This March 11, 1943, Lowell Tribune article was found on page 6, column 3:
Pvt. George Meadows is home from Ft. Benjamin Harrison visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Meadows.
This March 25, 1943, Lowell Tribune article was found on page 2, column 2:
Pvt. George F. Meadows has been transferred to Fort Riley, Kansas, for training.
This April 8, 1943, Lowell Tribune article was found on page 4, column 3:
Spends Four Days at Home
Pvt. George Meadows has returned to Ft. Riley, Kansas, after spending a four-day furlough with home folks.
This February 10, 1944, Lowell Tribune article was found on page 2, column 1:
Cpl. George Meadows, stationed at Camp Adair, Oregon, is spending a furlough at the home of his mother, Mrs. Harry Meadows, and other relatives and friends here.
This Lowell Tribune article was found in the February 8, 1945, issue (page 4, column 1):
With the Fifth Army, Italy -- Pvt. George F. Meadows, son of Mrs. Pearl Meadows, rural route 2, Lowell, has been promoted to Corporal. He is an armored car driver with the 91st "Powder River" division of the Fifth Army in Italy.
The following June 1, 1944, Lowell Tribune article was found on page 2, column 1:
Now Overseas
Writing his niece, Miss Marcella Futhey, Cpl. George Meadows informs her that he has arrived safely overseas with his outfit, and is now stationed in North Africa. He said he was well and getting along fine.
This April 12, 1945, Lowell Tribune article was found on page 2, column 3:
With the Fifth Army, Italy -- Cpl. George F. Meadows, armored car driver, son of Mrs. Pearl Meadows, route 2, Lowell, is a member of the 91st cavalry reconnaissance troop now probing the entrance to the Po Valley in Italy near Bologna.
As the Fifth army took Pietramala and Monghidoro and moved closer to Bologna, the troopers working ahead of the infantry frequently took Germans by surprise in untapped enemy territory.
Members of the "snoop" troop, a unit of the 91st "Powder River" division, surprised eight Germans in an enemy observation post near Pietramala and captured seven of them. The troop returned to the place the next day and was ambushed by 50 Germans. The 91st cut a hole in the cordon with machine gun fire and got out as fast as its vehicles would move, in a hail of artillery and mortar fire.
The troopers, with a variety of intense fires, made short work of the Germans in Monghidoro and quickly picked up 23 prisoners there.
The 1st platoon captured another German observation post and manned it, directing artillery fire against unsuspecting Germans all about. When the enemy discovered what had happened and turned their artillery on their former obsevation post, the troopers withdrew.
The recon men sailed for North Africa in April, 1944, and entered combat near Rosignano, Italy. They have been on the line (or, more often, beyond it) more than 160 days. They were early arrivals at Leghorn and Pisa and along the banks of the Arno river. They later tested the Gothic Line.
Capt. Clifford E. Lippincott, of Northhampton, Mass., commands the troop.
This August 9, 1945, Lowell Tribune article was found on page 2, column 1:
WITH THE 5TH ARMY, ITALY -- Corporal George F. Meadows, Lowell, Ind., recently was awarded the Division citation for outstanding performance of duty in Italy.
He served on the Fifth army front in the 91st Reconnaissance Troops of the 91st "Powder River" Division.
His mother, Mrs. Pearl Meadows, lives on Route 2 at Lowell.
A September 20 , 1945, Lowell Tribune article (page 4, column 3) listed George Meadows as having been recently discharged from the service.
