272nd Infantry Regiment Situation Map Presentation
Joe Lipsius (center) donates a historic map
of the linkup sites between the 69th Infantry and the Russian Army to Chad
Daniels (right), Director of The Armed Forces Museum in Camp Shelby,
Mississippi. James K. Richardson is at left.
Lipsius finally met Richardson in person
at the museum on August 14, 2003
. Joe was formerly S-2 for
Regimental Headquarters, 272nd Infantry Regiment, and is the founder
and Co-Webmaster of the 69th Infantry Division's Website. Jim was a Communications
Sergeant for Company B of the 272nd Infantry Regiment, and is now
Co-Webmaster and Site Engineer of this Website. This
was the first meeting of the two who, along with Amy Rose, Editor and Website
Treasurer, have developed the 69th's Website.
The
meeting had two purposes: For Joe and Jim
finally to meet face to face after countless hours of e-mail messages developing
the Website; and for Joe to present the Armed Forces Museum an exact copy of the
situation maps of the 272nd Infantry Regiment's move across Europe from the
Belgium-German border on February 9, 1945, when it entered combat, until
May 9, 1945, VE Day.
The
13 maps (scale 1 to 100,000), show Regimental and Battalion Command Posts by
dates, plus some attached Unit locations. Also, two special maps
cover the phase lines of fighting in the City of Leipzig and the first meeting
of the American and Soviet Armies in WWII at the Elbe River on April 25,
1945.
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