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| HOME OF: Sgt. Charles D. Edwards & Oberleutnant Werner Simon |
| My Great-Uncle Sgt. Charles D. Edwards (SN-38131014) information: 90th Infantry Division, 90th Signal Company. He landed on D +2 (June 8th, 1944), at Utah Beach. The 90th Infantry was also known as the “Alamo Div.“ or the “Tough Ombres”. They racked up 308 days in combat, with 83,437 German Prisoners of War. According to the Diary and Uncle Charles’s original orders, he received the Bronze Star on May 10th, 1945, for saving a fellow soldier (Charles H. Goff) in Landres, France on Sep. 8th, 1944. Gen. Patton loved the 90th. |
| My Great-Uncle Sgt. Charles Edwards confiscated 1st Lt. Werner Simon’s personal effects in a location very close to Orglandes, Pont L‘Abbe, Periers, St. Jores, France (Manche Region) on July 7th, 1944, shortly after the death of 1st Lt. Werner Simon. Uncle Charles took his “Winterschlacht Im Osten” Medal (Winter Battle In East, against Russia, in 1941/42), and a Diary that Oberleutnant Simon had carried. Inside the diary are many pages of Oberleutnant Simons’ entries, along with two small, black and white photographs of the Lt. that he carried with him until his death, when Uncle Charles brought them, the diary, the armband, a Luger (not specified where it came from), and the Winterschlacht medal back after the war. (The Luger went to his son) Uncle Charles said (an entry in the diary states it) that another American soldier gave him a copy of the book “Dr. Goebbel’s Der Angriff (The Attack)” after he had found it. It was published in 1939, and according to the marks on several pages (round stamps with the Eagle and Swastika), belonged to “Deutsche Volksgemeinschaft Ortsgruppe Algringen (German community local's group of Algringen, with a handwritten “No. 15“ in it)”, but I am not certain Uncle Charles read it. He never said (and I do not think he could read it). |
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| Here are some VERY good 90th/90th Links I have discovered. They cover everything, including general movement of the 90th in WW2 from start to finish. |
| The link below is to my father's web site I built for him. He is a Vietnam vet, and was with the 510th Engineers MSDS in Cam Ranh Bay, Vietnam from 1966-1967. |
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| Uncle Charles "Good Conduct" Medal |
| 90th Book, given to Uncle Charles during the war. |
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| Another 90th book given to Uncle Charles towards the end of the war. |
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| The copy of "Der Angriff" given to Uncle Charles (Front). |
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| Swastika Stamp |
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| Der Angriff Title Page |
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| Here is Oberleutnant Werner Simon's Home Page: |
| Uncle Charles decided to use the Oberleutnant’s diary, prefacing the Lt’s. entries, and immediately after his last entry (July 3rd) with his own entries from pre-D-Day until the time he left. Uncle Charles wrote after picking the diary up on July 7th that, “I hope this diary brings me more luck than the previous owner”. Uncle Charles’s last entry is D-Day +214. As far as I know, none of the family ever thought to translate the Lt’s entries to find out his story. |
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| Nazi Armband and "Winterschlact Im Osten" Medal given for fighting the Russians in 1941/42 |
| On the first page Uncle Charles wrote: Name: Chas. Edwards Date Enlisted: (I was Inducted.) Attached to the 90th: quite some time ago. Training: 68 days K.P., 1000 hrs. Guard Duty, 500 hrs. Inspection. Battle Action: Came Near having a fight with "Shorty" Laurence. Citations: Good Conduct Ribbon. |
| In the back of the book is "The Team Autograph". Here are the entries: M. B. Cox (good old T.U.) M. F. Kresge Arlis W. McCarty John E. Owens J. D. Black (Cisco Kid) PFC Franklin Weller Elbertt "grandma" Darlington |
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| The Photos that Uncle Charles has of the 90th Signal Guys....................... |
| PFC Jacque "Jack" N. Edwards- 792nd AA/AW Gun Battery, Battery "C" (My Grandfather) Major Reese E. Edwards- Unknown Unit, Served in WW2 (France/Germany/Phillipines), Berlin Airlift, Korea, and Vietnam. (My Great Uncle) (Click on their Names for their Pages) |