504th Signal Battalion

Profiles of some of the people who served with the 504th Signal Battalion in Germany, where they are / what they're doing now, and their e-mail address. Some info was obtained from various Internet websites, and may not be accurate/current for people with no e-mail address shown. A * after a name indicates that there is additional info from/for that person on the E-Mail Call page.

(All people listed were assigned to Headquarters or Headquarters Company in Mannheim unless indicated otherwise)

LTC William Gooley: Battalion Commander, 1961 – 1962. Lives in Monterey CA.

LTC Lyle Duffield: Battalion Commander, 1962 – 1964. Lives in Fayettville PA.

LTC David Miller: Battalion Commander, 1964 - 1965. 

MAJ Sampson: 504th Executive Officer, 1964 - 1965

MAJ Luis Romeu: Acting Battalion Commander, 1961. Lives in Philadelphia PA area.

CPT Patrick Brennan*: (1961 -1964) Was 504th Adjutant, HHC Commanding Officer, and A Company (Boeblingen) Commanding Officer. Retired from the Army as a LTC in 1982, and operated a consulting company and was a Realtor in Austin TX when he passed away on Sep. 28, 2007.

CPT Sidney Faress: 504th Adjutant, 1964 - 1965. Quality Control  Manager at Char-broil Corp in Columbus GA. Lives in La Grange GA.  sfaress@charbroil.com

CPT Leigh Cheney:  (1961 - 1965) 7th Army Major Electronic Items Supply Officer until the deactivation of the 504th. Retired from the Army in 1968. Worked at Kimberly-Clark (the Kleenex people) for 25 years. Now retired and living in North Augusta SC. 

CPT Paul Tomes: Company C (Hanau) CO, 1962 - ?

CPT William Buck: Assistant S-3 Officer, 1961 - ? Passed away in Tinton Falls NJ in late 1980s.

CPT Maurice Orlando (1963 - 1965) 504th S-2 Officer.

LT Robert Neagle: (1964 - 1965) Twenty-five years in Operations Analysis, Budgeting & Expense Analysis, and Financial Analysis & Reporting at Aetna Life & Casualty, retired in 1994. Self-employed in small business financial analysis and bookkeeping 1995 - 2003. Lives in CT.  neagle504@yahoo.com

LT Charles Byron Christian*: (1964 - 1965) Now retired, Byron was a Program Manager and Manager of Information Technology at Bell Helicopter in Hurst TX, where he lives. bigsnail@charter.net

LT James Topple: (1964 - 1965) Vice President of Robert Pattillo Properties in Atlanta, GA. Lives in Decatur GA, where he is an active member of the Rotary Club. Update: Jim has probably retired from Robert Pattillo Properties because a recent e-mail I sent him was returned as undeliverable.

LT Ramey Brandon*: (1964 - 1965) 1st Signal Brigade CO May 1986 to May 1988. Retired from the Army as a COL in 1989. Lives in Tumwater WA. brandonrj@comcast.net  Read about the no hitter game he pitched for Texas Tech in April,1962.

LT Dennis Larson: (1964 - 1965) A registered Professional Engineer, Dennis earned a Ph.D. in Agricultural Engineering from Purdue University in 1971, and was an Associate Professor of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering at the University of Arizona in Tucson when he retired in 2006. Dr. Dennis is a dedicated do-it-yourselfer and hiker, married with four grown children, and lives in Tucson AZ.  larsond@email.arizona.edu

LT Joseph Malie or Joseph Maylie : (unsure of spelling) (1964 - 1965) Joseph Malie is a Guidance Counselor at Eagle Heights Academy, a charter grade school in Youngstown OH, where he lives. Joseph Maylie lives in Portland OR. 

LT William Eriksson: (1964 -1965) Works for Quantitude, a telecommunications consulting company. Lives in San Francisco bmwkid@pacbell.net 

LT Larry Engel: Lives in Westminster CO ljengel3@comcast.net

LT Henry Simpson: Last known address (1980s) was in Warner Robbins GA area.

LT Kendall Fugate: (1961 – 1964) Joined Battalion as Commanding Officer of the Direct Support Unit in Kaiserslautern, and later moved to Mannheim as Battalion S2. D Company Commander in late1963/early 1964. Left the Army in 1967. Retired from Citibank, lives in Alamo CA. kenfugate@aol.com

LT Raymond Davis: Was at 504th HQ only a few months in 1965 before being transferred to AFN Frankfurt.

LT John Parker | LT Thomas Gordon  

LT Roy Busdiecker: Company E (Giessen), 1962 – 1963. Retired from Army as a COL. Lives in Woodbridge VA and/or Lake Ridge VA. family@busdkr.com

WO Leo Shoemaker: Originally from Michigan, Leo retired to the Sacramento CA area in the late 1960s and passed away at the age of 70 in?. His wife, Joyce Shoemaker, is a Real Estate Agent with Davis & Davis Associates in Sacramento CA. joyceshoe@aol.com  

WO Stanley Hurley: A Realtor in the Syracuse NY area for many years, Stan Hurley is now a Realtor with Collins & Associates in Melbourne FL, where he lives with his wife Kathy Galpin Hurley. stanhurley@bellsouth.net  Update: Stan is probably no longer with Collins & Associates because he is no longer listed on their website.

WO Merrill Lear:  Lives in Cloquet MN.

SGT Pearson | SGT Arthur Michaels | SGT Ronald Nadeau

SPC4 Larry Hood*: (1963 - 1965) Larry has been a machinist with the Olin Corporation in Illinois since 1966. He initially worked on the Minuteman missile program, and has been refurbishing Minuteman gas generators since 1996. Larry got married shortly after his discharge in 1965, and has two daughters. He is an avid golfer and bowler and lives in West Frankfort IL  lgh1942@mchsi.com 

SPC Lee Powell: Lee was assigned to the 504th when it was activated at Tobyhanna Signal Depot in 1961. He is the manager of the AAA Motor Club in St Petersburg FL. lpowell4@tampabay.rr.com. Lee's buddies at the 504th were SPC Robert LaFramboise, Robert O'Neill, and Ronald Bode.

SPC Melvin Magnuson*: Jul 1961 - Feb 1965. Unit Clerk, HHC.

SPC Donald Cagle*: Was in Company E (Giessen) until December 1962. Works at Honeywell HPS in Houston TX. don.cagle@honeywell.com

SPC Larry Forrester*: Generator Repairman, Co. A (Boeblingen), 1965. Now a CW5 Warrant Officer in Army Reserves. Lives in Center Valley PA larry.forrester@us.army.mil

SPC Jim Burden*: Teletype Repairman, Co. D (Mannheim), 1964 - 1965. Retired from his medical equipment repair business in 2003. jburden@cox.net 

SPC William Friedel: Company E  (Giessen), 1961 – 1963.  freedyidiotikon@yahoo.com

SPC Don Goebel: Company E  (Giessen), 1961 – 1964.  poodon@nwonline.com

SPC Emile Hough: Lives in Lakeland FL

SPC Robert Chaput: Lives in Manchester NH

SPC Phil Jemmings: Lives in Lakewood WA

Other 504th Signal Bn enlisted personnel names from 1964 & 1965 (provided by Larry Hood): 

Sullivan | Tobias | Goodpastor | Keen | Golden | Green | Hamby | Zimmerman | Nicholson

Elizabeth Sorghe ("Frau Sorghe"): Signal Depot German national employees Supervisor.