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May 16, 2008
Mervin Hogg has been at it again. He has added 7 more books. This time it's 7 Infantry School monographs about the 90th Division and it's actions.
No. 1. THE OPERATIONS OF THE 1ST BATTALION, 358TH INFANTRY
(90TH INFANTRY DIVISION) AT FORT KOENIGSMACHER,
NORTH OF THIONVILLE, FRANCE, 9-11-November 1944
(RHINELAND CAMPAIGN)
No. 2. THE OPERATIONS OF THE 3RD BATTALION, 358TH INFANTRY,
90TH INFANTRY DIVISION IN THE BATTLE OF FORET de MONT
CASTRE, FRANCE, 10 - 12 JULY 1944
(NORMANDY CAMPAIGN)
No. 3. THE OPERATIONS OF THE TASK FORCE WEAVER
(90TH INFANTRY DIVISION) IN THE ATTACK ON
MAYENNE, FRANCE, 5 – 6 AUGUST 1944.
(NORTHERN FRANCE CAMPAIGN)
No. 4. Operations of the 3Rd Battalion, 357th Infantry
(90th Infantry Division) in the hedgerow battle
of Normandy, 8-11 June 1944.
(Normandy Campaign)
No. 5. Operations of Task Force Weaver Reinforced
Regimental Combat Team (90th Infantry Division)
from St. Hilare du Harcouet
TO LE MANS, FRANCE, 5-9 AUGUST 1944.
No. 6. Operations of Company E, 358th Infantry
(90th Infantry Division) at Cattenom
(Moselle River crossing), 9-12 November 1944.
(Rhineland Campaign)
No. 7. Operations of the 359th Infantry Regiment
(90th Infantry Division) in the crossing of the
Moselle River, 9-14 November 1944.
(Rhineland Campaign)
these can all be seen in the online library
April 4, 2008
HISTORY OF THE 359th INFANTRY REGIMENT- 90TH INFANTRY DIVISION has been added to our online library, thanks once more to Mervin Hogg of the 358th for all his work.
March 9, 2008
357 C co and 357 Med Det photos have been added to the company photos section
Lawrence Hays is added to the Family Photo section.
A Camp Croft basic training picture is added to company photos.
February 29, 2008
Effective today, all new Forum
registrations will cause an email to be sent to the administrator. When I get
the email, I will check to see if the registrant appears to be a spammer. If
everything appears ok, then an email will be sent to the registrant with a link
to complete the process.
I check the site daily so this means that the time from registering to that of
you being able to post, might be as much 24 hours.
I'm sorry that I have to do this but spammers have been registering and
inundating the forum with garbage. Today I removed 75 spam messages that had
been posted overnight.
Thanks for your understanding.
February 22, 2008
Full reunion information and reservation forms can be found in the Forum, click here
A complete catalog and order form of 90th Division items for sale can be found here
December 5, 2007
Over 300 MORE photos from the 2004 reunion in Washington,DC are posted in a slideshow format here
December 4, 2007
Over 300 photos from the 2005 reunion in Texas are posted in a slideshow format here
November 23, 2007
Over 300 photos from the 2006 reunion in Louisville are posted in a slideshow format here
November 8, 2007
New stuff for sale is posted here.
Over 300 photos from the 2007 Reunion in Pittsburg are posted in slideshow format here.
October 26, 2007
A new book has been added to the online library, "UPSTARTS Memories of the 915th Field Artillery Battalion and the 359th Regimental Combat Team of the 90th Division in World War Two". This is several hundred pages long ! Once again, thanks to Mervin Hogg of the 358th.
August 25, 2007
Info about an upcoming 2008 trip to France and Germany in the forum. Click here.
August 15, 2007
Several new books have been added to the online library, and most of the books previously posted have been reformated for easier reading and downloading as pdf's. Once again, thanks to Mervin Hogg of the 358th for all the work he has done for us.
June 16, 2007
A
new section has been added to the forum
entitled
Tough Ombres In the News
If you know of some newsworthy event reported in the media
concerning our Tough Ombres or just have some news about a TO that you know, or
maybe news about a 90th Division Unit, please post it here.
June 15,2007
Three new WWI books and one new WW2 book have been added to the online library thanks again to Mervin Hogg.
June 8. 2007
Thanks again to Mervin Hogg for supplying us with some new books to read online. This time it's the History of the 315th in World War I.
He has also redone the History of the 712th in a new format that is much easier to read and use. Both of these books include company photos and rosters of GI's who were in those units.
They are also available to download in a pdf format. Be aware that if you wish to use the pdf version, these are large files and will take a while to download, especially for those using a dialup connection. You can view them online without using the pdf version.
