Bainter, Gayle Clifford

Unit: 76th Infantry Div.
Theater: European
Address: HC 2, Box 27
Dresden, KS 67635
Date of Birth: Mar 30, 1920
Place of Birth: Dresden, KS
Enlistment Date: Feb 25, 1942
Discharge Date: Dec 31, 1945

Bainter, Gayle Clifford

I consider it an honor to have served under General Eisenhower, and General George Patton in the European Theatre. I first saw action in the Battle of the Bulge, having landed in the same place the invasion forces did, and walking, it seemed, most of the way to Belgium. When the war in Europe ended my unit was just outside of Leipzig, Germany, but had to move back west because we were in the area designated the Russian Sector. The ship that I came home on landed in New York Harbor on Christmas Day, 1945.