Description

656th Field Artillery Battalion Charley Battery          96 Pages

Published By R. Oldenbourg, Munich Germany        September 1945

Contents:

Battery Officers
Battery Staff

Charley Battery
By Cpl. James B. MacGuire

Our History

Our Medic

Detail Section
     Rapid Transit
     By Cpl. James B. MacGuire (McGuire, two spellings of name)

     The Looters
     By Pfc. Schlossberg

     Radio
     By T/5 L. Scheyer

Firing Section

First Section
     That’s All Brother
     By Irving Magaram

Second Section
     Four Roses
     By Cpl. Wilkinson, Cpl. Gehr, Pfc. Moehler

Third Section
     Wall Job
     By Pfc. Quatrano, Pfc. Reeder, Pfc. Willey

Fourth Section
     Hell, Heaven, Home
     By Cpl. Clem Quay

Fifth Section (Short story about each soldier)
     Peter Winn — Tractor Driver & Pigeon Fancier, a New York Boy.
     Maurice Miller — Tractor Driver & former “Life Guard at Camp ‘Anywhere’” for girls only.
     Henry Bealler — Asst. Tractor Driver and Chicken Farmer
     Edward Poniktera — Asst. Tractor Driver The Pennsylvania Feed Producer
     Doffice Trent—2½ Ton Truck Driver
     Alfred Pineault — 2½ Ton Truck Driver
     John Jeter — T/4 Asst. Driver 2½ Ton Truck and Gun Mechanic
     Jack Peskin
     Maurice Van Meter
     Elwell Faulconer
     T/5 Phillip Prezioso
     Pfc. George W. Tukey
     T/5 Carmen Bellonio
     George W. Smith — Machine Gun Corporal
     John J. Smith — Machine Gun Corporal
     Paul Smith — Asst. Tractor Driver
     Stanley Gruza — Machine Gunner
     Sgt. Frank Cully — Recorder
     Marty Paris

Motors Section
     Nuts and Bolts
     Slum Burners

Do You Remember When?

Those Who Have Left Us!

Number One Gun Out Of Action Sir
Number One Man In Action Sir
By Pfc. Irving Magoram

Who Put the Put in Allas Kaput
By Cpl. Morris Rosen

Lootin Is Ferbootin
(but it doesn’t say positively)
By Cpl. Morris Rosen

Pictorial Review

Battery Roster