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Biography of Ed Ruple

Mess Sergeant, CCC Man, Company 709, Grand Marias, Minnesota & Crescent City, California
and Company 1730, Bunker, Missouri

A Company, 133rd Infantry, 34th Infantry Division, USA


  October 16, 1916 Born in Graniteville, Missouri

August 1933 Enlisted in the Civilian Conservation Corps and went to Jefferson Barracks, Missouri. Train then went to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
September (?) 1933 Company 709 was formed, sent to Grand Marias, Minnesota.
February 10, 1934

Company transferred to Crescent City, California - Camp Gasquet

Constructed roadside parks along Highway 161, buildings for the park service and worked at the Oregon Caves at Selma, Oregon.

1936 Sent back to Jefferson Barracks for discharge
  Re-enlisted, sent to Company 1730 Bunker, Missouri. Group photos taken in 1935 and 1939 and newsletter was called "Company Attention"

  October 1941 Left CCC to play semi-pro baseball
  November 1941 Married my grandmother, Cleo
    Left baseball to join the Army (for 26 years)

October 19, 1943 Joined the US Army at Jefferson Barracks Missouri
Army ser. #37626734
   
   
January 1944 Arrived Caserta, Italy
  Carried wounded from the Monte Cassino area
April 10, 1944 Arrived at Anzio, Italy
June 6, 1944 Entered Rome
September 1, 1944 Awarded first bronze star
April 21, 1945 Captured nazi flag in Bologna
   
  Po Valley
   
   
   
May 6, 1945 War in Italy ends

    Tended store
    Re-enlistment
  August 26, 1950 9 Aug 50, made Sergeant First Class (Grade E-6) at Fort Riley, Kansas with the HQ & HQ Battery of the 25th F.A. Battalion
    Korea
     
    Post Korea
     
    Retirement
     
  July 13, 2005  

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