TEC5 Albert P. Baumgart

1907 – 1965

USAR

WWII

Albert Patrick Baumgart was born March 17, 1907 in Belleville, Illinois to Bernhart H. and Lorina Siegler Baumgart.

Baumgart married Bernice A. Thomas about 1935; they had one child.

He served in WWII as a TEC5 in the U.S. Army from January 29, 1944 to November 7, 1945 in the 327^th Engineers – a glider infantry regiment – where he received a Purple Heart, likely for his role in D-Day and subsequent battles, described below.

Although the 327^th was a glider infantry regiment, the majority of the unit landed by sea on Utah Beach in the afternoon of 7 June 1944, because of a shortage of planes to tow its gliders. As a part of the 101^st Airborne Division, the 327th is often slighted as less perilous than parachuting into battle, but several companies of the 327^th suffered casualty rates as high or higher than many paratrooper regiments. The 327^th Regiment participated in Operation Market Garden in the Netherlands and battles in the Bastogne, France. The Regiment was disbanded November 30, 1945.

After the war, Baumgart made his living as an engineer and inspector at a jukebox manufacturer in Chicago.

TEC5 Albert Baumgart died on November 23, 1965, and is buried in Barrington’s Evergreen Cemetery.

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Courtesy of Signal Hill Chapter, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution.