The FReeper Foxhole Remembers the First Special Service Force - Feb. 3rd, 2003

http://www.armyhistoryfnd.org/armyhist/research/detail2.cfm?webpage_id=392&page_type_id=3 ^

[Jamten]

can you please take me off this bump list?

[alfa6]

My respects to your father for his service, pgobrien & singletrack.

Hey Sam here is another book for ya. The Devils Brigade unfortunately the authors name esapes me at the moment.
It is the book that the 1968 movie was based on.

Regards

alfa6 ;>}

[sneakypete]

Believe it or not,but I actually served with two of these guys who were still on active duty in the mid-60's. That was a VERY rare combat patch to see,even then.

[The Real Deal]

Cote, I like the poem, but the unit patch is great. Thanks!

[The Real Deal]

Sam, you probably get worn out on this, but it's another great post to the FReeper Foxhole.

[The Real Deal]

"Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation."

That's the truth, if I ever heard it. LOL Thanks for the history, Valin.

[The Real Deal]

Good afternoon, bentfeather. I find it so refreshing to have a REAL MAN and a REAL LEADER in the White House. I don't believe that any thing is going to stop him from doing the right thing. Ari said awhile back, that even if there was no public support for a war with Iraq, we would attack if the President thought it the right thing to do. I believe that President Bush doesn't look at the polls, and then dicide what to do. He does what he does because he believes it is the right thing to do. I don't always agree with him or what he does, but he has my support and prayers. What a great post to the FReeper Foxhole. You can leave your shovel at home tomorrow. LOL I better check with AntiJen and see if that's OK. LOL

[OneLoyalAmerican]

Greetings FoxHole Freepers:
DryLandSailor is a life long hero of mine. He's my Father. Looking forward to what DryLandSailor and his Korean War veteran buddies can contribute to the thread.
OLA

[The Real Deal]

Man cote, you are really on it today. Thanks for the link, I bookmarked it for reading later.

[The Real Deal]

Hi, Liz. It's really great to come to the FReeper Foxhole on a daily basis and get thanked for serving in the armed forces. Thanks for the thanks.

[The Real Deal]

Thanks for posting the pic's of these brave "Night Stalkers", AntiJen. I told cote he didn't have to bring his shovel tomorrow, is that OK? LOL

[The Real Deal]

Great grafic, Gail!

[The Real Deal]

pg, thank your Dad for me for what he did. He has to be a very brave man.

[PhilDragoo]

Interesting to see then Lt. Col. Edwin A. Walker was commander for 1944.

~~~

Walker, Colonel Edwin Anderson

10.11.1909 Center Point, Texas - 31.10.1993 Dallas, Tex.

Education:
Schreiner Insitute; 1925-1927 New Mexico Military Institute;
1927-1931 US Military Academy, West Point;
1937 Field Artillery School;
1946 Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth;
1948 Air War College

1931 commissioned, Field Artillery
1932-1933 Battery Officer, 15th Field Artillery (Fort Sam Houston, Tex.)
1934-1936 Battery Officer, 16th Field Artillery Battalion (Fort Myer, Va.); US Army polo team
1936-1939 Battery Executive Officer, 18th Field Artillery Regiment (Fort Sill, Okl.)
1939-1941 Battery Commander, 2nd Battalion, 13th Field Artillery Regiment (Schofield Barracks, T.H.)
1942-1943 Artillery Battalion Commander, 4th Infantry Division (Camp Gordon, Ga.) & 83rd Infantry Division (Camp Atterbury, Ind.) & 2nd Cavalry Division (Fort Clark, Tex.)
1943-06.1944 Commanding Officer, 3rd Regiment, 1st Special Service Force (Aleutins, Italy)
06.1944-12.1944 Commander, 1st Special Service Force (Italy, France, Germany)
1944-1945 Commanding Officer, 474th Infantry Regiment (Germany)
1945 Commander, Task Force A, Oslo (Norway)
1946-1947 Executive, Assistent Director Combined Arms Department Field Artillery School, (Fort Sill, Okl.)
1948-1949 Staff Officer, Office of the Chief of Staff (Washington, DC)
1949-1950 Secretary, General Staff, 4th Army (Fort Sam Houston)
1950-1951 Assistant Commander, Ranger Training Commnd (Fort Benning)
1951-1952 Commanding Officer, 2nd Infantry Divisional Artillery; Commanding Officer, 7th Infantry Reiiment, 3rd Infantry Division
1952-1953 Deputy Chief of Staff for Prisoners of War Affairs, 8th Army; then senior adviser First Republic of Korea Corps, KMAG (Korea)
02.1953-09.1954 Deputy Commander for supporting arms, 82nd Airborne Division (Fort Bragg, NC)
1955 chief Army sect. MAAG, Tapai, Taiwan, adviser to Commander-in-Chief Chinese Nationalist Army
1955-1957 Commanding General, 25th Divisional Artillery (Schofield Barracks)
1957-1959 Commanding General, Arkansas Military District (Little Rock)
10.1959-1961 Commanding General, 24th Infantry Division (Augsburg, Germany)
1961 Assistant Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations, US Army Headquarters Europe
1961 resignated [because of right-wing opinions]
(Vice-)President American Eagle Publishing Co., consultant, author, speaker;
1962 candidate for Governor of Texas

Ranks:
2nd Lt. (1931); Lt.Col.; Col. (1944); Brig.Gen. (1953); Maj.Gen. (1957)

Decorations:
SS, BSM (2x), CI (2x), LM (2x), CR, Korean Unit Citation (US), Croix de Guerre (France), Order of St. Olav (Norway), OBE (UK), Ulchi Medal with gold and silver star (Korea)

~~~

Today's special forces are continually involved in forward defense, just as stealthy, just as feared.

One day soon we shall hear an astonished Saddam Hussein exclaiming:

"You can't be here! No one can penetrate this palace's security!

~~~

Godspeed Swift Victory and Safe Return to the Finest Fighting Force on Earth.

. . .ad astra per aspera. . .

[SAMWolf]

One of the problems with being part of an elite, special unit is that no one knows about it. I don't think the unit's exploits were very well know until the mid 60's and even then you had to be interested in Military History.

Again, Thank your Dad for his service. It has to be a great feeling to know you served with the Best of the Best.

[SAMWolf]

You're Welcome, cavtrooper21. Glad you liked it.

[SAMWolf]

Robert H. Adleman and Colonel George Walton wrote "The Devil's Brigade"

[SAMWolf]

I bet they got a lot of questions about that unit patch.

[The Real Deal]

Not too many said it to Dad twice.

singletrack, I love it. Your Dad is my kind of man.