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List
of casualties : Company "I", 378th Infantry
Regiment
The following
information was made available to Dick Sieckman who became
Supply Sergeant after Bob Getz was KIA in the Siegfried
Line. He copied informations from the Company I daily
morning reports in April 1945 as the war ended. This
casualty informations may not be completely accurate
because he had to copy the casualty entries in great haste.
His First Sergeant Brarens didn't want to let him have the
reports because it was aginst Army rules. Dick Sieckman
told him he needed just a total of their casualties to
submit a Report of Survey to release "I" Company
of critical items (pistols, binoculars, watches, compases,
etc). His report was approved by an Ordnance Officer
reluctantly, saying that "with all the equipment they
lost crossing the Moselle and Saar Rivers their company
should have been able to walk across". While totaling
the informations he needed, he just couldn't pass up the
opportunity to write down the full names and dates of
their casualties.
Date of
casualties can be off a day or two because of the combat
conditions under which their First Sergeants (Wyatt, then
Erhart and then Brarens) were under as well as other
priorities much greater a that time. (as you well know).
"I"
Company morning reports mad possible this awesome
chronological list which enables us to visualize the
battle engagements too. Perhaps I Company is the only
company with a list of this type.
My specials
thanks to Dick Sieckman for the casualty list of
"I" Company, 378th Infantry, 95th Inf |
Rhineland 
