Hello everyone,
My uncle Charles Crawford served in "A" Company of the 292, and died February 18, 1945. He is buried in Holland, and after my Dad's passing, I have been trying to gather information on his military service. I was pleasantly surprised to see his name on some documents already posted in this forum, and would appreciate any information anyone has on his unit.
Thanks,
Steve Crawford
Hey Steve,
We are most certainly glad to have you here aboard with us, and look forward to anything you may wish to share with the group. As you have probably read there are a growing number of folks here with connections to the 292nd, and we hope still many more will find us like you have. Gary (sirgator) and I are working together to get the paper documents of the 292nd from the National Archives into digital form so they can be easily shared with everyone. There is a wealth of information about the unit in these documents, hopefully we can get those available in the near future, so be sure to hang out with us for awhile.
I am attaching another document that mentions your uncle's name, but I am afraid it is not a very pleasant entry. The document is from the 292nd unit journal from February 1945. It states that at 1530 hours on February 11th, 1945 Company A reported that Pvt. Crawford had stepped on a AP (anti personnel) mine. Sadly, he later died from his wounds.
I take it from your user name you lived or still live in Ohio, just wanted to mention that I lived in Columbus for a short time many moons ago, back in 1972. Again we are glad to have you here with us Steve, if you have pictures to share, we love pictures!!! Have a good one,
Randy
