tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12326079116516199902024-03-12T16:00:20.022-07:00WW2 Fallen 100Honoring the WW2 fallen on their 100th birthdate / Update: go to www.storiesbehindthestars.orgWW2 Fallen 100 Projecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01652061709901284477noreply@blogger.comBlogger1403125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1232607911651619990.post-17679255642669191322020-09-02T04:37:00.001-07:002024-01-10T04:10:52.231-08:00The Final Story of the WW2 Fallen 100 Project - Peter Anderson, 158th Regimental Combat Team<p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white;"></span></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWc727HCH-DulXx-zPPixfjW9OD8BaVNsYPOA-NEfqlisLBSXutNSTlXtgQ37yrKEfT9Sy5fboCZjLTHzt8jHLpOcGElTl-C6hGxCkhpLf6af_1F-gvn8fXw8J6lRkDYy1ZJJLCAZTJNwn/s1280/anderson+peter+collage.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWc727HCH-DulXx-zPPixfjW9OD8BaVNsYPOA-NEfqlisLBSXutNSTlXtgQ37yrKEfT9Sy5fboCZjLTHzt8jHLpOcGElTl-C6hGxCkhpLf6af_1F-gvn8fXw8J6lRkDYy1ZJJLCAZTJNwn/w400-h225/anderson+peter+collage.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">PFC Peter Anderson served in the 158th Regimental Combat Team in the Philippines.<br /><span style="text-align: left;">https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/30940603/peter-richard-anderson<br /></span>https://www.ww2online.org/image/members-1st-battalion158th-regimental-combat-team-rests-wounded-near-damortis-philippines-1945</span><br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span><span face="" style="color: #333333;">Peter <span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Richard</span> Anderson </span></span><span class="il" face="" style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333;">never</span><span face="" style="color: #333333;"> </span><span class="il" face="" style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333;">had</span><span face="" style="color: #333333;"> a </span><span class="il" face="" style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333;">chance</span><span face="" style="color: #333333;"> to reach 100 years old today. Instead, he sacrificed his life for our freedom.</span></span></span><p></p><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both;"><div style="clear: both; color: #333333;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><div align="left" dir="ltr" style="margin-left: 0pt;"><table style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none;"><tbody><tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(0, 0, 0); overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 5pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #1d2129; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">If you have enjoyed reading the stories of the WWII fallen, <b>Can you help write some stories?</b> It's a big project. The more help, the better. </span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 5pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #1d2129; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Announcing "The Stories Behind the Stars", see </span><span style="color: #385898; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.storiesbehindthestars.org/?fbclid=IwAR0j-vBLbbQFpbP6RfzRXoDq0bHeKPTdZcS9KbpoH10fdTH2OGyxFfj8_X8" style="color: #667700; text-decoration: none;">https://www.storiesbehindthestars.org</a>.</span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 5pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #1d2129;">This crowd-sourced national project has the goal of compiling stories of all 421,000 of the US World War II fallen in one free-to-access central database. As of this writing we have people from 43 state and 7 other countries involved. </span><b><span style="color: red;">We are going to need a lot of volunteers.</span></b></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #1d2129; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Anyone visiting a war memorial or gravesite can use their smartphone to read any of these stories. <a href="https://youtu.be/zOi7Zocx2MY?si=qBHoDT6tTxxHFWLb">Example here</a>.</span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #1d2129; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #1d2129; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">UPDATE 01-10-2024</span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: arial;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">Our volunteers have now completed more than 40,000 stories. We need many more volunteers to complete the remaining names.</span></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p></div><div style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #333333;">He was born on September 2, 1920 in Grantsville, Utah. His parents Gustave and Claudia (Brim) were also both born in Utah. His father worked as a farmer and a sheep herder. He died in 1936. Peter </span><span class="il"><span style="color: #333333;">had one older brother (Adolph) and five older sisters (Geneva Ecton, Emma Tripp, <span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Florence</span> Watson, Josephine Howell, Bernice Carson)</span></span><span style="color: #333333;">. By 1940 Peter was still living at home. He had completed two years of high school and was working odd jobs. He married Nancy Widger in 1941. They had two children.</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="clear: both; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: arial;">He was drafted into the army on June 14, 1944. He reached the rank of private first class and was assigned to the 158th Infantry Regiment. This unit was nicknamed the Bushmasters. When the war started it was stationed in the Panama Canal Zone. It was an independent regiment that did not become part of an infantry division as was normally the case. The 158th IR was sent to Australia in January 1943. It was redesignated the 158th Regimental Combat Team.</span></div><div style="clear: both; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="clear: both; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: arial;">PFC Anderson shipped out in December 1944 and became part of the 158th RCT as a replacement in March 1945. The unit had been part of the invasion of Lingayen Gulf in January 1945 to begin the task of retaking Luzon.</span></div><div style="clear: both; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="clear: both; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: arial;">On April 1 the 158th RCT landed on the Bicol Peninsula with the task of taking Legazpi. PFC Anderson was killed on April 12, 1945. He may have been one of the last Bushmasters killed in the war.</span></div><div style="clear: both; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="clear: both; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: arial;">His grave is at Grantsville City Cemetery in Grantsville, Utah. His widow remarried and died in 1990. His son Gary died in 2005. His other child may still be living.</span></div><div style="clear: both; color: #333333; text-align: center;"></div><div style="clear: both; color: black; text-align: center;"></div><div style="clear: both; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;">Thank you PFC Anderson for your sacrifice. Let's <a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/2/#m_-5598774050341370740_m_-8225299489563583182_m_-7250114029501535787_" style="color: #1155cc;">Earn It</a> for Peter.</span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">This is THE final story to be written as part of this project which honors at least one of the US fallen for every day of the war from December 7, 1941 to September 2, 1945. More than 1,400 men and women were profiled. The project will live on in an expanded program to write the stories of all 400,000+ US World War II fallen. Visit <a href="http://www.storiesbehindthestars.org/">www.storiesbehindthestars.org</a> to learn more. <u>We welcome your continued support and interest and encourage you to help write some of these stories</u>.</span><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><br /></span><br /><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Last year on this date I profiled Robert Lemmon, 7th Armored Division. You can read about Robert <a href="http://ww2fallen100.blogspot.com/2019/09/ww2-fallen-robert-lemmon-7th-infantry.html">here</a>.</span><br /><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><br /></span><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">On behalf of the fallen, if you would like to see more people become aware of this project to honor the WW2 fallen, be sure to share with others on Twitter, Facebook, etc. Thanks for your interest!</span><br /><span face=""><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><br /></span><span face="">I created this video to explain why I started this project: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXt8QA481lY">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXt8QA481lY</a>.</span></span><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Follow on Twitter @ww2fallen100</i><br /><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="color: red;"><b>Please consider joining the public Facebook group to increase the exposure of this project. Go to:</b></span></i><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/1816709708600092/?ref=bookmarks" style="color: #667700; text-decoration: none;">WW2 Fallen 100</a></i><br /><br /></span><h3 style="text-align: center;"><span><font face="arial" size="3"><span>WW2 Fallen 100</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">is supported by</span></font></span></h3><h3 style="text-align: center;"><span><font face="arial" size="3"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The Greatest </span>GENERATIONS<span style="font-weight: normal;"> Foundation</span></font></span></h3><h3 style="text-align: center;"><span><font face="arial" size="3">“Where Every Day is Memorial Day”</font></span></h3><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://www.tggf.org/">http://www.tggf.org</a></span></div></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">References:</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/30940603/peter-richard-anderson</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">Luzon 1945: The Final Liberation of the Philippines by Clayton K. S. Chun</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">The Transcript Bulletin, 29 Oct 1948</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/158th_Infantry_Regiment_(United_States)</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">https://www.manilatimes.net/2017/04/01/news/regions/legazpi-commemorates-liberation-japanese/320459/</span></div>WW2 Fallen 100 Projecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01652061709901284477noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1232607911651619990.post-8026695991626421852020-09-01T05:16:00.000-07:002020-09-01T05:16:28.023-07:00WW2 Fallen - Alf Wedberg, 36th Infantry Division<p><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgNexliID8tKcDrwBGOLE844I_VYWlzexPCJBUsj8shYQgQO35WrdJwE4y6oE7eSw2oyfo-VWNWwjE-ya3pS-XiiihWS0A6gUUEdh06twumqmpyO2YGrfWwlf6LW1sZrNnfVzlJNO3ypto/s1280/wedberg+collage.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgNexliID8tKcDrwBGOLE844I_VYWlzexPCJBUsj8shYQgQO35WrdJwE4y6oE7eSw2oyfo-VWNWwjE-ya3pS-XiiihWS0A6gUUEdh06twumqmpyO2YGrfWwlf6LW1sZrNnfVzlJNO3ypto/w400-h225/wedberg+collage.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">PFC Alf Wedberg served with the 36th Infantry Division in France.<br />https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/100598928/alf-erick-wedberg<br />https://36thbaker.weebly.com/unit-history.html</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Private First Class Alf Erick Wedberg </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">never had a chance to reach 100 years old today. Instead, he sacrificed his life for our freedom. </span><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="color: black; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 4px; position: relative;"><tbody><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-7ff1085f-7fff-0de9-70d1-1677c304fed9" style="text-align: start;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span></p></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><div align="left" dir="ltr" style="margin-left: 0pt;"><table style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none;"><tbody><tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(0, 0, 0); overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 5pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #1d2129; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">If you have enjoyed reading the stories of the WWII fallen, <b>Can you help write some stories?</b> It's a big project. The more help, the better. </span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 5pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #1d2129; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Announcing "The Stories Behind the Stars", see </span><span style="color: #385898; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.storiesbehindthestars.org/?fbclid=IwAR0j-vBLbbQFpbP6RfzRXoDq0bHeKPTdZcS9KbpoH10fdTH2OGyxFfj8_X8" style="color: #667700; text-decoration: none;">https://www.storiesbehindthestars.org</a>.</span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 5pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #1d2129;">This crowd-sourced national project has the goal of compiling stories of all 400,000+ of the US World War II fallen in one free-to-access central database. </span><b><span style="color: red;">We are going to need a lot of volunteers.</span></b></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #1d2129; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Anyone visiting a war memorial or gravesite will be able to scan the name of the fallen with a smartphone and his story will appear on the phone.</span></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Alf was </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">born September 1, 1920, in Westmanland, Maine to Eric Walter Wedberg and Alvina Clara Espling. His siblings were Ethel E. Wedberg Ekman and Edwin R Wedberg. </span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Alf attended school in Westmanland, Maine, and was working in farming before he enlisted. His parents proceeded him in death.</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #fafafa;"><span style="color: #36322d; font-family: arial;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">He enlisted in the Army on April 11, 1944, at Fort Devens, Massachusetts. He received his training at Camp Croft in South Carolina. He went overseas that same year. He ended up with the rank of private first class and was assigned to </span></span></span><span style="background-color: #fafafa; caret-color: rgb(54, 50, 45); color: #36322d; font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">Company G, 2nd Battalion, 142nd Infantry Regiment, 36th Infantry Division.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #fafafa;"><span style="color: #36322d; font-family: arial;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(54, 50, 45); white-space: pre-wrap;">The 36th ID had been in action since September 1943, beginning with the Italian Campaign where it suffered very high losses. In August 1944 it was part of the American landing in southern France. By October it was heavily engaged in the Vosges Mountain. PFC Wedberg likely joined his unit around this time. The 36th ID was finally taken out of the line at the end of 1944. It was back to the front in March 1945.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #fafafa;"><span style="color: #36322d; font-family: arial;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Alf was reported Killed In Action in France on March 20, 1945. His findagrave memorial mentions he was awarded the Bronze Star and the Purple Heart, but this is not confirmed elsewhere. By the time the war ended the 36th ID suffered nearly 20,000 </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(54, 50, 45); white-space: pre-wrap;">casualties including more than 3,600 killed or missing.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">Private First Class Alf Erick Wedberg was laid to rest Westmanland Cemetery in Aroostook County Westmanland, Maine.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Thank you PFC Wedberg for your sacrifice. Let's Earn It for Alf. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">You will never be forgotten.</span><span style="font-family: arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-70642652-7fff-481c-381e-a116f5192011"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;">__________________</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial;"><i><span face="" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This profile was written and summarized by Brianne Ellison. I am a business owner and stay at home mom of 4 children in Utah. </span><span face="" style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I have been an independent family history researcher for over 12 years. I have also had a passion for U.S. war history since I was a child. WWII is my most passionate research project aside from family history. I am so grateful to be able to contribute to a memorial of such a courageous soldier that never gave up. It is because of men like Alf, that we have our freedom today. “Land of the Free because of the Brave.” Thank you, </span><span face="" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Private First Class Alf Erick Wedberg.</span></i></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; white-space: normal;">This is one of the last 2 stories to be written as part of this project which ends on September 2, 2020, the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II. At that time more than 1,370 men and women will have been profiled. The project will live on in an expanded program to write the stories of all 400,000+ US World War II fallen. Visit </span><a href="http://www.storiesbehindthestars.org/" style="background-color: white; color: #667700; font-family: arial; text-decoration: none; white-space: normal;">www.storiesbehindthestars.org</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; white-space: normal;"> to learn more. </span><u style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; white-space: normal;">We welcome your continued support and interest and encourage you to help write some of these stories</u><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; white-space: normal;">.</span><br style="color: #333333; white-space: normal;" /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Last year on this date I profiled training submarine USS R-12 fallen James Horton. You can read about James </span><a href="https://ww2fallen100.blogspot.com/2019/09/ww2-fallen-james-horton-uss-r-12.html" style="color: #667700; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">here</span></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br style="white-space: normal;" /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">On behalf of the fallen, if you would like to see more people become aware of this project to honor the WW2 fallen, be sure to share with others on Twitter, Facebook, etc. Thanks for your interest!</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br style="white-space: normal;" /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I created this video to explain why I started this project: </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXt8QA481lY" style="color: #667700; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXt8QA481lY</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Follow on Twitter @ww2fallen100</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Please consider joining the public Facebook group to increase the exposure of this project. Go to:</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/1816709708600092/?ref=bookmarks" style="color: #667700; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">WW2 Fallen 100</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-top: 3pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">WW2 Fallen 100</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is supported by</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-top: 3pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Greatest </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">GENERATIONS</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Foundation</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-top: 3pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Where Every Day is Memorial Day”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.tggf.org/" style="color: #667700; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.tggf.org</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">References:</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/100598928/alf-erick-wedberg</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Bangor Daily News, 15 Jun 1945</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/36th_Infantry_Division_(United_States)</p><br /></span>WW2 Fallen 100 Projecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01652061709901284477noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1232607911651619990.post-25689731638660274502020-08-31T06:15:00.000-07:002020-08-31T06:15:00.627-07:00WW2 Fallen - B-24 Bombardier John Sullivan<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifBUFGLIx1Vjm5_T3giwZbIEhTvJ7k0-NXsjrDOue2bWxXOTwtoHaAEuNW63o8FWl7nDoE434_ReZSn-QuH8SWBBSA40kX6Syk6H3OtnnouGillyMx5jBqtOVJE337Oiz44PzPq_54pwDp/s1280/sullivan+collage.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifBUFGLIx1Vjm5_T3giwZbIEhTvJ7k0-NXsjrDOue2bWxXOTwtoHaAEuNW63o8FWl7nDoE434_ReZSn-QuH8SWBBSA40kX6Syk6H3OtnnouGillyMx5jBqtOVJE337Oiz44PzPq_54pwDp/w400-h225/sullivan+collage.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Lt. John Sullivan served in the 464th Bombardment Group based in Italy.<br />https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/36429555/john-f-sullivan<br />https://www.worldwarphotos.info/gallery/usa/aircrafts-2-3/b-24-liberator/464-bomb-group-b-24j-bomber-over-oil-refinery-at-oswiecim-poland-1944/</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: arial;">John F. Sullivan never had a chance to reach 100 years old today. Instead, he sacrificed his life for our freedom.</span></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="color: black; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 4px; position: relative;"><tbody><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-7ff1085f-7fff-0de9-70d1-1677c304fed9" style="text-align: start;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span></p></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span id="docs-internal-guid-6c5ba47f-7fff-2044-f8f3-cedab61bcff1"><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><div align="left" dir="ltr" style="margin-left: 0pt;"><table style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none;"><tbody><tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(0, 0, 0); overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 5pt; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #1d2129; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If you have enjoyed reading the stories of the WWII fallen, <b>Can you help write some stories?</b> It's a big project. The more help, the better. </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 5pt;"><span style="color: #1d2129; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Announcing "The Stories Behind the Stars", see </span><span style="color: #385898; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.storiesbehindthestars.org/?fbclid=IwAR0j-vBLbbQFpbP6RfzRXoDq0bHeKPTdZcS9KbpoH10fdTH2OGyxFfj8_X8" style="color: #667700; text-decoration: none;">https://www.storiesbehindthestars.org</a>.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 5pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #1d2129;">This crowd-sourced national project has the goal of compiling stories of all 400,000+ of the US World War II fallen in one free-to-access central database. </span><b><span style="color: red;">We are going to need a lot of volunteers.</span></b></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #1d2129; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Anyone visiting a war memorial or gravesite will be able to scan the name of the fallen with a smartphone and his story will appear on the phone.</span></div></span></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">A native of Worcester, Massachusetts, he was born August 31, 1920. He joined the Army Air Forces and after training in the United States was assigned to the 777th Bomber Squadron, 464th Bomber Group, operating out of Pantanella Air Field in Italy. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">On July 28, 1944, he was bombardier on a B-24 bomber, attacking Nazi oil fields in Romania. His aircraft was struck by a bomb from another American aircraft flying overhead and exploded. Crew members in other bombers saw the explosion and reported that no parachutes were seen. All 10 crewmen were presumed dead.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Another American B-24 flew into the fireball from Lt. Sullivan’s plane, and the crew had to bail out. They all landed safely. Some were protected by friendly Romanians, and others were captured by the Germans. All were returned to the States at the end of hostilities.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Partial remains of Lt. Sullivan and three other crew members were recovered after the war and interred in a common grave at the Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery in St. Louis. Lt. Sullivan was survived by his wife, Gladiola J. Sullivan, of Westboro, Massachusetts.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Thank you, Lieutenant John F. Sullivan, for your sacrifice. Let’s earn it for John.</span></span></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">_____________</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b00fe; font-style: italic;">This profile was written by John F. Schlatter. “I’m from Knoxville, Tennessee and a retired corporate public relations manager, living in Las Vegas. I served as an active duty and reserve Army officer 1974-82. I’ve written two books about veterans. One tells the stories of WWII veterans through postcards they wrote to the folks back home, and the other honors about 50 of the 168 Americans who died in Vietnam on the Fourth of July. I’ve also been a volunteer in the effort to find photographs of all 58,000 Americans who died in Vietnam</span><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #2b00fe; font-style: italic;">. Researching and writing the stories of those who died to preserve freedom has gone from a hobby to a passion for me. If we don’t honor and remember, who will?”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; white-space: normal;">This is one of the final three stories (3) to be written as part of this project which ends on September 2, 2020, the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II. At that time more than 1,370 men and women will have been profiled. The project will live on in an expanded program to write the stories of all 400,000+ US World War II fallen. Visit </span><a href="http://www.storiesbehindthestars.org/" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #667700; font-family: arial; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; text-decoration: none; white-space: normal;">www.storiesbehindthestars.org</a><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; white-space: normal;"> to learn more. </span><u style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; white-space: normal;">We welcome your continued support and interest and encourage you to help write some of these stories</u><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; white-space: normal;">.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; white-space: normal;" /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Last year on this date I profiled Max Smith, 30th Infantry Division. You can read about Max </span><a href="https://ww2fallen100.blogspot.com/2019/08/ww2-normandy-fallen-max-smith-30th.html" style="color: #667700; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">here</span></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; white-space: normal;" /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">On behalf of the fallen, if you would like to see more people become aware of this project to honor the WW2 fallen, be sure to share with others on Twitter, Facebook, etc. Thanks for your interest!</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; white-space: normal;" /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I created this video to explain why I started this project: </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXt8QA481lY" style="color: #667700; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXt8QA481lY</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Follow on Twitter @ww2fallen100</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Please consider joining the public Facebook group to increase the exposure of this project. Go to:</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/1816709708600092/?ref=bookmarks" style="color: #667700; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">WW2 Fallen 100</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-top: 3pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">WW2 Fallen 100</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is supported by</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-top: 3pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Greatest </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">GENERATIONS</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Foundation</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-top: 3pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Where Every Day is Memorial Day”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.tggf.org/" style="color: #667700; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.tggf.org</span></a></p><p><span id="docs-internal-guid-2509ec40-7fff-e538-7ab6-76f731294067"></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /></p>WW2 Fallen 100 Projecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01652061709901284477noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1232607911651619990.post-13086496524635020442020-08-30T14:46:00.001-07:002020-08-30T14:46:23.125-07:00WW2 Fallen - Guy Frazier, USS Shubrick<p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-pAva4um4XxtJYBrolZibvT9x6slF49dusKEeEqXGFdIWy26wRwPBdCbSaB2458vreOu5AoUOYH1kWsgWTqK5q7Zjqj6kpVMQpbkzcR6AKhyphenhyphenN3Bqz0JzJFkMGyToyDaCs9XSVh_KmndeD/s1280/frazier+collage.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-pAva4um4XxtJYBrolZibvT9x6slF49dusKEeEqXGFdIWy26wRwPBdCbSaB2458vreOu5AoUOYH1kWsgWTqK5q7Zjqj6kpVMQpbkzcR6AKhyphenhyphenN3Bqz0JzJFkMGyToyDaCs9XSVh_KmndeD/w400-h225/frazier+collage.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Radioman 3rd Class Guy Frazier, photographed with wife and son, served on the destroyer USS Shubrick.<br /><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/67136466/guy-f-frazier" style="text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/67136466/guy-f-frazier</a>
