Camp Fannin Roll of Honor
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The insignia below: Every stateside Army camp during World War II was defined by a combination of two or more insignia, one of which was always a Service Command emblem. Camp Fannin displayed the Eighth Service Command patch, right below, and the Replacement and School Command patch, left, which was the sub-command of the Army Ground Forces which ran all of the ground forces replacement training centers in the country. The service commands were geographical divisions of the Army Service Forces and did ASF work stateside. The Eighth Service Command, with headquarters in Dallas, serviced Army facilities in Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas, and New Mexico.
Camp Fannin, Texas
U. S. Army, 1943-46
ROLL OF HONOR of Fannin Veterans who died in uniform during World War II
The Purple Heart, honored symbol awarded to U. S. military personnel killed or wounded by enemy action.
This website contains the following documents: · A short form of the Camp Fannin Roll of Honor showing the names of Fannin veterans who died in uniform during World War II with serial number and unit assignment at time of death if known. Click on a name for an expanded profile, described in the next paragraph. · A much more detailed version of the Camp Fannin Roll of Honor with each entry containing name and, where known, rank, serial number and date of birth, and the following information arranged by alphabetical code: a) hometown or state; Expanded profiles include photos where available. If you have a better photo of a Roll member, send it on and we will use it in place of the one currently showing. We also add the appropriate division patch to each profile. A click on a name in the short form raises his expanded profile. · A nomination form to be used in submitting a name that does not currently appear on the Roll. · Shoulder patches of U. S. Army infantry divisions and other organizations during World War II. To see them, push one of the numbered buttons below at the right: Button 1, 1st through 26th Infantry Divisions; 2, 27th through 63rd Infantry Divisions; 3, 65th through 88th Infantry Divisions; 4, 89th through 106th Infantry Division and the Philippine Division; 5, Infantry units below division size; 6, Artillery and Engineer units; 7, Armored Divisions 1 through 20; 8, Cavalry and Chemical Mortar Battalions.
We add names of Camp Fannin veterans who died in uniform during World War II and make corrections continuously to our Roll of Honor as new information is provided. If you have personal knowledge of the death in uniform of someone else who served at Camp Fannin, please nominate him or her for membership in the Camp Fannin Roll of Honor. Write to Roll of Honor, 2213 Mendoza Avenue, Tallahassee, Florida 32304-1319 requesting a nomination form or e-mail your request to <ethorne003@comcast.net>. The Camp Fannin Roll of Honor lists only the names of Camp Fannin veterans whose deaths in uniform during World War II have been documented. We waited until 1991 to form a Camp Fannin Association, which triggered creation of the Roll. Had we acted in 1951 or 1961, we would have had access to a vastly greater body of information and our Roll of Honor would include perhaps hundreds of additional names. But we’re still trying and maybe one day we’ll stumble upon a lode which to this point has never been discovered despite patient, systematic search. Meantime, we continue to add names which come in – slowly, to be sure, but steadily. The first Roll, published in the Spring 1995 issue of the Association newspaper, Camp Fannin Guidon, listed 26 names. The most recent issue, dated June 29, 2009, contains 207 names. The most recent name added is Julian Wrenn Jarvis of Bladensburg, Maryland, who died August 30, 1944 attacking the outer defenses of Brest, France with the 2nd Infantry Division. Other recent additions are John Cabral of Oxnard, California, who died March 25, 1945 making a Rhine River crossing with the 30th Infantry Division; David Roy of Ohio, who trained at Fannin May-September 1944 and was killed March 16, 1945 at Froarth, Germany while fighting with the 99th Infantry Division; Harold B. Galley of Omaha, Nebraska, killed in Germany on November 17, 1944 and Hollis M. Rider and Nick Russ, who trained together at Fannin in C/83/15 from April to September 1944. Hollis died November 27, 1944 near Kriegsheim, France while fighting with the 79th Infantry Division. We don't have the details on Nick Russ' combat death and would like to hear from you if you do. Other recent Roll of Honor entries are Felmer Lonzo Lynn of Kings Mountain, North Carolina, killed November 2, 1944 in the Huertgen Forest while fighting with the 28th Infantry Division, Robert E. Harms of Pencer, Minnesota, killed September 10, 1944 while fighting with the 29th Infantry Division and Lawrence F. Folden of Holt, Minnesota, who was killed on September 7, 1944, while fighting with the 8th Infantry Division. Both died near Coat-Ly-Ogan, Brittany, France. It is important to note that trainees were not the only Fannin veterans killed in uniform in World War II. Cadre were regularly reassigned to combat units, and a number of cadre members are to be found on our Roll of Honor, including Col. Martin Barndollar, who was killed in Normandy. He had been commander of the Camp Fannin Branch Immaterial Replacement Training Center (BIRTC) before it was redesignated Camp Fannin Infantry Replacement Training Center (IRTC). One thing that has always been a worry to Camp Fannin Association is our inability to find the names of everyone who should be on our Roll of Honor. It would seem at first glance that chances of ever having a complete Roll are waning with the ever-accelerating rate of mortality of Fannin vets. But there are very real reasons to hope that we will be able to add dozens if not hundreds of names before we’re done. To give a name to that hope, let’s call it the Carl A. Settle Phenomenon. Carl is a Fannin vet who has never been satisfied with less than full information. He’s a highly-skilled researcher who uses primarily the Internet in his diligent search for the facts related to Camp Fannin veterans who died in uniform during World War II. To date (May 31, 2009) he has contributed information to 45 of the 206 entries in our Roll. Nobody else is likely ever to equal that, but if your own inclination is to add a name or two to our Roll, we want to hear from you. Queries to ethorne003@comcast.net.Individual profiles of Roll members are available. Write or e-mail for more information For other Camp Fannin news, go to http://www.campfannin.com.
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Symbol of a grateful nation's remembrance of our war dead: Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Elmer Horne is proud to be curator of the Camp Fannin Roll of Honor. But he cannot pose as Webmaster of this <campfanninrollofhonor.com/> website. His good friend, Ray Colletti, also of Tallahassee, did that job. Ray patiently attempted to equip Elmer with skills necessary to establish the site, but failing, he took it all on himself, and produced this wonderful professionally-styled site "as a contribution to the World War II generation," as he put it. Ray is a Systems Project Consultant with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, and volunteer Webmaster of a division Toastmasters site and of a site for Theatre A La Carte, a musical theatre company, of which he is also a member of the board of directors and master photographer and videographer. Ray's and Elmer's paths first converged at Theatre A La Carte, where Elmer once had a role in a show, and which Ray and his family have faithfully served for a dozen years or more. His wife Caroline is also a member of the Theatre A La Carte board of directors and has had on-stage and off-stage roles in many productions, as have their three children.
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