Following My Father's Footsteps
May-June, 2000

The article Following My Father's Footsteps contains a complete trip narrative.

photos from Edward A. Peters, III
son of CPT Edward A. Peters (REGT HQ, 506th PIR, KIA 06/09/44)
Wreaths

(L): 506th PIR wreath
(R): Wreath in remembrance of three 506th PIR Currahees:
PVT Roy Upton Talhelm (KIA Normandy); CPT Edward A. Peters (KIA D-Day);
and PFC Morris L. Thomas (MIA** 10/6/44 Opheusden). These wreaths were
part of the Memorial Day 2000 ceremonies at the 101st Airborne Division
Monument at Arlington National Cemetery.

**In December 1971, a Dutch tree nurseryman found the remains of PVT
Morris L. Thomas (HQ, 3rd BN, 506th PIR) , who is remembered on an
American WWII Orphans Network web page.

Littlecote Manor (now called Littlecote House and Hotel), a famous old
English estate that was the residence of Sir Ernest and Lady Wills in
September 1943, when REGT HQ, 506th PIR moved into the Manor.

Great Room at Littlecote

The book Ramsbury at War by Roger Day contains a picture of some of the
REGT HQ Currahees in the Great Room at Littlecote in 1944. That photograph
was taken by John Reeder, Communications Platoon leader at the time.

Photograph of CPT Edward Peters at the Hungerford Railway Station, May 28, 1944,
taken by John Reeder, Communications Platoon leader. 506th PIR Currahees took the train
from Hungerford to Honiton, where they boarded busses to travel to the Upottery Airfield.

November 2002 photo from Roger Day of Ramsbury at War:

Roger is standing on the same Hungerford Railway Station
platform as CPT Peters was in the May 1944 photograph.

An entrance to what was the Upottery Airfield, where most of the 506th PIR took off for
Normandy. This picture is taken from the same perspective as a WWII photograph (in the
book Devon at War 1939-45 by Gerald Wasley) that shows a PBY4-1 sitting on the apron.

The following photos were taken in the American Cemetery at Colleville sur Mer, Normandy, France.

The photo of MAJ George S. Grant [HQ (S-4 and XO), 3rd BN, 506th PIR] is
from the Currahee Scrapbook 506th PIR 20 July 1942 - 4 July 1945

(L): SGT Robert L. Todd (I Co, 3rd BN, 506th PIR) KIA in the D-Day crash of Plane#15
(R): PVT Roy Upton Talhelm (G Co, 3rd BN, 506th PIR) is remembered on an American
WWII Orphans Network web page.

SGT Victor A. Turkovich (I Co, 3rd BN, 506th PIR) is listed on the Wall of Missing.

These pages are maintained by veterans of
The 506th Airborne Infantry Regiment Association (Airmobile - Air Assault)
Send any changes or corrections to: Hoyt Bruce Moore, III "The Moe"
This page updated 01/11/12

Following My Father's Footsteps May-June, 2000

Following My Father's Footsteps
May-June, 2000