http://www.historynet.com/battle-of-wingen-sur-moder.htm From the World's Largest History Magazine Publisher Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:31:52 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.historynet.com/battle-of-wingen-sur-moder.htm/comment-page-1#comment-78151 Robert Cunningham Fri, 19 Jun 2009 03:42:03 +0000 #comment-78151 In discovering this review (Battle of Wingen-sur-Moder), I have finally found my wife's uncles place of death. Clemens Riedemann was a PVT 179 INF and died 5 January 1945. He grew up in Paulina Iowa and was living in Winona County-MN. He was 34 years of age, married with 4 children. He enlisted in May of 1944, (Fort Snelling) and found himself in this horrific battle 8 months later. He was a muscian and brother of Vernelle Riedemann who lived 53 more years dying at the age of 87 years in 2001, preceded by their mother Hermine Voss, who passed away at age 104 in 1993. Clemens and his family paid the price of our freedom. I honor him and all the men and women in our arm forces. It has been a long search because this battle does not get the attention it deserves in reading about the Battle of The Bulge. God Bless America and God bless those who served, died, were wounded or MIA and all the famlies who live in the shadows of life after war. Robert Cunningham In discovering this review (Battle of Wingen-sur-Moder), I have finally found my wife’s uncles place of death. Clemens Riedemann was a PVT 179 INF and died 5 January 1945. He grew up in Paulina Iowa and was living in Winona County-MN. He was 34 years of age, married with 4 children. He enlisted in May of 1944, (Fort Snelling) and found himself in this horrific battle 8 months later. He was a muscian and brother of Vernelle Riedemann who lived 53 more years dying at the age of 87 years in 2001, preceded by their mother Hermine Voss, who passed away at age 104 in 1993. Clemens and his family paid the price of our freedom. I honor him and all the men and women in our arm forces. It has been a long search because this battle does not get the attention it deserves in reading about the Battle of The Bulge.
God Bless America and God bless those who served, died, were wounded or MIA and all the famlies who live in the shadows of life
after war. Robert Cunningham

]]> http://www.historynet.com/battle-of-wingen-sur-moder.htm/comment-page-1#comment-28679 Laurie Trlak Tue, 20 Jan 2009 15:23:17 +0000 #comment-28679 Thanks for this article. My father, Allen J. Rogers, was a soldier of C/276 and fought in that battle; he suffered frost-bitten feet but he survived (obviously, since I was not born until 1957). Of course he never talked about it. I didn't know of this battle until some years after his death, when a member of the Trailblazers association emailed me an account that had appeared in the Trailblazer magazine. I had never realized until I read the article that as late as January, 1945, victory was not certain for the Allies. I think of the impatience of so many in this country today over the situation in Iraq, which has been no where near as costly in terms of lives lost as WWII, and I'm thankful that Americans then were evidently tougher than we are today. I also have a greater appreciation of what Dad experienced in just that battle, and even more respect for him and his fellow soldiers. Once again, thanks for publishing this account. Thanks for this article. My father, Allen J. Rogers, was a soldier of C/276 and fought in that battle; he suffered frost-bitten feet but he survived (obviously, since I was not born until 1957). Of course he never talked about it. I didn’t know of this battle until some years after his death, when a member of the Trailblazers association emailed me an account that had appeared in the Trailblazer magazine.
I had never realized until I read the article that as late as January, 1945, victory was not certain for the Allies. I think of the impatience of so many in this country today over the situation in Iraq, which has been no where near as costly in terms of lives lost as WWII, and I’m thankful that Americans then were evidently tougher than we are today. I also have a greater appreciation of what Dad experienced in just that battle, and even more respect for him and his fellow soldiers.
Once again, thanks for publishing this account.

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