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HELLCAT NEWS
Published by the
12th Armored
Division Association
VOL. 59
President's
Message
This publication, our HELLCAT NEWS-
PAPER, is the lifeblood of our Association and
with the diligent reporting of our Unit Repre-
sentatives, keeps us all abreast of the progress of
our Association. I took over from Frank Barn-
dollar as your editor for our December 2006
issue, the January 2007 issue and our Febru-
ary 2007 issue. I hope that I have been able to
maintain the quality of our paper for these three
months; however a change is inevitable. In that regard I want you
to meet your new editor, Kenneth Green.
FEBRUARY 2007
NO. 6
Kenneth Green, editor.
Pictured below is his father Major Kenneth L. Green, Head-
quarters 43rd Tank Battalion, taken in Abilene,TX, in 1944 just
before the 12th left Texas for overseas. Ken's mother was three
months pregnant and his father, Major Green, was killed in action
with the 43rd Tank Battalion in Herrlisheim.
■HHH
Major Kenneth L. Green
[HQ/43], KIA.
Our new editor, Ken Green, is uniquely qualified to handle our
Hellcat News as detailed in his message on page 18.
A very smooth transition is anticipated because we are going
from my inexperience to a man very qualified to be our editor.
Along with our hard-working unit representatives and legacy
members willing to pitch in and help us, the year 2007 promises
to be a successful one.
Good health to all.
Your President,
John E. Critzas
56TH ARMORED INFANTRY BATTALION
Otis G. Shull, 249 Rhode Island Ave., Massapequa, NY 11758-4241
Phone (516) 798-2827 E-mail: 0gsjss@aol.com
IF YOU HAVEN'T YET PAID YOUR ANNUAL DUES,
YOU ARE NOW IN DANGER OF BEING DROPPED FROM
THE 12TH ROSTER AND LOSE THE HELLCAT NEWS. PAY
YOUR DUES! NOW!!
Marvel B. Rowland [B], past president of the 12th Associa-
tion, and long time 56th unit representative, died Dec. 20, 2006.
Marv was 83, and at the time of his death was a resident of the
Yorkland Park Care Center in Columbus, OH. He is survived by
his wife Ollie, also a Yorkland resident, and five sisters, a son and
daughter, three grandchildren and four great grandchildren.
Marv was a member of the Whitehall Post # 8794 VFW, and the
Military Affiliate Radio Network. He was a very active amateur
radio operator. If you called his home and asked for Marv, Ollie
would answer and tell you to wait until she could get him to come
up from the basement where the radio operation was installed.
Marv never missed an annual reunion, and he and Ollie made the
hospitality room a home away from home. Members of the 56th
were known to wait at the hospitality room door in the morning to
get that first cup of coffee. Because of his health, Marv was unable
to get to recent reunions. But he always answered an e-mail until
his health declined and he had to give up his home and move to
Yorkland.
In an e-mail from Vernon Tapp [BJ, he tells us that he lives
on a farm in Somerville, TN, where he has been since he got out
of the service. He was wounded at Wurzburg in early April 1945.
His main activity on the farm is selling hay to the horse farms in
his area. So far this year he has sold about 10,000 bales. (That's a
lot of hay!) He and his wife Vera celebrated their 65th wedding
anniversary on Dec. 13, 2006. Vernon is 85 and his wife is 84.
Charles McKinley [A] was hit in the leg at Herrlisheim, and
spent the next two years in hospitals. When he was discharged he
went to the University of Colorado and got a marketing degree.
He married in 1951 and he and his wife Elizabeth had four girls,
who presented them with nine grandchildren. After several years
selling furniture, he went back to the University of Michigan and
studied hospital administration. He worked in this area until he
retired in 1988. He was an ASTPer out of the Texas College of
Mines, in El Paso, where he played trombone in the band. You
have heard about professional students, well we have one here.
He has gone back to Edison College in Fort Myers, FL, where he
is studying band. All of this just so he can play trombone again in
their 70 piece college band.
About three years ago he forgot to pay his annual dues, so he
lost his 12th membership and the Hellcat News. In a military
magazine he saw a notice of the reunion in Minnesota, and real-
ized he knew nothing about it. So he got in touch with Ed Pierce,
who e-mailed me. I called Charles and he said he wanted back
in the 12th. When I e-mailed Bob Von Esch about the problem,
Bob promised to put Charles back on the roster, even before dues
were brought up-to-date. So we hope that by now Charles has paid
his dues and will be receiving the Hellcat News again. Welcome
home, Charles!
In an e-mail from Julie Andrzejcak Lambert |A] she gave
us a bit more of the military biography of her new husband, A1
Lambert. A1 joined the National Guard and then went into the Air
Force as a flight mechanic. He saw service in Vietnam and Korea,
got married, but remained in the service, and for a time was a drill
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