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1st Infantry Division Stele - Cheb

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Behind the gas station, in a grove of trees behind the information sign. Monument


A ten meter high polished black granite stele containing the names of the 775 division members who fell in the fighting across Germany and into the Czech Republic from 8 February through 7 May 1945.  The division insignia is on the front of the stele.

It is one of five World War 2 memorials placed by the 1st Infantry Division in Europe.

Monument Text:

Cheb 8 February 1945 to 7 May 1945

Engagements - Krevzau - Friesheim - Erp - Liblar - Bruhl - Bonn - Remagen Bridgehead and Ruhr Pocket - Stockhausen - Brungsberg - Harz Mountains - Osterode - Thale - Klausthal Zellerfeld - Altenau - Schierke - Adorf - Cheb

Here ended the victorious march of the 1st United States Infantry Divison

The officers and men of the 1st United States Infantry Divison who were killed in this period while fighting for the liberty of the world

Commemorates:

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Samuel E. Goldsmith

Lee Vernon Goodling

James J. Goodman

John F. Goodwin

Alfred G. Gordon

Edward T. Gracia

John J. Grady

James E. Grant

Donald Robert Greene

John Worth Gregory

Gerald M. Grewell

John Grochowski

Marcus J. Gross

Ralph N. Grunner

Guillermo Guerra

George J. Gundich

Harold D. Gustafson

Wesley G. Guthrie

Homer M. Guyett

Clyde I. Hackett

Leighton Hardy Hadley

Rudolph A. D. Hagar

Donald J. Haley

Theodore G. Hall

Arthur C. Hallickson

Arthur A. Hamel

Edward B. Hamre

William Huston Haney

Wilbert D. Hanna

Hubert Clinton Hardin

Corbin A. Harper

William Stancill Harrington

Albert H. Harvey

Russel W. Harvey

George Haskins

Elvin G. Haslouer

Patrick Henry, Jr. Haverty

Tommy Hayes

Delbert Orman Hayward

Worth J. Haywood

Andrew A. Hebert

James W. Henderson

Leo J. Hennessy

Philip L. Henry

Dempsy Hensley

Mortimer H. Herchick

Benito "Bennie" Hernandez

Robert Comstock, Jr. Hess

James B. Hicks

Arthur P. Hill

Units:

106th Cavalry Recon Squadron

16th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division

18th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division

1st Infantry Division

1st Reconnaissance Troop, 1st Infantry Division

26th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division

33rd Field Artillery Battalion, 1st Infantry Division

634th Tank Destroyer Battalion

745th Tank Battalion

7th Field Artillery Regiment, 1st Infantry Division

Wars:

WWII

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