Merv has said that he has more to come and will redo some of the current books into this newer format.
You can see them in the Online Library.
Merv, we owe you !
May 24, 2007
Complete Reunion Info and Reservation Forms can be found by clicking HERE
Feb 28, 2007 The speech that MG Ralph Doughty gave during the 2006 reunion is printed here in it's entirety. It is an excellent recap of what the 90th Division went thru in Europe and a tribute to the Tough Ombres.
Feb 25, 2007 New 2007 reunion info HERE
January 9, 2007
A new story of one of the Tough Ombres, James Rowsey, M Co 359th, has been posted in the Personal Submissions Section
November 27, 2006
A new link to a French site honoring the 90th Division has been posted in the Links Section.
Two new company photos are in the Company Photos section, the 915th FA and the 357 Co F. Thanks to both submitters and apologies that it took so long.
Albert Apple and some of his friends have been added to the Family Photo section.
October 30, 2006
Some spammer has decided that I need to get about 50 emails a day telling me I need his stock. He apparently 'harvested' the webmaster@90thdivisionsssociation.org address off of this site. Sooo, I've had to change my email address to something else.
I've had to go thru the entire website and change all the links to my email address. I hope they don't find them for a while !
All emails to the webmaster should be addressed to sitemaster at 90thdivisionassociation.org (remove the 'at' and replace with an @.
October 25, 2006
A History of the 90th Division (in WWI) originally printed in 1920, has been transcribed by Mervin Hogg and is available for reading in the 90th Division online library section. It is very interesting with a lot of historical info, including battles, awards and a casualty listing.
Also thanks to Merv, I have added The History of the 712th Tank Battalion to the online library .
This means the library now contains 13 complete history books of the 90th Division and it's units.
Sept 22, 2006
An
Honor Denied is an article about where the Presidential Unit Citation
efforts are at this point. You can
read it in the Presidential Unit Citation section
here.
August 2, 2006
Thanks to Mervin Hogg (again), of the 358th, I have added 4 new books online. We now have 11 full length books available to be read online - sO many that I had to make a new online library section. Go there to see what's new and get ready for some interesting historical reading.
I'm told there may be more coming !?!?
Thanks Merv !
July 27, 2006
I just posted an item about the French Legion of Honor here. Please check it out.
I hope to see many of you at the reunion !
April 16, 2006
New reunion info is available here
I've received lots of good stuff from many readers, including 2 new company photos. Look for this info to be posted over the next few weeks.
February 9, 2006
The third book
from Mervin Hogg is now available for reading:
HISTORY OF THE
790thORDINANCE
LIGHT MAINTENANCE COMPANY
February 8, 2006
Thanks to the efforts of Mervin Hogg of the 358th, we are now able to enjoy two more online books.
A HISTORY OF THE 315TH
ENGINEER COMBAT BATTALION OF THE 90TH INFANTRY DIVISION, and
TANK BUSTERS THE
HISTORY of
the 607thTANK
DESTROYER BATTALION are
two of three
that Mervin has recently transcribed. The other (790 Ord) will
be placed here as soon as possible.
January 20, 2006
A search engine has been added so you can search the site for a name or phrase.
January 13, 2006
A new section was added to the Forum - Sickness and Distress.
January 2, 2006
For those of you locked into a pile of ice and snow, 60 pictures of the reunion in Corpus Christie should warm you up. For those of you who weren't there, the end of Sept met us with upper 90 degree temps all day and all night. So, warm up and remember the good time you all had, by clicking here.
The new officers for 2006 are listed here.
January 1, 2006
Happy New Year everyone !
I've finally got some time to start catching up on the things that many of you have sent me. Over the next few days, I'll be adding a bunch of stuff that I'm sure many of you have been waiting for.
Mervin Hogg is at it again and is transcribing several out-of-print 90th Division books, the latest is the History of the 607th. I have a piece of it and he will be sending more soon. When I have it all, I will publish it here for you all to read.
I'm embarrassed ! Some time ago one of you nice people scanned a company picture of the 357th F CO. and sent it to me on a CD. Jan Jacobs of New Mexico, also sent me a photo copy and a roster of the same outfit. Unfortunately, her picture is not clear enough for me to repro and post but the roster is fine. Now the embarrassing part... I misplaced the CD from the person who's name I can't remember !!!! If the person who sent it to me would contact me about getting another, I'd REALLY appreciate it.
I know I've said it before, but if you've sent me things, please be patient. I try and do this in my spare time and sometimes I don't have a lot of it, but sooner or later, I'll get caught up (maybe).
Thanks for your patience.
