George Ciampa Born: June 6, 1925
US Army; Private First Class, Service # 39714653,
October 23, 1943, to January 17, 1946
607th Graves Registration Company, 4th platoon.
Mr. George Ciampa is a veteran of five campaigns in France, Belgium, and Germany, including the June 6th, D-Day Invasion, and the Battle of the Bulge.
His unit, the 607th Graves Registration Company was the first such unit in France on D-Day. Their grim job was to clear the bodies floating in the water and littering the Omaha and Utah beaches, while still under enemy fire.
The 607th initiated seventeen temporary cemeteries across Europe, handling over 75,000 bodies of American, Allied and German soldiers.
George and his Unit endured waist-high snow and freezing temperatures in the coldest winter in Europe in 40 years. They survived brutal German artillery and infantry attacks during the U.S. Army’s largest and costliest land battle of WWII, the Battle of the Bulge.
For seven months after the German surrender in Europe, Mr. Ciampa served with the Seventh Army, as part of the occupation of Germany. During his occupation, Mr. Ciampa and his Unit had expected to receive orders to the Pacific Theater,
which thankfully, never came.
Mr. Ciampa’s Campaign credits include Normandy, Northern France, Rhineland. Ardennes-Alsace and Central Europe. His awards and decorations include a Distinguished Unit Citation, a Meritorious Unit Award, the French Croix de Guerre
with Palm, and the French Legion of Honor.
US Army; Private First Class, Service # 39714653,
October 23, 1943, to January 17, 1946
607th Graves Registration Company, 4th platoon.
Mr. George Ciampa is a veteran of five campaigns in France, Belgium, and Germany, including the June 6th, D-Day Invasion, and the Battle of the Bulge.
His unit, the 607th Graves Registration Company was the first such unit in France on D-Day. Their grim job was to clear the bodies floating in the water and littering the Omaha and Utah beaches, while still under enemy fire.
The 607th initiated seventeen temporary cemeteries across Europe, handling over 75,000 bodies of American, Allied and German soldiers.
George and his Unit endured waist-high snow and freezing temperatures in the coldest winter in Europe in 40 years. They survived brutal German artillery and infantry attacks during the U.S. Army’s largest and costliest land battle of WWII, the Battle of the Bulge.
For seven months after the German surrender in Europe, Mr. Ciampa served with the Seventh Army, as part of the occupation of Germany. During his occupation, Mr. Ciampa and his Unit had expected to receive orders to the Pacific Theater,
which thankfully, never came.
Mr. Ciampa’s Campaign credits include Normandy, Northern France, Rhineland. Ardennes-Alsace and Central Europe. His awards and decorations include a Distinguished Unit Citation, a Meritorious Unit Award, the French Croix de Guerre
with Palm, and the French Legion of Honor.