U.S. ArmyPersonnel Killed in the Malmédy Massacre
at Baugnez Crossroads, Belgium, 17 December 1944
Medical DepartmentPersonnel:
Killed in Action (7):
200th Field ArtilleryBattalion:
Pfc. Elmer W. Wald
Medic
546th AmbulanceCompany (Motor)
Company Headquarters, one-half of the 2d Platoon(5 ambulances), &the 10 ambulances of the 3dPlatoon were located in Waimes, Belgium, assigned to the 180th MedicalBattalion, 134th Medical Group, V Corps, as a reserve and supportingmedicalevacuation from 1st Hospitalization Unit, 47th Field Hospital, atWaimes andvia Belgian Route N32 through Waimes from the clearing station of the99thInfantry Division, V Corps, at Nidrum, Belgium, to the 44th and 67thEvacuationHospitals in Malmédy, Belgium.
The ambulances of both the 546th and 575thAmbulance Companieswere headed east on Belgian Route N32 from Malmédy to Waimeswhen theywerecaptured at Baugnez crossroads by the elements of the KampfgruppePeiper, 1st SS Panzer Division, Liebstandarte-SSAdolf Hitler.
Pvt. Keston E. Mullen
Ambulance orderly
Tec 5 DaytonE.Wusterbarth
Driver
575th AmbulanceCompany (Motor)
Company headquarters and the 3 platoons wereassigned to the180th Medical Battalion, 134th Medical Group, V Corps, located inWaimes,Belgium: 1st Platoon was supporting the clearing station of the 2dInfantryDivision, V Corps, at Camp Elsenborn, Belgium; the 2d Platoon wasevacuating the1st Hospitalization Unit, 47th Field Hospital at Waimes; and the 3dPlatoon wassupporting the 99th Infantry Division’s clearing station at Nidrum.Ambulancesof the 575th Ambulance Company used the same evacuation route as thoseof the546th Ambulance Company from the front to the evacuation hospitals inMalmédy.
Pfc. L. M. Burney
Driver with Pvt. Anderson
1st Lt. Carl R. Genthner, Medical Administrative Corps (MAC)
Commander, 3d Platoon
Riding with Pfc. Paden
Pfc. Paul “Pappy” Paden
Driver of ambulance with 1st Lt. Genthner
Pvt. Wayne L. Scott
With Pvt. Dobyns
Other U.S. Army Personnel Killed in Action (75):
Battery B, 285thField Artillery ObservationBattalion
Pvt. Donald L. Bloom
Tec 5 Carl H. Blouch
Tec 5 Charles R. Breon
Cpl. Joseph A. Brozowski
Tec 5 Samuel P. Burkett
Tec 5 Paul R. Carr
Pfc. Homer S. Carson
Pfc. Frederick Clark
Pvt. James H. Coates
Pvt. John H. Cobbler
Tec 5 Robert Cohen
Tec 5 John D. Collier
Pfc. Warren Davis
T/Sgt Paul G. Davidson
Pfc. Howard C. Desch
Pvt. William J. Dunbar
Cpl. Carl B. Fitt
Pfc. Donald P. Flack
Sgt. Walter A. Franz
Pfc. Carl B. Frey
S/Sgt. Donald E. Geisler
2d Lt. Solomon S. Goffman
Tec 5 Charles F. Haines
Pfc. Charles E. Hall
Pvt. Samuel A. Hallman
Tec 4 Sylvester Herchelroth
Tec 4 Wilson M. Jones
Tec 4 Oscar Jordan
Sgt. Alfred W. Kinsman
Tec 5 Howard W. Laufer
Tec 5 Alexander Lengyel, Jr.
Cpl. Raymond E. Lester
Tec 4 Selmer H. Leu
Tec 4 Alan M. Lucas
Tec 5 James E. Luers
Cpl. Lawrence Martin
Tec 5 Robert McKinney
Sgt. Halsey J. Miller
Cpl. William H. Moore
1st Lt. John S. Munzinger
Pfc. David M. Murray
Cpl. David T. O’Grady
Pfc. Thomas W. Oliver
S/Sgt. John D. Osborne
Pvt. Walter J. Perkowski
Pvt. Peter R. Phillips
Pvt. Stanley F. Piasecki
Pvt. Gilbert R. Pittman
1st Lt. Perry L. Reardon
Tec 5 George R. Rosenfeld
Cpl. Carl H. Rullman
Tec 4 John M. Rupp
Pvt. Oscar Saylor
Tec 5 Max Schwitzgold
Tec 4 Irwin M. Sheetz
Tec 5 John H. Shingler
Sgt. Robert J. Snyder
Sgt. Alphonse J. Stabulis
Tec 4 George H. Steffy
Pfc. Carl M. Stevens
Tec 5 Luke S. Swartz
Pvt. Elwood E. Thomas
Pvt. Louis A. Vairo
Pfc. Richard B. Walker
Tec 4 Thomas F. Watt
Tec 5 Vester H. Wiles
Headquarters Battery, 285th Field ArtilleryObservationBattalion
Cpl. Ralph J. Indelicato
Capt. Roger L. Mills
T/Sgt. William T. McGovern
200th Field ArtilleryBattalion
Sgt. Benjamin Lindt
ReconnaissanceCompany, 32d Armored Regiment
2d Lt. Lloyd A. Iames
Pfc. John Klukavy
1st Lt. Thomas E. McDermott
Tec 3 James G. McGee
86th EngineerBattalion (Heavy Ponton)
Pfc. John J. Clymire
Medical DepartmentPersonnel who escaped (4):
575th Ambulance Company (Motor):
Pvt. Roy B. Anderson
With Pfc. Burney
Wounded in foot
Died 1983
Pvt. Samuel Dobyns
With Pvt. Scott
Wounded in arm and ankle
Died 1983
Pfc. Stephen J. Domitrovich
Assistant driver with McKinney
Not wounded
Pfc. James M. ”Monk” McKinney
Driver with Pfc. Domitrovich
Not wounded
Died 1978
For additionalinformation on the Malmédy Massacre and the U.S. Army personnelinvolved in it, see John M. Bauserman, The Malmédy Massacre (Shippensburg, PA: White Mane Books, 1995).
