StorySeal™ 01133
Month: February 2025
February 23, 2025
Published by Randy Murray
Murray Eugene “Buzz” Bussard
5/19/1924 – 8/16/2021
Branch: Marines
Rank: PFC
Outfit: C1-19, 3rd Marine Division
Service Dates: 1942 – 1945
County: Greene
Conflicts/Significant Events: World War II, Tripod Gunner, 50 days of combat w/Combat Engineers PTO South Pacific
Story uploaded: Thursday, August 20, 2009 / updated Sunday, February 23, 2025
February 19, 2025
Published by Randy Murray
Keith Norwood Bullock
6/17/1943 – 11/9/1945
Service Dates: – Only child of Frank and Sara Fisher Bullock. Graduated Kalamazoo Central High School in June 1943; drafted ten days later; Ft. Custer; Ft. Hood-Tank Destroyer School; Camp Butner-Mountain Climbing School in WV; MOS “Scout” 761; 35th Div, 137th Regiment; HQ Company 2Bn, S2 section. Depart US 5/12/44; Omaha Beach 7/4/44; Normandy Invasion; Hedgerows; St. Lo 7/18/44; Patton’s 3rd Army 8/1/44; France, Luxembourg; Belgium; Holland; Germany; 1,600 combat miles; numerous bitter attacks; Vire River, Mortain, Orleans, Sens, Montargis, Troy, Moselle River, Nancy, Gremercy Forest, Sarreguemines, Blies River, Bastogne, Villers-la-Bonne-Eau, lower Vosges, Roer River, Venlo, Wesel, Ruhr River, Rhine River, halt at Elbe River; occupy Hanover. Five Campaigns: Normandy; Northern France; Ardennes; Rhineland; Central Europe. Indomitable spirit in most bitter mud, rain, extreme snow and cold. 35th Div casualties 180%; Honorable Discharge 11/9/45. Return to Boston – Big Welcome Home.
Story uploaded 2007/updated: Wednesday February 19. 2025
February 3, 2025
Published by Randy Murray
COL (R) Thomas R. Bruce Jr.
7/13/1914 – 10/31/2008
Service Dates: 1930 – 1963
A 1937 graduate of the University of Missouri, and a native of Mexico, MO, he was the oldest of 7 siblings, joining the MONG at age 16. Thomas Bruce Jr. served 33 years active duty.
Colonel Bruce’s command assignments include Battery B, 128th FA Battalion, Staff Officer Division Artillery, 6th Armored Division, 3rd Army Battalion. Combat campaigns in WW II included Northern France, Normandy, Rhineland, Ardennes and Central Europe as Commanding Officer, 128th FA Battalion, and Commander 72nd Field Artillery Group, Werthheim Germany.
Awards earned include the Army Commendation Medal, Silver Star, Bronze Star with Oak Leaf Clusters, French Croix De Guerre. Legion of Merit, National Defense Service Medal, American Campaign Medal, World War II Victory Medal, European, African, Middle Eastern Campaign Medal. Army Occupation Medal.
Story uploaded: 2007 / updated: February 3, 2025
