Name: Eggert

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Sources
1. Title:   Notes on the Husni family from an interview with Edward and Meta Husni and an examination of several other Husni and Schreiner family records
Source:   SR-HUS
Author:   James R. Eggert
2. Title:   Birthdays and anniversaries taken from the Ed & Meta Husni kitchen calendar
Source:   SR-HUS9
Author:   James R. Eggert
3. Title:   385th in the ETO [i.e., the European Theater of Operations]
Source:   SR-385TH
Author:   prepared by the Special Service Office, 385th Infantry, 76th Division. Under the direction of 1st Lt. Col. C. W. Miller, Special Service Officer.
Publication:   Printed by F. Ullmann GmbH, Zwickau, Germany. s.d. [1945]
4. Title:   Order of Battle U.S. Army, World War II
Page:   Page: 255
Source:   SR-HUS29
Author:   Shelby L. Stanton
Publication:   Novato, CA: Presidio
5. Title:   Mostly death dates taken from a note in Ed Husni's records
Source:   SR-HUS32
Author:   James R. Eggert
6. Title:   Notes taken during a trip to the Husni household
Source:   SR-HUS47
Author:   James R. Eggert
7. Title:   Notes from a conversation with Ed Husni
Source:   SR-HUS48
Author:   James R. Eggert
8. Title:   United States Census, 1930
Page:   Weehawken Ward 2, Hudson, New Jersey, ED9-408, Sheet 2A
Source:   SR-CEN1930
9. Title:   United States Census, 1940
Page:   Weehawken Ward 2, Hudson, New Jersey, ED9-336, Sheet 2B
Source:   SR-CEN1940
10. Title:   Electronic Army Serial Number Merged File, ca. 1938 - 1946
Page:   ID: 12232492
Source:   SR-EASNE
Publication:   U.S. National Archives and Records Administration
11. Title:   U.S. World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946
Page:   Serial: 12232492, Affiliate ARC: 1263923, Box Film: 01061.99
Source:   SR-WWIIENL
Publication:   Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc.
12. Title:   UK Incoming Passenger Lists, 1878–1960
Page:   M.S. Italia
Source:   SR-PPL
Publication:   Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc.
13. Title:   Personal knowledge. Events entered from personal knowledge or as they happened
Source:   SR-PN
14. Title:   Obituary: Edward Husni, 87
Source:   SR-HUS80
Publication:   Verona-Cedar Grove Times
15. Title:   Edward Husni 1927–2014 In Memoriam
Source:   SR-HUS81
Publication:   Cedar Grove Historical Society newsletter
16. Title:   We ripened fast: the unofficial history of the Seventy-Sixth Infantry Division
Source:   SR-76TH
Author:   Joseph J. Hutnik
Publication:   Frankfurt am Main, Germany: Otto Lembeck
17. Title:   Meet Our Members
Source:   SR-HUS87
Publication:   Cedar Grove Historical Society newsletter
18. Title:   Nebraska Wesleyan university has honored three students
Source:   SR-HUS88
Publication:   Lincoln Evening Journal
19. Title:   Page of notes of a conversation with Edward Husni concerning his family
Source:   SR-HUS3
Author:   Lori and Jim Eggert
Publication:   Numbered paragraphs apparently from an interview questionnaire.
20. Title:   Return certificate for Edward Husni, USS Le Jeune
Source:   SR-HUS101
Author:   Army Service Forces Transportation Corps
21. Title:   U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men, 1940-1947
Page:   Item: 44025_06_00044-01804
Source:   SR-WWIIREG3
Publication:   Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.
22. Title:   Edward Husni funeral card
Source:   SR-HUS107
Publication:   Shook's Cedar Grove Funeral Home

Notes
a. Reference:   14 JUL 2009 00:16:41
Changedatetime:   09:06:36
Note:   Born at 176 Palisade Ave, Jersey City NJ, Christ Hospital, the same place as his two daughters. Baptized at Palisade United Presbyterian by Pastor R N Acheson. In his childhood, he lived at 494 Bergenline Ave, Union City NJ. He and Meta married at St. John's Lutheran Church, Bergenline Ave.
Changedate:   31 MAR 2020
Changedatez:   2020-03-31T00:00:00.000Z
Referencetype:   Creation Date
b. Reference:   14 JUL 2009 00:16:41
Changedatetime:   00:10:11
Note:   During high school, Ed was a member of the National Defense Mechanics Club. He worked as a ball mill operator at Callite Tungsten (a tungsten carbide manufacturer) during the war. He enlisted in the Army on 10 March 1944 at Ft. Dix. He served in France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and Germany under Gen. Patton in the 3rd Army, 76th Division, 385th Regiment, 1st Battalion, Company C, 3rd Platoon, 1st Squad. (The 385th had been one of Audie Murphy's units before combat.) Ed was stationed at Camp McCoy, Wisconsin, then staged at Camp Myles Standish, Massachusetts 15 Nov 1944 until shipping out from Boston on 24 Nov 1944 aboard the SS Sea Owl, arriving at Southampton on 4 Dec 1944. They crossed the English Channel and landed at Le Havre on 12 Jan 1945, crossed into Belgium 23 Jan 1945 and joined the front on 25 Jan 1945 in Luxembourg. They entered Germany, crossing the Sauer at Echternach in mid February 1945, smashed the Siegfried Line at Irrel, and raced through Germany capturing many villages. On 11 April 1945 they were about five miles away when Buchenwald was liberated. They served as occupation forces in Zwickau. The regiment was deactivated on 31 Aug 1945. He then served in Bolbec, France as a guard of a German POW camp. He returned to the US aboard the USS Le Jeune (the former German cargo liner TS Windhuk), which sailed from Le Havre on 27 April 1946. He was discharged from the Army on 6 May 1946. Ed earned three battle stars for his service.
Changedate:   31 MAR 2020
Changedatez:   2020-03-31T00:00:00.000Z
Referencetype:   Creation Date
c. Reference:   14 JUL 2009 00:16:41
Changedatetime:   21:10:41
Note:   He was a graduate of Nebraska Wesleyan in 1949, where he was third in his class as a freshman and became a member of Phi Kappa Phi. B.S. Pharmacy, Fordham University, June 1954. A pharmacist, he received his license 28RI01032800 on May 1, 1956 and kept it until April 30, 2003. He opened Husni's Pharmacy in Union City in 1957. He and his wife Meta spent their honeymoon in Europe, traveling on the M.S. Italia (passenger ship arrival July 12, 1958 in Plymouth, England). They moved to Cedar Grove in 1963. He semiretired in 1991 and was a Master Gardener for Rutgers Master Gardeners of Essex County starting in 1998, a docent at the Montclair Art Museum, and a trustee for the Cedar Grove Historical Society. He was a member of the Cedar Grove VFW and the Senior Citizens Club. He was also a numismatist, philatelist, antiques collector, photographer, and artist. His grandchildren called him Jiddo.
Changedate:   23 APR 2021
Changedatez:   2021-04-23T00:00:00.000Z
Referencetype:   Creation Date

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