264690 Sgt. Harold Leroy "Bud" Osborne US Army from:Pompton Lakes, Passaic, New Jersey Harold Osborne, born 28th of June 1919 was a married man with a 5 yr old child when he was drafted on 3rd of June 1944 and sent to Ft. Dix, New Jersey.
He was a machine gunner with the infantry in Belgium, Luxembourg and Germany.
He fought from Oct. 1st until December 15, when he and 11 American soldiers were surrounded and captured during the Battle of the Bulge. Before his capture he was hospitalized for a short time for shrapnel wounds to the back and arm. He was promoted to Sgt. after that hospitalization.
He was first sent to an interrogation centre at Brandenburg, Prussia. He was sent to his work assignment Stalag 3A and work camps (also Oflag 3-6) Luckenwalde. The camp was liberated by the Soviets on 21st of April 1945.
He said a diet of turnips for 4 months was more than his body could endure. His weight at his liberation was 80 lbs.
He was sent to a hospital in England where he spent almost a year.
He returned to the town of his birth and to his wife and child. Pompton Lakes, Passaic, NJ was to be his home from birth until his death He and his wife Martha Munson Osborne had two sons, Harold Robert and Donald Leroy Osborne.
He was sSon of Roy B. & Helen (Cahill) deceased and has sisters: Helen, Edith Masker and Betty Perkonio, brothers: Douglas, David & Wesley deceased, and a half sister Patricia Osborne Joppien.
Before retiring, he was employed as a coiler for E.I. DuPont (Pompton Lakes,NJ) for 38 years.
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