</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Shubrick_(DD-639)" style="text-align: start; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Shubrick_(DD-639</span></a><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">
</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-7ff1085f-7fff-0de9-70d1-1677c304fed9" style="text-align: start;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Guy Franklin Frazier Jr. never had a chance to reach 100 years old today. Instead, he sacrificed his life for our freedom.</span></p></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span id="docs-internal-guid-6c5ba47f-7fff-2044-f8f3-cedab61bcff1"><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><div align="left" dir="ltr" style="margin-left: 0pt;"><table style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none;"><tbody><tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(0, 0, 0); overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 5pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #1d2129; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">If you have enjoyed reading the stories of the WWII fallen, <b>Can you help write some stories?</b> It's a big project. The more help, the better. </span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 5pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #1d2129; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Announcing "The Stories Behind the Stars", see </span><span style="color: #385898; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.storiesbehindthestars.org/?fbclid=IwAR0j-vBLbbQFpbP6RfzRXoDq0bHeKPTdZcS9KbpoH10fdTH2OGyxFfj8_X8" style="color: #667700; text-decoration: none;">https://www.storiesbehindthestars.org</a>.</span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 5pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #1d2129;">This crowd-sourced national project has the goal of compiling stories of all 400,000+ of the US World War II fallen in one free-to-access central database. </span><b><span style="color: red;">We are going to need a lot of volunteers.</span></b></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #1d2129; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Anyone visiting a war memorial or gravesite will be able to scan the name of the fallen with a smartphone and his story will appear on the phone.</span></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Guy was born August 30, 1920 in Rhea County, Tennessee. His parents Guy Franklin Frazier Sr. and Anna Bell (Tillett) Frazier were both born in Tennessee. His father worked as a farmer. Guy had one younger sister. His parents divorced some time before 1940, when Guy was living with his mother and sister in Covington, Kentucky. He graduated from Holmes High School in Covington.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Guy enlisted in the US Navy Reserve on 16 February 1942 in Cincinnati, Ohio. He joined the crew of fleet replenishment oiler </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">USS Sapelo</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> on 28 October 1942 as a seaman 2nd class, then became part of the initial crew of the destroyer </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">USS Shubrick</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (DD-639) as a radioman 3rd class when it was commissioned on 7 February 1943. RM3c Frazier married the former Beatrice Clara Cruse on 21 February 1943 in Portsmouth, Virginia and they had a son, Guy Franklin Frazier III. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">After commissioning and shakedown, </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Shubrick</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> sailed for North Africa with a large convoy on 8 June 1943 and took part in Operation Husky, the Allied invasion of Sicily. While in port at Palermo, Italy on 4 August 1943 </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Shubrick</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> was hit by a 500-pound bomb during an air raid and had to return to the States for repairs. After completion of repairs, </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Shubrick</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> made two convoy runs to Europe and back before participating in the D-Day shore bombardment, then remained off the Normandy coast for the next month performing escort duties, fire support missions, and anti-submarine patrols. In mid-July 1944, she joined a task group bound for the Mediterranean and then later returned to the US for overhaul.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">On 1 February 1945, </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Shubrick</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> transited the Panama Canal to join the US Pacific Fleet. She departed from Pearl Harbor on 21 April 1945 escorting the battleship </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">USS Mississippi </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">to Okinawa, where she supported the landings at Tori Shima on 12 May 1945 and patrolled off the coast of Okinawa. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">On 29 May 1945, </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Shubrick</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> was attacked by two kamikaze aircraft, one of which crashed into the ship, blowing a 30-foot hole in the starboard side, and causing secondary explosions. RM3c Frazier was one of 35 crewmen killed and another 25 were wounded in the attack.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Guy Franklin Frazier Jr. was initially buried on Okinawa and in 1949 was reinterred in Valley Grove Baptist Church Cemetery in Knoxville, Tennessee. His widow remarried after the war and passed away in 1998.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Thank you RM3C Frazier </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">for your sacrifice. Let's </span><a href="http://ww2fallen100.blogspot.com/2018/10/ww2-fallen-beaufighter-night-fighter.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Earn It</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> for </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Guy.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">_____</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This profile was written by Bob Fuerst. "I’m a NASA engineer, B-17 Flying Fortress enthusiast, and amateur genealogist so this kind of research is an ideal outlet for me. But more than anything, it’s a way to express my sincere appreciation for The Greatest Generation and the sacrifices that they made, especially those who made the ultimate sacrifice. They should never be forgotten and I’m grateful to Don for allowing me to play a small part in honoring them."</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><div><span><br /></span></div><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14.84999942779541px;">This is one of the final 10 stories (4) to be written as part of this project which ends on September 2, 2020, the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II. At that time more than 1,370 men and women will have been profiled. The project will live on in an expanded program to write the stories of all 400,000+ US World War II fallen. Visit </span><a href="http://www.storiesbehindthestars.org/" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #667700; font-family: arial; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; text-decoration: none;">www.storiesbehindthestars.org</a><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14.84999942779541px;"> to learn more. </span><u style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14.84999942779541px;">We welcome your continued support and interest and encourage you to help write some of these stories</u><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14.84999942779541px;">.</span><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Last year on this date I profiled B-17 pilot James Feeney. You can read about James </span><a href="http://ww2fallen100.blogspot.com/2019/08/ww2-fallen-b-17-pilot-james-feeney.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">here</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">On behalf of the fallen, if you would like to see more people become aware of this project to honor the WW2 fallen, be sure to share with others on Twitter, Facebook, etc. Thanks for your interest!</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I created this video to explain why I started this project: </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXt8QA481lY" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXt8QA481lY</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Follow on Twitter @ww2fallen100</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Please consider joining the public Facebook group to increase the exposure of this project. Go to:</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/1816709708600092/?ref=bookmarks" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #667700; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">WW2 Fallen 100</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-top: 3pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">WW2 Fallen 100</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is supported by</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-top: 3pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Greatest </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">GENERATIONS</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Foundation</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-top: 3pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Where Every Day is Memorial Day”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.tggf.org/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.tggf.org</span></a></p></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" />WW2 Fallen 100 Projecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01652061709901284477noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1232607911651619990.post-53267175936436874582020-08-29T05:29:00.000-07:002020-08-29T05:29:21.962-07:00WW2 Fallen - Bryant Burnett, 2nd Infantry Division<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBMPoJNIESZ9KCEek6VVnZ6tuDBKn_veSEH5SjMC7KE33bsBg3NDEsniykGOGuTqBTJWGZSBS8MD3W9Sq7iTLngbzmE1O8G43mqAnl3TopSl_nVk_CqgacjM6v5wg-I5GUZU3B41xxBf0e/s1280/burnett+collage.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBMPoJNIESZ9KCEek6VVnZ6tuDBKn_veSEH5SjMC7KE33bsBg3NDEsniykGOGuTqBTJWGZSBS8MD3W9Sq7iTLngbzmE1O8G43mqAnl3TopSl_nVk_CqgacjM6v5wg-I5GUZU3B41xxBf0e/w400-h225/burnett+collage.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Private Bryant Burnett served in the 37th Field Artillery Battalion attached to the 2nd Infantry Division.<br />https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/154296394/bryant-burnett<br />https://www.ww2online.org/image/2nd-infantry-division-taking-cover-german-fire-riverbank-germany-1945</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bryant Burnett, Jr. never had a chance to reach 100 years old today. Instead he sacrificed his life for our freedom.</span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-0c11379f-7fff-551a-1814-5e50ca9af63b"><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><div align="left" dir="ltr" style="margin-left: 0pt;"><table style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none;"><tbody><tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(0, 0, 0); overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 5pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #1d2129; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">If you have enjoyed reading the stories of the WWII fallen, <b>Can you help write some stories?</b> It's a big project. The more help, the better. </span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 5pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #1d2129; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Announcing "The Stories Behind the Stars", see </span><span style="color: #385898; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.storiesbehindthestars.org/?fbclid=IwAR0j-vBLbbQFpbP6RfzRXoDq0bHeKPTdZcS9KbpoH10fdTH2OGyxFfj8_X8" style="color: #667700; text-decoration: none;">https://www.storiesbehindthestars.org</a>.</span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 5pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #1d2129;">This crowd-sourced national project has the goal of compiling stories of all 400,000+ of the US World War II fallen in one free-to-access central database. </span><b><span style="color: red;">We are going to need a lot of volunteers.</span></b></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #1d2129; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Anyone visiting a war memorial or gravesite will be able to scan the name of the fallen with a smartphone and his story will appear on the phone.</span></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.3800000000000001; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bryant Burnett, Jr. was born on 29 Aug 1920 to Bryant Burnett, Sr., a plasterer from Tennessee and Bertha O’Banion from Arkansas. Bryant had one brother Eldridge born in 1918. Eldridge was a fireman who died as a result of a homicide on 23 May 1943. His sister Pansy was born in 1912, and Helen in 1911.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.3800000000000001; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bryant completed schooling through the 7th grade.</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. In 1940 Bryant was working as a carpenter’s helper.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.3800000000000001; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bryant Burnett enlisted in the Army on 15 Oct 1940 at Houston, Texas and was attached to the 37</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 0.6em; vertical-align: super;">th</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Field Artillery Battalion, 2</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 0.6em; vertical-align: super;">nd</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Division which was reactivated 1 October 1940 at Ft. Sam Houston, Texas. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.3800000000000001; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The 37</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 0.6em; vertical-align: super;">th</span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Field Artillery Battalion participated in the campaigns at Normany (D-Day), the Battle of the Bulge including the Ardennes and N. France, Central Europe and Rhineland.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 14.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #141412; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The 2nd Infantry Division was transferred from Fort Sam Houston to Camp McCoy, Wisconsin in November 1942 where it trained until it deployed to Ireland in October, 1943. As part of the buildup for operation Overlord, the Normandy invasion, it spent ten months in Ireland undergoing more extensive training. On 7 June 1944, D-Day+1, the Division came ashore in France at bloody Omaha Beach. It liberated the first of many cities, Trevieres, two days later. The Indianheads battled their way through the hedgerows of Normandy in very tough fighting. Later, after a fierce 21-day battle, the 2nd Infantry Division, fighting in the streets and alleyways, finally liberated the vital port city of Brest on 18 September 1944.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 14.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #141412; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Once mop-up operations were complete in the Normandy region, the Division attacked east across France. From positions around St. Vith, Belgium, the Second was ordered on 11 December 1944 to attack and seize the Roer River dams. Having pierced the dreaded Siegfried Line, the Division was advancing when Nazi Field Marshal Gerd Von Rundstedt unleashed a powerful German offensive in the Ardennes. Throughout this Battle of the Bulge, the 2nd Infantry Division, along with the 101st Airborne Division and others, held fast and preventing the enemy from seizing key roads leading to the cities of Liege and Antwerp. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 14.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #141412; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333;">The 37th FAB was awarded the Belgian Fourragere 1940 with two citations in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army, one for the Ardennes and another for Elsenborn Crest (also called Elsenborn Ridge).</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 14.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #141412; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Resuming the offensive on 6 February 1945, the Division joined the race to annihilate the fleeing Wehrmacht.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 14.4pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #141412; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Transferred from the First Army to Patton’s Third Amy, the Indianheads spent their last weeks of the European War in a dash through central Germany. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 14.666666984558105px; white-space: pre-wrap;">By the end of April the 2nd ID had reached the German border with Czechoslovakia in the area of Waldmuchen. Pvt. Burnett suffered a severe head wound and was admitted to a hospital on April 29. </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Private Burnett died of wounds on May 1. We don't know the circumstances that caused his head wound, but it is possible that he could have been a forward artillery observer which would have put him in at the edge of the front lines on a regular basis. Or it may have been the result of an artillery gun recoil. The war in Europe ended seven days later. He was one of the last of more than 3,200 men lost during the war from the 2nd ID.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.3800000000000001; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-129d862c-7fff-4523-9cc5-1e0f4ba7e818"></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.3800000000000001; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Private Burnett was awarded the following citations: </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Purple Heart, WWII Victory Medal, American Campaign Medal, Army Presidential Unit Citation, and the Army Good Conduct Medal.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.3800000000000001; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bryant Burnett, Jr., is buried at Woodlawn Cemetery in Houston, Texas. He was 24 years old.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.3800000000000001; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Note</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> – Bryant’s headstone reads that he was a Pvt. his headstone application states he was a Pfc. at time of death. Roster of the dead in Texas states he was DOW (died of wounds) where another says KIA.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.3800000000000001; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Thank you, Bryant Burnett, Jr. for your sacrifice. Let’s </span><a href="http://ww2fallen100.blogspot.com/2016/12/earn-this.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">‘Earn It”</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> for Bryant.</span></p>_____________<br /><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 3.6pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1e00fd; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This profile was written by Linda Simpson. I have been an avid genealogist, researching my ancestry in Canada, France, Belgium, and Ireland for over 40 years. I am also a historian for The Seminole Nation, Indian Territory, and The Past Whispers. When I saw an article on Don’s project I knew I wanted to be a part of Stories Behind the Stars. What an amazing way to honor our fallen, by ‘Earning It’ for them.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.3800000000000001; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14.84999942779541px;">This is one of the final 10 stories (5) to be written as part of this project which ends on September 2, 2020, the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II. At that time more than 1,370 men and women will have been profiled. The project will live on in an expanded program to write the stories of all 400,000+ US World War II fallen. Visit </span><a href="http://www.storiesbehindthestars.org/" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #667700; font-family: arial; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; text-decoration: none;">www.storiesbehindthestars.org</a><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14.84999942779541px;"> to learn more. </span><u style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14.84999942779541px;">We welcome your continued support and interest and encourage you to help write some of these stories</u><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14.84999942779541px;">.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.3800000000000001; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14.84999942779541px;">Last year on this date I profiled MIA B-25 copilot Charles Cannon. You can read about Charles </span><a href="http://ww2fallen100.blogspot.com/2019/08/ww2-himalayas-fallen-mia-b-25-co-pilot.html" style="background-color: white; color: #667700; font-family: arial; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; text-decoration: none;">here</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14.84999942779541px;">.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.3800000000000001; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14.84999942779541px;">On behalf of the fallen, if you would like to see more people become aware of this project to honor the WW2 fallen, be sure to share with others on Twitter, Facebook, etc. Thanks for your interest!</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.3800000000000001; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14.84999942779541px;">I created this video to explain why I started this project: </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXt8QA481lY" style="color: #667700; font-family: arial; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; text-decoration: none;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXt8QA481lY</a><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14.84999942779541px;">.</span></p><div class="separator" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.3800000000000001; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; white-space: normal;"><i style="background-color: white;">Follow on Twitter @ww2fallen100</i><br /><i style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: red;"><b>Please consider joining the public Facebook group to increase the exposure of this project. 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text-decoration: none;">http://www.tggf.org</a></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.3800000000000001; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.3800000000000001; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">References:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.3800000000000001; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Honor States - </span><a href="https://www.honorstates.org/index.php?id=529126" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.honorstates.org/index.php?id=529126</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.3800000000000001; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Find A Grave - </span><a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/154296394/bryant-burnett" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/154296394/bryant-burnett</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.3800000000000001; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ancestry 1940 U.S. Census - </span><a href="https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=2442&h=157523087&tid=&pid=&queryId=3fef4a0452bbcfa9f2dc54fa567afd31&usePUB=true&_phsrc=Unq20&_phstart=successSource" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=2442&h=157523087&tid=&pid=&queryId=3fef4a0452bbcfa9f2dc54fa567afd31&usePUB=true&_phsrc=Unq20&_phstart=successSource</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.3800000000000001; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">U.S. Roster of War Dead – 1939 to1945 </span><a href="https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/1102/images/WW2_6362383__0031_F_03-0369?treeid=&personid=&hintid=&usePUB=true&usePUBJs=true&_ga=2.177784230.2007177178.1598234090-2086746519.1598096281&pId=42598" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/1102/images/WW2_6362383__0031_F_03-0369?treeid=&personid=&hintid=&usePUB=true&usePUBJs=true&_ga=2.177784230.2007177178.1598234090-2086746519.1598096281&pId=42598</span></a></p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Fold3 Memorial - </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.fold3.com/page/84729976-bryant-burnett/stories" style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.fold3.com/page/84729976-bryant-burnett/stories</a></span></span><div><span><br /></span></div><div><span>Wikipedia: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2nd_Infantry_Division_(United_States)">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2nd_Infantry_Division_(United_States)</a></span></div>WW2 Fallen 100 Projecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01652061709901284477noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1232607911651619990.post-48255599773938898522020-08-28T05:13:00.000-07:002020-08-28T05:13:42.057-07:00WW2 Tinian Fallen - Silver Star hero George Gorball, 2nd Marine Division<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3034eo_baYRYiFbrMqE9jZqz8zSxNnGyzdu2u9IKNiZjExoNSRSsWb2aw3yLstgakLl2uHMSiHE4dD_pnV48sSx3UoIW2PGMpd7C1jna8C5eGsz31qFME4Kw69q3VB1dOxNqRWdo7T9vV/s1280/gorball+collage.