World War II Honoree

Harold Kenneth Goble

Branch of Service

U.S. Army

Hometown

Newton, New Jersey

Honored By

Robert Goble

Relationship

Son

TECHNICAL SERGEANT. SERVED AS A MECHANIC AND TANK RETRIEVER WITH 28TH INFANTRY DIVISION IN NORMANDY. ENTERED EUROPE AT ST. LO ON JULY 30, 1944, FOUGHT THROUGH NORMANDY TO PARIS, THEN BELGIUM AND LUXEMBOURG AND CROSSED THE SIEGFRIED LINE ON SEPTEMBER 11, 1944. WERE THE FIRST TROOPS TO ENTER GERMANY IN STRENGTH. AFTER A NOVEMBER FIGHT IN HUERTGEN FOREST THEY MOVED TO LUXEMBOURG SECTOR AND ON DECEMBER 16, 1944 FACED GERMAN GENERAL VON RUNDSTEDT AT THE BATTLE OF THE BULGE. FROM THERE THEY MOVED SOUTH TO HELP LIBERATE COLMAR IN ALSACE AND DROVE TO THE RHINE. WITHIN A MONTH THEY WERE AGAIN AT THE RHINE NEAR COBLENZ.