Pfc Dallas A. Jamieson   "I was looking thru your great web site, wrote  Mark Claussner, "and on the Honor Roll of those 508 troopers killed in action,  I came across the name of my uncle Dallas A. Jamieson.  Dallas was the 1st Sergeant of Service Co.  He had been "busted" in rank to Pvt and transferred to HQ, 1st.
   After participating in the Normandy campaign he prepared for Market Garden.  I have been told by fellow troopers that he and another trooper predicted their demise and unfortunately both were correct.  Dallas was listed as missing in action and then declared dead on Sept. 21, 1944. This information is incorrect however.  According to his close friend, Earl Hickman (F Co.), Dallas, as a bazooka man, was crossing a field outside the village of Beek.  The village had changed hands several times and Dallas received a fatal shrapnel wound, this was on the 20th.
   Hickman and fellow troopers picked up Dallas' body the following day in a captured German truck. The body was taken to a hotel in Beek and set on the porch with other troopers KIA.  This is where the discrepancy occurred.
   Dallas was born in Milton, MA in 1911.  He was buried in two temporary cemeteries in Holland. In 1948 his father had Dallas' remains returned to the U.S.  He now lays with his Family in Quincy, MA."
(Photo taken in 1940 while Jamieson was in the Massachusetts National Guard and is courtesy of Mark Claussner)

1/Lt Kenneth L. Johnson
clowns for the camera at Camp Mackall, 1943 (courtesy Bill Nation)