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3034eo_baYRYiFbrMqE9jZqz8zSxNnGyzdu2u9IKNiZjExoNSRSsWb2aw3yLstgakLl2uHMSiHE4dD_pnV48sSx3UoIW2PGMpd7C1jna8C5eGsz31qFME4Kw69q3VB1dOxNqRWdo7T9vV/w400-h225/gorball+collage.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Sgt. George Gorbell, 2nd Marine Divison earned the Silver Star at Tinian.<br />https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/47826034/george-william-gorball<br />https://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USMC/USMC-C-Tinian/index.html</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial;">George William Gorball </span><span class="il" style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;">never</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial;"> </span><span class="il" style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;">had</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial;"> a </span><span class="il" style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;">chance</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial;"> to reach 100 years old today. Instead, he sacrificed his life for our freedom.</span></p><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333;"><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><div align="left" dir="ltr" style="margin-left: 0pt;"><table style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none;"><tbody><tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(0, 0, 0); overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 5pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #1d2129; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">If you have enjoyed reading the stories of the WWII fallen, <b>Can you help write some stories?</b> It's a big project. The more help, the better. </span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 5pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #1d2129; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Announcing "The Stories Behind the Stars", see </span><span style="color: #385898; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.storiesbehindthestars.org/?fbclid=IwAR0j-vBLbbQFpbP6RfzRXoDq0bHeKPTdZcS9KbpoH10fdTH2OGyxFfj8_X8" style="color: #667700; text-decoration: none;">https://www.storiesbehindthestars.org</a>.</span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 5pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #1d2129;">This crowd-sourced national project has the goal of compiling stories of all 400,000+ of the US World War II fallen in one free-to-access central database. </span><b><span style="color: red;">We are going to need a lot of volunteers.</span></b></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #1d2129; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Anyone visiting a war memorial or gravesite will be able to scan the name of the fallen with a smartphone and his story will appear on the phone.</span></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div><p dir="ltr" style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><div style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial;">George was born on August 28, 1920 in Ranchester, Wyoming. His parents Carroll and Laura (Short) were born in Nebraska and Iowa, respectively. His father worked as a farmer, a US Mail carrier, and a construction foreman. George <span class="il">had</span> three older sisters, a younger sister and a younger brother. By 1940 George had moved away from home. His parents were living in Laramie and moved to West Ogden, Utah during the war.</span></div><div style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial;">He enlisted in the US Marine Corps in July 1940. He was sent to Pearl Harbor one week after the Japanese December 1941 attack. He reached the rank of sergeant in Company C, 1st Battalion (Engineers), 18th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division. </span></div><div style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial;">George would have participated in the battles of Tarawa and Saipan. Having made it through those two bloody conflicts he was a sergeant when it came time for the 2nd Marine Division to take Tinian which was needed as an airbase for the Twentieth Air Force. It landed on the island on July 25, 1944. It was a tough assignment only two weeks after a month of fighting at Saipan.</span></div><div style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial;">August 1 would be the last day of the fighting. At that time the Japanese were making their last stand in caves and ravines on the south end of the island. In the act of flushing out the remaining defenders many Marines were wounded. Under fire, Sgt. Gorball crossed dangerous minefields to come to their aid. He was fatally wounded himself and died one day later on August 2, 1944. Sgt. Gorball was one of 326 Marines killed in this battle, far less than future battles would cost. This was the last time the Japanese contested the landing at the beaches to no avail. After Tinian the Japanese would switch to a defense in depth strategy that would prove so costly at Iwo Jima and Okinawa.</span></div><div style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Sgt. Gorball's selfless actions from August 1 were recognized by a posthumous Silver Star award. The citation reads as follows:</span></div><div style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><span style="background-color: #fafafa; caret-color: rgb(54, 50, 45); color: #36322d;">The President of the United States of America takes pride in presenting the Silver Star (Posthumously) to Sergeant George W. Gorball (MCSN: 289589), United States Marine Corps, for conspicuous Gallantry and intrepidity while serving with the First Battalion, Eighteenth Marines, SECOND Marine Division, in action against enemy Japanese forces on Tinian, Marianas Islands, 1 August 1944. </span></i></span></div><div style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><span style="background-color: #fafafa; caret-color: rgb(54, 50, 45); color: #36322d;"><br /></span></i></span></div><div style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><span style="background-color: #fafafa; caret-color: rgb(54, 50, 45); color: #36322d;">When members of an assault engineer mine reconnaissance patrol sustained serious casualties as a result of intense enemy fire, Sergeant Gorball unhesitatingly volunteered to assist in removing the wounded and, fearlessly braving the terrific barrages from powerful automatic weapons, picked his way through dangerous minefields to the exposed position where men lay helpless. Fatally wounded while administering aid to one of the Marines, Sergeant Gorball exhausted his fast waning strength to care for his companion, persisting in his heroic efforts until he collapsed. </span></i></span></div><div style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><span style="background-color: #fafafa; caret-color: rgb(54, 50, 45); color: #36322d;"><br /></span></i></span></div><div style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><span style="background-color: #fafafa; caret-color: rgb(54, 50, 45); color: #36322d;">By his outstanding courage in the face of extreme peril, his exceptional initiative and his unwavering devotion to duty, he upheld the highest traditions of the United States Naval Service. He gallantly gave his life for his country.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(54, 50, 45); color: #36322d;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa; caret-color: rgb(54, 50, 45); color: #36322d;">General Orders: Commander in Chief, Pacific: Serial 1296 (February 22, 1945)</span></i></span></div><div style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial;">His grave is at Sheridan Municipal Cemetery in Sheridan, Wyoming.</span></div><div style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="clear: both; color: black; text-align: center;"></div><div style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="">Thank you Sergeant Gorball for your sacrifice. Let's </span><a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/2/#m_-5598774050341370740_m_-8225299489563583182_m_-7250114029501535787_" style="color: #1155cc;">Earn It</a><span face=""> for George.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">This is one of the final 50 stories to be written as part of this project which ends on September 2, 2020, the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II. At that time more than 1,370 men and women will have been profiled. The project will live on in an expanded program to write the stories of all 400,000+ US World War II fallen. Visit <a href="http://www.storiesbehindthestars.org/">www.storiesbehindthestars.org</a> to learn more. <u>We welcome your continued support and interest and encourage you to help write some of these stories</u>.</span><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><br /></span><br /><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Last year on this date I profiled MIA B-25 copilot Charles Cannon. You can read about Charles <a href="http://ww2fallen100.blogspot.com/2019/08/ww2-himalayas-fallen-mia-b-25-co-pilot.html">here</a>.</span><br /><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><br /></span><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">On behalf of the fallen, if you would like to see more people become aware of this project to honor the WW2 fallen, be sure to share with others on Twitter, Facebook, etc. Thanks for your interest!</span><br /><span face=""><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><br /></span><span face="">I created this video to explain why I started this project: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXt8QA481lY">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXt8QA481lY</a>.</span></span><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Follow on Twitter @ww2fallen100</i><br /><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="color: red;"><b>Please consider joining the public Facebook group to increase the exposure of this project. Go to:</b></span></i><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/1816709708600092/?ref=bookmarks" style="color: #667700; text-decoration: none;">WW2 Fallen 100</a></i></span><br /><br /><h3 style="text-align: center;"><span><font size="3"><span>WW2 Fallen 100</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">is supported by</span></font></span></h3><h3 style="text-align: center;"><span><font size="3"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The Greatest </span>GENERATIONS<span style="font-weight: normal;"> Foundation</span></font></span></h3><h3 style="text-align: center;"><span><font size="3">“Where Every Day is Memorial Day”</font></span></h3><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://www.tggf.org/">http://www.tggf.org</a></span></div></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">References:</span></div><div style="text-align: left;">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Tinian</div><div style="text-align: left;">The Battle for Tinian: Vital Stepping Stone in America's War Against Japan by Nathan Prefer, 2012</div><div style="text-align: left;">https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/47826034/george-william-gorball</div><div style="text-align: left;">1920, 1930, 1940 census records</div>WW2 Fallen 100 Projecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01652061709901284477noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1232607911651619990.post-85429772892908118132020-08-27T05:25:00.003-07:002020-08-27T13:58:52.613-07:00WW2 Fallen - B-17 navigator John McCray<p><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlCYlqo6Q0futs4d3INuTEVvxAsOobImFSjuCT6yjLjJnSecdNuI8ngf2v8MyLhHRDo2-BWf7VFyLXFV5E9O-9C_m1102w1NKcQiD0tVkPmq0t4Ve4FpG1IqodCCubsRCCX9Q5yvZro3wT/s1280/mccray+collage.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlCYlqo6Q0futs4d3INuTEVvxAsOobImFSjuCT6yjLjJnSecdNuI8ngf2v8MyLhHRDo2-BWf7VFyLXFV5E9O-9C_m1102w1NKcQiD0tVkPmq0t4Ve4FpG1IqodCCubsRCCX9Q5yvZro3wT/w400-h225/mccray+collage.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">2nd Lt. John McCray was a B-17 navigator in the 524th Bombardment Squadron based in England.<br />https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/163898943/john-e_-mccray<br />http://www.americanairmuseum.com/unit/1200</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">John E. </span><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">McCray </span><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">never had a chance to reach 100 years old today. Instead, he sacrificed his life for our freedom. </span></span><p></p><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><div align="left" dir="ltr" style="margin-left: 0pt;"><table style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none;"><tbody><tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(0, 0, 0); overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 5pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #1d2129; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">If you have enjoyed reading the stories of the WWII fallen, <b>Can you help write some stories?</b> It's a big project. The more help, the better. </span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 5pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #1d2129; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Announcing "The Stories Behind the Stars", see </span><span style="color: #385898; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.storiesbehindthestars.org/?fbclid=IwAR0j-vBLbbQFpbP6RfzRXoDq0bHeKPTdZcS9KbpoH10fdTH2OGyxFfj8_X8" style="color: #667700; text-decoration: none;">https://www.storiesbehindthestars.org</a>.</span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 5pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #1d2129;">This crowd-sourced national project has the goal of compiling stories of all 400,000+ of the US World War II fallen in one free-to-access central database. </span><b><span style="color: red;">We are going to need a lot of volunteers.</span></b></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #1d2129; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Anyone visiting a war memorial or gravesite will be able to scan the name of the fallen with a smartphone and his story will appear on the phone.</span></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">John was </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">born August 27, 1920, in, Missouri to John Edward McCray. </span><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">John had completed 3 years of college and was employed by the J.I. Case Company. </span><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">John married his sweetheart Georgiana M. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">McCray was drafted in Racine, Wisconsin on Valentines Day 1942. He volunteered to serve in the Army Air Forces. He was assigned to the </span><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">524 Bombardment Squadron, 379th Bombardment Group which was sent to England in the spring of 1943. He reached the rank of second lieutenant. Lt. McCray likely joined his unit in 1944.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">“The air echelon of the squadron arrived at RAF Bovingdon by 24 April 1943, and remained there until 21 May, when it joined the ground echelon at RAF Kimbolton, which was to be its combat station for the remainder of its time in the European Theater of Operations. The squadron flew its first combat mission on 29 May, and focused on the strategic bombing campaign against Germany. This mission was the starting point for the first Distinguished Unit Citation (DUC) awarded to the squadron for its sustained actions through the end of July 1944. Targets included industrial sites, oil refineries, storage plants, submarine pens, airfields and communications centers in Germany, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Norway and Poland. Targets included a chemical plant in Ludwigshafen, an aircraft assembly plant in Braunschweig, ball bearing plants at Schweinfurt and Leipzig, synthetic oil refineries at Merseburg and Gelsenkirchen, marshalling yards at Hamm and Reims and airfields in le Mesnil-au-Val and Berlin. The squadron received a second DUC for its attack on the FW190 aircraft factory at Oschersleben and the Junkers factory at Halberstadt on 11 January 1944.”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“During the Northern France Campaign, the squadron bombed enemy positions to assist ground troops during Operation Cobra, the breakout at Saint Lo on 24 and 25 July 1944. It attacked German communications and fortifications during the Battle of the Bulge, from December 1944 through January 1945 and bombed bridges and viaducts in France and Germany to aid the Allied assault across the Rhine, from February to March 1945.[3] The squadron flew its last mission on 25 April 1945” </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[2]</span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-fe25899e-7fff-2ae3-4f7e-7f64f7df5926"><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-family: arial; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Second Lieutenant McCray was killed on bombing mission over Dortmund, Germany on 4 October 1944. The target was the railway yards.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family: arial; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="" style="font-family: arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">UPDATE: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; widows: 2;"><span style="font-family: times;">Lt John McCray was killed on 05 October 1944. He was the Navigator for the Lt Mills Crew on board "Swamp Fire". He was "Swamp Fire's" only KIA out of the nearly 400 Airmen who flew on her. He was three missions away from completing his tour and returning home to his wife and "Swamp Fire" was three mission away from setting the record of "First Heavy Bomber to reach 100 missions without an abort. His crew delayed their return home to fly that mission. I have spoken to his widow and others in his family about his war time experiences. If you want to discover more about "Swamp Fire", her crews and accomplishment to include the missions of Lt John McCray go to our website or Face book page on "Swamp Fire" or contact us at swampfire1944@gmail.com. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family: arial; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family: arial; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">His wife received Lt McCray's Air Medal with Three Oak Leaf Clusters in his memory as well as the Purple Heart. [1]</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-family: arial; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">John’s final resting place is in Calvary Catholic Cemetary in Racine, Wisconsin.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-family: arial; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Thank you for your sacrifice. Let's Earn It for </span><span face="" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Second Lieutenant John E. McCray</span><span face="" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></p><span style="font-family: arial;">______________</span><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-family: arial; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><i><span face="" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This profile was written and summarized by Brianne Ellison. I am a business owner and stay at home mom of 4 children in Utah. </span><span face="" style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I have been an independent family history researcher for over 12 years. I have also had a passion for U.S. war history since I was a child. WWII is my most passionate research project aside from family history. I am so grateful to be able to contribute to a memorial of such a courageous soldier that never gave up. It is because of men like John, that we have our freedom today. “Land of the Free because of the Brave.” Thank you, </span><span face="" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Second Lieutenant John E. McCray</span><span face="" style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. You will never be forgotten.</span><span face="" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family: arial; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: arial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; white-space: pre-wrap;">This is one of the final 10 stories (7) to be written as part of this project which ends on September 2, 2020, the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II. At that time more than 1,370 men and women will have been profiled. The project will live on in an expanded program to write the stories of all 400,000+ US World War II fallen. Visit </span><a href="http://www.storiesbehindthestars.org/" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #667700; text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap;">www.storiesbehindthestars.org</a><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; white-space: pre-wrap;"> to learn more. </span><u style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; white-space: pre-wrap;">We welcome your continued support and interest and encourage you to help write some of these stories</u><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Last year on this date I profiled Silver Star hero Guy Earnest, 84th Infantry Division. You can read about Guy </span><a href="http://ww2fallen100.blogspot.com/2019/08/ww2-fallen-silver-star-hero-guy-earnest.html" style="color: #667700; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">here</span></a><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;">On behalf of the fallen, if you would like to see more people become aware of this project to honor the WW2 fallen, be sure to share with others on Twitter, Facebook, etc. Thanks for your interest!</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I created this video to explain why I started this project: </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXt8QA481lY" style="color: #667700; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXt8QA481lY</span></a><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Follow on Twitter @ww2fallen100</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: red; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Please consider joining the public Facebook group to increase the exposure of this project. Go to:</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/1816709708600092/?ref=bookmarks" style="color: #667700; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">WW2 Fallen 100</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="" style="color: black; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-top: 3pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">WW2 Fallen 100</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is supported by</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-top: 3pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Greatest </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">GENERATIONS</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Foundation</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-top: 3pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Where Every Day is Memorial Day”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.tggf.org/" style="color: #667700; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.tggf.org</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family: arial; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><span face="" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; white-space: normal;" /></span></span></p><br /><ol style="font-family: arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><li dir="ltr" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Wife Presented Husband's Medal at Truax Field. (1945, June 8). </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Journal Times</span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, p. 5. Retrieved August 21, 2020, from https://www.newspapers.com/image/334509591/?terms=John%2BMcCray.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">524th Bomb Squadron. (2020, June 15). Retrieved August 22, 2020, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/524th_Bomb_Squadron</span></p></li></ol></span>WW2 Fallen 100 Projecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01652061709901284477noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1232607911651619990.post-13831495898546644062020-08-26T05:37:00.003-07:002020-08-26T12:39:44.494-07:00WW2 Saipan Fallen - Silver Star hero Israel Aronovitz, 2nd Marine Division<p><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieCnIKuwpkiRjRBmnitHpHAssXt0ultAI99LLA8bBGRlGwVeDr97LWGY39J_A_Qm21s4_ggAchkepKy0FTjph7jdVncR2Fair-s9yr5a5pK-L5GCk3LvquFqJDMTCNT6v7iThJrYehyfhyphenhyphen/s1280/aronovitz+collage.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieCnIKuwpkiRjRBmnitHpHAssXt0ultAI99LLA8bBGRlGwVeDr97LWGY39J_A_Qm21s4_ggAchkepKy0FTjph7jdVncR2Fair-s9yr5a5pK-L5GCk3LvquFqJDMTCNT6v7iThJrYehyfhyphenhyphen/w400-h225/aronovitz+collage.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Silver Star hero PFC Israel Aronovitz served with the 2nd Marine Division during the Battle of Saipan.</span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/65292182/israel-aronovitz<br />https://www.worldwarphotos.info/gallery/usa/pacific/saipan/marines-hit-by-japanese-sniper-on-saipans-red-beach-1944/</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626;">Israel Aronovitz never had a chance to reach 100 years old today. Instead, he sacrificed his life for our freedom.</span></span></p>
<div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><div align="left" dir="ltr" style="margin-left: 0pt;"><table style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none;"><tbody><tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(0, 0, 0); overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 5pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #1d2129; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">If you have enjoyed reading the stories of the WWII fallen, <b>Can you help write some stories?</b> It's a big project. The more help, the better. </span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 5pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #1d2129; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Announcing "The Stories Behind the Stars", see </span><span style="color: #385898; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.storiesbehindthestars.org/?fbclid=IwAR0j-vBLbbQFpbP6RfzRXoDq0bHeKPTdZcS9KbpoH10fdTH2OGyxFfj8_X8" style="color: #667700; text-decoration: none;">https://www.storiesbehindthestars.org</a>.</span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 5pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #1d2129;">This crowd-sourced national project has the goal of compiling stories of all 400,000+ of the US World War II fallen in one free-to-access central database. </span><b><span style="color: red;">We are going to need a lot of volunteers.</span></b></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #1d2129; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Anyone visiting a war memorial or gravesite will be able to scan the name of the fallen with a smartphone and his story will appear on the phone.</span></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Israel was born on August 26, 1920 in Detroit, Michigan. His parents, William Aronovitz and Zelda Sarah Morachnick were both born in Romania. His father worked as an auto manufacturing assembler and later as a peddler. Israel had 3 brothers, Abraham, Morris, and Harry. He had four sisters, Rose, Esther, Marion, and Dorothy. According to the 1940 federal census, Israel had an education to the first year of high school.</span></p>
