326th Engineers - 101st Airborne

[Walt's Daughter]

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Peter P. Evans, Serial No. 35290540, from Hardy

County, Moorefield West Virginia

Inducted on 20 March 1942, entering service at Fort

Hayes Ohio.

 

Battles and Campaigns: Normandy, Rhineland, Ardennes,

and Central Europe

 

Decorations and Citations:

- Purple Heart Medal GO29 Hq21st Gen Hosp. 12 Feb 1945

- Oak Leaf Cluster to Purple Heart Medal GO29 Hq 21st

Gen Hosp. 12 Feb 45.

- Bronze Star Medal GO19 Hq 101st AIB Div 14 Jul 1944

- Oak Leaf Cluster to Bronze Star Medal GO 167 101st

ABN Div 18 Jul 1945

- Good Conduct Medal 15 Sept 1945

- American Theater Service Ribbon

- European African Middleeastern Service Ribbon w/4

bronze stars & Bronze Arrowhead

- Distinguished Unit Badge GO26 Hq 1st Army 31 Aug

1944

- Oak Leaf Cluster to Distinguished Unit Badge GO31 Hq

3rd Army 7 Feb 1945

- Glider Badge SO 63 Hq 326th ABN Engr 15 Sep 1944

 

Wounds:

- Wounded in Belgium 9 Jan 1945

- Wounded in France 1 Feb 1945

 

All of the above information is from his Seperation

Document. It also lists his highest rank held as

Sergeant, however, I do know that he was a Staff

Sergeant at one time, as it is written in a newspaper

article by the writer of the article and in a separate

letter of his (printed in a newspaper article). He

mentions that he took a down grade to sergeant to

accept a different position, when they ended up in

Lofer Austria at the end of the war, because he

couldn't keep up with the "boys on their hikes" (he

was talking about training and patrolling) due to the

shrapnel in his knee. I guess the promotion to Staff

Sergeant and possibly the deal to downgrade was too

hard to explain on a military form so they just listed

his highest grade as Sergeant.

 

Also, I have half of the company photo in a frame (the

half with my uncle in it) but know that there were

several names on the back of the photo... some names

had lines through them, but are still readable. The

next opportunity I get I will send you those names if

you are interested. If I remember correctly there were

8 or 10 names... I don't who they are but may be of

some interest.

 

Thanks again

Very Respectfully,

Ron Day