Rank and Name, Technician Fifth Grade Kenneth H. Armstrong.
Unit/Placed in, 331th Infantry Regiment (K-Comp), 83rd Infantry “Thunderbolt” Division.
Kenneth was born approx. on Aug. 3, 1923 in Green County, Illinois.
Father, Charles Armstrong.
Mother, Dora Armstrong.
Sister(s) Bonnie L. Armstrong.
Brother(s), William D. Armstrong.
Spouse, Eula M. (Armstrong).
Kenneth enlisted the service Illinois with serial number # 36445493.
Kenneth H. Armstrong was a Tec 5 in the 331th Infantry Regiment.
Kenneth was MIA near Derenburg during the various fights with the german resistance , on Apr. 12, 1945, he is honored with the Purple Heart, Good Conduct Medal, American Campaign Medal, Army Presidential Unit Citation, European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal, WW II Victory Medal.
Kenneth H. Armstrong was First buried in Margraten Cemetery in Holland and was reburied in White Hall Cemetery, Greene County, Illinois in 1948.
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The Army’s 83rd Infantry Division of World War II, renowned as the Thunderbolt Division, will recreate its most famous lightning-fast maneuver when it holds its 62nd annual reunion July 30-Aug. 3 at the Hotel Carlisle.
World War II veterans of the 83rd and many descendents and friends of Division members will recreate what war correspondents described as the “Rag Tag Circus.” After receiving orders in late March 1945 to turn east from Germany’s Ruhr River and race toward Berlin, the Division commandeered anything on wheels (and sometimes hooves) from the surrounding German countryside and made an incredible dash across northern Germany. In a span of only 13 days, the Thunderbolts fought their way across 280 miles of northern Germany as unit after unit within the 83rd leap-frogged and flanked one another to continuously press the attack east, outracing armored units to the Elbe River. There, the Division fought their way across the Elbe on April 13, 1945 — the sole Allied crossing into the Eastern European theater — and to within 40 miles of Berlin. Immortalized in The Last Battle by Cornelius Ryan, author of the books, The Longest Day and A Bridge Too Far, the “Rag Tag Circus” was labeled by Army Lt. General Raymond S. McLain in a recommendation for the Presidential Unit Citation as an “advance … the speed of which has seldom, if ever, been equaled.”