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<p style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">He enlisted in the US Marine Corps on June 15, 1942. According to Marine muster rolls, he was stationed in San Diego, California. In October 1943 he was assigned to the First Battalion, Tenth Marine Regiment, Second Marine Division. On October 17, 1943, he embarked on the USS Middleton from Wellington, New Zealand. The Second Marine Division sailed to Tarawa in the Gilbert Islands, where they fought from November 20-23. This action was later criticized as an unnecessary loss of life for an island of no strategic significance, as the Second Division incurred 3166 casualties in 76 hours. PFC Aronovitz earned a Silver Star for his actions on November 21, with this citation:</span></p>
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<p style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px;"><i><span style="font-family: arial;">“The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Silver Star to Private First Class Israel Aronovitz (MCSN: 404869), United States Marine Corps, for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action against enemy Japanese forces while serving with the SECOND Marine Division on Tarawa Atoll,Gilbert Islands, on 21 November 1943. </span></i></p>
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<p style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px;"><i><span style="font-family: arial;">With utter disregard for his personal safety, he carried his pack howitzer forward to the limit of the beachhead, there assembled it under enemy fire. He destroyed by direct fire a pillbox sheltering an enemy anti-boat gun which was causing heavy casualties among reinforcements landing on the beach. The entire section remained in this exposed position under close sniper fire, until the mission had been accomplished. His heroic conduct was in keeping with the highest traditions of the United States Naval Service.”</span></i></p>
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<p style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">In June 1944, the 10th Marines were assigned to take the island of Saipan in the Mariana Islands. The Japanese fleet relied on this base, which had an airfield, resupply ports and a large civilian population. On June 13, the US began bombarding the shore from fifteen battleships. Unfortunately, this bombardment, which was meant to take out shoreline defenses, missed many Japanese emplacements. On June 15, 1944, the landings on the western shore faced heavy fire, and the Second Marines took heavy losses. Aronovitz died in action that first day. The island wasn’t declared secured until July 9, with terrible civilian and military losses. This strategic position would help significantly in future US operations to bomb Japan.</span></p>
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<p style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">His grave is at Hebrew Memorial Park in Clinton, Macomb County, Michigan.</span></p>
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<p style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Thank you, Israel Aronovitz, for your sacrifice. Let's <a href="https://mail.yahoo.com/d/folders/1/messages/AAjLL2hmDi_rXwZ_AwImyL25qpQ#m_-959253768568333169_m_-8225299489563583182_m_-7250114029501535787_"><span style="color: #1652ca;">Earn It</span></a> for Israel.</span></p>
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<p style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><span style="font-family: arial;">This profile was written by Marilyn N. Clark. "I have a long-standing interest in World War 2. My grandfather and numerous great-uncles served in that conflict. I have a BA in history from the University of Utah and have a lot of experience with volunteer genealogical research. It’s an honor to find and share information about these heroes that made such great sacrifices. Many thanks to Don for organizing this effort to share their stories.”</span></i></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><br /></p><p style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: arial; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; white-space: pre-wrap;">This is one of the final 10 stories (8) to be written as part of this project which ends on September 2, 2020, the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II. At that time more than 1,370 men and women will have been profiled. The project will live on in an expanded program to write the stories of all 400,000+ US World War II fallen. Visit </span><a href="http://www.storiesbehindthestars.org/" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #667700; text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap;">www.storiesbehindthestars.org</a><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; white-space: pre-wrap;"> to learn more. </span><u style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; white-space: pre-wrap;">We welcome your continued support and interest and encourage you to help write some of these stories</u><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Last year on this date I profiled Navy Cross hero Barney Sterling, 1st Marine Division. You can read about Barney </span><a href="http://ww2fallen100.blogspot.com/2019/08/ww2-guadalcanal-fallen-navy-cross-hero.html" style="color: #667700; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">here</span></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">On behalf of the fallen, if you would like to see more people become aware of this project to honor the WW2 fallen, be sure to share with others on Twitter, Facebook, etc. Thanks for your interest!</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I created this video to explain why I started this project: </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXt8QA481lY" style="color: #667700; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXt8QA481lY</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Follow on Twitter @ww2fallen100</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: red; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Please consider joining the public Facebook group to increase the exposure of this project. Go to:</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/1816709708600092/?ref=bookmarks" style="color: #667700; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">WW2 Fallen 100</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="" style="color: black; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-top: 3pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">WW2 Fallen 100</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is supported by</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-top: 3pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Greatest </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">GENERATIONS</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Foundation</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-top: 3pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Where Every Day is Memorial Day”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.tggf.org/" style="color: #667700; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.tggf.org</span></a></p><p style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black;" /></p><p style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;">Sources:</p>
<p style="color: blue; font-family: arial; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">Find a Grave <a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/65292182/israel-aronovitz"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/65292182/israel-aronovitz</span></a></span></p>
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<p style="color: blue; font-family: arial; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">Military headstone application <a href="https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=2375&h=976877&tid=&pid=&queryId=8f8cd2b5e7e79020f3551b100e844bc2&usePUB=true&_phsrc=uTN886&_phstart=successSource"><span style="color: blue;">https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=2375&h=976877&tid=&pid=&queryId=8f8cd2b5e7e79020f3551b100e844bc2&usePUB=true&_phsrc=uTN886&_phstart=successSource</span></a></span></p>
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<p style="color: blue; font-family: arial; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">Silver Star citation <a href="https://valor.militarytimes.com/hero/35137"><span style="color: blue;">https://valor.militarytimes.com/hero/35137</span></a></span></p>
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<p style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">USMC muster rolls for Aronovitz on ancestry.com, six in total</p>
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<p style="color: blue; font-family: arial; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">1940 Census <a href="https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=2442&h=83152654&tid=&pid=&queryId=8f8cd2b5e7e79020f3551b100e844bc2&usePUB=true&_phsrc=uTN889&_phstart=successSource"><span style="color: blue;">https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=2442&h=83152654&tid=&pid=&queryId=8f8cd2b5e7e79020f3551b100e844bc2&usePUB=true&_phsrc=uTN889&_phstart=successSource</span></a></span></p>
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<p style="color: blue; font-family: arial; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">1930 Census <a href="https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?dbid=6224&h=11948477&indiv=try&o_vc=Record:OtherRecord&rhSource=60525"><span style="color: blue;">https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?dbid=6224&h=11948477&indiv=try&o_vc=Record:OtherRecord&rhSource=60525</span></a></span></p>
<p style="color: blue; font-family: arial; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10th_Marine_Regiment">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10th_Marine_Regiment</a></span></p>
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<p style="color: blue; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Tarawa">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Tarawa<span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"></span></a></span></p>
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<p style="color: blue; font-family: arial; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-saipan">https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-saipan</a></span></p><div><br /></div>WW2 Fallen 100 Projecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01652061709901284477noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1232607911651619990.post-79172978411159441972020-08-25T05:51:00.000-07:002020-08-25T05:51:33.171-07:00WW2 Guam Fallen - Thomas Dougherty, 3rd Marine Division<p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguLTeh75jdCJsjW3gr0qbPSYUH31_oRb3f2cQhAG1HDUO3NFpv0sZb1p0Lss_9HJVnPnF-Xndb5Gczmh1opUkF2PrDAhggpqzoU7HhzfMKRF2C3tOFPhUju9m2IdhX7-F-2ByuuhkkeIwy/s1280/dougherty+collage.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguLTeh75jdCJsjW3gr0qbPSYUH31_oRb3f2cQhAG1HDUO3NFpv0sZb1p0Lss_9HJVnPnF-Xndb5Gczmh1opUkF2PrDAhggpqzoU7HhzfMKRF2C3tOFPhUju9m2IdhX7-F-2ByuuhkkeIwy/w400-h225/dougherty+collage.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">PFC Thomas Dougherty served with the 3rd Marine Division in the battle to retake Guam.<br />https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/94433931/thomas-patrick-dougherty<br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Guam_(1944)</span></td></tr></tbody></table></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Private First Class Thomas Patrick Dougherty, Jr. never had a chance to reach 100 years old today. Instead, he sacrificed his life for our freedom.</span></p><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><div align="left" dir="ltr" style="margin-left: 0pt;"><table style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none;"><tbody><tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(0, 0, 0); overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 5pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #1d2129; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">If you have enjoyed reading the stories of the WWII fallen, <b>Can you help write some stories?</b> It's a big project. The more help, the better. </span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 5pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #1d2129; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Announcing "The Stories Behind the Stars", see </span><span style="color: #385898; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.storiesbehindthestars.org/?fbclid=IwAR0j-vBLbbQFpbP6RfzRXoDq0bHeKPTdZcS9KbpoH10fdTH2OGyxFfj8_X8" style="color: #667700; text-decoration: none;">https://www.storiesbehindthestars.org</a>.</span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 5pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #1d2129;">This crowd-sourced national project has the goal of compiling stories of all 400,000+ of the US World War II fallen in one free-to-access central database. </span><b><span style="color: red;">We are going to need a lot of volunteers.</span></b></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #1d2129; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Anyone visiting a war memorial or gravesite will be able to scan the name of the fallen with a smartphone and his story will appear on the phone.</span></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">PFC Dougherty, a native of Baltimore, was killed in action at the age of 23 on July 22, 1944 during the invasion to retake Guam from the Japanese. He was serving with Company G., 2nd Battalion, 21st Marines, 3rd Marine Division.</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">He was born August 25, 1920 in Baltimore, the only child of Thomas Patrick Dougherty, Sr., and Edna M. Cole Dougherty. His father, who served in World War I and was slightly wounded, was employed at the Maryland State Penitentiary. His parents separated when he was young, and at the time of the 1930 census, when he was nine, he was living with his mother and maternal grandmother. His mother was a saleslady in a clothing store in 1930. In the 1940 census she is a machine operator at a clothing manufacturing plant, and Thomas was a salesman of electrical supplies. </span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">He attended Forest Park High School in Baltimore. His draft registration in February 1942 shows him employed as a dispatcher with the Pennsylvania Railroad and married to Audrey Elizabeth Dougherty. They were married between 1940 and 1942. He enlisted on September 22, 1942 and went overseas in February 1943. </span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Japanese forces had overrun the American garrison on Guam December 8-10, 1941, the first three days after Pearl Harbor. The 1944 battle to recapture Guam was one of the bloodiest engagements of the Allied “island hopping” campaign. The invasion was preceded by three days of naval and air bombardment from 274 ships and 13 aircraft carriers. PFC Dougherty’s unit, the 3rd Marine Division, killed an estimated 5,000 Japanese and sustained 677 Marines killed, 3,626 wounded, and nine missing. He was killed on the second day of the three-week battle.</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">He was initially buried on Guam, and his remains were repatriated in 1948. He is interred at the Parkwood Cemetery and Mausoleum in Baltimore. His mother passed away in 1973.</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Thank you, PFC Thomas Patrick Dougherty for your sacrifice. Let's <a href="https://mail.yahoo.com/d/folders/1/messages/AAjLL2hmDi_rXwZ_AwImyL25qpQ?.src=fp#m_-959253768568333169_m_-8225299489563583182_m_-7250114029501535787_">Earn It</a> for Thomas.</span></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">_____________</span></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b00fe; font-style: italic;">This profile was written by John F. Schlatter. “I’m from Knoxville, Tennessee and a retired corporate public relations manager, living in Las Vegas. I served as an active duty and reserve Army officer 1974-82. I’ve written two books about veterans. One tells the stories of WWII veterans through postcards they wrote to the folks back home, and the other honors about 50 of the 168 Americans who died in Vietnam on the Fourth of July. I’ve also been a volunteer in the effort to find photographs of all 58,000 Americans who died in Vietnam</span><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #2b00fe; font-style: italic;">. Researching and writing the stories of those who died to preserve freedom has gone from a hobby to a passion for me. If we don’t honor and remember, who will?”</span></span></p><p style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: arial; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; white-space: pre-wrap;">This is one of the final 50 stories (9) to be written as part of this project which ends on September 2, 2020, the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II. At that time more than 1,370 men and women will have been profiled. The project will live on in an expanded program to write the stories of all 400,000+ US World War II fallen. Visit </span><a href="http://www.storiesbehindthestars.org/" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #667700; text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap;">www.storiesbehindthestars.org</a><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; white-space: pre-wrap;"> to learn more. </span><u style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; white-space: pre-wrap;">We welcome your continued support and interest and encourage you to help write some of these stories</u><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Last year on this date I profiled B-17 radio operator Archie Snoddy. You can read about Archie </span><a href="http://ww2fallen100.blogspot.com/2019/08/ww2-fallen-b-17-radio-operator-archie.html" style="color: #667700; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">here</span></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">On behalf of the fallen, if you would like to see more people become aware of this project to honor the WW2 fallen, be sure to share with others on Twitter, Facebook, etc. Thanks for your interest!</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I created this video to explain why I started this project: </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXt8QA481lY" style="color: #667700; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXt8QA481lY</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Follow on Twitter @ww2fallen100</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Please consider joining the public Facebook group to increase the exposure of this project. Go to:</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/1816709708600092/?ref=bookmarks" style="color: #667700; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">WW2 Fallen 100</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="" style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-top: 3pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">WW2 Fallen 100</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is supported by</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-top: 3pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Greatest </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">GENERATIONS</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Foundation</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-top: 3pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Where Every Day is Memorial Day”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.tggf.org/" style="color: #667700; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.tggf.org</span></a></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;">References:</p>
<p style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/94433931/thomas-patrick-dougherty">https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/94433931/thomas-patrick-dougherty</a></span></p>
<p style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Guam_(1944)#Battle">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Guam_(1944)#Battle</a></span></p>
<p style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3rd_Marine_Division#World_War_II">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3rd_Marine_Division#World_War_II</a></span></p><div><br /></div>WW2 Fallen 100 Projecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01652061709901284477noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1232607911651619990.post-47384431898111701442020-08-24T05:16:00.000-07:002020-08-24T05:16:30.919-07:00WW2 D-Day Fallen - Bronze Star hero Roy Krenke, 1st Infantry Division<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0ItsD8lyzRCifH79uqqCPdkKM2SKjuGmVPWohKsDigWN_JWHK0deFIFSQaDwXkv078USD8rkhS_COktyalC5Iq-qX3ctmv7P-4PcgOikk26HoQjdRDz_chagx1_-sfRXCQ1P3bB5aFyzv/s1280/krenke+collage.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0ItsD8lyzRCifH79uqqCPdkKM2SKjuGmVPWohKsDigWN_JWHK0deFIFSQaDwXkv078USD8rkhS_COktyalC5Iq-qX3ctmv7P-4PcgOikk26HoQjdRDz_chagx1_-sfRXCQ1P3bB5aFyzv/w400-h225/krenke+collage.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">https://www.pinterest.com/pin/502362533416923581/</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/149841062/roy-r-krenke" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: small;">https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/149841062/roy-r-krenke</span></a></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st_Infantry_Division_(United_States)" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: small;">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st_Infantry_Division_(United_States)</span></span></a></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Roy Richard Krenke never had a chance to reach 100 years old today. Instead, he sacrificed his life for our freedom.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><div align="left" dir="ltr" style="margin-left: 0pt;"><table style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none;"><tbody><tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(0, 0, 0); overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 5pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #1d2129; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">If you have enjoyed reading the stories of the WWII fallen, <b>Can you help write some stories?</b> It's a big project. The more help, the better. </span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 5pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #1d2129; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Announcing "The Stories Behind the Stars", see </span><span style="color: #385898; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.storiesbehindthestars.org/?fbclid=IwAR0j-vBLbbQFpbP6RfzRXoDq0bHeKPTdZcS9KbpoH10fdTH2OGyxFfj8_X8" style="color: #667700; text-decoration: none;">https://www.storiesbehindthestars.org</a>.</span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 5pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #1d2129;">This crowd-sourced national project has the goal of compiling stories of all 400,000+ of the US World War II fallen in one free-to-access central database. </span><b><span style="color: red;">We are going to need a lot of volunteers.</span></b></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #1d2129; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Anyone visiting a war memorial or gravesite will be able to scan the name of the fallen with a smartphone and his story will appear on the phone.</span></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Roy was born August 24, 1920 in Two Rivers, Wisconsin. His parents Richard Edward Krenke and Ida C. (Horn) Krenke were born in Nebraska and Wisconsin, respectively. His father worked as a cabinet maker. Roy had a younger sister, Carol, eight years his junior. Roy graduated from Washington High School in Two Rivers, and attended the University of Wisconsin for three years, majoring in economics.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">He was inducted into the US Army on 24 Oct 1942 at Milwaukee, Wisconsin and completed basic training at Camp Wolters, Texas. He served as a private in the </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">16th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division (“The Big Red One”). The 1st ID departed the States in April 1942 to join a large contingent of US troops slated for participation in Operation Torch, the invasion of North Africa. Private Krenke likely joined the 16th IR in North Africa as a replacement some time in 1943. </span></p><p><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">After the North African campaign, the 1st ID next took part in Operation Husky, the invasion of Sicily, with an amphibious landing on 10 July 1943. After Sicily was captured in August 1943, the division returned to England, where it endured seven months of grueling training in preparation for the Allied invasion of Europe. </span></p><p><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">On 6 June 1944 the 16th IR was part of the first wave that went ashore at Omaha Beach in Normandy. As their landing craft approached the beach and dropped their ramps, the soldiers were targeted by German machine gunners atop the bluff that commanded the beach. Many soldiers were killed or wounded while they attempted to get out of the boats, others were hit as they struggled through the surf or tried to run across the sand weighted down with water-logged equipment. Those that made it to the base of the bluff found the area mined and criss-crossed with concertina wire. Colonel George A. Taylor, the commander of the 16th Infantry Regiment, urged his troops to get off the beach, yelling "The only men who remain on this beach are the dead and those who are about to die! Let's get moving!". Sadly, Private Krenke was one of those left behind on the beach as he was killed in action at some point coming ashore.</span></p><p><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Private Krenke was posthumously awarded the Bronze Star for "heroic achievement in connection with military operations against the enemy in the vicinity of Gela, Sicily, July 10, 1943".</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Roy Richard Krenke was initially buried in France and in 1947 was </span><a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/149841062/roy-r-krenke" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">reinterred</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> in Forest View Cemetery in his hometown of Two Rivers, Wisconsin.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Thank you Private Krenke </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">for your sacrifice. Let's </span><a href="http://ww2fallen100.blogspot.com/2018/10/ww2-fallen-beaufighter-night-fighter.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Earn It</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> for </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Roy.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">_____</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This profile was written by Bob Fuerst. "I’m a NASA engineer, B-17 Flying Fortress enthusiast, and amateur genealogist so this kind of research is an ideal outlet for me. But more than anything, it’s a way to express my sincere appreciation for The Greatest Generation and the sacrifices that they made, especially those who made the ultimate sacrifice. They should never be forgotten and I’m grateful to Don for allowing me to play a small part in honoring them."</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: arial; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: arial; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">This is one of the final 50 stories (10) to be written as part of this project which ends on September 2, 2020, the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II. At that time more than 1,370 men and women will have been profiled. The project will live on in an expanded program to write the stories of all 400,000+ US World War II fallen. Visit </span><a href="http://www.storiesbehindthestars.org/" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #667700; font-family: arial; text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap;">www.storiesbehindthestars.org</a><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"> to learn more. </span><u style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">We welcome your continued support and interest and encourage you to help write some of these stories</u><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Last year on this date I profiled Silver Star hero Charles Murphy of the 7th Infantry Division. You can read about Charles </span><a href="http://ww2fallen100.blogspot.com/2019/08/ww2-fallen-silver-star-hero-charles.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">here</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">On behalf of the fallen, if you would like to see more people become aware of this project to honor the WW2 fallen, be sure to share with others on Twitter, Facebook, etc. Thanks for your interest!</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I created this video to explain why I started this project: </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXt8QA481lY" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXt8QA481lY</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Follow on Twitter @ww2fallen100</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Please consider joining the public Facebook group to increase the exposure of this project. Go to:</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/1816709708600092/?ref=bookmarks" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #667700; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">WW2 Fallen 100</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; 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text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.tggf.org</span></a></p><p><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /></p>WW2 Fallen 100 Projecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01652061709901284477noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1232607911651619990.post-60197602177066343542020-08-23T03:27:00.000-07:002020-08-23T03:27:19.249-07:00WW2 Saipan Fallen - William Buller, 4th Marine Division<p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8bnR5Ta28u_UTytIjMRwSl7Up54bQVTc3hfphKXCbAd5-p5lf95vt0V2GOZmbRNmz-eMoGM-A42nFPj9lVQAOzz6SWpCutrvQQunGQquOhjmWMxGxMh5PqRy9yzmNHljooww0ApDEFk0r/s1280/buller+collage.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8bnR5Ta28u_UTytIjMRwSl7Up54bQVTc3hfphKXCbAd5-p5lf95vt0V2GOZmbRNmz-eMoGM-A42nFPj9lVQAOzz6SWpCutrvQQunGQquOhjmWMxGxMh5PqRy9yzmNHljooww0ApDEFk0r/w400-h225/buller+collage.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sgt. William Buller served with the 24th Marine Regiment in Saipan.<br />https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/88080097/william-warren-buller<br />https://1stbattalion24thmarines.com/the-battles/saipan/</span></td></tr></tbody></table></p><p><span style="font-family: Arial;">William Warren Buller never had a chance to reach 100 years old today. Instead he sacrificed his life for our freedom.</span></p>
