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423rd Infantry Regiment, US Army
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Want to know more about 423rd Infantry Regiment, US Army? There are:-1 items tagged 423rd Infantry Regiment, US Army available in our Library
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Sgt. Robert W. Coston Company A. 423rd Infantry Regiment Robert Coston served in Company A, 423rd Infantry, 106th Division. He was captured at the Battle of the Bulge, on 16th of December 1944, age 35.
As a Prisoner of War he was held at either Stalag 9A Ziegenhain, or Stalag 9b, Bad Orb, Germany.
Originally stationed at Camp Blanding, Florida, he was eepatriated on the 9th April 1945. He died in 1978.
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Pte. Joseph Howard Hodge 423rd Infantry Regiment, E Coy 106th Division Joseph Hodge served with the 106th Division 423rd Infantry Regiment US Army in WW2. He enlisted 10th of January 1943 and was shipped overseas in October 1944. He fought at the Battle of the Bulge from 16th of December 1944 and five days later was captured and held as a prisoner of war by the Germans, 21st of December 1944.
Joe was sent to Stalag IV-B then transferred to Stalag IV-G at the end of January 1945. He was in a work party assigned to clearing streets and railroad tracks. He was eventually liberated from the POW camp 20th of April 1945.
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Sgt. Robert Wheeler Coston 423rd Infantry Regiment 106th Infantry Division My father, Robert W. Coston Sr., was a buck sergeant in 1944. His company was captured at the Battle of the Bulge and his men marched into Germany. While housed in Stalag 9B, many starving soldiers contracted cholera or dysentery, my dad included. He described how the floorboards had gaps so wide that the waste from the ill men fell onto people he believed were Jewish or Jewish sympathizers. The intent of those in charge, he perceived, was to humiliate and degrade those poor people. My dad credited his survival to an African-American private who caught rats, cooked them, and fed him. I could never recall the name of this man. If anyone knows who this unselfish soldier was, I would like to know. This unnamed soldier was a big hero in my dad's eyes.
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