This uniform came to me with just the 30th Infantry Division and 76th Infantry Division patches on the sleeves and a lone laundry mark “S-4232”.
First, I began pouring through the Queen Mary’s manifesto when the 30th ID came through New York on her voyage home. I found a match, “ Edwin L. Sullivan ASN 36824232”!!! Company A, 120th Infantry Regiment!
I was over the top excited however, I had to now find him in the 76th’s rosters. Searching the Combat Infantryman’s Badge General Orders for all three (304th/385th/417th) Regiments, I stumbled across the one and only Edwin L. Sullivan (ASN 36824232) in Easy Company, 385th Infantry Regiment! Not only my Grandfather’s Regiment, but his Battalion!
Sgt Sullivan was born in 1919 in Wisconsin and grew up in the Madison area. He enlisted in the Army on June 28, 1943 and upon the completion of basic, he was assigned to the 385th/76th at Camp McCoy, Wisconsin, not too terribly far from his home!
He served in all 3x ETO campaigns as an Onaway, shipped home with the 30th for the Invasion of Japan that never took place (my grandpa was in the same boat in the 119th Regiment!) an was discharged on January 2, 1946. He passed away in Wisconsin in 2005.