<div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><div align="left" dir="ltr" style="margin-left: 0pt;"><table style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none;"><tbody><tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(0, 0, 0); overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 5pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #1d2129; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">If you have enjoyed reading the stories of the WWII fallen, <b>Can you help write some stories?</b> It's a big project. The more help, the better. </span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 5pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #1d2129; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Announcing "The Stories Behind the Stars", see </span><span style="color: #385898; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.storiesbehindthestars.org/?fbclid=IwAR0j-vBLbbQFpbP6RfzRXoDq0bHeKPTdZcS9KbpoH10fdTH2OGyxFfj8_X8" style="color: #667700; text-decoration: none;">https://www.storiesbehindthestars.org</a>.</span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 5pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #1d2129;">This crowd-sourced national project has the goal of compiling stories of all 400,000+ of the US World War II fallen in one free-to-access central database. </span><b><span style="color: red;">We are going to need a lot of volunteers.</span></b></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #1d2129; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Anyone visiting a war memorial or gravesite will be able to scan the name of the fallen with a smartphone and his story will appear on the phone.</span></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">William was born on 23 August 1920 in Patterson, New Jersey to John and Mae (Cummings) Buller. William had an older brother, John Jr., and an older sister, Ruth. William's father, born in Connecticut, was a truck driver for a local dairy while his mother Mae, born in Pennsylvania, was a weaver at a silk mill. </p>
<p style="font-family: Arial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">William attended primary at School No. 15 and went on to graduate from Eastside High School where he played football for the Eastside Ghosts. His obituary mentioned he also played football for the Army Clowns before enlistment into the Marines.</p>
<p style="font-family: Arial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">In 1940 William was a receiving clerk for the Leslie Company in Lyndhurst, New Jersey which supplied the military and merchant ships with steam contact equipment.</p>
<p style="font-family: Arial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">William enlisted in the Marines on 26 August 1942 and was attached to “D” Co. 1<span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><sup>st</sup></span> Battalion (reinforcements) FMFTC at Camp LeJeune, North Carolina in 1944. His primary unit became<span style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: Verdana; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><br />
</span><span style="background-color: white;"> 600, C Co, 1st BN, 24th Marine Regiment, 4th Marine Division.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Arial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="background-color: white;">“William Buller was one of the original members of Dog Company. He was a squad leader with the Third Machine Gun Platoon. Buller was a popular leader; he earned a promotion to sergeant on January 11, 1944, and gunner Glenn Buzzard referred to Buller as his "big brother":</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">...not a whole lot older, but then everyone was older than me. I would say he was 24 years old at the time, and I was 17. I met him just out of boot camp. He'd sort of look after me, I'd say. I know I put on some pictures, "This is my brother while I was in the Marine Corps," but that is how I felt about him.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">- Corporal Glenn Buzzard, quoted in Gail Chatfield's "By Dammit, We're Marines!"</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">Sergeant Buller led his squad through the battle of Namur, and was transferred to Charlie Company in March 1944.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">With Charlie Company:</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">Sergeant Buller became a squad leader with Charlie Company's machine gun platoon. He made the landing on Saipan, and fought through the first tough weeks of the campaign.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">Buller was equally as popular with officers as he was with other enlisted men; he was particular friends with his platoon leader, First Lieutenant Alex Santilli. On July 8, 1944, as First Battalion prepared to advance on Marpi Point, Lieutenant Santilli was distracted by a disturbance in front of his platoon. A number of civilians - women, children, and men holding babies - emerged from a treeline, calling to the Marines. The platoon was in a partially harvested cane field, and as Santilli and Buller went to investigate the civilians, shots rang out from beneath one of the piles</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #4d4d4d;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;">of sugar cane. Both Santilli and Buller were killed; Buzzard saw them go down "within seconds of each other."</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Arial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Sgt. Buller was awarded the following:<br />
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Purple Heart<br />
Combat Action Ribbon<br />
Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal<br />
American Campaign Medal<br />
Navy Presidential Unit Citation<br />
WWII Victory Medal<br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">Sgt. Buller was buried in Row 9, Grave 16 of the Second Marine Division Cemetery. After the war, he was reinterred in Cedar Lawn Cemetery along with his parents in Paterson, New Jersey.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Arial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Thank you, William Warren Buller for your sacrifice. Let’s <a href="http://ww2fallen100.blogspot.com/2016/12/earn-this.html"><span style="color: blue;">‘Earn It”</span></a> for William.</p>
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<p style="background-color: white; color: #1400fc; font-family: Arial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3.6px;"><i>This profile was written by Linda Simpson. I have been an avid genealogist, researching my ancestry in Canada, France, Belgium, and Ireland for over 40 years. I am also a historian for The Seminole Nation, Indian Territory, and The Past Whispers. When I saw an article on Don’s project I knew I wanted to be a part of Stories Behind the Stars. What an amazing way to honor our fallen, by ‘Earning It’ for them.</i></p>
<p style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: Arial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><br /><span face="" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; white-space: pre-wrap;">This is one of the final 50 stories (11) to be written as part of this project which ends on September 2, 2020, the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II. At that time more than 1,370 men and women will have been profiled. The project will live on in an expanded program to write the stories of all 400,000+ US World War II fallen. Visit </span><a href="http://www.storiesbehindthestars.org/" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #667700; font-family: arial; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap;">www.storiesbehindthestars.org</a><span face="" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> to learn more. </span><u style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; white-space: pre-wrap;">We welcome your continued support and interest and encourage you to help write some of these stories</u><span face="" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 14.84999942779541px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Last year on this date I profiled B-17 navigator Thomas Meeks. You can read about Thomas </span></span></span><a href="http://ww2fallen100.blogspot.com/2019/08/ww2-fallen-b-17-navigator-thomas-meeks.html" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #667700; font-family: arial; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">here</span></a><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #131415; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333;" /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">On behalf of the fallen, if you would like to see more people become aware of this project to honor the WW2 fallen, be sure to share with others on Twitter, Facebook, etc. Thanks for your interest!</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #131415; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333;" /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I created this video to explain why I started this project: </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXt8QA481lY" style="color: #667700; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXt8QA481lY</span></a><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Follow on Twitter @ww2fallen100</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white; color: red; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Please consider joining the public Facebook group to increase the exposure of this project. Go to:</span><span style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/1816709708600092/?ref=bookmarks" style="color: #667700; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">WW2 Fallen 100</span></a></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-top: 3pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">WW2 Fallen 100</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is supported by</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-top: 3pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Greatest </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">GENERATIONS</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Foundation</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-top: 3pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Where Every Day is Memorial Day”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://www.tggf.org/" style="color: #667700; text-decoration: none;">http://www.tggf.org</a></span></p><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" />
<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">References:</p>
<p style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="color: black;">Eastside High School - <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastside_High_School_(Paterson,_New_Jersey)"><span style="color: blue;">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastside_High_School_(Paterson,_New_Jersey)</span></a></span></p>
<p style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="color: black;">Leslie Company - <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Controls"><span style="color: blue;">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Controls</span></a></span></p>
<p style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="color: black;">Together We Served - <a href="https://marines.togetherweserved.com/usmc/servlet/tws.webapp.WebApp?cmd=ShadowBoxProfile&type=Person&ID=496914"><span style="color: blue;">https://marines.togetherweserved.com/usmc/servlet/tws.webapp.WebApp?cmd=ShadowBoxProfile&type=Person&ID=496914</span></a></span></p>
<p style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="color: black;">2</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 7.3px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><sup>nd</sup></span><span style="color: black;"> Marine Division Cemetery Saipan, Marianas Islands – 1945 <a href="http://digitalcollections.smu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/fjd/id/540"><span style="color: blue;">http://digitalcollections.smu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/fjd/id/540</span></a></span></p>
<p style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="color: black;">Marianas Campaign During WWII National Park Service<br />
<a href="https://www.nps.gov/amme/learn/historyculture/upload/COHlisting.pdf"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.nps.gov/amme/learn/historyculture/upload/COHlisting.pdf</span></a></span></p>
<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Breaching the Marianas: The Battle for Saipan 2<span style="font-size: 7.3px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><sup>nd</sup></span> Marine Division<br />
<a href="https://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USMC/USMC-C-Saipan/index.html"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USMC/USMC-C-Saipan/index.html</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><br />
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<p style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="color: black;">Find A Grave – <a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/88080097/william-warren-buller"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/88080097/william-warren-buller</span></a></span></p>
<p style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="color: black;">Ancestry – 1940 Census - <a href="https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/2442/images/m-t0627-02433-00769?treeid=&personid=&hintid=&usePUB=true&usePUBJs=true&_ga=2.99431325.2056080605.1597850184-1521280555.1596418198&pId=130998385"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/2442/images/m-t0627-02433-00769?treeid=&personid=&hintid=&usePUB=true&usePUBJs=true&_ga=2.99431325.2056080605.1597850184-1521280555.1596418198&pId=130998385</span></a></span></p>
<p style="font-family: Arial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: 11px;">Newspapers.com – The Morning Call, Paterson, NJ and The News, Paterson, NJ</span> </p>WW2 Fallen 100 Projecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01652061709901284477noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1232607911651619990.post-70966194819886611532020-08-22T01:27:00.000-07:002020-08-22T01:27:21.036-07:00WW2 South Atlantic Fallen - PBM-3c Mariner radioman William Magie, lost in U-boat attack<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRk2gqVS7lb4cYSLvcq9bFNQecECG-gaxLR1IxR-BKTjmkRQNZh7xQ3l7np9KdOlHzLwikElLW9DLX4ITFxptFuIWoowUOdYNRUHZ-y5fCFLoj5qTiesgUrjP52NfTupi1vUgwPpmig89D/s1280/magie+collage.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRk2gqVS7lb4cYSLvcq9bFNQecECG-gaxLR1IxR-BKTjmkRQNZh7xQ3l7np9KdOlHzLwikElLW9DLX4ITFxptFuIWoowUOdYNRUHZ-y5fCFLoj5qTiesgUrjP52NfTupi1vUgwPpmig89D/w400-h225/magie+collage.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Aviation Radioman 2nd Class William Magie served with PV-74 in Brazil.<br />https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/86252582/william-frederick-magie<br />https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Martin_PBM-3_Mariner_of_VP-74_in_flight,_in_1942_(fsa.8b08013).jpg</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;">William Frederick Magie, Jr. </span><span class="il" face="" style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;">never</span><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"> </span><span class="il" face="" style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;">had</span><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"> a </span><span class="il" face="" style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;">chance</span><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"> to reach 100 years old today. Instead, he sacrificed his life for our freedom.</span></p><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><div dir="ltr" style="font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><div align="left" dir="ltr" style="margin-left: 0pt;"><table style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none;"><tbody><tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(0, 0, 0); overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 5pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #1d2129; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">If you have enjoyed reading the stories of the WWII fallen, <b>Can you help write some stories?</b> It's a big project. The more help, the better. </span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 5pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #1d2129; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Announcing "The Stories Behind the Stars", see </span><span style="color: #385898; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.storiesbehindthestars.org/?fbclid=IwAR0j-vBLbbQFpbP6RfzRXoDq0bHeKPTdZcS9KbpoH10fdTH2OGyxFfj8_X8" style="color: #667700; text-decoration: none;">https://www.storiesbehindthestars.org</a>.</span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 5pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #1d2129;">This crowd-sourced national project has the goal of compiling stories of all 400,000+ of the US World War II fallen in one free-to-access central database. </span><b><span style="color: red;">We are going to need a lot of volunteers.</span></b></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #1d2129; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Anyone visiting a war memorial or gravesite will be able to scan the name of the fallen with a smartphone and his story will appear on the phone.</span></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="" style="font-family: roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><div style="clear: both;">He was born on August 22, 1920 in Opolis Kansas. His parents William and Zella (Pickard) were born in Kansas and Iowa respectively. His father worked as a farmer and later as an auto service laborer. William <span class="il">had</span> three older sisters and two younger sisters.</div><div style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div style="clear: both;">He enlisted in the military on December 10, 1942 from Missouri. He ended up serving in the US Naval Reserves were he reached the rank of aviation radioman second class. He was assigned to VP-74 which was equipped with PBM-3 <i>Mariners</i>. This was a seaplane patrol squadron that operated in the Atlantic with the mission of locating German submarines.</div><div style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div style="clear: both;">In March 1943 three PBM-3c's were sent to operated out of Bahia, Brazil. The plane ARM Magie was assigned to shared creditor in the sinking of <i>U-128</i> on May 17, 1943.</div><div style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div style="clear: both;">On July 4, 1943 ARM Magie was part of the crew on BUNO 6571that was lost during a night attack on the German submarine <i>U-199</i>. The sub was equipped with quad-mount 20-mm AA guns which were a threat to the low flying, slow moving Mariners with a top speed of 200 MPH. The PBM-3 went down 47 miles south of Rio de Janeiro. There were no survivors.</div><div style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div style="clear: both;">His cenotaph grave is at Highland Park Cemetery in Pittsburg, Kansas.</div><div style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="clear: both; color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;"></div><div style="clear: both;"><br /></div>Thank you ARM Magie for your sacrifice. Let's <a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/2/#m_-5598774050341370740_m_-8225299489563583182_m_-7250114029501535787_" style="color: #1155cc;">Earn It</a> for William.</div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><i>This profile was selected at the request of Bill DeArmond.</i></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;">This is one of the final 50 stories (12) to be written as part of this project which ends on September 2, 2020, the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II. At that time more than 1,370 men and women will have been profiled. The project will live on in an expanded program to write the stories of all 400,000+ US World War II fallen. Visit <a href="http://www.storiesbehindthestars.org/">www.storiesbehindthestars.org</a> to learn more. <u>We welcome your continued support and interest and encourage you to help write some of these stories</u>.</span><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;">Last year on this date I profiled Normandy Point du Hoc fallen Andrew McCorkle, 2nd Ranger Battalion and his brother. You can read about Andrew and James <a href="http://ww2fallen100.blogspot.com/2019/08/ww2-normandy-pointe-du-hoc-fallen.html">here</a>.</span><br /><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;">On behalf of the fallen, if you would like to see more people become aware of this project to honor the WW2 fallen, be sure to share with others on Twitter, Facebook, etc. Thanks for your interest!</span><br /><span face="" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><br /></span><span face="">I created this video to explain why I started this project: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXt8QA481lY">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXt8QA481lY</a>.</span></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;">Follow on Twitter @ww2fallen100</i><br /><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;"><b>Please consider joining the public Facebook group to increase the exposure of this project. Go to:</b></span></i><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/1816709708600092/?ref=bookmarks" style="color: #667700; text-decoration: none;">WW2 Fallen 100</a></i><br /><br /><h3 style="text-align: center;"><span><font size="3"><span>WW2 Fallen 100</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">is supported by</span></font></span></h3><h3 style="text-align: center;"><span><font size="3"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The Greatest </span>GENERATIONS<span style="font-weight: normal;"> Foundation</span></font></span></h3><h3 style="text-align: center;"><span><font size="3">“Where Every Day is Memorial Day”</font></span></h3><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://www.tggf.org/">http://www.tggf.org</a></span></div></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">References: </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VP-40</div><div style="text-align: left;">https://www.vpnavy.com/vp74_mishap.html</div><div style="text-align: left;">1920, 1930 US Census</div>WW2 Fallen 100 Projecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01652061709901284477noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1232607911651619990.post-43118276559086892012020-08-21T03:24:00.001-07:002020-08-21T03:24:46.957-07:00WW2 Fallen - Clarence Beintema, USS Ingraham<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiY95F0_jmOPiBhbK_11oKI4FUOYzp3-FTol8gQkUvmFMxbfmucS9VzjdIIaZPKNbykUaDpgvaCl9enQq1xG_mLJfHgNh3F8CoBhUfxYmGv2sOkkfHop4h1CKRJJ_FzTQHi2uNUAjKqtR_t/s1280/beintema+collage.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiY95F0_jmOPiBhbK_11oKI4FUOYzp3-FTol8gQkUvmFMxbfmucS9VzjdIIaZPKNbykUaDpgvaCl9enQq1xG_mLJfHgNh3F8CoBhUfxYmGv2sOkkfHop4h1CKRJJ_FzTQHi2uNUAjKqtR_t/w400-h225/beintema+collage.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Seaman First Class Clarence Beintema served on the destroyer USS Ingraham in the North Atlantic.<br />https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/66992198/clarence-edward-beintema<br />https://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-53000/NH-53237.html</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p><span face="" style="font-family: roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Seaman 1st Class Clarence Edward Beintema </span><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">never had a chance to reach 100 years old today. Instead, he sacrificed his life for our freedom. </span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-5ae0baae-7fff-e1bf-d04d-d7b1c8bdbbda"><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><div align="left" dir="ltr" style="margin-left: 0pt;"><table style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none;"><tbody><tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(0, 0, 0); overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 5pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #1d2129; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">If you have enjoyed reading the stories of the WWII fallen, <b>Can you help write some stories?</b> It's a big project. The more help, the better. </span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 5pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #1d2129; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Announcing "The Stories Behind the Stars", see </span><span style="color: #385898; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.storiesbehindthestars.org/?fbclid=IwAR0j-vBLbbQFpbP6RfzRXoDq0bHeKPTdZcS9KbpoH10fdTH2OGyxFfj8_X8" style="color: #667700; text-decoration: none;">https://www.storiesbehindthestars.org</a>.</span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 5pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #1d2129;">This crowd-sourced national project has the goal of compiling stories of all 400,000+ of the US World War II fallen in one free-to-access central database. </span><b><span style="color: red;">We are going to need a lot of volunteers.</span></b></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #1d2129; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Anyone visiting a war memorial or gravesite will be able to scan the name of the fallen with a smartphone and his story will appear on the phone.</span></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Clarence,</span><span face="" style="font-family: roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> known to his friends as Toby, was born August 21, 1920 in Sayville, New York to Sikka John Beintema and Nellie Joanna Broere. </span><span face="" style="font-family: roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Toby was a graduate of Sayville High school and had been employed by the Oystermen's National Bank of Sayville. He enlisted in the Navy in 1941. Besides his parents, he had two brothers, George Beintema and Charles Beintema.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="" style="font-family: roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="" style="font-family: roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Seaman Beintema was assigned to serve on t</span><span face="" style="font-family: roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">he destroyer <i>USS Ingraham. </i>With the outbreak of World War II, it commenced escort duty for convoys sailing from New York and Halifax to the British Isles. On the night of 22 August 1942, as she was investigating a collision between the destroyer <i>Buck</i> and a merchant’s vessel, <i>Ingraham</i> collided with the oil tanker <i>Chemung</i> in heavy fog off the coast of Nova Scotia and <i>Ingraham</i> sank almost immediately. Depth charges on her stern exploded. Only 11 men survived the collision. Seaman Beintema was not one of them. <i>Ingraham</i> was struck from the Naval Vessel Register on 11 September 1942.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="" style="font-family: roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Toby’s parents had held on to hope that their son would be found since he was reported missing in August of 1942 and, would return to them. Approximately one year later they were notified by the Navy Department that they had abandoned all hope of Toby's survival. The ship and crew were lost on August 22, 1942, and declared officially killed in action on August 23, 1943.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="" style="font-family: roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Toby received the American Campaign Medal and the European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal post humorously.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="" style="font-family: roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Toby’s cenotaph headstone is located in Union Cemetary in Sayville, New York.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="" style="font-family: roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Visit the virtual cemetery of the lost crew of the USS Ingraham here </span><a href="https://www.findagrave.com/virtual-cemetery/430589" style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="" style="color: #1155cc; font-family: roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.findagrave.com/virtual-cemetery/430589</span></a><span face="" style="font-family: roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="" style="font-family: roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Thank you for your sacrifice. Let's Earn It for Seaman First Class Toby Beintema.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="" style="font-family: roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">________________</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><i><span face="" style="font-family: roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This profile was written and summarized by Brianne Ellison. I am a business owner and stay at home mom of 4 children in Utah. </span><span face="" style="background-color: white; font-family: roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I have been an independent family history researcher for over 12 years. I have also had a passion for U.S. war history since I was a child. WWII is my most passionate research project aside from family history. I am so grateful to be able to contribute to a memorial of such a courageous soldier that never gave up. It is because of men like Beitema, that we have our freedom today. “Land of the Free because of the Brave.” Thank you, Seaman First Class Toby Beitema. You will NEVER be forgotten.</span><span face="" style="font-family: roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="" style="font-family: roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="">This is one of the final 50 stories (13) to be written as part of this project which ends on September 2, 2020, the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II. At that time more than 1,370 men and women will have been profiled. The project will live on in an expanded program to write the stories of all 400,000+ US World War II fallen. Visit </span><a href="http://www.storiesbehindthestars.org/" style="color: #667700; text-decoration: none;">www.storiesbehindthestars.org</a><span face=""> to learn more. </span><u>We welcome your continued support and interest and encourage you to help write some of these stories</u><span face="">.</span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Last year on this date I profiled B-29 bombardier Ben Bloom. You can read about Ben </span><a href="http://ww2fallen100.blogspot.com/2019/08/ww2-fallen-b-29-bombardier-ben-bloom.html" style="color: #667700; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">here</span></a><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #131415; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333;" /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">On behalf of the fallen, if you would like to see more people become aware of this project to honor the WW2 fallen, be sure to share with others on Twitter, Facebook, etc. Thanks for your interest!</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #131415; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333;" /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I created this video to explain why I started this project: </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXt8QA481lY" style="color: #667700; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXt8QA481lY</span></a><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Follow on Twitter @ww2fallen100</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white; color: red; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Please consider joining the public Facebook group to increase the exposure of this project. Go to:</span><span style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/1816709708600092/?ref=bookmarks" style="color: #667700; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">WW2 Fallen 100</span></a></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-top: 3pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">WW2 Fallen 100</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is supported by</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-top: 3pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Greatest </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">GENERATIONS</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Foundation</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-top: 3pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Where Every Day is Memorial Day”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://www.tggf.org/" style="color: #667700; text-decoration: none;">http://www.tggf.org</a></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></p><ol style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><li dir="ltr" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="font-family: roboto, sans-serif; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; white-space: pre;"><span style="font-size: small; white-space: pre-wrap;">REFERENCES</span></p><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="font-family: roboto, sans-serif; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; white-space: pre;"><span style="font-size: small; white-space: pre-wrap;">(Wikipedia, USS Ingraham (DD-444); The Patchogue advance., August 27, 1942, Page 3; The Suffolk County news., October 01, 1943, Page 6; U.S., Headstone Applications for Military Veterans, 1925-1963 for Clarence Edward Beintema, 1960-1961, Barrett, Glenn David - Beveridge, James G)</span></p></li></ol></span>WW2 Fallen 100 Projecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01652061709901284477noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1232607911651619990.post-43007398456484701222020-08-20T04:02:00.002-07:002020-08-20T04:06:25.609-07:00WW2 Normandy Fallen - Hal Cisgen, 4th Infantry Division & Cleveland Indians organization<p style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjO_Dms71vicagLx2M_1L9ey4cHHH_pu03iaEoevvveunwt2rtmmOT8M3EdZG8SdN25bJ4zL8xMRP8omgEhKIdTdH3w0QCF75ncD2WRSNLKUbtq88ZFBjxOVW5CJifzbxAHeUVqkcdJb6P_/s1280/cisgen+collage.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjO_Dms71vicagLx2M_1L9ey4cHHH_pu03iaEoevvveunwt2rtmmOT8M3EdZG8SdN25bJ4zL8xMRP8omgEhKIdTdH3w0QCF75ncD2WRSNLKUbtq88ZFBjxOVW5CJifzbxAHeUVqkcdJb6P_/w400-h225/cisgen+collage.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">First Lieutant Ordway Cisgen served with the 4th Infantry Division in Normandy.<br />https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/93634638/ordway-h-cisgen<br />https://www.pinterest.ch/pin/538672805425463510/</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">First Lieutenant Ordway Harold “Hal” Cisgen never had a chance to reach 100 years old today. Instead, he sacrificed his life for our freedom.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><div align="left" dir="ltr" style="margin-left: 0pt;"><table style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none;"><tbody><tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(0, 0, 0); overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 5pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #1d2129; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">If you have enjoyed reading the stories of the WWII fallen, <b>Can you help write some stories?</b> It's a big project. The more help, the better. </span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 5pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #1d2129; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Announcing "The Stories Behind the Stars", see </span><span style="color: #385898; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.storiesbehindthestars.org/?fbclid=IwAR0j-vBLbbQFpbP6RfzRXoDq0bHeKPTdZcS9KbpoH10fdTH2OGyxFfj8_X8" style="color: #667700; text-decoration: none;">https://www.storiesbehindthestars.org</a>.</span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 5pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #1d2129;">This crowd-sourced national project has the goal of compiling stories of all 400,000+ of the US World War II fallen in one free-to-access central database. </span><b><span style="color: red;">We are going to need a lot of volunteers.</span></b></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #1d2129; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Anyone visiting a war memorial or gravesite will be able to scan the name of the fallen with a smartphone and his story will appear on the phone.</span></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">He was born on August 20, 1920 in Lorain, Lorain County, Ohio. His father, Harold Frederick Cisgen, was born in New York. His mother, Lilian M Rolison, was born in England. His father worked as a salesman. Hal had one sister, Lois Naomi Cisgen. Hal attended Lorain High School, playing on the baseball team. He was working as a cashier in 1940. Six feet six inches tall, he was recruited for minor league baseball by the Cleveland Indians as a left-handed pitcher. For details of his baseball career, including statistics, see his biography at <a href="http://www.baseballinwartime.com/in_memoriam/cisgen_ordway.htm"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.baseballinwartime.com/in_memoriam/cisgen_ordway.htm</span></a><span style="color: black;">.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 11px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">He enlisted in the US Army on September 4, 1942. He was assigned to the 4<span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><sup>th</sup></span> Infantry Division, 22<span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><sup>nd</sup></span> Infantry Regiment, 2<span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><sup>nd</sup></span> Battalion, H Company. He trained with the 22<span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><sup>nd</sup></span> in New Jersey, Florida, and South Carolina, and crossed the Atlantic in January 1944. The 4<span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><sup>th</sup></span> Division trained for the Normandy invasion in Plymouth, England. Hal married Mary Gertrude Leow on December 10, 1943.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 11px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The 22<span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><sup>nd</sup></span> Infantry Regiment landed at Utah Beach on June 6, 1944 with the third wave. Getting past the beach, they were sent inland, seeing action at Azeville, Crisbecq, Le Theil, and Cherbourg. The Contenin Peninsula campaign finished on June 25, and the regiment had its first rest in weeks. They had suffered a sixty-five percent casualty rate.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 11px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The “Battle of the Hedgerows” began in July as the First Army moved south. Progress was slow, with massive efforts to take one field at a time. The Germans had good defenses in place and wet weather made travel difficult. On July 7, the 22<span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><sup>nd</sup></span> began efforts to take the town of La Maugerie. The battle didn’t end until July 13, with many more casualties, adding to the losses at Utah Beach and Cherbourg. Lt Cisgen died in action near Periers on July 11, 1944 during this operation.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 11px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Hal’s daughter, Halle Lee Cisgen, was born in October 1944. His widow remarried later to Jack Schwind.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 11px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Lt Cisgen is buried at Elmwood Cemetery, Lorain, Lorain County, Ohio.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 11px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Thank you, Ordway Harold Cisgen for your sacrifice. Let's <a href="https://mail.yahoo.com/d/folders/1/messages/AAjLL2hmDi_rXwZ_AwImyL25qpQ#m_-959253768568333169_m_-8225299489563583182_m_-7250114029501535787_"><span style="color: #1652ca;">Earn It</span></a> for Hal.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">_____</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><span style="font-family: arial;">This profile was written by Marilyn N. Clark. "I have a long-standing interest in World War 2. My grandfather and numerous great-uncles served in that conflict. I have a BA in history from the University of Utah and have a lot of experience with volunteer genealogical research. It’s an honor to find and share information about these heroes that made such great sacrifices. Many thanks to Don for organizing this effort to share their stories.”</span></i></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""><br /></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="">This is one of the final 50 stories (14) to be written as part of this project which ends on September 2, 2020, the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II. At that time more than 1,370 men and women will have been profiled. The project will live on in an expanded program to write the stories of all 400,000+ US World War II fallen. Visit </span><a href="http://www.storiesbehindthestars.org/" style="color: #667700; text-decoration: none;">www.storiesbehindthestars.org</a><span face=""> to learn more. </span><u>We welcome your continued support and interest and encourage you to help write some of these stories</u><span face="">.</span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Last year on this date I profiled Carlson's Raiders Fallen Edward Maciejewski, 2nd Raider Battalion. You can read about Edward </span><a href="http://ww2fallen100.blogspot.com/2019/08/ww2-carlsons-raiders-fallen-edward.html" style="color: #667700; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">here</span></a><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #131415; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333;" /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">On behalf of the fallen, if you would like to see more people become aware of this project to honor the WW2 fallen, be sure to share with others on Twitter, Facebook, etc. Thanks for your interest!</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #131415; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333;" /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I created this video to explain why I started this project: </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXt8QA481lY" style="color: #667700; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXt8QA481lY</span></a><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Follow on Twitter @ww2fallen100</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white; color: red; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Please consider joining the public Facebook group to increase the exposure of this project. Go to:</span><span style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/1816709708600092/?ref=bookmarks" style="color: #667700; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">WW2 Fallen 100</span></a></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-top: 3pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">WW2 Fallen 100</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is supported by</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-top: 3pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Greatest </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">GENERATIONS</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Foundation</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-top: 3pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Where Every Day is Memorial Day”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.tggf.org/" style="color: #667700; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.tggf.org</span></a></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10px;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px;">Sources:</span></p>
<p style="color: blue; font-family: arial; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">Find a Grave <a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/93634638/ordway-h-cisgen"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/93634638/ordway-h-cisgen</span></a></span></p>
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<p style="color: blue; font-family: arial; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">US military headstone application <a href="https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=2375&h=17307&tid=&pid=&queryId=66a2e1db681c95c4f0c7554590eed8a1&usePUB=true&_phsrc=uTN819&_phstart=successSource"><span style="color: blue;">https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=2375&h=17307&tid=&pid=&queryId=66a2e1db681c95c4f0c7554590eed8a1&usePUB=true&_phsrc=uTN819&_phstart=successSource</span></a></span></p>
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<p style="color: blue; font-family: arial; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">1940 Census <a href="https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=2442&h=31704169&tid=&pid=&queryId=66a2e1db681c95c4f0c7554590eed8a1&usePUB=true&_phsrc=uTN820&_phstart=successSource"><span style="color: blue;">https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=2442&h=31704169&tid=&pid=&queryId=66a2e1db681c95c4f0c7554590eed8a1&usePUB=true&_phsrc=uTN820&_phstart=successSource</span></a></span></p>
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<p style="color: blue; font-family: arial; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">1930 Census <a href="https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=6224&h=71231960&tid=&pid=&queryId=66a2e1db681c95c4f0c7554590eed8a1&usePUB=true%23?_phcmd=u('https://www.ancestry.com/search/?name%253DOrdway%252BH_Cisgen%2526event%253D_ohio-usa_38%2526birth%253D1920_ohio-usa_38%2526death%253D1944_france_5087%2526count%253D50%2526father%253DHarold_cisgen%2526gender%253Dm%2526mother%253Dlilian%252Bm_rolison%2526successSource%253DSearch%2526queryId%253D66a2e1db681c95c4f0c7554590eed8a1','successSource')"><span style="color: blue;">https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=6224&h=71231960&tid=&pid=&queryId=66a2e1db681c95c4f0c7554590eed8a1&usePUB=true#?_phcmd=u('https://www.ancestry.com/search/?name%3DOrdway%2BH_Cisgen%26event%3D_ohio-usa_38%26birth%3D1920_ohio-usa_38%26death%3D1944_france_5087%26count%3D50%26father%3DHarold_cisgen%26gender%3Dm%26mother%3Dlilian%2Bm_rolison%26successSource%3DSearch%26queryId%3D66a2e1db681c95c4f0c7554590eed8a1','successSource')</span></a></span></p>
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<p style="color: blue; font-family: arial; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">Lorain High School Yearbook <a href="https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=1265&h=432947716&tid=&pid=&queryId=66a2e1db681c95c4f0c7554590eed8a1&usePUB=true&_phsrc=uTN824&_phstart=successSource"><span style="color: blue;">https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=1265&h=432947716&tid=&pid=&queryId=66a2e1db681c95c4f0c7554590eed8a1&usePUB=true&_phsrc=uTN824&_phstart=successSource</span></a></span></p>
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<p style="color: blue; font-family: arial; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/22nd_Infantry_Regiment_(United_States)">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/22nd_Infantry_Regiment_(United_States)</a></span></p>
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<p style="color: blue; font-family: arial; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://1-22infantry.org/history2/regthistory.htm">http://1-22infantry.org/history2/regthistory.htm</a></span></p>
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<p style="color: blue; font-family: arial; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;"><span style="color: black;"><i>Biography of David P Roderick</i> <a href="http://www.tugs-t-shirt.com/roderick.htm"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.tugs-t-shirt.com/roderick.htm</span></a></span></p>
<p style="color: blue; font-family: arial; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;"><span style="color: black;"><i>Famous Fourth: the story of the 4</i></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 6.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><i><sup>th</sup></i></span><span style="color: black;"><i> Infantry Division </i><a href="https://archive.org/details/famousfourthstor00unit/page/10/mode/2up"><span style="color: blue;">https://archive.org/details/famousfourthstor00unit/page/10/mode/2up</span></a></span></p>
<p style="color: blue; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Halle Swetter obituary <a href="https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/ohio/obituary.aspx?n=halle-l-swetter&pid=189435792"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/ohio/obituary.aspx?n=halle-l-swetter&pid=189435792</span></a></span></p>
<p style="color: blue; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://www.newspapers.com/clip/41513847/the-news-messenger/">https://www.newspapers.com/clip/41513847/the-news-messenger/<span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"></span></a></span></p>
<p style="color: blue; font-family: arial; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.baseballinwartime.com/in_memoriam/cisgen_ordway.htm">http://www.baseballinwartime.com/in_memoriam/cisgen_ordway.htm</a></span></p>WW2 Fallen 100 Projecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01652061709901284477noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1232607911651619990.post-67936898511184214012020-08-19T05:19:00.001-07:002020-08-20T04:03:33.417-07:00WW2 Fallen - George Smith, 99th Infantry Division<p><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQhXzUpxoMT48wAztE8G7cf00sW1vvZQGM1ef4ZWhHMORZUjH7ILJkXXujlp-MUcHrYHjkmEdZM5tiE29Ksqvva3PBpyEBp6etijZtd96nTpvQx0lKjJ2QrNa87SmUN3z7kCgGMV8wZZIl/s1280/smith+george+collage.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQhXzUpxoMT48wAztE8G7cf00sW1vvZQGM1ef4ZWhHMORZUjH7ILJkXXujlp-MUcHrYHjkmEdZM5tiE29Ksqvva3PBpyEBp6etijZtd96nTpvQx0lKjJ2QrNa87SmUN3z7kCgGMV8wZZIl/w400-h225/smith+george+collage.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Pvt. George Smith served with the 99th Infantry Division in Germany.<br />https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/88286204/george-j-smith<br />https://www.pinterest.es/pin/486177722260358351/</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="">Private George Judson Smith never h</span><span face="">ad a chance to reach 100 years old today. Instead, he sacrificed his life for our freedom.</span></span></p>
<div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><div align="left" dir="ltr" style="margin-left: 0pt;"><table style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none;"><tbody><tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(0, 0, 0); overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 5pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #1d2129; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">If you have enjoyed reading the stories of the WWII fallen, <b>Can you help write some stories?</b> It's a big project. The more help, the better. </span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 5pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #1d2129; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Announcing "The Stories Behind the Stars", see </span><span style="color: #385898; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.storiesbehindthestars.org/?fbclid=IwAR0j-vBLbbQFpbP6RfzRXoDq0bHeKPTdZcS9KbpoH10fdTH2OGyxFfj8_X8" style="color: #667700; text-decoration: none;">https://www.storiesbehindthestars.org</a>.</span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 5pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #1d2129;">This crowd-sourced national project has the goal of compiling stories of all 400,000+ of the US World War II fallen in one free-to-access central database. </span><b><span style="color: red;">We are going to need a lot of volunteers.</span></b></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #1d2129; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Anyone visiting a war memorial or gravesite will be able to scan the name of the fallen with a smartphone and his story will appear on the phone.</span></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Private Smith, 24, was killed in action in Germany fighting with the 394<span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><sup>th</sup></span> Infantry Regiment, 99<span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><sup>th</sup></span> Infantry Division, on April 9, 1945, just a month before Germany surrendered. </span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The last year of his short life was a whirlwind. In the summer of 1944, he was running his family farm in Sheridan, New York, a rural area near Lake Erie about 30 miles southwest of Buffalo. He had become responsible for the farm at the age of 17 when his father died. He was drafted in August 1944, got married in February 1945, was shipped overseas in March, and died in April, all in the space of less than eight months.</span></p>
