb by Bolger Sat. 1000- 1100 making up of a newpaper by jones Thur Quiz contest 1000-1100 I cont from each section Fri. winners- Fri. There are other man named in my dads journal. I have researched the names some are from Stalag IXB. My dad was almost 6 feet tall and weigh in 1979. Reseaching all of this has made me a very proud daughter. Thank you for your time. Diana Thomas Add to this record. PFC Jose Dolores Leyba Company K 112th Infantry Regiment My father, Pfc Jose Dolores Leyba, served in the 112th Inf Reg Co K 28th Div during the battle of Hurtgen Forest in the drive on the town of Schmidt. He was taken prisoner and held in Stalag 2A, Neuremberg/Mecklengerg 53-13 from 8 Nov 44 to 1 May 45. I am searching records for documentation, morning reports, showing exact date he was captured, where he was captured, and possible injury sustained during this battle. I have so far been unsuccessful in obtaining any medical reports from the VA which would support me in obtaining a replacement for The Purple Heart Medal which he received. Family members recall having seen it but its whereabouts is unknown since both my father and mother are deceased. Anyone having served with my father or having any knowledge of his activity while serving our country may have the information I need to complete my search. Thanks for anything which you could privide regarding my search. Isabel Leyba Ballard Add to this record. Staff Sergeant Eugene G Bailey 28th Division 112th Infantry My Dad, Staff Sergeant Eugene G. Bailey served with the 28th Division 112th Infantry. He was captured on December 17, 1944 during the Battle of the Bulge. He was sent to Stalag IXB and then transferred to Stalag IXA on January 25, 1945. I have a group or unit picture taken in Paris after the liberation dated April 1945. This site is a great way to honor our WWII heroes. Diana Thomas, a very proud daughter Diane Thomas Add to this record. Staff Sergeant Eugene G Bailey Company K 28th Infantry Division, 112th Regiment My dad, Eugene G. Bailey, was a Staff Sergeant in the US Army, 28th Infantry Division, 112th Regiment, Company K during WW2. He was in four campaigns including the Battle of the Bulge where he was taken prisoner on December 17, 1944. He arrived in Bad Orb Stalag IX B on December 29, 1944 and remained there until late January 1945 when he was transferred to Stalag IXA. This information is from a journal he wrote during his time just before the Battle of the Bulge. The dates of this journal are from December 13, 1944 until the end of March 1945. However, there are not any entries for Feb. My dad did not talk about his time in the service or about being a POW. I do know that he weighed only 79 pounds upon his return to the states. Diana Thomas Add to this record. PFC. Arlin Clay Edwards 112nd Infantry Regiment My grandfather was a prisoner in Stalag 2A from 11/08/1944 until 6/08/1945. Debra Edwards Add to this record. Cpl. Thomas Eugene "Barney" Barnett Co K, 112th Infantry Regiment My Grandfather, Thomas Barnett was captured on November the 8th 1944 whilst serving with the 112th in 28th Infantry Div. He was initially held captive at Stalag (III B); He was held there for 2 months and transferred to Stalag (II A), where he was held for 4 months. According to him (he hardly ever talked about his experiences, and when he did he always got upset) Stalag II A was located in between a fork in the road. The Russians later liberated the camp, but he was able to escape just before that happened. He told the story that Russians were shelling artillery from both sides of the fork. He said a mule took some shrapnel and ran through the fencing that imprisoned the camp. He and others took flight out of the hole made by the mule. He managed to retrieve a CZ24 sidearm off a dead German Officer. He told of how an SS Officer was riding a horse through those that were able to make it outside the fencing and was cutting POW's down with a sword. He and others were able to make it back to friendly lines, He was returned to action on May 24th 1945. I once asked him why he and the others didn't run towards the Russians, he told me that they were afraid that the Russians would make them fight with them and that they would be used as the frontline and sent into positions in which they would be guinea pigs. He said he never thought he would make it back to friendly lines but he wasn't going to die in that camp. He brought the CZ24 home with him, My Dad owns it now. My Grandfather has too many medals to list I will say that he has a Bronze Star, Purple Heart, Prisoner Of War, and a French Croix. The others are too numerous to add here. He passed away in 2002 and to my amazement Congress had stopped giving full military burial rights a couple years prior to my Grandfather passing. The Army initially were intending on sending 2 soldiers with a tape recorder to play Taps. This pissed me off to no end. My Grandfather passed on a Monday morning, and after I found out the Army's arrangements for him I got on the phone and called my Congressional Representative in South Carolina, which was Jim Demint at the time. I voiced my displeasure that Congress had reduced Military funeral rights down to a tape recorder of Taps. I said " why not just spit on his grave while your at it." After 3 days of calling, my Representative had arranged for my Grandfather to have Full Military burial rights. He had a 21 gun salute, a bugler, the works. It's a shame that other WWII Vets (Heroes) may have only had a tape recorder. For anyone that reads this if your WWII veteran has not passed on yet, I urge you to contact your congressman and make sure the Veteran receives a dignified and fitting burial. Randall Barnett Add to this record. PFC. Carlyle Willis Spreeman 112th Infantry Carlyle W Spreeman served with the 112th, 22P infantry in WWII. He was part of the courier service and went from foxhole to foxhole with orders from the officers to advance, retreat, whatever was needed. He was captured around November 3 just prior to the Battle of the Bulge, on a road in the Hurtigen Forest in Belgium. Although assigned to Stalag 12, mostly he and other POWs were crammed in boxcars and taken to work in the farm fields and at feed mills, carrying sacks of grain. The POWs were liberated by the Russians near the Black Sea and told to find their way to the coast and live off the land. Dad would tell our family the good stories but mourned the loss of the men he knew and served with in the war in silence. Bev Spreeman Add to this record. Pte. Raymond Homer Joseph Osborne CIB, GCM. 112th Infantry Regiment Raymond Osborne was wounded when he was knocked unconscious by German 88 round and permanently lost hearing in the right ear. He was then captured at the Battle of the Bulge. When he was liberated he was given two weeks' leave to recover and ordered to report for training in preparation for the invasion of Japan. He served on occupation duty in post-war Japan. He was awarded the Purple Heart, CIB, GCM and Legion of Honour. Dave Osborne Add to this record. Recomended Reading. Available at discounted prices. Links

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