On November 2, 2010 election night I was walking down Girard Avenue at the La Jolla Cove in San Diego, California about 10:45 p.m.  when a automobile began to follow me.  I was followed to Wall Street and Girard Avenue.  When I turned around to look, the car sped away. (I am convinced that the driver was Vons grocery store clerk Francisco Gallen on his lunch break.).  As I reached Pearl Street and Girard Avenue I saw two San Diego Police cars parked side by side at the intersection.  I crossed over in the cross walk to Smash Burger restaurant noticed a homeless man named, Donnie Grundstrom seated on the patio in the evening darkness.

     I walked up to Donnie Grundstrom and sat down at the patio table and next to Donnie Grundstrom was another man  in the dark who identified himself as Frank. Later I learned that Frank was the Vons clerk, Francisco Gallen.  The conversation between me and Donnie Grundstrom was about money (my disabilty $ was delayed) for me to buy a bus pass when Frank, seated next to Donnie Grundstrom stood up and pulled out from his front pocket and laid out a crisp $50 bill in front of me and said, “That is for you.” (I learned later from Donnie Grundstrom that the $50 bill was a counterfit $50 bill).  I said to Frank, “I can not accept it” and he insisted and said, “No it is O.K. you need it.”  He then had me order two glasses of wine  for both of us as Donnie Grundstrom did not drink but observed the money exchange and heard the conversation.  I went into  Smash Burger and gave the twenty three year old brunette waitress the $50 bill and she gave me $37 dollars in change included (the tip).  I then returned to the patio and offered Frank the change  ($37) in my left hand.  He said, “No you keep it.”  I then wadded up the money and stuffed it in my, left front pocket as Frank Grundstrom watched me  closely.  Then Francisco Gallen said, “I have to go” (after drugging my wine) and he drank his wine and got up and left.  He then crossed over the street where the two S.D.P.D. police cars were parked and made arrangements to have me arrested by Larry Roser (I.D. 3548) S.D.P.D. Northern Division rogue policeman, a pre-arranged criminal conspiracy to arrest me and knowingly that I have been drugged by the wine drink with bath salts,  that induces a black out to unknowing victims.  The S.D.P.D. Northern Division Larry Roser (I.D. 3548) after speaking with Francisco Gallen then pulled his patrol car across the street on Prospect Street near Smash Burger  and got out and waited in the dark near the patio exit onto the sidewalk where I was seated with Donnie.

     Once I said good-bye to Donnie I got up and walked onto the sidewalk and a voice announced to me, “You’re under arrest your drunk in public.”  I then looked at S.D.P.D. policeman Larry Roser (I.D. 3548) and put my hands out for him to handcuff me and take me to jail/detox not knowing he was a rogue cop.  He then handcuffed me and then reached into my left front pocket (Francisco Gallen told him) and pulled out the wad of money.  He looked at it and then he stuffed the wad of money back into my left front pocket.  I have these blue jeans wrapped in plastic and marked as evidence for DNA testing to prove S.D.P.D. Larry Roser (I.D. 3548) is a rogue cop and guilty.  He then walked me to his S.D.P.D. patrol car, placing me in the rear seat.  He  left my backpack on my back and my wallet in my pocket- which I thought odd I believed I was going to detox and not to jail.  S.D.P.D. Northern Division Larry Roser (I.D. 3548) was also working alone, a rogue cop.  I then started to feel weak and dizzy from the drugged wine but still conscious.  I remembered policeman Larry Roser (I.D. 3548) driving six blocks and stopping the car and turning off the engine.  He then got out of the car and a few minutes later he returned.  I became very dizzy. He then opened the back door of his patrol car and began pulling me out to my feet when I began to black out from the drink drugged with a drug or “mickey,” known also as a “rupey”.  S.D.P.D. Larry Roser (I.D. 3548) then led me up to the door to Vons I was then in a blackout. He unhandcuffed me and left me to enter Vons grocery store in an unconscious black out state of mind.  The Vons grocery store at Girard Avenue, has no night security guard as other chain grocery stores do.  This criminal conspiracy could not have happened if a security guard had been on duty. Vons grocery store is  liable for its Vons clerk, Francisco Gallen knowing this as did S.D.P.D. Larry Roser (I.D. 3548).  This is how S.D.P.D. Larry Roser and Vons clerk Francisco Gallen subverted the legal system and compromised the Vons security system. Vons grocery store chain must supply security guards, especially when this location store remains open until 1:00 a.m. every evening.  I believe both Vons clerk Gallen and S.D.P.D. Northern Division Roser (I.D. 3548) both knew this and relied on the survelliance video cameras to entrap me and record my behavior in a black out state of mind. Taking me in handcuffs under arrest in a black out to the front door of Vons is a violation of my civil rights and a “hate crime.”   The next morning I was in jail charged with assault and battery with a deadly weapon (a beer can) which I had thrown at a Vons clerk, Francisco Gallen.  The Vons video survelliance tape  reveal that the manager, Eric Lappinga and the Vons clerk, Francisco Gallen observed me enter the store, fall down, get up they knew I was under the influence and yet they knew they could make me do something and they did. They coerced me. They let me enter the store (entrapment) and continue into the liquor department where I could have fell into glass bottles and severely injured myself.  I did stumble and fall down entering the store. They Lappinga and Gallen should have assisted me up and out of the store.  The trial testimony also of Vons clerk Gallen is revealing when he admits in his own words that security guards were absent from the premises of Vons grocery store.  This is how I was illegally taken in handcuffs under arrest by S.D.P.D. Northern Division Larry Roser (I.D. 3548) to Vons grocery store.  Please view the enclosed Vons grocery store survelliance video tape dated November 3, 2010 at 12:25 a.m. and observe the blackout that I, Robert E. McCullough B.A., Arch. was a victim of, and framed by in a court of law.