<p style="color: #131415; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="" style="color: black; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">George was born August 19, 1920 in Sheridan, the son of Judson Edgar “Judd” Smith and </span><span style="background-color: white;">Helen Christine Kaltenbach Smith, who were married October 27, 1919. He had two younger siblings, Edgar and Pearl. He graduated from Dunkirk High School in 1937, the same year his father died, leaving him responsible for the farm. His mother remarried in 1941 and passed away in 1984.</span></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #131415; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">He was drafted August 23, 1944, entered the service at Fort Dix, New Jersey and went through infantry training at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland. On February 7, 1945, he married a local girl, Louise Edna Gens, at the Sheridan Methodist Church. They had originally planned to wed in Philadelphia, but as with many things in wartime their plans changed.</span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #131415; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">A month after his wedding he was sent to Europe in March 1945 to join the 394<span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><sup>th</sup></span> Infantry Regiment, a battle-hardened unit that just played a major role in the Battle of the Bulge in Belgium. After the Battle of the Bulge, the 394<span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><sup>th</sup></span> moved into Germany, and Private Smith was killed there on April 9, 1944, just sixty-one days after his wedding.</span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #131415; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> He was initially buried in Europe, and his remains were returned to the States in 1949. He is interred at the Sheridan Cemetery.</span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #131415; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">His widow remarried a local man in 1947, had a family, played the organ at church and social gatherings, and died in 1983. His brother, Edgar, died in 1998, and his sister, Pearl, in 2015.</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Thank you, Private George Judson Smith for your sacrifice. Let's <a href="https://mail.yahoo.com/d/folders/1/messages/AAjLL2hmDi_rXwZ_AwImyL25qpQ?.src=fp#m_-959253768568333169_m_-8225299489563583182_m_-7250114029501535787_">Earn It</a> for George</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">_____________</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #2b00fe; font-style: italic;">This profile was written by John F. Schlatter. “I’m from Knoxville, Tennessee and a retired corporate public relations manager, living in Las Vegas. I served as an active duty and reserve Army officer 1974-82. I’ve written two books about veterans. One tells the stories of WWII veterans through postcards they wrote to the folks back home, and the other honors about 50 of the 168 Americans who died in Vietnam on the Fourth of July. I’ve also been a volunteer in the effort to find photographs of all 58,000 Americans who died in Vietnam</span><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #2b00fe; font-style: italic;">. Researching and writing the stories of those who died to preserve freedom has gone from a hobby to a passion for me. If we don’t honor and remember, who will?”</span></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #2b00fe; font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></p>
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Visit </span><a href="http://www.storiesbehindthestars.org/" style="color: #667700; text-decoration: none;">www.storiesbehindthestars.org</a><span face=""> to learn more. </span><u>We welcome your continued support and interest and encourage you to help write some of these stories</u><span face="">.</span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Last year on this date I profiled Carlson's Raiders Fallen Edward Maciejewski, 2nd Raider Battalion. You can read about Edward </span><a href="http://ww2fallen100.blogspot.com/2019/08/ww2-carlsons-raiders-fallen-edward.html" style="color: #667700; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">here</span></a><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #131415; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333;" /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">On behalf of the fallen, if you would like to see more people become aware of this project to honor the WW2 fallen, be sure to share with others on Twitter, Facebook, etc. Thanks for your interest!</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #131415; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333;" /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I created this video to explain why I started this project: </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXt8QA481lY" style="color: #667700; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXt8QA481lY</span></a><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Follow on Twitter @ww2fallen100</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white; color: red; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Please consider joining the public Facebook group to increase the exposure of this project. 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<p style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; min-height: 15px;"><br /></p>WW2 Fallen 100 Projecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01652061709901284477noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1232607911651619990.post-17108523271277941482020-08-18T04:47:00.000-07:002020-08-18T04:47:40.743-07:00WW2 Fallen - Distinguished Service Cross hero Walter Scott, 88th Infantry Division<p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfj5hmn0OeSjB4HsYGj8ie5cnhOzC9eaNOeDndoVSScNfG_mH8RO0WK7Hu0-P3Shw6jA7assb-fe6HyMyqB1MjDt_9i41NdwZfqRyfeh1LSHRLQI3xRBytqXqk313qZ57WfX8kMMvdpPJk/s1280/scott+collage.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfj5hmn0OeSjB4HsYGj8ie5cnhOzC9eaNOeDndoVSScNfG_mH8RO0WK7Hu0-P3Shw6jA7assb-fe6HyMyqB1MjDt_9i41NdwZfqRyfeh1LSHRLQI3xRBytqXqk313qZ57WfX8kMMvdpPJk/w400-h225/scott+collage.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Captain Walter Scott earned the Distinguished Service Cross while serving with the 88th Infantry Division in Italy.<br />https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/204024777/walter-william-scott<br />https://ww2db.com/image.php?image_id=27125</span></td></tr></tbody></table></p><p><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial;">Walter William Scott never had a chance to reach 100 years old today. Instead, he sacrificed his life for our freedom.</span></p>
<div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><div align="left" dir="ltr" style="margin-left: 0pt;"><table style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none;"><tbody><tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(0, 0, 0); overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 5pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #1d2129; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">If you have enjoyed reading the stories of the WWII fallen, <b>Can you help write some stories?</b> It's a big project. The more help, the better. </span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 5pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #1d2129; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Announcing "The Stories Behind the Stars", see </span><span style="color: #385898; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.storiesbehindthestars.org/?fbclid=IwAR0j-vBLbbQFpbP6RfzRXoDq0bHeKPTdZcS9KbpoH10fdTH2OGyxFfj8_X8" style="color: #667700; text-decoration: none;">https://www.storiesbehindthestars.org</a>.</span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 5pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #1d2129;">This crowd-sourced national project has the goal of compiling stories of all 400,000+ of the US World War II fallen in one free-to-access central database. </span><b><span style="color: red;">We are going to need a lot of volunteers.</span></b></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #1d2129; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Anyone visiting a war memorial or gravesite will be able to scan the name of the fallen with a smartphone and his story will appear on the phone.</span></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Walter William Scott was born on 18 Aug 1920 in Jackson, MS to Frank Tomkeyes Scott, attorney and Effie Galloway, homemaker. both from MS. Walter had two brothers, Charles who served in the Army Air Corp and spent time as a POW, and Bert who served with the Navy in the Southwest Pacific.</p>
<p style="font-family: Arial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">In 1940 Walter was attending college at the University of Mississippi, and would graduate in 1943. His father, Frank, was the sheriff of Hinds County, MS.</p>
<p style="font-family: Arial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Walter enlisted 11 November 1943 at the age of 23 at Camp Shelby, MS and was assigned to Co. A, 1st Battalion, 350th Infantry Regiment, 88th Infantry Division known as the Blue Devil Division. While still a 1st lieutenant, Walter received the Distinguished Service Cross for extra ordinary heroism in action on Mt. Battaglia in Italy. Walter William Scott was also awarded the Purple Heart, Silver Star, and Bronze Star.</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Walter was promoted to captain and was probably the company commander of Company A. He was killed in action on 29 April 1945. On that day his unit was at S. Pietro, in view of the Alps. They were attacked by a force of Germans that had a tank and captured American vehicles. Captain Scott was killed in this engagement.</p>
<p style="font-family: Arial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">The 88th Division known as the Blue Devils won the following awards: Medals of Honor - 2, Distinguished Service Cross - 40, Distinguished Service Medal - 2, Silver Star - 522, Legion of Merit - 66, Soldiers Medal -19, Bronze Star - 3,784</p>
<p style="font-family: Arial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><b><i>Capt. Walter Scott earns DSC for action on Mt. Battaglia</i></b></p>
<p style="font-family: Arial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><i>Captain Walter W. Scott, of 913 North Street, Jackson, Mississippi was recently awarded the Distinguished Service Cross, the nation's second highest military award for extra ordinary heroism in action on Mt. Battaglia, Italy as a member of the 350th Infantry Regiment. The presentation ceremonies were held at te 37t6h General Hospital, one of the many units of the Peninsular Base Headquarters, Italy, the important supply and services organization for the Fifth Army and for the Air Force ground crews and the Naval elements in the Mediterranean Theater of Operations.</i></p>
<p style="font-family: Arial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><i>The citation accompanying Capt., then first lieutenant, Scott's medal vividly describes the action in which he earned his decoration. After Lt. Scott's company had relieved two companies on Mt. Battaglia, the enemy launched a vicious counterattack to regain this strategic height. In the face of intense artillery, mortar, and small arms fire, Lt. Scott circulated among his men, shouting words of encouragement, issuing orders and pointing out targets. He killed four of the enemy with his pistol. Observing that the advancing enemy threatened to overrun his positions, Lt. Scott picked up a rifle from a dead soldier, called for his men to follow him and advanced toward the enemy. In the fierce battle that ensued Lt. Scott killed two more enemy soldiers, while his men killed and wounded many others. The enemy troops were so severely mauled that they turned and fled to their own lines.</i></p>
<p style="font-family: Arial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><i>The determined courage, calmness under fire and intrepid leadership displayed by 1st Lt. Scott were an inspiration to all who witnessed his heroic performance.<br />
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Captain Scott is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank T. Scott of Jackson, Mississippi. He was graduated from the University of Mississippi in 1943. He has been in the Army for 20 months and overseas for 16 months, serving in North Africa and Italy.</i></p>
<p style="font-family: Arial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">- courtesy The Clarion Ledger News</p>
<p style="font-family: Arial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><b>Captain Walter Scott "Killed In Action" Parents Here Notified</b></p>
<p style="font-family: Arial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><i>Captain Walter Scott, second son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank T. Scott, 918 North Street, was killed in action in the Mediterranean theatre, his parents were notified yesterday in a telegram from the War Department.</i></p>
<p style="font-family: Arial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><i>Fighting through the North African and Italian campaigns, young Scott had received two battlefield promotions and his family had hoped that he would be coming home now with the end of the war in Europe.</i></p>
<p style="font-family: Arial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><i>Captain Scott had two brothers in the war, Charles Scott, a prisoner of war believed liberated in Germany, and Bert Scott in the Southwest Pacific.</i></p>
<p style="font-family: Arial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><i>Their father was the former sheriff of Hinds County, Mississippi and now a chancery clerk.</i></p>
<p style="font-family: Arial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><i>- courtesy The Clarion Ledger News</i></p>
<p style="font-family: Arial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Capt. Walter William Scott is interred at Lakewood Memorial Cemetery in Jackson, Mississippi along with his father, Frank Scott, his mother Effie Galloway Scott, brothers Frank Scott, Jr., Charles Scott, and Bert Scott.</p>
<p style="font-family: Arial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Thank you, Walter William Scott for your sacrifice. Let’s <a href="http://ww2fallen100.blogspot.com/2016/12/earn-this.html"><span style="color: blue;">‘Earn It”</span></a> for Walter.</p>
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<p style="background-color: white; color: #1400fc; font-family: Arial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3.6px;"><i>This profile was written by Linda Simpson. I have been an avid genealogist, researching my ancestry in Canada, France, Belgium, and Ireland for over 40 years. I am also a historian for The Seminole Nation, Indian Territory, and The Past Whispers. When I saw an article on Don’s project I knew I wanted to be a part of Stories Behind the Stars. What an amazing way to honor our fallen, by ‘Earning It’ for them.</i></p>
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Visit </span><a href="http://www.storiesbehindthestars.org/" style="color: #667700; text-decoration: none;">www.storiesbehindthestars.org</a><span face=""> to learn more. </span><u>We welcome your continued support and interest and encourage you to help write some of these stories</u><span face="">.</span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Last year on this date I profiled B-24 radio operator Billy Elliott. You can read about Billy </span><a href="http://ww2fallen100.blogspot.com/2019/08/ww2-fallen-b-24-radio-operator-billy.html" style="color: #667700; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">here</span></a><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></span></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">On behalf of the fallen, if you would like to see more people become aware of this project to honor the WW2 fallen, be sure to share with others on Twitter, Facebook, etc. Thanks for your interest!</span></span></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I created this video to explain why I started this project: </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXt8QA481lY" style="color: #667700; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXt8QA481lY</span></a><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Follow on Twitter @ww2fallen100</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white; color: red; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Please consider joining the public Facebook group to increase the exposure of this project. Go to:</span><span style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/1816709708600092/?ref=bookmarks" style="color: #667700; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">WW2 Fallen 100</span></a></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-top: 3pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">WW2 Fallen 100</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is supported by</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-top: 3pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Greatest </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">GENERATIONS</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Foundation</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-top: 3pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Where Every Day is Memorial Day”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i></i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://www.tggf.org/" style="color: #667700; text-decoration: none;">http://www.tggf.org</a></span></p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px; min-height: 12px;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /></p>
<p style="font-family: Arial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Sources:</p>
<p style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="color: black;">The 88th Infantry Division in Italy - Army History.org - <a href="https://armyhistory.org/the-88th-infantry-division-in-italy/"><span style="color: blue;">https://armyhistory.org/the-88th-infantry-division-in-italy/</span></a> </span></p>
<p style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="color: black;">We Were There - <a href="http://www.lonesentry.com/unithistory/88thinfantry/index.html"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.lonesentry.com/unithistory/88thinfantry/index.html</span></a> </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Arial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">350th Infantry Regiment, 88th Infantry Division Blue Devils - <a href="http://www.mtmestas.com/350th-infantryregiment.htm"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.mtmestas.com/350th-infantryregiment.htm</span></a> </p>
<p style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="color: black;">City of Grove, OK - Home of the United States Army 88th Infantry Division Blue Devils <a href="https://www.cityofgroveok.gov/building/page/united-states-army-88th-infantry-division-blue-devils"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.cityofgroveok.gov/building/page/united-states-army-88th-infantry-division-blue-devils</span></a> </span></p>
<p style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="color: black;">The Clarion Ledger News - <a href="https://www.clarionledger.com/"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.clarionledger.com/</span></a></span></p>
<p style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="color: black;">Find A Grave - <a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/204024777/walter-william-scott"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/204024777/walter-william-scott</span></a></span></p>
<p style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="color: black;">Fold 3 - <a href="https://www.fold3.com/page/653606950-walter-william-scott/stories"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.fold3.com/page/653606950-walter-william-scott/stories</span></a></span></p>
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<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"></p>WW2 Fallen 100 Projecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01652061709901284477noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1232607911651619990.post-42021935400296704372020-08-17T05:18:00.000-07:002020-08-17T05:18:54.043-07:00WW2 Fallen - Walter Heltenberg, 12th Armored Division<p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoUafN2rVobDSJuRgeYVtvQKWleVU6oW9uQIgIs8P1QfPYclvz55XQyqH8h3SMKMsBz5I8Nj3xEc72-H_BSHHnYpIWjqBPQOEt1BjqAAsUthRUjHm_njwX2MxIe3cJ2M3cXFwF1FJoxI4j/s1280/heltenberg+collage.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoUafN2rVobDSJuRgeYVtvQKWleVU6oW9uQIgIs8P1QfPYclvz55XQyqH8h3SMKMsBz5I8Nj3xEc72-H_BSHHnYpIWjqBPQOEt1BjqAAsUthRUjHm_njwX2MxIe3cJ2M3cXFwF1FJoxI4j/w400-h225/heltenberg+collage.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Staff Sergeant Walter Heltenberg served in the 12th Armored Division in France and Germany/<br />https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8270452/walter-raymond-heltenberg<br />http://www.12tharmoredmuseum.com/photoalbum_02.asp?c=17th%20Armored%20Infantry%20Battalion</span></td></tr></tbody></table></p><p><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Walter Raymond Heltenberg never had a chance to reach 100 years old today. Instead, he sacrificed his life for our freedom.</span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-b7cb17db-7fff-f700-7e27-4ada3c8c7535"><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><div align="left" dir="ltr" style="margin-left: 0pt;"><table style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none;"><tbody><tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(0, 0, 0); overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 5pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #1d2129; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">If you have enjoyed reading the stories of the WWII fallen, <b>Can you help write some stories?</b> It's a big project. The more help, the better. </span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 5pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #1d2129; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Announcing "The Stories Behind the Stars", see </span><span style="color: #385898; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.storiesbehindthestars.org/?fbclid=IwAR0j-vBLbbQFpbP6RfzRXoDq0bHeKPTdZcS9KbpoH10fdTH2OGyxFfj8_X8" style="color: #667700; text-decoration: none;">https://www.storiesbehindthestars.org</a>.</span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 5pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #1d2129;">This crowd-sourced national project has the goal of compiling stories of all 400,000+ of the US World War II fallen in one free-to-access central database. </span><b><span style="color: red;">We are going to need a lot of volunteers.</span></b></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #1d2129; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Anyone visiting a war memorial or gravesite will be able to scan the name of the fallen with a smartphone and his story will appear on the phone.</span></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Walter was born on August 17, 1920 in Haxtun, Colorado. His parents Frederick and Ella were both born in Nebraska. His father was a farmer. Walter had two older brothers, three older sisters, and two younger sisters. In 1940, Walter had an eighth grade education and was living with his parents in North Otis, Colorado and working on the family farm. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Walter was inducted into the US Army on 7 October 1942. He served in the 17th Armored Infantry Battalion of the 12th Armored Division and rose to the rank of staff sergeant. The 12th AD was activated on 15 September 1942 and trained at Camp Campbell, Kentucky and Camp Barkeley in Abilene, Texas. The division consisted of three battalions each of tanks, armored infantry, and self-propelled artillery. The 17th Armored Infantry battalion was equipped with M2 and M3 halftrack armored personnel carriers.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The 12th AD departed the States for the European Theater on 20 September 1944 and arrived at Liverpool, England on 2 October 1944. The division landed at Le Havre, France, on 11 November 1944 and then joined the US Seventh Army at Rouen. Over the next weeks, the division advanced across France towards the German border, liberating the towns of Rohrbach-lès-Bitche and Bettviller by 12 December 1944, and Utweiler, Germany on 21 December 1944. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The new year of 1945 began with a German counteroffensive, known as Operation Nordwind. The German plan was to strike in Alsace and force an American withdrawal, split the Seventh Army, and get behind Patton’s Third Army, disrupting the entire Allied line. Over the month of January the 12th AD played an instrumental role in halting the German offensive. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">On 17 March 1945 the division was attached to the Third Army under General George S. Patton, and captured Ludwigshafen on 21 March 1945, Speyer and Germersheim on 24 March 1945, and crossed the Rhine river at Worms on 28 March 1945. SSgt. Heltenberg was killed in action on Easter Sunday 1 April 1945, likely in the battalion’s attack on Konigshofen, Germany. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Walter Raymond Heltenberg </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">is buried in Yuma Cemetery in Yuma, Colorado.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Thank you Sgt. Heltenberg for your sacrifice. Let's </span><a href="http://ww2fallen100.blogspot.com/2018/10/ww2-fallen-beaufighter-night-fighter.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Earn It</span></a><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> for </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Walter.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">_____</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This profile was written by Bob Fuerst. "I’m a NASA engineer, B-17 Flying Fortress enthusiast, and amateur genealogist so this kind of research is an ideal outlet for me. But more than anything, it’s a way to express my sincere appreciation for The Greatest Generation and the sacrifices that they made, especially those who made the ultimate sacrifice. They should never be forgotten and I’m grateful to Don for allowing me to play a small part in honoring them."</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="">This is one of the final 50 stories (18) to be written as part of this project which ends on September 2, 2020, the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II. At that time more than 1,370 men and women will have been profiled. The project will live on in an expanded program to write the stories of all 400,000+ US World War II fallen. Visit </span><a href="http://www.storiesbehindthestars.org/" style="color: #667700; text-decoration: none;">www.storiesbehindthestars.org</a><span face=""> to learn more. </span><u>We welcome your continued support and interest and encourage you to help write some of these stories</u><span face="">.