October 27, 2005
New information about the 2006 Reunion can be found in the forum: click here
October 12, 2005
An important notice
concerning the future of the 90th Division is found here
October 4, 2005
A new section is in the FORUM called
Post
Reunion Comments and Notes
A place to post comments about the last reunion, notes to others
you met there, or just say "Hi I was glad to meet you !
July 30,2005
A new entry in sickness and distress
July 4,2005
A new message from out president, Art Meier, with new info on the upcoming reunion is here.
Two new company photos are added. 358 Co H and Co M. M Co has a full roster. click here
A PDF version of reunion reservation forms are available. Click on the link:
http://www.90thdivisionassoc.org/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=66
June 24,2005
Printable reservation forms for the upcoming reunion are now available here.
May 31, 2005
There were problems left over in the Forum that prevented some from posting or logging in. Those have been resolved. Thanks for your patience.
New news about the hacker. It appears that someone in Japan is the person who deleted the site and has been trying to do it again. Fortunately, our ISP has taken steps to prevent future attacks. Tracking them is possible but it's not possible to do anything to shut them down. I just can't understand some people.
May 18, 2005
Today, some internet scum, hacked into the 90th Division Association Web site and deleted the entire site.
As if that is not enough, the backups were somehow affected by a coincidental problem.
This site and it's forum has been restored as of the end of February, meaning that all postings to the forum and additions made to the main site since then are gone and may or may not be able to be reposted.
I ask each of you to look at the site and advise me if anything I posted there for you is gone and I will attempt to re-enter it.
Also forum posters should check there and reenter anything that you had previously posted.
The hosting company is making changes to our backups and security.
Hopefully this situation will not happen again.
I apologize for the situation.
Dennis Foye, webmaster
February 22, 2005
A great new book has been added to our books section. It's the story of Hobert Winebrenner's experiences in the 358th. He's one Tough Ombre.
February 13, 2005
Good news in Sickness and Distress !
February 12, 2005
A camp wheeler basic training Co photo has been added to Company Photo Section
February 10, 2005
Thanks to Mervin Hogg of the 358th, we now have the Regimental History of the 357th Infantry on line. 31 pages of the original book to read online or as a PDF file. Thanks Merv !
February 9, 2005
A new For Sale/Wanted/Trade section has been added to the Forum. This is for Military related items only. Please read conditions at the forum section.
Pages 42 thru 64 have been added to the The Presidential Unit Citation Efforts section
February 7, 2005
As promised I have started to put the documents that represent the recent (and original) efforts at getting the 90th Division as Presidential Unit Citation. This is a vast undertaking of over 180 pages to be posted, so in order that I might get the info to you in a more timely manner, I will post pages as I have time to add them. This session consists of 41 pages which include the original 1945 request from Gen Walker describing the fantastic accomplishments of our Tough Ombres at that time.
It alone is well worth the read. See the first 41 pages here in the new The Presidential Unit Citation Efforts section. More will be added as my time permits.
January 31, 2005
A new entry is in Sickness and Distress. Please read.
January 15, 2005
A new book has been added to the Books page
A new link to the Fort Sam Houston Museum web site is added to the LINKS page. Very interesting section on WWI.
A short history of the 90th at Camp Travis in WW I, with 31 GREAT photos of the 90th here and overseas, have been added here.
Several requests for info have been posted in the I'm Looking For.. section of the Forum for viewers
2 new photo biographies have been posted in the Family Album section.
A new entry has been made in the Sickness and Distress section
A 3 1/2 minute video of the WWII Memorial Services with speech by Army Secretary Brownlea, is available to view on the 2004 reunion page
January 4, 2005
359th Co M added to Company Photo Section
December 29, 2004
358th Co K added to Company Photo Section
2nd Plt Co B 15th BN Ft Wheeler Ga photo added to
CO photo section (waiting on Regiment designation)
Approximately 50 photos of John Ingram
(359th Co F) taken in Europe during the war are added to
Personal Submissions Section
MUCH MORE TO COME...................
December 12, 2004 Apologies to ALL !
Since October, I have been overwhelmed with many other aspects of my other extra curricular activities. I realized that if I wasn't going to meetings every night of the week, I was coming home from work and sitting in front of my computer doing paper work for this organization or that. I finally discovered that just simply over extended myself.
I have since taken steps to cut down on the 'other' stuff in order to devote more time to this site.
To all those who have sent in emails and documents, I will do my best to address them over the next few weeks. I have some time off during the Christmas season and will try to devote much of it to putting this info on the site.
Happy Holidays to all ! (and thanks for your patience).
October 24, 2004
A message from our new Association President is posted here.
