World War II Honoree

Bruce Edwin Crowl

Branch of Service

U.S. Army

Hometown

Huntington Park, California

Honored By

His proud family

SERVED WITH THE 102ND 'OZARK' DIVISION. ENTERED THE ARMY IN APRIL 1943, POSTED AT NEW ORLEANS FOR TWO MONTHS, THEN TO BUCYRUS, OHIO IN A RAILROAD REPAIR BATTALION AND THEN WENT TO PURDUE UNIVERSITY, UNTIL THE PROGRAM WAS CANCELLED IN EARLY 1944. SUBSEQUENTLY SENT TO CAMP SWIFT, TEXAS IN THE OZARK INFANTRY DIVISION 102 DIVISION, TRAINED, THEN SENT ON THE VICTORY SHIP MARINE WOLF TO THE EUROPEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS IN SEPTEMBER AND ON FRONT LINE ON GERMAN BORDER IN NOVEMBER, 1944. THE 102ND FOUGHT THROUGH NORTH GERMANY TO THE ELBE RIVER WHERE THEY MET THE RUSSIAN ARMY AT THE END OF THE WAR WITH GERMANY. IN THE ARMY OF OCCUPATION UNTIL MARCH 1946.