Parker Arthur C. III

Monuments

Name:

Arthur C. III Parker

Rank:

Major

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Unit:

589th Field Artillery Battalion

Date of Death:

1982-10-07

State:

Alabama

Cemetery:

Elmwood Cemetery Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama

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S-3 (Operations Officer) of the 589th Field Artillery Battalion, 106th Infantry Division during the Battle of the Bulge.

Veteran of WW2 and Korea

In a letter of Major Parker, dated July 2, 1980, from Lieutenant General James M. Gavin, former commander of the 82nd Airborne Division, said, and I quote: "That stand your defenders made at the crossroads was one of the greatest actions of the war." General Gavin should know. The 5-day holding action by the 589th Field Artillery Battalion bought enough time for General Gavin to redeploy enough American forces to stop the German advance short of Liege in January 1945.