1944 The Northern France Campaign ended on September 14. Paris was the headquarters and center of the Army Service Forces. The 3110th Signal Service Battalion was one of the Army Service Forces Signal Corps units. The 3110th built, maintained, and operated communications infrastructure of the Army Service Forces to supply and service the Army Ground and Air Forces. Those forces were engaged in the Rhineland and Ardennes-Alsace (Battle of the Bulge) Campaigns. The 3110th does not have campaign participation credit for either of those campaigns because Paris was outside the geographic area of those campaigns. September 15, 1944: Part of Company C move from Cherbourg to Paris. Two officers and 64 enlisted men of Company C were detached to Company A, 810th Signal Service Battalion. Prior to December 10: Detachment of Company C joined the rest of the battalion in Paris. Exact date is being researched. December 10: Felix was hospitalized with frostbite. Felix said that the Army doctors told him that they might need to amputate part of all of his hands and feet. However night after night after the American doctors
had gone, a captured German doctor working in the
American hospital massaged Felix's hands and feet with
a special salve. A captured American soldier with "frozen feet" reported that from German medical supplies, the German guard gave him "something that looked like axle grease...which we rubbed on our feet." (From Alex Kershaw in The Longest Winter, Da Capo Press, 2004, page 168.) Could this be the special salve Felix described that the German POW doctor used? For more information:Signal Corps personnel and cold injuries Felix A. Cizewski: An Unrecognized and Uncompensated Disabled Veteran? 1945 January 1: Felix is promoted to Private First Class. January 16: Felix reassigned to the 3rd Reinforcement Battalion, 16th Reinforcement Depot. January 29: Felix is assigned to the 45th Signal Company, 45th Infantry Division. |
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