                                                                                    BACKROUND

     I came to la Jolla Cove, California on a pilgrimage from San Francisco California to Mary Star of the Sea catholic church August 1, 2010.  I normally attend daily mass at Saint Peters and Pauls catholic church in North Beach, San Francisco. Since 1965 on my arrival to Pacific Beach in San Diego at the age of thirteen years old I have been attending catholic mass at both Saint Bridigids and Mary Star of the Sea catholic churches. I attended daily catholic mass at 8:00 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. after my daily work out at 24 Hour Fitness which is across the street.  I also befriended Father James Rafferty who is a great orator and a devout preacher of the faith.

     It was on or about August 15, 2010 when I entered Vons grocery store at Girard Avenue in La Jolla when I first encountered Mr. Francisco Gallen the Vons Clerk. I had come to his check out stand with a 24 ounce beer to purchase when he said to me, “I hate you!” I thought, “Why does he hate me?” I ignored this moment of hate and payed for my beer and left Vons grocery store.  It wasn’t but three weeks later I entered Vons grocery store to purchase a roasted chicken and when I approached the check out stand it was again Vons clerk Francisco Gallen he then refused me the purchase of the roasted chicken.  I was now very upset and left the store never to return on the evening shift that Francisco Gallen apparently worked.  I would continue to purchase my monthly disability bus pass at Vons grocery store at 8:00 a.m. the first of the month and continue my Vons shopping now only in the mornings to avoid this clerk, Francisco Gallen.

     As I planned an extended vacation from my arrival to La Jolla to be extended to December 20, 2010. I would fly back to San Francisco then prepare to fly on December 23, 2010 from San Francisco to Denver, Colorado.   I would visit my sister Cathy and my brother in law  for Christmas and return to San Francisco for New Years in the city. My arrest on November 3, 2010 at 12:20 a.m. at Vons grocery store changed all my holiday plans. I was in transition in La Jolla and was sleeping/camping outside at various campsites and beach areas.  My daily attendance at 24 Hour Fitness Center at 5:30 a.m. with catholic daily mass I found to be theraputic and spiritually rewarding too. 

                                                                                               CONSPIRACY

     It was on September 2, 2010 when I was first arrested for alleged, “Drunk in public”, by officer Burr of S.D.P.D. Northern Division on Mission Blvd. and Law Street while doing my laundry. What happened was I had a confrontation with a local surfer at the wash house who then called 911, police.  When the police arrived they smelled alcohol on my breath and said, “Your under arrest your drunk in public”.  I then pleaded with S.D.P.D. policeman Burr to retreave my property and my library books on the counter and clothes in the drier.  Officer Burr assurred me he would return later and acquire my property.  The next morning upon my release from jail/detox I found my property was not retreaved by officer Burr as promised.  I then returned to the ewash house on Mission Blvd. by Law Street  and spoke to the lady manager. She informed me that officer Burr did return that evening and took the property from the counter (library books and other belongings) he put it into a black bag he was carrying but the lady manager would not allow him to remove my clothes from the drier so he left.  I then went to Northern Division police station wher officer Burr works to enquire about my property.  He was not in I left my phone number and never got a call back. I returned again to the police station and again left a message and my phone number.  Again no response from officer Burr.  These public library books cost $140.00 to replace.It was important to me to re-claim my property and stand responsable for the San Francisco library books that officer Burr was to have taken possession of September 2, 2010 which is a crime, “Petty theft under the color of authority.”

     It was two weeks later with my ordeal with S.D.P.D. policeman Burr that I encountered another S.D.P.D. policeman named Larry Roser (I.D. 3548) at La Jolla’s Jack in the Box fast food restaurant on Pearl Street on or about September 25, 2010. It turns out that Larry Rozsa would arrest me at Smash Burger restaurant November 3, 2010 and deliver me to Vons grocery store in handcuffs, to be re-arrested for assault and battery (beer can), “Unconstitutional arrest”.  He is about six foot two inches 200 to 210 lbs. brown hair with mustache and a round Irish face. He always had dinner with another police officer at 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. each night before there night shift at the corner of Girard Ave. and Prospect Street at the La Jolla Cove.

