Sources:
- American Legion Post 146, Winthrop, Mass.
- National Archives
- Pfc Kenneth A. Stewart - Boston Globe, 7/8/1945
- Berga an der Elster, Nazi slave labor camp - Geni
- H.Res.883 - Honoring the heroic service and sacrifice of the 350 American soldiers detained at the Nazi camp at Berga during World War II - Congress.Gov
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| Kenneth A. Stewart (1921-1945) - U.S. Army, WWII -
enlisted and was assigned to the 110th Reg. 28th Infantry Div. After a major
engagement in the Hurtgen Forest, his regiment was sent to a quite area of the
front to rest and refit. His unit received 2,000 new replacements - bringing
strength up to 3,257. They were stationed along the Skyline Drive in Belgium,
overlooked by the Schnee Iffel covering a 15-mile front located east of
Bastogne. On December 16, 1944, they were attacked by two German divisions - 2nd
Panzer and 26th Volks Grenadier - on the first day of the Battle of the Bulge.
His regiment held back 10,000 German troops for two days until the enemy brought
up the Panzer Lear Division which overwhelmed his unit and regiments on both
sides. |
| Stewart's regiment held back 10,000 German troops for two days until the enemy brought
up the Panzer Lear Division which overwhelmed his unit and regiments on both
sides. His regiment lost 2,740 men killed, wounded, or taken prisoner. PFC
Stewart was taken prisoner and sent to a POW camp in Germany where he died of
malnutrition in April 1945, two weeks before the war ended. His unit the 28th
Division's stand east of Bastogne for two days allowed the 101st Airborne time
to advance and break up the main German attack. He is buried in the Winthrop
Cemetery - Cross Street. |
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