Gorman Luther Zumbrum père (1919 - 1944)

Born 22 Oct 1919 in York, York County, Pennsylvania, United States

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Died 23 Nov 1944 at age 25 in Sarreguemines, Alsace-Moselle, France

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Biography

Gorman Zumbrum served as a private in the U.S. Army’s Company L, 320th Infantry Regiment, 35th Infantry Division, known as the Santa Fe Division, and fell in battle on November 30th 1944 in Sarreguemines, Alsace-Moselle, France on the French side of the Saar River.

The Santa Fe Division landed at Omaha Beach, Normandy July 5th-7th 1944 and entered combat on July 11th, fighting in the Normandy’s hedgerows north of St. Lo and repulsing twelve German counterattacks at Emelie before entering St. Lo on July 18th. After mopping up in the St. Lo area, it joined the offensive southwest of St. Lo, pushing the Germans across the Vire River on August 2nd before rescuing the 30th Division's "Lost Battalion" on August 7th–13th 1944. Racing across France through Orleans and Sens, the Division attacked across the Moselle on September 13th, captured Nancy on September 15th, secured Chambrey on October 1st, advanced to the German border and captured Sarreguemines before crossing the Saar on December 8th and entering Germany.

In ten months of almost continuous action on the Western Front, from Omaha Beach through France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Holland and to within a few hours drive of Berlin, the Santa Fe Disvion had traveled a twisting, fighting path of more than 1,600 combat miles. Over 150 enlisted men had received battlefield appointments as second lieutenants. The Santa Fe officers and enlisted men garnered over four thousand battlefield awards, including a Distinguished Medal to General Baade and the Congressional Medal of Honor to Staff Sgt. Junior J. Spurrier of Company G, 134th Infantry.

The division had fought under the banner of the First, Third, Seventh, and Ninth Armies and ten different corps. The 35th was awarded five battle stars for participating in the Normandy, Northern France, Ardennes, Rhineland, and Central Germany Campaigns and suffered 2,970 battle field deaths from July 1944 until departing the European Theater (ETO) in September.

http://www.coulthart.com/134/35chapter_14.htm http://www.coulthart.com/134/35id-battle-deaths/35id-wwii-battle-deaths.htm#Z https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/35th_Infantry_Division_(United_States)#Actions_during_World_War_II

Sources

• https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/GCJM-7V9
• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/139065450/gorman-l-zumbrum
• http://www.coulthart.com/134/35chapter_14.htm
• http://www.coulthart.com/134/35id-battle-deaths/35id-wwii-battle-deaths.htm#Z