     I first approached policeman Larry Roser (I.D. 3548) at the Jack in the Box about policeman Burr and my personal property.  I gave Larry Rozsa my phone number and he agreed with me that officer Burr would get the message.  I assumed that this would work out for all the better and I would get my property back.  After my arrest on November 3, 2010 I would learn later that I was betrayed and “Framed” by a corrupt and immoral cop, “Larry Roser” (I.D. 3548) of S.D.P.D. Northern Division where also S.D.P.D. officer Burr works.

     These are factual and true events from my personal contacts with these above named individuals. I am a victim of an ”Unconstitutional arrest” by S.D.P.D. Larry Roser (I.D. 3548) and co-conspirator Vons clerk Francisco Gallen. These events are a “conspiracy” and a “hate crime”. “Tom Bane Civil Rights Act” (Stats. 1987 Ch. 1277 “Act”). Penal code S (422.6 Discrimination against Disability, Gender, Religion, Race, Nationality.)

     Penal code S (422.56 subd. (d) Discrimatory motivation is element that must be proved beyond an reasonable doubt.

     Penal code S 422.6 and 422.7, 422.75 (a) (b) the “Conspiracy” is the act makes it a crime to willfully interfere with another persons civil rights because of that persons race, religion, or other protected characteristic Sec. 422.6 provides.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             The above facts stated above are true, factual and precisely what I witnessed and lived through. This is well-documented in viewing the survelliance tape as to my blackout state of mind in Vons store.  This whole ordeal I contend resulted from a drugged glass of wine and an unconstitutional arrest under the premises of authority by S.D.P.D. Larry Roser (I.D. 3548) of Northern Division a rogue cop, and a vindictive hateful Vons clerk, Francisco Gallen a criminal conspiracy to frame an innocent man based on, “hate”.

     I request the U.S. Justice Department, Jeffrey P. Heinze Acting Chief, Civil Rights Unit Criminal Investigative Division of Washington D.C., expedite federal criminal indictments against these criminals for a hate crime and a conspiracy to violate my civil rights.

Thank you,

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Pvt. Cornelius J. Conway 77th Infantry Division 305th Company I, “Liberty Brigade” N.Y. N.Y. (Metropolitan Division) was killed at the Muesse Argonne November 3, 1918, and is buried at the Muesse Argonne American Cemetary, “Section E” outside of Verdun, France. This is the largest U.S. cemetary in all of Europe and the largest offensive in American military history.
Citation: Pvt. Cornelius J. Conway had attempted and succeded to save the platoon (Co. I) from machine gun fire from a ridge on the battlefield of Oise-Aisne, France. He charged up the hill with fixed bayonet in hand and took out one machine gun nest with rapid bolt action marksmanship firepower, then waved up the platoon (Co.I.) as he charged at the second machine gun nest taking out this also flinging a baseball pitch with great accuracy two hand gernades. When the platoon took and secured the ridge and the surrender of 85 German prisoners, a sniper fired and a mortar shell hit and mangeled Pvt. 1st Class Cornelius J. Conway who died in route to rear hospital support from the Oise-Aisne battlefield.
Pvt. 1st Class Cornelius J. Conway, of the 77th Division, “Liberty Brigade”, I shall not forget in all my living days and always will remember this soldiers dedication and devotion, beyond the call of duty his sacrifice in the face of severe enemy fire and opposition that saved the men of Company I. I put forthe to my commanding officer, Major General Robert Alexander a citation to and for, Pvt. 1st Class Cornelius J. Conway 77th Division, “Company I” for the nations highest honor, “The Congressional Medal of Honor”.
Captain King 77th Inf. Div. 305th, Co. I.

Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery (WWI) by Jeffrey Aarnio, Assistant Sup.
The Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery
is located about 26 miles northwest
of Verdun in the Meuse Department
of the Lorraine Region. Meuse-
Argonne AC is the largest military
cemetery in Europe with 14, 246 burials
(as many as 28,000 burials at the
end of 1918). It is fitting that this
cemetery is located in the heart of the
Meuse-Argonne Offensive of 26 September
through 11 November 1918,
which remains America’s largest military
offensive to date with over
1,200,000 soldiers who took part in
this continuous battle over a 47-day
period. To put this into perspective,
there are currently around 160,000
U.S. military personnel in the entire
country of Iraq. In the early morning
hours of 26 September on the jumpoff
line, there were nine American
divisions with six divisions in reserve.
An American division in WWI consisted
of 28,000 men as opposed to a
WWII division of 18,000 men. (There
were only five U.S. assault divisions
in Normandy on 6 June 1944) The
land between the towns of Romagnesous-
Montfaucon and Cunel, where
the cemetery is located, was liberated
on 14 October 1918 by the 32nd and
5th Infantry Divisions and was immediately
used as a burial site. By 31
October, the American First Army
had finally breached the last defensive
trench line of the series of Hindenberg
lines, not even five kilometers north
of Romagne and suffered over 27,000
casualties. In the next 11 days, the
First Army pushed north another 37
km to reach the edge of Sedan before
the Armistice took effect on 11 November.
While it is impossible to truly
put into perspective the number of
Americans and the difficulty of fighting
in this colossal offensive, the map
on the next page reveals how many
Medals of Honor were awarded over
this month and a half period. In all, a
total of 119 Medals of Honor were
awarded for the First World War.
“Double” Medals of Honor awarded
to marines by the Navy and Army for
the same action – only count as one
award. Out of the 119 total Medals of
Honor for World War One, 53 of
which were awarded for actions in the
Meuse-Argonne Offensive (45%). If
one adds the eight Medals of Honor
earned in the Champagne Offensive in
the area between the Argonne Forest
and Blanc Mont (Sommepy – where
the U.S. Federal Monument is located),
then this brings the total to 61
Medals of Honor (51%). This latter
tally is logical in that this area was
known as the Meuse-Argonne
(Champagne) Offensive and is in the
area of responsibility of the Meuse-
Argonne AC. There may very well
not be another battlefield where so
many Medals of Honor were awarded
(post Civil War) than the horrendous
battle that took place between the east
bank of the Meuse river and the Argonne
forest in the fall of 1918.
Those of you who have visited the
cemetery or know the history may
think of the Lost Battalion (elements
of the 77th ID who were isolated in
their advance when the flank units did
not keep pace, eventually becoming
surrounded by Germans for five
days), or Sergeant York’s heroic exploits
(killing 15 enemy and taking
132 prisoners, portrayed later in a
classic film with Gary Cooper), or the
numerous officers who would later go
on to greater fame in WWII such as
Captain Harry Truman, Colonel
George Marshall, Jr., Colonel Bill
Donavan, Colonel Douglas MacArthur,
and Lt. Col. George Patton, Jr.
(all of whom fought in the Meuse-
Argonne campaign). Of the nine
Medal of Honor recipients buried at
MAAC, Luke Air Force Base is
named after Lt. Frank Luke and the
National Guard training facility Camp
Roberts in Central California is
named after Corporal Harold Roberts.
Corporal Freddie Stowers received the
Medal of Honor in April 1991 after a
Presidential committee was ordered to
re-examine whether discrimination
played a role in military awards. In
fact, Corporal Stowers was the only
black soldier to have been nominated
for the Medal of Honor during the
war. Also buried in the cemetery is
the only Jewish soldier to receive the
Medal of Honor during the war; the
recipient was Sergeant William Sawelson.
Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery
Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, France
lated grave. Cpt. Coolidge, nephew of
President Calvin Coolidge, and friend
and former classmate at Groton and Harvard
of Quentin Roosevelt, was killed on
27 October 1918 about 10 km west of
the cemetery. His isolated grave is maintained
by the people of Chièvres.
Sergeant Victor Chapman, Plot D, Row
1, Grave 33, is the only member of the
Lafayette Escadrille to be interred in an
American overseas military cemetery as
a member of this French unit, also
known as the Lafayette Flying Corps.*
This is a very unique and mysterious
burial which still leaves us perplexed
about how the decision was made to
bury Sgt. Chapman in the cemetery. It is
true that Victor Chapman was representative
of the blue-blood idealists – he was
the great-great-great grandson of John
Jay, first U.S. Chief Justice – who volunteered
to fight with the French and British
before the official entry into war by
the U.S. In fact, Chapman volunteered
for the French by first entering the Third
Marching Regiment of the First Foreign
Regiment of the Foreign Legion before
transferring to the Escadrille Américaine
as one of its founding members (the
name was changed soon after to Escadrille
Lafayette following German protests
of American neutrality in 1916).
Chapman was killed flying a non-combat
mission from his base at Behonne, near
Bar-le-Duc, to deliver fresh oranges to
another American pilot at the evacuation
hospital at Vadelaincourt, near Verdun.
Instead of following orders not to fly on
a combat patrol, Chapman followed several
Lafayette pilots to the east bank of
the Meuse and was shot down near
Douaumont, northeast of Verdun on 23
June 1916. (see “The Lafayette Flying
Corps: The American Volunteers in the
French Air Service in World War One”,
by Dennis Gordon)
poses. The only recorded combat death
of a balloonist took place when “Lt.
Cleo J. Ross (8th Balloon Company) . .
. and Lt. Herbert Hudnut were aloft and
attacked by a Fokker D. VII, the balloon
burst into flames. Lt. Ross made
sure that his observer got over the side
safely. He went over the side and after
his parachute deployed, burning fragments
of the balloon fell on the parachute.
Lt. Ross [fell] to his death from
several thousand feet.” The Army Balloon
School at Ross Field, Arcadia,
California was so named after the death
of Lt. Ross, who is buried at MAAC.
(see http://www.militarymuseum.org/
BalloonSch.html)
When one mentions the Code Talkers,
most people immediately think of the
Navajo marines who were instrumental
in the Pacific theater during World War
II. But the original Code Talkers were
fourteen Choctaw soldiers of the 36th
ID who first used their language to defeat
German code breakers in the
Meuse-Argonne (Champagne) Offensive
of October 1918. This highly successful
use of Native American languages
was repeated and expanded in
the Second World War to include Comanche
and, as already mentioned,
Navajo, to compliment the Choctaw
soldiers (see http://www.turtletrack.org/
I s s u e s 0 0 / C o 0 6 0 3 2 0 0 0 /
CO_06032000_Codetalk.htm).
In early October, we had the pleasure of
welcoming to MAAC an American
grandfather, father and son—direct
descendents of a WWI aerial photographer
who took many photos of the
Meuse area around MAAC—after all
three had read, “Echoes of Eagles: A
Son’s Search for his Father and the
Legacy of America’s First Fighter Pilots”,
by Charles Woolley & Bill Crawford.
They made the decision to make
the trip to France and visit the WWI
battlefields after being inspired by the
book and the experience of the greatgrandfather
during the war. One of their
desires was to get out to Chièvres and
see Captain Hamilton Coolidge’s iso-
Looking now at the lesser known history
behind the Meuse-Argonne AC, it is
fitting to examine the soldier that was
selected among the 1,237 unknowns
from the Great War to represent the national
unknown soldier. This decision
followed the British and French ceremonial
burials of an unknown at Buckingham
Palace and the Arc de Triomphe
respectively. On 22 October 1921, one
unknown from four American military
cemeteries (Aisne-Marne, Meuse-
Argonne, Somme and St. Mihiel cemeteries)
was selected from among the unknowns
“which represented the remains
of soldiers of which there was absolutely
not the slightest indication as to name,
rank, organization or date of
death.”(from Quartermaster report that
can be read at: h t t p : / /
w w w . q m f o u n d . c o m /
soldier_unknown.htm) The four unknowns
were disinterred and brought to
the town hall in Châlons-sur-Marne
(today Châlons-en-Champagne) where
they were given full military honors.
One of the pall bearers, Sergeant
Younger – a decorated infantryman -
was asked to place a white rose on one
of the caskets in the town hall. This selected
unknown was then shipped to the
United States aboard the American naval
vessel, the Olympia. The Tomb of the
Unknown Soldier with the selected unknown
remains (he was officially
awarded the Medal of Honor, the Distinguished
Service Cross and the highest
military awards by several allied nations)
was officially inaugurated on 11 November
1921, three years after the end of the
war. The three remaining unknowns
were brought to the Meuse-Argonne AC
and interred in Plot G, Row 1, Grave
numbers 1, 2, and 3 (also from Quartermaster
report).
According to the ABMC book,
“American Armies and Battlefields in
Europe”, 1937 Edition, the American Air
Service of the American Expeditionary
Forces had a total strength of 78,495
men by November 1918, of which a total
of 6,811 were balloonists. There were 23
balloon companies that actually served at
the front, mostly for observation pur-
Tomb of the Unknown Soldier,
Arlington National Cemetery
Choctaw soldiers of the 36th ID
Cpt. Hamilton Coolidge’s Headstone
Emblem of

