Bradford Freeman, last surviving member of Easy has died.

Treblig said
His discharge papers say "infantry unassigned" but in his memoirs he wrote that he was (1943) with the 42 Div, Camp Gruber, OK then moved to Brackenrich (sp) Kentucky and was assigned to the 75 Div to go overseas. From Kentucky he was moved to Camp Shanks, New York to ship out to Europe (Liverpool, Eng) then to Normandy. Then he was assigned to the 3rd Army to move accross France. I guess during war the military just assigns you to any unit they wish to accomplish the main goal??
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Yes/no. Paratroopers were all volunteers. But yeah, the rest mostly served at the needs of the army. 3rd army would definitely have been at The Bulge. 75th infantry div actually also served in Korea, but were transformed to the 75th Ranger battalion. My grandfather served in the 75th Rangers at the end of Korea . Though he was a combat engineer, not Ranger tabbed.