601st Field Artillery Battalion (Pack) Battery "B"

The Battalion Insignia

This site is the 4th of 8 web sites in which I have placed information on the 601st Field Artillery Battalion (Pack). This site pertains to Battery "B" of that Battalion. As I receive more information on this battery, it will be placed here. To see the other websites on the 601st Field Artillery, please click on the link below, there you will find links to all 8 web sites. To see information on the 602nd Field Artillery Battalion (Pack), which was the sister battalion to the 601st, click on it's link. If anyone has information on this battalion or battery, please contact me, I would love to post your information or photo's here. To contact me, Dennis Cutter: masterofneon2@msn.com or neonmaster@webtv.net Note: If you should e-mail me, please put 601st or 602nd in the subject box so that it will not be deleted as junk / spam. Thanks! To view the main "Home Page" of the 601st Field Artillery: http://community.webtv.net/MASTEROFNEON/601stFieldArtillery/index.html To view the 602nd Field Artillery Website: http://community-2.webtv.net/masterofneon4/602dFieldArtillery/index.html

Camp Hale, Colorado 1943

Mountain Training, Camp Hale, Colorado, 1943

Camp Hale, Colorado 1943

Rock Climbing at Camp Hale, 1943

It is unknown who these men are.

I was recently contacted by Steve Hanken, who's Dad, Elmer Hanken served in "B" Battery 601st. Steve submitted alot of information and photo's which Elmer had saved. Below is reunion photo's that he came across. Further into this web site you will see other photo's which they submitted of "B" Battery. Thank You Steve and Elmer.

Elmer Hanken "B" Battery 601st

Group Picture of Battery "B" - Fort Sill, Ok. - 1943

Top Row L to R: Ed Fitz, Dave Seidelman, ? Marshall, Wilford Arnold, Sam Beck, Elmer Hanken, Trenton O'Connell, Thurman Myers (Corporal), Bernard Leiferman (Corporal), Axel Erickson, James Ursery, George Pranghofer, Charles King (Corporal), Jim Shoemaker, Art Thompson, Ed Knake, Harvey Le Clair, Carl Renk, Alex Short. Second Row: Winifred Malugen, Gloey Walker (Corporal), Charles DeVries (Corporal), Allen Claver, Paul Pendergraft, Arnold Hansen (Corporal), Chris Feste, John Trumble, Lee Truhler (Corporal), Russel Peterson, John O'Brian (Corporal), George McDougal, Jacques Simpson, John Chambers, Jester Looney, Mike Schneider, Walt Skala, Dale Johnson, Lee Jorgensen. Third Row: Frank Lankas, Damon Thaxton (Corporal), Leonard Prizler, ? McCormic, Hjalmer Scott, Clyde Fulton, Lester Tong, Lyle Armstrong, William Elmore, Merlin Ridgway, George Lowery, Ira McMillion, Mike Kerrish, Virgil Meek, Walter Gripp, Robert Dyes, Harvey Holz, John Bruehling. Fourth Row: Leonard Hedges (Corporal), Eldon Willett (Corporal), Joe Milano, Charlie Love, Wendell Evans, Costen Rippy, Andrew McDonald, Willard Studie, Dale Scofield, Ellsworth Stubbs, Andrew Falkosky, Albert Winstone, ? Cohn, Woodrow Mortenson, Arthur Lydia, Orville Kummer, William Russo, Harold Prose, Robert Hinkley. Fifth Row: Jake Rollins, Willis Pitt (Sgt.), Lloyd McGrady (Staff Sgt.), Linton Jones (Sgt.), Donato Petrone (Sgt.), Stafford Moore (Sgt.), Alvin Onnen (Staff Sgt.), Carl Nyberg (Staff Sgt.), ? Rupp (1st Lt.), George Willis (Captain), Vincent Lopez (1st Lt.), ? Brammer (2nd Lt.), Joseph Then (Staff Sgt.) James Butler (1st Sgt.), Ben Monnett (Sgt.), Roy Metz (Sgt.), Dallas Spicer (Staff Sgt.), Lee Jorgensen (Sgt.), Robert Meyers (Sgt.), Wiley Nobles. Bottom Row: Edward Bowden, Harry Denesopolis, Wayne Speicher, Horace Shaw (Corporal), Arthur Miller (Corporal), Merion Craig, Julian Lucero, David Honeycutt, John Earp, Merced Renteria, Theodore Campbell, George Czerwinski, Wilbur Ruth, Clarence Louze, Edward Portwood, ? Elliot, Horace Mendenhall (Corporal), ? Callahan. Absent: Robert Laurent, Elvin Mayfield, James Mort, ? Rogers.

601st "B" Reunion 1991

"B" Battery Reunion

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