*History of the 36th (Texas “T”) Infantry Division World War II*

The 36th Infantry Division was activated prior to World War II on 25 November 1940. It deployed overseas on 2 April 1943, commanded by Fred Walker. The 36th Infantry Division landed in North Africa, 13 April 1943, and trained at Arzew and Rabat. It first saw action, 9 September 1943, when it landed by sea at Paestum on the Gulf of Salerno against intense German opposition. The Germans launched counterattacks on September 12-14, but the 36th repulsed them with the aid of air support and naval gunfire, and advanced slowly, securing the area from Agropoli to Altavilla.

After a brief rest the 36th returned to combat, 15 November. It captured Mount Maggiore, Mount Lungo, and the village of San Pietro despite strong enemy positions and severe winter weather. This grueling campaign was marked by futile attempts to establish a secure bridgehead across the Rapido River, 1 January to 8 February 1944. After assisting the 34th Division in the attack on Cassino and fighting defensively along the Rapido River, the severely depleted 36th withdrew, 12 March 1944, for rest and rehabilitation. On 25 May, the Division was sent by sea to the Anzio bridgehead to take part in Operation Diadem. It drove north to capture Velletri, 1 June, and entered Rome on the 5th. Pushing up from Rome, the 36th encountered sharp resistance at Magliano, but reached Piombino, 26 June, before moving back to Paestum for rest and rehabilitation.

On 15 August, as part of the American 6th Army Group, the division made another amphibious assault landing, against light opposition in the Saint-Raphaël area of Southern France as part of Operation Dragoon. A rapid advance opened the Rhone River Valley. Montelimar fell, 28 August, and large German units were trapped. The 36th advanced to the Moselle River at Remiremont and the foothills of the Vosges. In a grinding offensive, the Division crossed the Meurthe River, breached the Ste. Marie Pass and burst into the Alsatian Plains. The enemy counterattacked, 13 December, but the 36th held the perimeter of the Colmar Pocket.

