TIMBERWOLF ARTIFACTS 
W.W.II 104th Infantry Division
(Milton K. Abelson Page)

This page pays tribute to the W.W.II 104th Army Infantry Division, better known as the "Timberwolves", under the command of Major General Terry de la Mesa Allen.  This is a non official web site, not affiliated with the U.S. Army or any other government agency.  Information in this web site is designed to augment the official 104th Infantry Division Home Page web site: http://www.104infdiv.org/
Please refer to the official home page for complete information about the Timberwolf Division.  Timberwolves or Timberwolf "Pups" are invited and encouraged to use this site to gather additional  information about former buddies.  Anyone having additional information on the 104th, photos or other memorabilia are requested to contact the webmaster of this site.

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The following information is from Richard Shuldiner, nephew of Timberwolf veteran Milton K. Abelson, from  the 104th Division,104th Artillery .  Richard is hoping someone may recognize his uncle from the  photos, and provide additional information about him.  He has also provided  some new information on Timberwolf P.O.W.s.  Thank you very much for supplying this information Richard!

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*01/109/07 -  " I have done some research on my uncle and have come up with some facts you might be interested in. He was captured by the Nazis on April 19, 1945  near Halle Germany and liberated on May 3, 1945 by the 83rd infantry division. he died on June 13, 1945 near Rouen france. All that came from his Yale University obituary. (He left Yale and enlisted in 1942).

What I didn't know was where he was held. In a letter my mother sent to him on June 9, 1945 she mentions "altengrabow." so he was held captive in Stalag 11A Aletengrabow, Brandenburg Prussia. I was able to find this record and maybe that could help people remember him. I read that only 27 Timberwolves were captured. I got that number from: ORDER OF BATTLE OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY WORLD WAR II EUROPEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS OFFICE OF THE THEATER HISTORIAN PARIS, FRANCE December 1945.  Anyway this is his POW record at the National Archives:

File Unit: World War II Prisoners of War Data File, 12/7/1941 - 11/19/1946 in the Series: Records of World War II Prisoners of War, created 1942 - 1947, documenting the period 12/7/1941 - 11/19/1946. -
Record Group 389 (info)

Brief Scope: This series has information about U.S. military officers and soldiers and U.S. and some Allied civilians who were prisoners of war and internees.

Field Title Value Meaning
SERIAL NUMBER 31274092 31274092
NAME ABELSON MILTON K ABELSON MILTON K
GRADE, ALPHA PFC Private First Class
GRADE CODE 7 Second Lieutenant or Nurse or Dietitian or Physical
therapy aide or Private First Class or Ensign or
Second Class, Seaman
SERVICE CODE 1 ARMY
ARM OR SERVICE FA Field Artillery
ARM OR SERVICE CODE 30 FA: FIELD ARTILLERY
DATE REPORT: DAY (DD) 19 19
DATE REPORT: MONTH (MM) 04 04
DATE REPORT: YEAR (Y) 5 1945
RACIAL GROUP CODE 1 WHITE
STATE OF RESIDENCE  
TYPE OF ORGANIZATION 25M Field Artillery
PARENT UNIT NUMBER 0104 0104
PARENT UNIT TYPE 54 Platoon/Highway/104th Infantry Division
AREA 72 European Theatre: Germany
LATEST REPORT DATE: DAY (DD)  
LATEST REPORT DATE: MONTH (MM)  
LATEST REPORT DATE: YEAR (Y)  
SOURCE OF REPORT  
STATUS 8 Returned to Military Control, Liberated or Repatriated
DETAINING POWER  
CAMP  
REP  
POW TRANSPORT SHIPS  

Best to you,
Richard. "


 

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