UPDATES!
New Material Added D-Day 16th IR Journal Entries Here click
New photos from Barry Painter! Here click
Morning Report 6th June 1944 Thank you Professor John McManus! You helped solve a 69 year old mystery!
More H Co Photos with info coming soon!
New photo from Pvt. Cecil Painter Collection from his son:
" H Co Tailor"
A History Project Dedicated to my Grandfather an Infantry Officer who served with H and I Co's of the 16th Infantry Regiment in WW II
After many years of research and toil and triumph I have decided to publish a website showing the faces, names of the men of H company of the 16th Infantry Regiment.
I have managed to contact, research and get to know Veterans, other researchers and Historians through the years, and this site will have much of this research and correspondence I have accumulated.
It has been a long and hard struggle but nothing compared to the lives of the men involved and what they had to go through in WW II. I am very thankful for the experience and what it has brought me.
I discovered right away that something wasn't right that there just wasn't enough information about this unit and their actions in WW II I just had to find out why!
I discovered on a research trip to the National Archives in Washington D.C. in 2005 that there was something wrong.
In reading the entire S-3 report for the regiment that H Company was the only Company that the S-3 report for the end of the war read INCONCLUSIVE, meaning that there were no end war statistics for the Company.
I was shocked and confused I had to try at least to research the unit thoroughly trough cross referencing all the information I could get my hands on to try to find out what really happened to these men in WW II, so began my Journey.
Above Photo of then 1st Lt. Anthony J Prahl taken in Nuremberg after the end of Hostilities.
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