In an effort to show off some of the great memorabilia that will be displayed at the Gratiot County Historical Museum’s spring exhibit, we issued a challenge to identify the item in the accompanying picture. This sturdy canvas sack belonged to Robert Tedhams, a member of the 558 Field Army Battalian Service Battery. This was a tank unit attached to General Patton’s 3rd Army. Tedhams carried his gear in this bag as he hit Omaha Beach on D-Day. Through the following three years, as his tank unit pushed through nearly every nation in Europe and participated in the Battle of the Bulge, Robert Tedhams carried this bag. This is only one of the items Mr. Tedhams has loaned the museum for the WWII exhibit . . . and the merest fraction of his story appears here.