Colonel Welcome P. Waltz, 1999.012.0012
1999.012.0019 Lt. Col. Robert Eugene Mousseau Des Islets
Since our last post on the collection of Camp Adair Officers photos we received from the Salem Chamber of Commerce, we received several inquiries for photographs of individual officers. Since we were scanning anyway, we decided to post them here. Please let us know if you have any information on these folks. We would love to add it to our files.
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Colonel Waltz was born in 1892 and had seen action on the Mexican border in 1916. He served in the first World War and was cited for bravery at the Battle of Cantigny in May of 1918. At Cantigny, 2/3rds of his company were killed or wounded. Prior to commanding the 413th Infantry Regiment of the 104th “Timberwolf” Division at Camp Adair, he was the Chief of the Weapons Section at the Army’s Infantry School at Fort Benning, Georgia from 1940 to 1942. My father served as a platoon leader in the 413th’s Company I at Camp Adair before his repeated requests for a combat assignment led to him being transferred to the Pacific theater in July of 1943. Dad was very eager to get “into the scrap” as his letters home indicated. In August of 1944, the 104th Division was at last shipped overseas and fought in Normandy, Belgium, and Germany, seeing 195 consecutive days of combat. Total casualties for the Timberwolves in WWII were 1,447 killed and over six thousand wounded. Col. Waltz led the 413th Infantry Regiment through this period and was awarded the Legion of Merit.
Hi, Iam researching Col John H. Cochran and wondered if you could post his photo?