King: Col. Byron Meader was a Mainer, born in Ellsworth. He spent 1943 in support service of the Army Air Corp field at Guadalcanal, returned to the U.S. to join the Air Corp, but was given a medium artillery unit, trained, then shipped to Europe to help in the Battle of the Bulge where for the most part he was within 200 yards of the front lines. His 69th Division met the Russians at the Elbe April 25, 1945. I'm thankful, and honored, to have been his friend.
BTW: my father's brother-in-law was in the Seventh Army's 45th Infantry Division that liberated Dachau.
