COMPANY ROSTER

MOVEMENT TO THE OBJECTIVE

FIGHT ON NAMUR: D-DAY

FIGHT ON NAMUR: D+1

MOP-UP AND RETURN TO CAMP

AFTER ACTION REPORT

The following list is based on the combined January and February muster rolls of the First Battalion.

The Fourth Marine Division was using the E-series Table of Organization, which had been approved in April, 1943, following the conclusion of the Guadalcanal campaign. Each rifle platoon had three squads of twelve, led by a sergeant and corporal; they focused around two BAR teams of five men each. The weapons platoon gained an additional machine gun and mortar team

COMPANY HEADQUARTERS

Captain Irving Schechter (Commanding)
1st Lt. Harry Reynolds (Executive Officer)
Gunnery Sergeant Walter Russell
Platoon Sergeant Charles Ckaminsky (Supply & Property)

Staff Sergeant Henry Fones (Clerk)
Corporal Raymond Davis (Carpenter)
Corporal Kenneth Gann (Company Clerk)
PFC Richard Brodnicki (Clerk)
PFC Robert Fleischauer (Messenger)
PFC Sylvan McKinley (Cobbler)
PFC Laurent Palardy (Messenger)
PFC Richard Smith (Driver)

Cooks
Staff Sergeant Michael Graziadei (Mess Sergeant)
Assistant Cook John Yonkers

Field Music Section
Field Music First Class Harold Fritz
Field Music First Class Lester Spangler

Duty Section
Private Maurice Rosenthal
Private Raymond VanDam

RIFLE PLATOONS

1st Lt. Endecott Osgood (First Platoon)
1st Lt. David Smith (Second Platoon)
1st Lt. Roy Wood (Third Platoon)

Platoon Sergeant Jay Lohff
Platoon Sergeant Parker McBride
Platoon Sergeant Stephen Vinczi

Squad and Fire Team Leaders
Sergeant Warren Buchanan
Sergeant Dallas Colburn
Sergeant Lewis Gregory
Sergeant George Lowry
Sergeant Thomas Mackey
Sergeant Leo Mann
Sergeant Jack Sayers
Sergeant Carl Schott
Sergeant Maynard Worthington
Corporal William Comer
Corporal Albert Duryea
Corporal Michael Frihauf
Corporal Paul Geckle
Corporal Randall Glawe
Corporal Oscar Hanson
Corporal William Linkins
Corporal Joseph Leitch
Corporal Vernon Rigdon
Corporal Eugene Walsh
PFC Thomas McCay
PFC Fred Thomas

Riflemen
PFC Jesse Acklam
PFC John Adelmann
PFC Roy Alford
PFC Lionel Bolduc
PFC George Burch
PFC John Card
PFC Harold Carter
PFC Robert Conway
PFC Fred Davis
PFC James Davis
PFC James DeNicola
PFC DeWitt Dietrich
PFC John Donnelly
PFC Burnett Fenger
PFC Douglas Footit
PFC James Freeman
PFC Sperling Garrett
PFC Donald Hart
PFC Cecil Hendershot
PFC David Henderson
PFC Frank Hester
PFC Frederick Iverson
PFC James Jackson
PFC Ernest Jeffrey
PFC Tom Johnson
PFC Junior Jones
PFC Lawrence Knight
PFC Davis Kruse
PFC Cecil Lewis
PFC Andrew Loban
PFC Joe Locke
PFC William Loutzenhiser
PFC Robert Low
PFC Tommy Lynchard
PFC George Marion
PFC Glen Marshall
PFC Robert Mason
PFC Hubert Mauney
PFC James McAdams
PFC Virgil McNutt
PFC Gerald Miller
PFC Herschell Miller
PFC Eugene Morris
PFC Vern Neeson
PFC Elijah Nichol
PFC William Olson
PFC William Quinn
PFC John Rayley
PFC William Rewerts
PFC Blaine Riley
PFC Willard Roberts
PFC Joe Roff
PFC Leon Roquet
PFC Lionel Salazar
PFC Paul Scanlon
PFC Howard Smith
PFC Edward Solak
PFC Peteus Staeyert
PFC James Stokes
PFC Robert Tierney
PFC Roger Trimble
PFC Robert Vail
PFC Philip Valley
PFC Howard Voeltz
PFC Robert Walter
PFC Robert Walton
PFC Joseph Wendte
PFC Carl Willenborg
PFC Kenneth Wilson
PFC Robert Wise
PFC Henry Woods
PFC Dalton Young
PFC Leonard Yush
Private Ronald Bartels
Private William Ellerd
Private Edwin Groote
Private Wallace Holt
Private James Marsh
Private Herbert Mauritz
Private Richard McGinnis
Private Dale Owings
Private Lawrence Pantlin
Private Robert Sievertson
Private Harold Stephens
Private Cecil Tolley

Automatic Riflemen (BAR)
PFC Kenneth Boylan
PFC Winston Cabe
PFC Joseph Chifos
PFC James Chvatal
PFC Edgar Collins
PFC John Corcoran
PFC Henry Denson
PFC Charles Fischer
PFC Kenneth Gray
PFC Edward Horan
PFC Robert Larson
PFC Verner Lilja
PFC John Manson
PFC George Pelish
PFC Alva Perry
PFC Robert Price
PFC Edward Stewart
PFC Odis Taylor
PFC Kenneth Whitehurst
PFC Robert Williams
PFC Clyde Yates

WEAPONS PLATOON

1st Lt. Philip Wood (Platoon Leader)
Platoon Sergeant John Yaniga (Assistant Platoon Leader)
PFC John Svoboda (Ammunition NCO/Mortars)
PFC William Imm (Runner/Mortars)

MACHINE GUN SECTION

Sergeant Frank Tucker (Section Chief)

Corporal Arthur Ervin (Squad Leader)
PFC Frank Hurley (Squad Leader)
PFC Luther Diehl (Squad Leader)

PFC Peter Colombo (Gun Crew)
PFC Merle Geesaman (Gun Crew)
PFC Richard Grosch (Assistant Gunner)
PFC George Hall (Gun Crew)
PFC Amedeo Izzo (Gun Crew)
PFC Raymond Jordan (Gun Crew)
PFC Howard Kerr (Gun Crew)
PFC Lester Kincaid (Gun Crew)
PFC Norman Reber (Gun Crew)
PFC George Smith (Gunner)
PFC Charles Stafford (Gun Crew)
PFC Paul Southerland (Gun Crew)
PFC Virgil Cawood (Gun Crew)
PFC Stephen Hopkins (Ammunition Carrier)
PFC David Spohn (Ammunition Carrier)

MORTAR SECTION

Sergeant Kermit Shaw (Section Chief)

Corporal George Svoboda (Squad Leader)
Corporal Wilbur Plitt (Squad Leader)

PFC John Czepiel (Gun Crew)
PFC John Franey (Gun Crew)
PFC Frank Gosiewski (Gun Crew)
PFC Edward Hackett (Gun Crew)
PFC Howard Haff (Gun Crew)
PFC Claude Henderson (Gun Crew)
PFC Leo Ksiekievicz (Gun Crew)
PFC Ronald Palmer (Gun Crew)
PFC Donald Peters (Gun Crew)
PFC Kenneth Shea (Gun Crew)
PFC Bartholomew Wanagaitis (Gun Crew)
PFC Edward Lykins (Ammunition Carrier)