An Autobiography by John Robert Slaughter

Photos

S/Sgt. Bob Slaughter
Somewhere in Germany
1945

S/Sgt. David Silva
After the war became a
Catholic priest
1946

PFC Emmett Journell,
last D Company soldier
killed in action
Photo taken in 1941

D Company soldiers
Photographed at Fort Meade, Md.
1941

D Company’s
Winning football champions
Celebrate in London
1943

Vic Crimone, Dean Friedline, Pat Patterson,
2nd row: Ed Walton, Pat Sibold,
George Johnson, 1943

Ed Walton, Romeo Bile, Jimmie Hamlin (reading), and others at Ivybridge,
England, 1943

Lt. Merle Cummings and T/Sgt.
Marvin Mabes at Ivybridge, England,
1943

Ed Walton and Philip Hale having fun
At Ivybridge, England,
1943

Ralph Wheeler and Jack Ingram
drying clothes at Ivybridge,
1943

S/Sgt.Jimmie Hamlin
On the Devenshire Moors
1943

Dean Friedline, Ernest McCanless, Joe Walentowski, Sal Augeri and Walfred Williams at Torquay, England,
1943

T/Sgt. Kyle Catron,
somewhere in Devenshire, England,

1943

Ernest McCanless and Curtis Moore
At Torqyay, England,
1943

T/Sgt. Felix Branham, K Company, 116th Infantry, at the Assault Training
Center, 1943

Vic Crimone, Bill Hurd, Ed Walton, Pat Sibold,
Pat Patterson, sip tea on the
Devenshire Moors, 1943

Frond row: Vic Crimone, Bev. “Razz” Jones, Ed Walton, Back:
Bill Hurd, John Stinnett, Pat Sibold, Rufus Carr, Slapton Sands, 1943

S/Sgt. Ed Fatula peeps out of his Nissen Hut at Ivybridge, England,
1943

Lt. Verne Morse at tent camp
At Slapton Sands,
1943

S/Sgt. Bill Lewis’
1st Battalion, HQ Company, 116th
Infantry, 1943

James Richardson, Ernest Williamson, George Kobe, James Paulick,  Henry Brent somewhere in England, 1943

Back: left: Ernest Williamson, Joe Trona, James Paulick, Frank Lutrario,Henry Brent, Randy Ginman, James Richardson, Dewey Bishop, [unidentified], Freeman Trotter, 1943

Lt. William Gardner,
West Point  grad
At Slapton Sands,
1943

1st/ Sgt. Bill Pressley, B Company, 116th Infantry.  Awarded the Distinguished
Service Cross.
1943

T/Sgt. Willard Norfleet and T/Sgt. Marvin Mabes at Fort Meade, Maryland,
Photo taken in 1941

Bob Deyerle and Joe Lancaster,
at 1941-42 Carolina Maneuvers

Sgt. Jack Ingram photographed at
Fort Meade, Maryland, 1941.
Killed in action, June 6, 1944

Corporal Jack Simms was Killed in Action,
June 6, 1944.
Photo taken 1941

Sgt. George Johnson was Killed In Action
On June 6, 1944.
Photo taken  at Fort Meade, 1941

Major John Sours was Killed in Action,
June 6, 1944.
HQ Company, 116th Infantry

Capt. Walter O. Schilling, D Company Commander, Killed in Action
June 6, 1944

1st /Sgt. Odell Padgett (severely wounded at Brest), S/Sgt. Robert Sales (wounded at
Setterich, Germany),
Company B, 116th Infantry

Lt./Col. Eugene Meeks
Photo taken at NATO HQ,
Germany, 1946

Lt. Gerald Orgler’s (far right)
 2nd Platoon, 1945
Somewhere in Germandy

BG Norman Cota, Asst. 29th Commander;
Col. Charles D.W. Canham,
116th Regimental Commander

Company D’s first reunion,
Thrifty Inn, Roanoke, Va.
1982

50th Anniversary of D-Day,
Bob Slaughter, Capt. Joe Dawson, President William J. Clinton, Lt. Walter Ehlers (MOH),  on Omaha Beach, June 6, 1994

29th Division veterans march down
the Champs Elysees, Paris, France,
1994

Bob Slaughter and President George Bush

at the dedication ceremony (6-6-01)
of the National D-Day Memorial,
Bedford, Virginia

29th Division Veterans, escorted by the youth of the City of 
St. Lo, June 6, 1994

The magnificent
 National D-Day Memorial
Bedford, Virginia

An original copy of the
General Eisenhower letter
to the assault troops of
June 6, 1944

 

Copyright 2008 John Robert Slaughter