The German Army counterattacks out of the Colmar Pocket were so fierce, that at times, the field artillery was forced to fire over open sights, at point blank range to stop them. On the 20th the Division resumed the attack, advancing northward along the Rhine River to Mannheim< meeting heavy resistance at Haguenau, Oberhofen, and Wissembourg. In this action Company “G” 143rd Infantry Regiment gained a Presidential Unit Citation (US).

The Division was taken out of the line for the first time since it had landed in the south of France. It returned to the line early March 1945. The 36th moved to the Danube, 22 April 1945, and attacked the “National Redoubt” at Künzelsau on the 30th. The 36th has been recognized by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum as a liberating unit for their work securing the sub-camps of the Dachau concentration camp system.

After 400 days of combat, the 36th Infantry Division returned to the United States in December 1945. It was deactivated on 15 December 1945.

24TH (VICTORY) INFANTRY DIVISION Korean War

Prior to the start of the Korean War, the 24th Infantry Division had occupation duty on Japan’s southernmost main island of Kyushu. When President Harry S. Truman ordered U.S. ground forces to support the Republic of Korea, the 24th Infantry Division was the closest so was tasked with providing the first ground forces. This took the form a scratch unit designated “Task Force Smith” which deployed from Itazuke Air Base on 2 July 1950. At the time, Task Force Smith consisted of the following units from the 1st Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment: 2 under-strength rifle companies “A” & “B,” one-half of Headquarters Company, one-half of the battalion’s communications platoon, a composite 75-mm Recoilless Rifle platoon with four guns, and four 4.2″ mortars, for a total of 440 men but only 406 actually arrived in Korea. Task Force Smith was transported to Osan, South Korea where it dug in to wait the North Koreans, now supported by a battery of 105mm howitzers.

They did not have long to wait. At approximately 0730, 5 July 1950, North Korean tanks were observed advancing south. The, at 0816, Task Force Smith supporting artillery fired its first rounds. The lightly armed Task Force Smith was no match for Soviet-built T-34 tanks, backed by a North Korean division so by early afternoon, survivors from the task force were running for their lives. In the next three weeks the 24th Infantry Division suffered defeat after defeat as it fought gallantly while slowly retreating southward, trading lives and ground for time so U.S. forces could build up in the country.

The 24th Infantry Division was replaced in Korea by the 40th Infantry Division, 23 January 1952, and redeployed to Japan, returning to Korea a second time on 16 July 1953, one week before the ceasefire was signed.

The 24th Infantry Division consisted of:

Division Headquarters and Headquarters Company
19th Infantry Regiment
21st Infantry Regiment
34th Infantry Regiment
Division Artillery
11th Field Artillery Battalion (155mm)
13th Field Artillery Battalion (105mm)
52nd Field Artillery Battalion (105mm)
63rd Field Artillery Battalion (105mm)
26th Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion
Division Troops
Company A, 78th Tank Battalion (Heavy) replaced by the
6th Tank Battalion (Medium) on 8 August 1950
3rd Engineer Battalion (Combat)
24th Reconnaissance Company
Division Special Troops
24th Medical Battalion
24th Signal Company
724th Ordnance Maintenance Battalion
24th Quartermaster Company
24th Military Police Company
24th Replacement Company
Attached units
5th Infantry Regiment (31 September 1950 – January 1952)
555th (Triple Nickel) Field Artillery Battalion
8072nd Tank Battalion (Provisional)
Eighth Army Ranger Company (10 October 1950 – 28 March 1951)
8th Ranger Infantry Company (Airborne) (31 April 1951 – 1 August 1951)
British 27th Commonwealth Brigade

               *The Cold War Era and The Vietnam War, 1952 to 1965*

                             * Vietnam War Era, 1963 to 1965*

Patrolman Charles V. McCullough N.Y.P.D. (career 1919-1942)

Charles V. McCullough N.Y.P.D. received the Martin J. Sheridan Medal of Valor (11-02-1923) on the steps of Tammany Hall Manhatten, New York from the Mayor John F. Hylan of New York city. Patrolman McCullough singled handedly captured seven robbers at gunpoint robbing the local taylor shop in Manhatten, New York.
Cash donations for the replacement of missing Tombstone from “Holy Cross Cemetary” St. Michaels section N.Y. N.Y. for Patrolman Charles V. McCullough N.Y.P.D tax deductable mail to:: Robert E. McCullough B.A., Arch. 7669 Girard Avenue La Jolla, Ca. 92037

Recipients of the New York City Police Department’s Martin J. Sheridan Medal for ValorTo make a tax-deductible donation to mount a plaque at Celtic Park click here. On July 5, 1921, at a meeting of the Honor Committee of the New York City Police Department, the Martin J. Sheridan Medal for Valor was established in honor of Detective Martin J. Sheridan – the Irish-American Athletic Club’s star Olympic champion who died in 1918 on the eve of his 37th birthday. The minutes of that meeting state that the medal was to be awarded annually “to a member of the Police Force of the City of New York who may distinguish himself by an act performed intelligently in the line of duty at imminent person hazard of life and with knowledge of risk assumed.”
The medal was first presented in 1922 and regularly awarded until discontinued in 1975. It was produced by the famous New York City silver and goldsmiths, Dieges & Clust, the same firm that creqated the NYPD badges, and crafted the 1904 Olympic medals. The medal was initially paid for through a trust fund established by the Martin J. Sheridan Memorial Committee, with New York State Supreme Court Justice Daniel F. Cohalan serving as chairman.
Below is a complete list of all of the recipients of this distinguished medal. This information was graciously provided by the NYPD Office of the Chief of Personnel and the New York City Police Museum.

