Elvis Arthur Mason
Mason
Elvis Arthur
IN
World War, 1939-1945; Korean War, 1950-1953
Army; Army
Headquarters Company, 3rd Battalion, 379th Infantry Regiment, 95th Infantry Division; 38th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division; Army Reserve
First Lieutenant; First Lieutenant
Camp Swift, Texas; Camp Polk, Louisiana; Fort Bliss, California; Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; England; France; Belgium; Holland; Luxembourg; Germany; also: Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri; Japan; Korea
Unknown
Veteran
Elvis Mason
Contemporary photo of veteran
379th infantry Regimental Drum and Bugle Corps on the outdoor stage at Camp Polk, LA.
German-destroyed bridge over the Hafen canal in Metz didn't stop infantrymen of Col. Fred Gaillard's 377th regiment from crossing with supplies
Bunker No. 56--Originally in Roden--this part of bunker moved to Saarlouis as a monument in front of Bundeswehr (German Army) barracks
Bunker No. 656--Ensdorf--German part of Siegfried Line
Bunker no. 330 in Fraulautern
Bunker no. 658--Ensdorf
Greg Asimakis, Elvis Mason (veteran), and Les Wolf
Engineers of 95th division cleaning up debris in Saarlautern which was captured on December 3, 1944.
First bridge captured in Saarlautern, Germany by the 95th division, December 3, 1944
members of a Signal Corps indulge in a game of chance
Sgt. Nelson, Cpl. Reiter, and Sgt. Bush of Co. D, 378th
Destruction of German warehouse which lay in the path of the 95th Division's advance on Metz [November 15-17, 1944]
Veterans History Project, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
https://memory.loc.gov/diglib/vhp/story/loc.natlib.afc2001001.02735/
DLC-AFC
2023-08-25
loc.natlib.afc2001001.02735