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71st Infantry Regiment, US Army
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Pte. Fred A. Abbondandolo Bronze Star K Coy. 71st Infantry Regiment     My father, Fred Abbondandolo arrived with the 71st Infantry Division in Cherbourg, France on 15th of September 1944 and fought in the Battle of the Bulge. He was captured on New Year's Day 1945. He spent the first three or four months of 1945 at Stalag IV B. He and at least one other US soldier left the camp together with several British soldiers in advance of the camp's liberation. Although I don't know the exact date, I believe it was sometime during April 1945.
Many others stayed behind because they feared that they'd be shot if they left the camp. The Germans were no longer visible and there was little or no food for the prisoners. Conditions at Stalag IV B had been brutal and food was scant even early in his internment. There were not enough beds for every prisoner and my father slept on a wooden bench of some sort. He said he preferred it to being eaten alive by bedbugs in the straw provided for bedding.
He told how they used to harvest sugar beets for the Germans. Sugar beets were not part of the diet of the prisoners. At one point he and fellow prisoners devised a way to hide sugar beets in their trousers, but the Germans caught them and they were not able to enjoy their stolen harvest. My father spoke often of the bravery of the British prisoners of war at Stalag IVB. They were forever planning ways to escape and he admired their "can do" attitude and resolve to escape. He also found that they managed to keep spirits up by hosting plays and musical events for fellow prisoners.
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PFC. Richard Brooks Kilgore 2nd Btn. F Coy, 71st Infantry Regiment Richard Kilgore Senior was my Grandfather. He served in the US Army 2nd Battalion, 71st Infantry Regiment in WW2.
I knew him as a small farm owner in Seminole, Texas. He passed away in November of 1991.
My grandmother, his wife, passed away last year and I am going through her things and found his Presidential Unit Citation pin and bibles sent to her from his training camp in California.
I have since found out that he was in the 44th Division, 71st Regiment 2nd Battalion, F Company. I know he came home and gave his medals to his mother and went on back to farming and living. I wish I could ask him about his service. Oh the stories he would tell.
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Cpl. George L. Pinkley Co. L, 71st Infantry Regiment Cpl. Pinkley was wounded and captured in France during early autumn 1944. He was a POW in Stalag IV-B.
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