Note: The dates listed below are when the acts of valor were performed, not the dates the medals were awarded.

If you have any information regarding the whereabouts of any of the medals, or are related to any of the recipients, please email: wingedfist@gmail.com.
Patrolman Dennis J. Rodgers 40th Precinct 2/16/1921
Patrolman John F. Smith 28th Precinct 1922
Patrolman Charles V. McCullough 13th Precinct 11/02/1923
Patrolman Bernard F. Reilly 15th Precinct 3/02/1924
Patrolman Michael A. Ward Detective Division 10/10/1925
Detective William J. Wallace Detective Division 5/23/1926
Patrolman James J. Reedy 45th Precinct 7/02/1927
Patrolman Daniel J. Sullivan 19th Precinct 11/23/1928
Patrolman Robert E. Troy 18th Precinct 11/06/1929
Detective John G. Schellhorn 13th Division 4/20/1930
Patrolman William J. Ryan 27th Precinct 1/10/1931
Patrolman Joseph Papp 114th Precinct 12/01/1932
Patrolman Thomas D. Comiskey 22nd Precinct 5/12/1933
Detective Francis O’Neill 13th Division 7/19/1934
Patrolman Patrick J. McNulty 28th Precinct 1/30/1935
Patrolman James O’Shaughnessey 32nd Precinct 12/15/1936
Patrolman Edward F. Larkin 14th Precinct 5/06/1937
Sergeant William J. Sullivan 24th Precinct 3/04/1938
Patrolman Francis X. Nugent 120th Precinct 9/16/1939
Patrolman Raymond H. Gallagher 10th Precinct 3/24/1940
Sergeant Joseph W. Heaney 3rd Precinct 3/27/1941
Patrolman John J. Kelly 23rd Precinct 2/20/1943
Sergeant James J. McGann 17th Division 3/07/1943
Patrolman James J. Martin 24th Precinct 9/23/1944
Patrolman Thomas P. Rooney 18th Precinct 10/23/1945
Patrolman Francis J. Brady 19th Precinct 4/19/1946
Patrolman George A. Bailey 20th Detective Division 4/16/1947
Detective James J. Fox Detective Division 11/02/1948
Patrolman John J. Reilly 84th Precinct 3/10/1949
Detective Elmer E. McKinney Detective Division 6/06/1950
Detective Jeremiah O’Connor Detective Division 7/21/1951
Detective Walter C. Bentley Detective Division 12/18/1953
Sergeant Terrence F. Harvey 8th Precinct 1/17/1954
Detective Dennis R. McCann Detective Division 2/18/1955
Sergeant Thomas D. Hoarty 28th Precinct 8/01/1956
Patrolman Algard Kivita 14th Precinct 7/25/1961
Patrolman Charles J. Burke 19th Precinct 6/11/1962
Patrolman Edward J. Flanagan Tactical Patrol Force 2/10/1967
Patrolman Angelo Catalano 77th Precinct 1/29/1968
Detective Delmer Watson 24th Detective Squad 5/13/1969
Detective Albert W. Gleason Bomb Section 2/09/1970
Detective Richard Auletta 66th Detective Squad 12/14/1970
Detective Ralph M. White 7th Detective Division 4/02/1969
Detective Gene A. Roberts 8th Detective Division 4/02/1969
Patrolman Brian Tuohy Service Squad 8 1/19/1973
Detective Thomas Sommerville 109th Precinct 9/28/1973
Rank & NamePrecinct / DivisionDateCourtesy of Celtic Park Productions and the Sheri
Martin Sheridan – Olympic Medalist (1881-1918)

One of the greatest contributions to the world of sport at the start of the century was the amazing string of records set by a young Bohola man named Martin J. Sheridan.

The Sheridan homestead is the only existing one in the townland of Bohola today, situated to the left on the Swinford/Castlebar road, just beyond the Treenduff junction.

Martin Sheridan was without a doubt one of Bohola`s most renowned and illustrious sons, several times Olympic Champion in the early 1900`s, but all of the family were successful in various fields.

Shortly after reaching America, Richard and Martin Jr. took their civil service examinations and joined the police force in New York. Andrew started training in the hotel and catering business. They were all interested in sports and took advantage of the elaborate Irish/American clubs available to them at the time.

