George Renda and Aloysius Gonsowski
In early October 1944, the 7th U.S. Armored Division—“The Lucky Seventh”—marched along the Deurneseweg (N270) near the border between Brabant and Limburg toward Overloon. Heavy fighting took place there.
In early October 1944, the 7th U.S. Armored Division—“The Lucky Seventh”—marched along the Deurneseweg (N270) near the border between Brabant and Limburg toward Overloon. Heavy fighting took place there. During these battles, on the Kamphoefweg, Private First Class George Renda and Aloysius Gonsowski, of C Company of the 48th Armored Infantry Battalion, were struck by German artillery fire.
February 1977. Two boys with a metal detector find a helmet along the Kamphoefweg. The police and the cemetery service in Bussum are notified. Harrie van Daal, curator of the War Museum, also goes there immediately and sees how another helmet, shoes, a wallet, a packet of letters, a gold ring, and the remains of two people are unearthed. Two identification tags are also found. Renda and Gonsowski were buried in a shallow pit, according to Van Daal by German soldiers, because the citizens of Overloon had been evacuated at that time and the Germans had taken over the area after the Americans had withdrawn.
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