489th Armored Field Artillery Battalion Deaths in Europe

In Memoriam

489th Armored Field Artillery Battalion
Deaths in Europe
Photographs

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This page contains the photographs of members of 489th Armored Field Artillery Bn who died overseas in World War II.
For the complete list of all 489th Armored Field Artillery Bn overseas deaths, click here.

Spare a minute
to think
of the young who didn't grow up,
and how young they looked when they died,
and how no one will ever remember them looking tired and middle-aged
or even be bored by tiresome recitals of the time of their youth.
- - - - Russell Baker "How to Observe Dec. 7" (NY Times, Dec. 1965)

Please Help to Tell These Men's Stories and Preserve Their Memory!

PLEASE contact Wesley Johnston at the address below if you have any information on any man of the unit who died overseas, such as:

photos
information on any of these men's deaths
information on what platoon and squad they were in
know of any men who died but are not on the list

Wesley Johnston
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So they will not be “Forgot”

There is a word
Which bears a sword
It hurls its barbed syllables,-
At once is mute again.
But where it fell
The saved will tell
On patriotic day,
Some epauletted brother
Gave his breath away.

Wherever runs the breathless sun,
Wherever roams the day,
There is its noiseless onset,
There is its victory!
Behold the keenest marksman!
The most accomplished shot!
Time’s sublimest target
Is a soul “forgot”!
----- Emily Dickinson

A Note for the Children of these Men

The American World War II Orphans Network (AWON) is an organization created by and for those who lost their father in World War II. AWON has an annual conference and a newsletter filled with useful information. Click here to go to the AWON web page and find those who share your experience.

If you have a better quality photo of any of these men, please contact me.

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
This page contains only those men for whom I have photographs.
For the complete list of all 489th Armored Field Artillery Bn overseas deaths, click here.

T/4 Vernon Anthony Kocher (36 053 917) - Battery A
KIA January 17, 1945 in vicinity of Steinbach, Belgium - Age: 30y 9m 20d
MOS: 802 - Home Town: Stringtown, IL - Buried at Henri-Chapelle, Belgium US Military Cemetery F-7-3
Photo thanks to his cousin Eric Rennier

Richard Warren "Buster" Sarver (36 376 347) - Battery A
Died February 12, 1945 of wounds suffered January 23, 1945 in vicinity of Elvange/Ilvendingen or Born, Belgium - Age: 23y 1m 21d
MOS: 744 - Home Town: Herrick, IL - Buried at Henri-Chapelle, Belgium US Military Cemetery D-16-48
Photo thanks to his niece's daughter Christy Smith

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