The brothers took part in various competitions and always created a sensation on the field, usually walking away with the first three places. It became obvious as time went on that Martin was destined to become a number one all-round athlete. Spectators marvelled at his unique strength, speed, and accuracy.

Martin continued to do well in the police force and reached the rank of First Grade Detective in the New York Police Department. But all attention was on his sporting achievements.

This young Bohola man, who stood 6 feet 1 inch, and weighed 191 pounds, had the world at his feet.

One of the few track and field athletes of the past generation who was as good as unbeatable within a fourteen year span, he won hundreds of athletic contests, including five Olympic, twelve National and more than thirty Canadian, Metropolitan and Regional Championships.

The early victories

Martin Sheridan won his first event, a discus throw, in 1901, with a handicap, at the Pastime A.C. in New York in 1902, in his third competition he created a new world record in this event.

In 1904, Martin took the American title with 119′ 1.5” and also took the shotput at 40’9.5”. On the strength of these performances, he was selected to represent America in both events at the St. Louis games.

The St Louis Olympics (1904)

Born on March 28, 1881, Martin Sheridan was just 23 when he made his debut into Olympic competition at St Louis in 1904, and his first Olympic victory was in the discus.

Instead of the anticipated easy victory, he found himself in third place before the final three rounds and faced with a far more difficult battle than he had expected.

The fighter in him refused to give up, however, and he struck back with 125′ in his fourth throw, moving into second place. His fifth throw was even better. He sent the discus spinning out to 128’10. 5”. He did not improve in his last throw but neither did his nearest competitor Ralph Rose, and so the competition ended in the first and only tie in the history of Olympic discus throwing.

Three weeks after his win in St Louis, Martin Sheridan took back the sole ownership of the world record with a throw of 133’6. 5”, and this was still the worlds best mark when he left, with the first official American Olympic team, for the Intercalated Olympic Games at Athens in 1906.

One writer at the time described him:”He was the most handsome of the athletes and although he was a giant in size he could run the hundred yards in a little more that ten seconds”.

One of New York’s ‘finest’

Martin attained first place on an eligible list for the NYPD and was appointed a member of the ‘finest’ in 1906. He helped organise the Police Carnival and Games for the benefit of the welfare fund of the Department which, for many years, was an outstanding athletic event in New York.

The Athens Olympics (1906)

At Athens, Martin had no trouble in winning the discus freestyle. He went over 130′ with his first throw, and eventually won with a fraction over 136′.

All during this time, he was very much aware of the troubles in his native country and it grieved him to see the Irish people suffering so much.

He created quite a stir when he rebelled slightly against protocol in Athens. It was customary for athletes partaking in the games to dip the flag of his country while passing the king’s stand, but Martin held his aloft in protest at what was happening in his native land.

When questioned at his arrogance, he stated that Ireland had bowed too often, but not anymore. The Greek king was so impressed with the Irishman that he had a statute erected in his honour in Athens, and he also presented him with a gold goblet and vaulting pole.

His second gold medal at Athens came in the shotput. He also won Olympic silver medals in the standing long jump, the standing high jump and stone-throwing, and then a leg injury prevented him from taking an almost certain gold medal in the pentathlon. On his return to New York, sportswriters acclaimed him as the greatest track and field athlete of all time.

Other achievements

In addition to the ten events of the all-round championship, which he won three times with a new world record on each occasion, Martin Sheridan also won championships in the discus throw (free and Greek style), the 56lb. weight for height, the pole vault for distance, the three standing-broad jumps, the standing high jump, and the javelin throw. In his victories, he created sixteen world records.

In 1907, this great Bohola man raised the world discus record to 136’10”. The climax of his athletic career came in 1908 in the Old Madison Square Garden, where he won five firsts, two seconds, and a third place in the national indoor championships, thereby scoring 32 points and creating a new record in two events, a feat unparalleled in the history of track and field competition.

In June 1908, at the American trials for the Olympic Games, he brought a discus throw of 140′ in sight with a further world record of 139’6. 5”. Because of his tremendous all-round display in these trials, he was nominated to represent America in every field event at the 1908 Games in London.

The London Olympics (1908)

The great Bohola athlete took three Olympic medals at the games in Shepherd’s Bush Stadium – two gold and one bronze. A number of people travelled to London from Bohola for the games to see their champion compete for America.

A return to his roots

Martin visited Ireland in 1908 after the London Olympics. He gave exhibitions at Dundalk, Dungarvan, Dublin, and Ballina. He competed at the Ballina athletic sports, breaking the British record for the pole jump, and he also broke other such records at Jones`Road, Dungarvan, and Dundalk.

Following the exhibition, a banquet was held in the Imperial Hotel, where Martin presented a bamboo vaulting pole to his fellow Bohola man and cousin, P.J. Clarke.

This was the very pole with which he had won the world vaulting championships in 1907 at Milan, and the 1908 London Olympics, and it is still a prizes possession today of P.J.`s grandson Micksey. During his visit to Bohola, the priest and people of the community got together and presented him with a scroll, welcoming him back to Bohola.