Note from the webmaster: I have many many photos and several submissions that I received at and since the reunion. I also have a major project underway of poting neatly 185 pages of 90th History pertaining to efforts at obtaining the Presidential Unit Citation.
Please bear with me as I progress slowly towards completing these goals.
Be sure and check our FORUM and feel free to post whatever info/requests for info you might have.
Sept 17, 2004
List of reunion attendees posted here
Sept 14, 2004
A few dozen photos of the reunion have been posted. More to come. click here
Sept 13, 2004
First page of photos of the 90th Vets at the WWII Memorial on Saturday Sept 11th, 2004.
Many more reunion photos to appear over the next few weeks.
Sept 2, 2004
A new link has been added to download or fax requests for Form 180. This form must be submitted to the Government to authorize release of military records. Check out the Veterans Records page.
Aug 27, 2004
A MAJOR NEW FEATURE has been added to this site ! Several of our regular topics have been moved to a new improved FORUM area where you, the reader can now be, you, the poster ! I've removed the old forum section that got very little use and also dropped the Guest Map as most of that was additional requests for info. Now all info requests will be in one central location.
Click here to see the description of what has been done or click here to go directly to the forum.
Aug 10, 2004
Several new items in I'm Looking For
A new entry on the Buddy Page
The 357th At Sam Houston 1928 is added to the Company Photos
The complete book - A Brief History of the 358th Infantry Regiment is online here courtesy of Mervin Hogg
New photo of 1951 reunion participants in Personal Submissions section.
Photos of members of the 790th Ordnance Company and a few of Flossenberg are added to Personal Submissions section
July 29, 2004
18 new items in I'm Looking For
3 new names added to Lest We Forget. 2 from the 358th and one from the 357th
I've received many new photos and articles and they will be posted as I am able. Thank you to all who have submitted material and for your patience.
June 7, 2004
D-Day photos of the 35th taken by a Coast Guardsman who was transporting then to Utah Beach. These were filed by the Gov't and released only recently. They are in the Personal Submissions section.
A new and different photo of the 357th Co I is added to the Company Photos
New items added to I'm Looking For
Battle Map of the 90th on Jun 10-13, 1944 added to Photos, Articles and Memorabilia section
A new item in 'It Makes Us Feel Good' , has been added - already !
June 6, 2004
A new section, 'It Makes Us Feel Good' , has been added.
35 names added to Lest We Forget
several new items in I'm Looking For
A new book has been added to our Books section
Reunion Registration forms have been added.
Webstats has been updated - many new countries have viewed this site.
June 4, 2004
20 new items in I'm Looking For and a couple on the Buddy Page
I'm still backed up....... please be patient for photos and articles you've submitted
June 4, 2004
A very moving recollection of 'Daddy" is on the Thanks page.
May 3, 2004
359th B Co added to Company Photos
May 2, 2004
Several new items in I'm Looking For and on the Buddy Page
New items in You've got mail.
357th I Co added to Company Photos
315th Eng Co A is added to Company Photos
Leo Brown added to Family Album Section
note: I have many photos to be posted. Keep looking here for new ones.
April 9, 2004
New memorial plaque photo added to Merchandise for Sale
Detailed photo of new TO caps and B. T. Collins print added to Merchandise for Sale
March 19, 2004
Anthony Basile added to Lest We Forget
New items added to I'm Looking For
New item on the Buddy Page
A photo of Guy Maletta and Bill Fiedler in Personal Submissions
Some WWII cartoons sent in by Don Hage in Personal Submissions
Note: I now have several company photos which I will be posting over the next couple of weeks. And a WHOLE LOT of stuff from Don Hage, which I've had for some time now. Don Sent me so much stuff, it's tough to figure where I'm going to put it all. I'll find a place and the time soon. Please be even more patient than you've been, Don. Your submissions will take a lot of scanning and re-imaging so it is a time consuming process. I appreciate the stuff and will get to it as soon as possible.
March 9, 2004
Several names added to Lest We Forget
New items added to I'm Looking For
New items added to Guy Charland's page in Personal Submissions
2 reunions listed on Unit Reunions page
2004 Memorial Donations listed on Memorials page
New 90th Merchandise for Sale page added
New info on the various activities taking place this year in Upcoming Events
February 15, 2004
Several names added to Lest We Forget
New items added to I'm Looking For
January 27, 2004
New President's Message added
January 16, 2004
Lloyd Bland, Frank Suhrie added to Lest We Forget
January 10, 2004
New items added to I'm Looking For
John H. Homfeldt, Willard Duncan both of 358, added to Lest We Forget
photos of two personal documents of Guy Charland added to Personal Submissions