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Memorial Day Weekend 2019 - ETO


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This Memorial Day Weekend I will be visiting 5 American Cemeteries in Europe and 8 graves to lay flowers:

- Victor DeLuca (Margraten, The Netherlands)

- Louis Giusti (Margraten, The Netherlands)

- Olan Ranck (Luxembourg)

- Dixon Schumm (Henri Chapelle, Belgium)

- William Shaner (Epinal, France)

- Robert Moore (Epinal, France)

- Robert Leety (Lorraine, France)

- Alex Metzler (Lorraine, France)

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Saturday: Americans placing an American and Dutch flag at each individual grave

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WWII veteran Isaac C. Phillips (4th infantry Division, 22nd Infantry Regiment, Company D)

 

Isaac C. Phillips, better known as Curtis, served with Company D of the 22nd Infantry

in World War II. After the war he married and settled down in Belgium.

 

Curtis was born in Georgia on June 10, 1924. His mother died when he was very young, and he was raised by his father, along with four brothers and two sisters. He worked on the family farm until he entered the US Army on November 29, 1943. He was trained in infantry heavy weapons, including mortars, bazooka and heavy machine gun.

 

On May 2, 1944 he departed for England, arriving there on May 16. What little time he spent in England

was occupied with more training, until, on June 3, 1944 he embarked with the 4th Infantry Division

headed for France. He landed in the second wave on Utah beach, on D-Day June 6, 1944,

as part of Company D, 1st Battalion 22nd Infantry Regiment. He fought as a machine gunner

in the drive to capture Cherbourg, in Operation Cobra ( the break-out from Normandy ),

the drive to Paris, and into Belgium.

 

Curtis was wounded three times, and on September 17, 1944, in the fighting along the Siegfried Line,

he received serious wounds from artillery fire, which caused him to be evacuated from the front lines.

He was in a coma in the hospital for 2 or 3 weeks, and when he awoke from the coma

it was some time before he regained his speech. His wounds kept him in the rear echelon

for the remainder of the war.

 

In Binche, Belgium he met Arlette HAUTMONT, his future wife. After the war

they lived in the US for one year, before moving permanently to Belgium, where they have lived ever since.

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