Expedition Report
Company M and the 7th Cavalry Regiment camped near the mouth of the Powder River on July 31, 1873 as part of the 1873 Yellowstone Expedition. (Custer’s Best: The Story of Company M, 7th Cavalry at the Little Bighorn)
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Alois Mücke. Alois Mücke was born on August 1, 1923 in what was then termed Mährisch Ostrau in Czechoslovakia (today Moravská Ostrava.) Prior to the end of the Great War, the area had been Austrian, and this is undoubtedly what Alois Mücke believed himself to be. After the incorporation of the area into the Third Reich in October 1938, Mücke joined the Hitler Youth on April 20, 1939 and remained in that organization until April 20, 1942. Single, he entered the Waffen-SS on July 15, 1942 and became a radio operator. During the Kursk Offensive it is believed that SS-Sturmmann Mücke served as a radio operator on a Tiger in the 9th (Heavy) Company in the Totenkopf. Alois Mücke was killed in action on July 31, 1943 assaulting Hill 213.9 east of Stepanivka on the Mius front. (Waffen-SS Tiger Crews at Kursk: The Men of SS Panzer Regiments 1, 2 & 3 in Operation Citadel, July 5-15, 1943)
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Private First Class Warren S. Lorio: [who had been killed by artillery shrapnel on February 9] interred temporary cemetery Henri-Chapelle #1, 1700 hours, February 13, 1945 in Plot KKK, Row 6, Grave 102. In 1949, USATS Carroll Victory transports the remains of 3,333 American soldiers’ home, including his. On July 31, 1949 Warren is laid to rest at Cypress Grove Cemetery, New Orleans in Location 56, Cypress Jessamine Rose. Warren left behind a mother, three brothers, and three sisters. (Dying Hard: Company B, 39th Infantry Regiment, 9th Infantry Division in World War II)