The Fighting 69th Infantry Division

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Web Name: The Fighting 69th Infantry Division

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Link-Up Historical Perspective Elbe Day 2005 Eilenburg calling!Professor Robert Atenstaedtfrom Wales, U.K. is researching the fall of Eilenburg, Germany in April 1945. The Fighting 69th captured Eilenburg in some of the heaviest fighting of the war against 1,200 Germans, well dug-in according to the 271 Inf. Rgt. Unit History. He is interested in any veterans' recollections of the battle, particularly the capture of German POWs, including Nazi officials in the city. If you have any information, please contact Rob by email at: eilenburginfo@yahoo.com. Thank you for your help. Please ask you 69er veteran what he remembers. Mike Please submit 69er names that are not yet entered in Taps - we want to remember EVERY 69er * * * Bulletins are scanned, online and searchable! Find your friends and loved ones * * * Taps Please send updates. We will never forget!Sadly, Anne and Sherry Lipsius, wife and daughter, notified us on September 6, 2015 that our intrepid Webmaster, Joe Lipsius, passed away peacefully that morning. Joe was 97 years old. Up until five weeks ago, Joe was still emailing about website business. We will be posting a tribute and the family's eulogy. If you have a tribute, please email it to Webmaster Michael McKibben at mmckibben@leader.com and it will be posted shortly. Joe did not want us to forget what each and every brave man and woman of the Fighting 69th did for their families, their country, and the world. We will not forget Joe and his band of brothers either. Our prayers and sympathies go out to the Lipsius family. Joe's certainly was a life well lived. We will miss him. This world is a better place because Joe Lipsius passed through. Anne & Sherry Lipsius' address: 6314 Deerings Hollow, Norcross, GA 30092-1800, annejoelip@bellsouth.net. Click here to read about Joe's: EARLY LIFE | MILITARY CAREER Click here to read: Tributes to Joe Lipsius 69th Annual Reunion, 2017, Virginia Beach, VA, Sep. 22-25, 2016 The 2017 Annual Reunion will be in Virginia Beach, VA at the North Beach Holiday Inn Sept. 21-24, 2017. This is a beachfront resort Hotel directly on the ocean. We now have the room block reserved and you can make your reservations, more event details will follow, just follow this link: Register Here. This website is the vision of Joe Lipsius (with the able help of many too numerous to acknowledge here!) Joe tells stories of the 69th's capture of IBM computers in Germany. Fifty years later, computers became web pages, and Joe had the vision to put the 69th's story on the web so that 69er families, friends and historians could learn what they did there to help free the world of tyranny. 403 young 69ers never returned, God rest their souls. With this announcement we have scanned and posted every 69th bulletin we can find. If you have others, please email them to Mike McKibben who will continue to maintain the site, and add Taps entries. Also, please email Joe and Anne your well wishes! Mike will be coordinating this site with Bill Sheavly and the 69th Next Generation Group. Online Archives of 69th Bulletins Newsletters Needs Your Help! This website has been developing an online/paperless archives of (hopefully) all of the 69th bulletins and newsletters published since the Association was formed in 1948. This project needs your help! Click here for more. April 1945 in Torgau Excerpts from the second English version of a book in German by historian Karl-Heinz Lange were used for this link at first, but a 2005 updated translation from German is now linked here 69th Bulletin Back Issues Online Bulletins thru the years - training, combat, reunion photos of buddies and you. New Updates May 6, 2012 Books of Interest Stories of The Fighting 69th Infantry Division in World War II I Remember Read the latest memories from 69th family, friends and buddies Armed Forces Museum 272nd Situation Maps presented to the Armed Forces Museum Military Service Records Search military records medical benefits awards decorations 69th Burials Overseas Search for date of KIA (killed in action) and burial location overseas Social Security Benefits Social Security site recommended to help vets apply for disability benefits Be Involved Donate to the development and enhancement of this website We endeavor in these pages to remember the heroic service of the men of The Fighting 69th Infantry Division during World War IIPreludeThe United States entered the 1940s with Nazi Germany striving to engulf Europe. Wisely, peacetime conscription started in September 1940, with the Selective Training and Service Act. As President Franklin D. Roosevelt watched, a blindfolded Secretary of War Henry C. Stimpson selected the first number in the draft lottery, drawing from a huge container filled with numbers assigned to registered young Americans aged 21 to 36. Some 16,500,000 were registered by October 1940, and the first group of conscripts, called selectees, was called in the next month. By the end of WWII, more than 10 million men had been inducted. Because of this Act, the men of The 69th Infantry Division entered the Army, by draft or voluntary enlistment.BeginningThe 69th Infantry Division was originally scheduled for activation before the end of World War I, but Armistice Day, November 11, 1918, halted this. By January 1943 or earlier, the widening WWII and its troop demands brought these plans out again. A large group of infantry and some supporting unit officers were called from the 96th Infantry Division training at Camp Adair, Oregon, to supply the cadre (nucleus) for The 69th Infantry Division, which trained at Camp Shelby, near Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Nickname and Motto Non-Commissioned Officers were also called. The Division was activated May 15, 1943.The 69th was originally nicknamed Bolte s Bitching Bivouacking Bastards or The Four B s because of the troops hatred for the many bivouacs in DeSoto National Forest south of Camp Shelby ordered by its original Division Commander, Charles L. Bolte. General Bolte objected to the Bitching and the Three B s became the name.Justbeforethe 69th departed the USA for Europe, Major General Emil F. Reinhardt took division command. General Reinhardt met Soviet 58th Guards General Rusakov on April 25, 1945. The Fighting 69th became the Division motto after the troops passed their first test of battle with flying colors going into the front lines on February 11, 1945, and quickly smashing through the vaunted Westwall, dubbed the Siegfried Line by American and British troops.Our Website Goal This web site strives to tell the wartime story of our great Division from its formation to its meeting Soviet soldiers at The Elbe River on April 25, 1945 as seasoned veterans a critical event that hastened the end of the war in Europe two weeks later on May 9, 1945 (Victory in Europe or V-E Day). We will try to record some of the many outstanding feats of our Division and to recognize the thousands who trained in the 69th but were sent out as replacements to other units, including reinforcements to the Battle of the Bulge in December 1944.Further, we want these pages to be a gateway for 69ers to locate and contact buddies and obtain service information from the military. Plus, it s a place where wives, children, grandchildren and friends to learn about the wartime service of their loved ones in the Unit histories, Company Photos and the post-war bulletins now being placed online in a Google-searchable format. Many document need the free Adobe Reader to view.View our site visit statistics. You are visitor number:

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