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 1909 - 1996 (87 years)
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| Name |
Philip Ulmer Savage |
| Birth |
14 Mar 1909 |
Ocala, Florida  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
21 Mar 1996 |
Augusta, Richmond, Georgia |
| Person ID |
I916 |
Georgia Society Member Graves Registry |
| Last Modified |
26 Apr 2008 |
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| Notes |
- P. Ulmer Savage was a retired school teacher. He was a member of the Georgia Retired Teachers Association and the Augusta Genealogical Society. He was a charter member and past president of the William Few Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution and a member of First Baptist Church in Augusta, GA. He was a graduate of Ocala High School, the Universisty of Florida and the Augusta Law School. He founded the first band and the first boxing team at Ocala High School.
Compatriot Savage was a combat veteran of WWII serving in the 245th Field Artillery Battalion of the U. S. Army in the Asiatic-Pacific Theater (7 APR 1941 - 1 SEP 1945) and saw heavy combat at Guadalcanal, Bougainville and in the Phillippines.
Constituted 17 July 1942 as the 245th Field Artillery Battalion assigned to the Americal Division as a 105mm-howitzer battalion and activated on the island of New Caledonia. Serving in the Americal Division's 132nd Regimental Combat Team as the direct support battalion for the 132nd Infantry, the 245th arrived on Guadalcanal on 8 December 1942 and attacked Mount Austin and engaged in heavy combat with Japanese defenders. The 132nd was relieved on line by the 25th Division's 35th RCT in January 1943. For its gallantry on Guadalcanal the 245th received the Navy Presidential Unit Citation. In January 1944 the supporting fires of the 245th Field Artillery Battalion played a significant role in destroying dug in Japanese forces on the island of Bougainville in the Northern Solomons. Arriving on Leyte Island in the Philippines in January 1945 the Americal Division participated in the clearing of the island of Japanese forces. On 25 March 1945 the Americal conducted an amphibious assault on Cebu Island. Until the end of the war the Americal cleared the island of Cebu and its surrounding smaller islands as well as Negros Island. For its participation in the liberation of the Philippine Islands from the Japanese the 245th Field Artillery Battalion was awarded the Philippine Presidential Unit Citation.
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