George R Dane
WWII Hurtgen
Battle of Bulge
Colonel Dane was born on July 8, 1922 in Janesville, WI. He attended high school at Shattuch School, in Faribault, MN, were he was a member of the ROIC detachment. The summer before graduation Colonel Dane, attended a 6 week ROTC summer camp at Ft. Snelling, MN. Upon graduation in 1940 he received a certificate for appointment as 2nd Lt. Infantry in the ORC. In the fall of 1940 the Colonel enrolled in the College of Engineering at the University of Iowa. The Colonel’s time at Iowa was cut short.
In the wake of the attack on Pearl Harbor the U.S. Government lowered the age of officers to 18. So on July 27th 1942 Colonel Dane applied for and received a commission as a 2nd Lt. in the U.S. Army Reserve as a 1542 Infantry Officer. He was ordered to active duty on October 14, 1942 and sent to Camp Robinson, AK. On January 23, 1943 he was ordered to attend the U.S. Army Motor Maintenance School, at Fort Benning, GA, and was awarded the additional MOS of 0600 Motor Transport Officer. On April 21, 1943 he was assigned to the 44 Motor Transport Officer, 273rd Infantry Regiment, 69th infantry Division, and was promoted to 1st Lt. Colonel Dane married Marjorie Ann Scheneck on 23 February, 1944. Colonel Dane was sent overseas on July 17, 1944, where he was assigned to the 28th Infantry Division, Pennsylvania National Guard until October 6, 1944. The Colonel then served with K Company 10th Regiment from October 7 until November 12. He was then reverted back to Motor Officer in which he served thru the Battle of the Bulge. Colonel Dane left Europe and arrived back in the United States in August 1945.
After WWII, Colonel Dane joined the Army Reserves in which he served until April 20, 1976. He retired with the rank of Colonel. During his long military career Colonel Dane graduated from the Command & General Staff School with Honors, and was an observer of an Atom Bomb test in 1953.
Colonel Dane would return to Iowa to finish his engineering degree and work in the coal, fuel oil and heating equipment business until 1957. He then went to work for the Iowa State Bank & Trust Company as a Trust Officer and Retired in 1987.
On August 5, 2016, George R. Dane was presented the French Legion of Honor Medal from Major General Robert Sentman (Ret.) The Legion of Honor is the highest national decoration. For two centuries, it has been rewarding the outstanding merits of citizens and designating them as models of French civic service.
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