Digger awarded Victoria Cross

http://www.theage.com.au/national/digger-a...90116-7inm.html

Mike Soler sent this to me yesterday:

Hello,

I happened to come across this man from the 300th Combat Engineer Battalion.

Mike

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UHR

Henry T. Uhr, Sr. 86, passed away in New Braunfels, Texas on Monday, January 12, 2009. He was born to Henry and Ida Uhr on November 18, 1922 in Cibolo, Texas and served faithfully with the U.S. Army during WWII. He was assigned to the 300th Combat Engineer Battalion and served in several campaigns of Normandy, Northern France, Ardennes, Rhineland and Central Europe and also participated in the Battle of the Bulge. He was awarded one Silver Star and five Bronze Stars for his meritorious service. He is preceded in death by his parents, his first wife, Loma J. Uhr in 1977 and also his daughter-in-law, Evelyn Uhr, in December 2008. Mr. Uhr was a member of St. John's Lutheran Church in San Antonio and he worked his professional life as a Carpenter in the construction business. Mr. Uhr is survived by his second wife of over twenty years, Frankie (Ackermann/Koehler) Uhr; son, Henry T. Uhr, Jr.; step-son, Dennis Koehler and his wife Diana; step-daughter, Peggy Davis and her husband Robert. He is also survived by his grandchildren; Shelley Robinson, Lori Martin (Marty), Barry Uhr, Terry Uhr, Devin Koehler, Derek Koehler, and Scott Davis. His great-grandchildren are: Rylie, Blaze, Aden, and Brandon. He is also survived by his older brother, Eugene Uhr and numerous nieces and nephews. SERVICES

A visitation will be held on Friday, January 16, 2009, from 6:00 - 8:00 pm at Alamo Funeral Home. A service will be held on Saturday at 10:00 am at the funeral home with Pastor Bob Braun from St. John's Lutheran Church officiating. Interment will follow the service at the Floresville City Cemetery, Floresville, Texas

I'm reading this now. Tells about the USMC in Fallujah. Intense !

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Link to photos:

http://images.google.com/images?q=hitler%2...q=source%3Alife

Another Oradour: http://acroy.club.fr/index.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maill%C3%A9_massacre

Survey after 64 years:

Maillé massacre in 1944: a German magistrate on-site investigation

AFP - Tuesday, July 15, 12:10

MAILLE (Indre-et-Loire) (AFP) - The Attorney General of Dortmund and a police officer arrived in Stuttgart on Tuesday Maillé to investigate a massacre in the village on 25 August 1944 by the army of the Third Reich, establishes an AFP journalist.

Since 2004, the German prosecutor Ulrich Maass has opened a criminal investigation against the war crime committed Maillé, near Chinon.

"I am ashamed of what has been committed here by the Germans and I apologize to everyone. I am surprised and touched by the welcome I received," said shortly after his arrival Mr. Maass, accompanied by the commissioner Bernard Schneider and a translator.

On the day of the liberation of Paris, 60 to 80 German soldiers killed by bullets or knives 124 people, including 44 children, from the village who were then about 500.

According to the prosecutor of Tours, Philippe Varin, the German delegation should stay for three days on site in order to "try to examine witnesses, to identify the German units that participated in the massacre and, of course, individuals ". This is an event quite exceptional, "he said.

There will be "a recognition of geographical locations, a number of archives are available at the House of Remembrance", a French prosecutor said.

"In the archives of the United Nations, I found a file of a dozen pages about the massacre but with little details and a name written in several spellings. The Gustav Schlüter, sentenced in absentia in 1952 in Bordeaux and death in 1965 at his home in Germany, "said Maass. He recalled that "these war crimes imprescriptible remained in Germany while in France the requirement is 30 years.

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