WELCOME !
WILLIAM LEROY TINGEN
IN MEMORIAM
JUNE 13, 1924 - FEBRUARI 16, 2015

 

This site started as and will always be the home of my close friend
WILLIAM 'BILL' TINGEN

from Greenville, NC, U.S.A.
 

The website is also dedicated to all the heroes of the 463rd Parachute Field Artillery Battalion.

 

Their Memory shall live forever.


If you were a member of the Battalion, or, if you are related to a member, then please contact us !


You can do that with the feedback form (at left), an entry in the guestbook, or by mail in the Miscellaneous topic here beneath.

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How this site started in 2003...
Major changes in 2005...

I started to build this site to educate our youth and also others (including myself!) and to honor and thank the men who liberated our European countries in WW2.

 

We can best honor them by teaching our children that living in freedom did not come automatically, but was restored by the efforts and sacrifices of hundreds of thousands of patriots and soldiers during World War II.

 

Expressions of gratitude are never-ending and heartfelt.

In 2005 the site remained Bill's homepage, only we extended it to be also the Official Home for all 463 PFA veterans and their families. This in accordance with Bill himself and other veterans of the 463rd Parachute Field Artillery.

 

The building of the website has never stopped, it is still 'quietly' under construction.

Troopers
463rd and 101st related
FAQ
HQ, HQ & SV Battery

Major Stuart Seaton

Capt William Richard Laidlaw

A Battery

1st Sgt Joseph F. Stolmeier

Cpl Kenneth L. Busenbark

Tec 5 Earl D. Chew

Pvt Richard A. 'Dick' Carroll

B Battery

1Lt Joseph 'Joe' Lyons

Tec 4 Frank T. Pfeil + In Memoriam

Pvt William 'Bill' Tingen

Pvt Douglas 'Doug' Bailey

D Battery

Capt. Victor J. Tofany

PFC Kenneth Hesler

PFC William J. Whittaker

PFC Peter Chuba

 

Bastogne

Main information

101AB and attached units Memorial

Veterans visiting the city

463rd PFA

The Official 463rd PFA History

Roll of Honor

Doug's Unofficial Story

Activation of the Battalion

The Italian Campaign

Operation Dragoon, Southern France

Maritime Alps, Southern France

Battered Bastards of Bastogne

The Alsace Campaign

Mourmelon & Presidential Unit Citation

The Campaign in Germany

War's End and Beyond

Troops returning to the USA


   Article in the WWII Magazine

Article in the Trading Post Magazine

463PFA Miscellaneous

Other

The 101st Airborne Booklet

Helmet Insignia and Military Map Symbols

Division Charts and 'TO & E'

The 75mm Pack Howitzer gun

 

Frequently asked questions

Conversions and General Info

 

Guestbook

Write a message in the guestbook please !

Read the guestbook messages

 

Miscellaneous

News (on Facebook!)

The webmaster's USA visit in 2008

One is looking for ...

Interesting web links

About the author

Send a mail to Bill Tingen

Contact the webmaster

Bookmark this website

Use our Feedback Form... !

 

Donations

Make a donation with Paypal

Copyright

The contents of all material available on this Internet site are copyrighted unless otherwise indicated. All rights are reserved, and content may not be reproduced, downloaded, disseminated, published, or transferred in any form or by any means, except with the prior written permission of the webmaster, a veteran or family member of the WW2 463rd Parachute Field Artillery. Copyright infringement is a violation of federal law subject to criminal and civil penalties.

Also: on our side we do our very best to search for the owner of copyrighted material, but, if your copyrighted material is posted without permission on this website and you want this material removed, or you want an appropriate copyright statement represented, please provide a written communication that details the information listed here:

* sufficient contact information so that we may contact you including a valid email address.
* identify in sufficient detail the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed.
* a statement that the complaining party has a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is
   not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
* A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that the complaining party is
   authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.

Must be signed by the authorized person to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly being infringed.

 

Thanks

I would also like to address a special THANK YOU, to Tess Stinson, Kathy (Gallipau) Trefz, Ken Hesler and all who I might have forgotten for all kinds of help they are giving me on this subject ! Of course also a very special THANK YOU to Bill Tingen himself, and the members of the 463rd PFA, to do me the honor allowing me to build their homepage.