Identified Booklet
Booklet identified to Richard S. Shambaugh - Company C, 333rd Infantry Division, 84th Infantry Division
Sgt Richard S. Shambaugh
Sergeant
Richard S. Shambaugh
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Sgt. Richard S. Shambaugh
Richard Smith Shambaugh was born on December 1, 1924, in Noble, Indiana, to Edith Lefa Smith-Felton (1888-1962) and John Jacob Shambaugh (1880-1954). His father Rocco was a postman and his mother Mary, brought up the couple's three childeren as a houswife. Richard Shambaugh enlisted (#35099584) on March 19, 1943. Richard took some of his training at Camp Claiborne, located in Rapides Parish in central Louisiana before going to the European Theatre of Operations (ETO). He was a Sergeant with the 84th Infantry Division on April 1, 1944 and was assigned to Company C, 333rd Infantry Regiment. As a Pfc with the 84th Division, he took part in three Railsplitters Division Campaigns, Rhineland, Ardennes-Alsace and Central Europe and ended up as a Sergeant.
Richard 'Dick' Shambaugh met his future wife Miss Claire Louise McLain on a blind date and they were married on February 8, 1949. They lived in Dayton, Ohio where Dick worked as an Engineer by IBM and his wife Louise worked at the Aircraft Radiation Laboratory of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio until 1954. After the birth of their first child, Ronald (1955), they moved to Vestal, New York, where a house and two more children established Louise firmly in the business of homemaking. In the 1970s Dick was diagnosed with leukemia and the family moved to Fairfax, Virginia. He died on October 28, 1978 and his ashes are interred at the Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia. He was survived by his wife Claire L. Shambaugh (1927-2018).
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