</span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Last year on this date I profiled PBY Catalina co-pilot George Doll. You can read about George </span><a href="http://ww2fallen100.blogspot.com/2019/08/ww2-fallen-pby-co-pilot-george-doll.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">here</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">On behalf of the fallen, if you would like to see more people become aware of this project to honor the WW2 fallen, be sure to share with others on Twitter, Facebook, etc. Thanks for your interest!</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I created this video to explain why I started this project: </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXt8QA481lY" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXt8QA481lY</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Follow on Twitter @ww2fallen100</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Please consider joining the public Facebook group to increase the exposure of this project. Go to:</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/1816709708600092/?ref=bookmarks" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #667700; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">WW2 Fallen 100</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-top: 3pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">WW2 Fallen 100</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is supported by</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-top: 3pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Greatest </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">GENERATIONS</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Foundation</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-top: 3pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Where Every Day is Memorial Day”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.tggf.org/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.tggf.org</span></a></p></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" />WW2 Fallen 100 Projecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01652061709901284477noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1232607911651619990.post-38912823535421432332020-08-16T04:21:00.000-07:002020-08-16T04:21:06.138-07:00WW2 Leyte Fallen - P-47 pilot James Larimore<p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1hL8jE4nxIVIaBFmNtbAPjrLP4GzktYTzkltljBKWZj2fPCktFyPi9kM2_dJciBm_yqz0Hu4i2q9MDsGlGO5_VzRB92NmdUHPeCMf6lQ4VPhFHYDCVnyz2KdZhEzWv15JS7fKtNaIyVic/s1280/larimore+collage.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1hL8jE4nxIVIaBFmNtbAPjrLP4GzktYTzkltljBKWZj2fPCktFyPi9kM2_dJciBm_yqz0Hu4i2q9MDsGlGO5_VzRB92NmdUHPeCMf6lQ4VPhFHYDCVnyz2KdZhEzWv15JS7fKtNaIyVic/w400-h225/larimore+collage.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Flight Officer James Larimore was a P-47 pilot in the 348th Fighter Group.<br />https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/127366743/james-dale-larimore<br />https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:P-47Ds_348th_FG_in_flight_over_New_Guinea_1943.jpg</span></td></tr></tbody></table></p><p><span style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Flight Officer James Dale Larimore </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">never had a chance to reach 100 years old today. Instead, he sacrificed his life for our freedom. </span></p><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><div align="left" dir="ltr" style="margin-left: 0pt;"><table style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none;"><tbody><tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(0, 0, 0); overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 5pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #1d2129; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">If you have enjoyed reading the stories of the WWII fallen, <b>Can you help write some stories?</b> It's a big project. The more help, the better. </span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 5pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #1d2129; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Announcing "The Stories Behind the Stars", see </span><span style="color: #385898; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.storiesbehindthestars.org/?fbclid=IwAR0j-vBLbbQFpbP6RfzRXoDq0bHeKPTdZcS9KbpoH10fdTH2OGyxFfj8_X8" style="color: #667700; text-decoration: none;">https://www.storiesbehindthestars.org</a>.</span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 5pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #1d2129;">This crowd-sourced national project has the goal of compiling stories of all 400,000+ of the US World War II fallen in one free-to-access central database. </span><b><span style="color: red;">We are going to need a lot of volunteers.</span></b></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #1d2129; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Anyone visiting a war memorial or gravesite will be able to scan the name of the fallen with a smartphone and his story will appear on the phone.</span></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">James </span><span style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">was born August 16, 1920, in Centerburg, Ohio to Denver Dale Larimore and Rachel C. Smith. He worked for Pennsylvania Furnace and Iron before enlisting in February of 1942 in Warren, Pennsylvania at the age of 21.</span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-a53c5b75-7fff-da9b-2824-b5f12b465755"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Larimore went into active service March 18, 1943, with the 5th Air Force, 348th Fighter Group, 342nd Fighter Squadron. His unit was assigned to Leyte, Philippines on November 20, 1944. They provided cover for convoys, flew patrols, escorted bombers, attacked enemy airfields, and supported ground forces. </span><span style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 0.6em; vertical-align: super;">1</span></span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181a1c; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">During World War II, the group operated primarily in the Southwest Pacific Theater. It was the most successful P-47 Thunderbolt unit in the Pacific War. The Group's commander, Colonel Neel Kearby ran up 20+ kills including a 6 kills-in-1-mission for which he was awarded the Medal of Honor. The Group scored 396 kills, over half of all the kills credited to Fifth Air Force P-47s, and won two United States Distinguished Unit Citations. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #181a1c; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 0.6em; vertical-align: super;">2</span></span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181a1c; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Flight Officer Larimore was killed in action on December 19, 1944, in Leyte Province, Eastern Visayas, Philippines in the Battle of Leyte. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The campaign for Leyte proved the first and most decisive operation in the American reconquest of the Philippines. Japanese losses in the campaign were heavy, with the army losing four divisions and several separate combat units, while the navy lost 26 major warships and 46 large transports and hundreds of merchant ships. In effect, once the decisive battle of Leyte was lost, the Japanese gave up hope of retaining the Philippines, conceding to the Allies a critical bastion from which Japan could be easily cut off from outside resources, and from which the final assaults on the Japanese home islands could be launched. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 0.6em; vertical-align: super;">3</span></span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181a1c; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">His grave is at Oakland Cemetery, Warren, Warren County, Pennsylvania.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Thank you for your sacrifice. Let's Earn It for Flight Officer James D. Larimore.</span></p>_____________<br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><span style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This profile was written and summarized by Brianne Ellison. I am a business owner and stay at home mom of 4 children in Utah. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I have been an independent family history researcher for over 12 years. I have also had a passion for U.S. war history since I was a child. WWII is my most passionate research project aside from family history. I am so grateful to be able to contribute to a memorial of such a courageous soldier that never gave up. It is because of men like Larimore, that we have our freedom today. “Land of the Free because of the Brave.” Thank you, Flight Officer James Larimore. You will never be forgotten.</span><span style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""><br /></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="">This is one of the final 50 stories (18) to be written as part of this project which ends on September 2, 2020, the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II. At that time more than 1,370 men and women will have been profiled. The project will live on in an expanded program to write the stories of all 400,000+ US World War II fallen. Visit </span><a href="http://www.storiesbehindthestars.org/" style="color: #667700; text-decoration: none;">www.storiesbehindthestars.org</a><span face=""> to learn more. </span><u>We welcome your continued support and interest and encourage you to help write some of these stories</u><span face="">.</span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Last year on this date I profiled B-24 radio operator Billy Elliott. You can read about Billy </span><a href="http://ww2fallen100.blogspot.com/2019/08/ww2-fallen-b-24-radio-operator-billy.html" style="color: #667700; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">here</span></a><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></span></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">On behalf of the fallen, if you would like to see more people become aware of this project to honor the WW2 fallen, be sure to share with others on Twitter, Facebook, etc. Thanks for your interest!</span></span></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I created this video to explain why I started this project: </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXt8QA481lY" style="color: #667700; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXt8QA481lY</span></a><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Follow on Twitter @ww2fallen100</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white; color: red; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Please consider joining the public Facebook group to increase the exposure of this project. Go to:</span><span style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/1816709708600092/?ref=bookmarks" style="color: #667700; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">WW2 Fallen 100</span></a></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-top: 3pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">WW2 Fallen 100</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is supported by</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-top: 3pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Greatest </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">GENERATIONS</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Foundation</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-top: 3pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Where Every Day is Memorial Day”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i></i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://www.tggf.org/" style="color: #667700; text-decoration: none;">http://www.tggf.org</a></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;">References</p><ol style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><li dir="ltr" style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Maurer, M. (1983). </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Air Force combat units of World War II</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (pp. 226-227) (United States, Department of Air Force, Office of Air Force History). Washington, D.C.: Office of Air Force History.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">348th Fighter Group. (n.d.). Retrieved August 07, 2020, from https://military.wikia.org/wiki/348th_Fighter_Group</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Battle of Leyte. (2020, July 17). Retrieved August 07, 2020, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Leyte</span></p><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://ww2f.com/threads/342nd-fighter-squadron-scourgers-new-guinea-edition.55566/</span></p></li></ol></span>WW2 Fallen 100 Projecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01652061709901284477noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1232607911651619990.post-5922320265342333022020-08-15T04:24:00.000-07:002020-08-15T04:24:23.162-07:00WW2 Fallen - Combat Engineer Eugene Calvin<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnxnpRBg_d5Nv0Dps4cmFQ4VJvRLLQzFoNW1hA8PoA1beHSsf8n0ZY9WPQKQ3uR_RxQlZmvwCdduXM4SDsjgsIDZxKzuEGKvXU6M1O2RYN-gaclptDF91nT1kzFxrUzMTYR0fTwnoaIF0C/s333/calvin+photo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="333" data-original-width="250" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnxnpRBg_d5Nv0Dps4cmFQ4VJvRLLQzFoNW1hA8PoA1beHSsf8n0ZY9WPQKQ3uR_RxQlZmvwCdduXM4SDsjgsIDZxKzuEGKvXU6M1O2RYN-gaclptDF91nT1kzFxrUzMTYR0fTwnoaIF0C/w302-h400/calvin+photo.jpg" width="302" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Tech5 Eugene Calvin served in the 775th Engineer Company.<br />References below.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p> <span style="font-family: helvetica;">Eugene Darrell Calvin never had a chance to reach 100 years old today. Instead, he sacrificed his life for our freedom.</span></p><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><div align="left" dir="ltr" style="margin-left: 0pt;"><table style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none;"><tbody><tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(0, 0, 0); overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 5pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #1d2129; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">If you have enjoyed reading the stories of the WWII fallen, <b>Can you help write some stories?</b> It's a big project. The more help, the better. </span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 5pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #1d2129; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Announcing "The Stories Behind the Stars", see </span><span style="color: #385898; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.storiesbehindthestars.org/?fbclid=IwAR0j-vBLbbQFpbP6RfzRXoDq0bHeKPTdZcS9KbpoH10fdTH2OGyxFfj8_X8" style="color: #667700; text-decoration: none;">https://www.storiesbehindthestars.org</a>.</span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 5pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #1d2129;">This crowd-sourced national project has the goal of compiling stories of all 400,000+ of the US World War II fallen in one free-to-access central database. </span><b><span style="color: red;">We are going to need a lot of volunteers.</span></b></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #1d2129; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Anyone visiting a war memorial or gravesite will be able to scan the name of the fallen with a smartphone and his story will appear on the phone.</span></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></p>
<p style="font-family: helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;">Eugene was born on 15 August 1920 in Portage County, Ohio. His mother was Cleo Clarissa Roberts (B: 7 June 1899; D: 14 April 1997) originally from Salem, Pennsylvania. His father was Darrell David Calvin (B: 9 August 1898; D 6 July 1963), born in Adamsville, Crawford County, Pennsylvania. </p>
<p style="font-family: helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;">Eugene was the oldest child born to Cleo and Darrell. His younger siblings were his brother LaVerne (B: 18 September 1924; D: 23 September 1987) and two sisters - Eva June (Calvin) Ferrall (B: 23 June 1926; D: 9 December 1999) and Margaret (Marguerite) (Calvin) Birkhimer (B: 2 April 1928; D: 2 February 2020).</p>
<p style="font-family: helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;">Darrell Calvin worked for railroad companies, which gave his family a modest degree of economic stability during the Depression years. In the 1930 U.S. Federal Census, his occupation was listed as station agent. In 1940, Darrell was a freight agent. Cleo was a housewife. The 1940 U.S. Census also reported that nineteen-year-old Eugene had worked at a Rayon silk factory. </p>
<p style="font-family: helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;">According to the 1939 Leetonia, Ohio, High School Yearbook, Eugene had been active in many school activities, including the glee club, the school chorus, and the manual arts club. He also played football in his senior year. </p>
<p style="font-family: helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;">At some point, Eugene married Martha Jane Bier, daughter of Edward and Malande Bier. In 1940, Martha was a waitress, boarding with a family on Elm Street, Middlefield Village, Ohio. They had one son – Eugene Darrell Calvin, Jr., born about 1945.</p>
<p style="font-family: helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;">Eugene’s military career began on 2 October 1939 when he joined the National Guard. He subsequently enlisted in the U.S. Army in February 1941 at Meadville, Pennsylvania, and was assigned to the Army Corps of Engineers, 775<span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><sup>th</sup></span> Engineer Company. At the time of his enlistment, Eugene was 5 feet, 9 inches tall and weighed 139 pounds.</p>
<p style="font-family: helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;">Eugene’s military rank was T/5 (sometimes recorded as TEC-5) – or Technician Fifth Grade. According to <a href="http://www.wikipedia.org"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">www.wikipedia.org</span></a>, this rank was “… a specialist rank, equivalent to that of a corporal. Technicians possessed specialized skills that earned them a higher pay grade, but they had no command authority.”</p>
<p style="font-family: helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;">Specific information on Eugene’s life and his role in the Army Corps of Engineers is sparse. According to his WWII Hospital Admission Card File records found on ancestry.com, Eugene was Killed in Action during a battle at an unknown location on 15 February 1945. He was 24 years old.</p>
<p style="font-family: helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;">On 26 October 1948, Martha J. Calvin of West Farmington, Ohio, applied for a flat granite grave marker to be delivered to Stevenson Cemetery, Greenville, Pennsylvania. Eugene Darrell Calvin was posthumously awarded a Purple Heart. Like so many others of his generation, Eugene gave his life in service to his country. Let us honor him here today.</p><p style="font-family: helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;">_________</p>
<p style="font-family: helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;"><i><span style="color: #2b00fe;">This profile was written by Joanne Dillon. “I’m a writer, amateur genealogist, and history buff. Writing profiles of the men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice in World War II is a way I can use my skills to help ensure they are not forgotten. It’s truly an honor to participate in this project.” </span></i></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="">This is one of the final 50 stories (19) to be written as part of this project which ends on September 2, 2020, the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II. At that time more than 1,370 men and women will have been profiled. The project will live on in an expanded program to write the stories of all 400,000+ US World War II fallen. Visit </span><a href="http://www.storiesbehindthestars.org/" style="color: #667700; text-decoration: none;">www.storiesbehindthestars.org</a><span face=""> to learn more. </span><u>We welcome your continued support and interest and encourage you to help write some of these stories</u><span face="">.</span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Last year on this date I profiled TBM Avenger pilot George Scully, USS Langley. You can read about George </span><a href="http://ww2fallen100.blogspot.com/2019/08/ww2-fallen-tbm-avenger-pilot-george.html" style="color: #667700; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">here</span></a><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></span></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">On behalf of the fallen, if you would like to see more people become aware of this project to honor the WW2 fallen, be sure to share with others on Twitter, Facebook, etc. Thanks for your interest!</span></span></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I created this video to explain why I started this project: </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXt8QA481lY" style="color: #667700; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXt8QA481lY</span></a><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Follow on Twitter @ww2fallen100</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white; color: red; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Please consider joining the public Facebook group to increase the exposure of this project. Go to:</span><span style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/1816709708600092/?ref=bookmarks" style="color: #667700; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">WW2 Fallen 100</span></a></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-top: 3pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">WW2 Fallen 100</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is supported by</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-top: 3pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Greatest </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">GENERATIONS</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Foundation</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-top: 3pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Where Every Day is Memorial Day”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i></i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.tggf.org/" style="color: #667700; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.tggf.org</span></a></p><p style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><br /></p>
<p style="font-family: helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;"><b>SOURCES</b></p>
<p style="font-family: helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;"><span style="color: #0b4cb4; text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.ancestry.com">www.ancestry.com</a></span>. 1939 Leetonia High School Yearbook; Birth and Death Information on the Calvin Family; 1930 and 1940 U.S. Federal Census; Eugene Calvin U.S. Army Enlistment Record; Eugene Calvin National Guard Enlistment Record; WWII Hospital Admission Card for Eugene Calvin; Information on Martha J. (Bier) Calvin; 1971 Marriage Certificate for Eugene Darrell Calvin, Jr.; </p>
<p style="color: #0b4cb4; font-family: helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/166474819/eugene-d_-calvin">www.findagrave.com/memorial/166474819/eugene-d_-calvin</a>.</span> <span style="color: black;">Application for Headstone for Eugene Calvin. </span></p>
<p style="font-family: helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;"><span style="color: #0b4cb4; text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.honorstates.org">www.honorstates.org</a></span>. Posthumous Award of Purple Heart to Eugene Calvin.</p>
<p style="font-family: helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;"><span style="color: #0b4cb4; text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.wikipedia.org">www.wikipedia.org</a></span>. Information on Technician Fifth Grade Military Rank. </p>
<p style="font-family: helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;"><span style="color: #0b4cb4; text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.wkbn.com">www.wkbn.com</a></span>. Obituary for Margaret Linda (Calvin) Birkhimer, Salem Ohio, Published on 4 February 2020, on My Valley Tributes.</p>WW2 Fallen 100 Projecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01652061709901284477noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1232607911651619990.post-58549390710198135922020-08-14T04:36:00.001-07:002020-08-14T05:53:41.402-07:00WW2 Fallen - Medal of Honor hero Joe Hayashi, 442nd Regimental Combat Team<p><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjliLA9vxLA3i2yGobkvrE9HdLezDPIOX6Sx5oVmy9OmEMmpn8MeFgvoAl1pRtoMEF6hP4Kl4ElwrgGTkUt0yAcjoFu47AxotxR5eOEupFIA1ohpH0Wv9V0UbdQQm_ujFbImPyNkd4srzC9/s1280/hayashi+collage.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjliLA9vxLA3i2yGobkvrE9HdLezDPIOX6Sx5oVmy9OmEMmpn8MeFgvoAl1pRtoMEF6hP4Kl4ElwrgGTkUt0yAcjoFu47AxotxR5eOEupFIA1ohpH0Wv9V0UbdQQm_ujFbImPyNkd4srzC9/w400-h225/hayashi+collage.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Then Private Joe Hayashi earned the Medal of Honor while serving with the 442nd Regimental Combat Team.<br />https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/19395/joe-hayashi<br />https://archive.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=45180</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626;">Sergeant Joe J. Hayashi never had a chance to reach 100 years old today. Instead, he sacrificed his life for our freedom.</span></span></p><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><div align="left" dir="ltr" style="margin-left: 0pt;"><table style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none;"><tbody><tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(0, 0, 0); overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 5pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #1d2129; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">If you have enjoyed reading the stories of the WWII fallen, <b>Can you help write some stories?</b> It's a big project. The more help, the better. </span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 5pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #1d2129; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Announcing "The Stories Behind the Stars", see </span><span style="color: #385898; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.storiesbehindthestars.org/?fbclid=IwAR0j-vBLbbQFpbP6RfzRXoDq0bHeKPTdZcS9KbpoH10fdTH2OGyxFfj8_X8" style="color: #667700; text-decoration: none;">https://www.storiesbehindthestars.org</a>.</span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 5pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #1d2129;">This crowd-sourced national project has the goal of compiling stories of all 400,000+ of the US World War II fallen in one free-to-access central database. </span><b><span style="color: red;">We are going to need a lot of volunteers.</span></b></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #1d2129; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Anyone visiting a war memorial or gravesite will be able to scan the name of the fallen with a smartphone and his story will appear on the phone.</span></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: arial;">Ryo “Joe” Hayashi was born on August 14, 1920 in Salinas, Monterey County, California. His mother, Toyo Sakamoto, and stepfather, Kakichi “Jimmie” Nakawatase were both born in Japan. Little verifiable information about his biological father could be found. His mother married Nakawatase in 1926. His stepfather worked as a gardener. Joe had two sisters, Chiye and Kiyo, a half-brother Seichi Nakawatase and two half-sisters Sayo and Shizuo Nakawatase. He graduated from Muir Tech High School in Pasadena, California. In 1940, he worked as an auto mechanic. He enlisted in the US Army on May 19, 1941.</span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">In August of 1942, Hayashi’s mother, stepfather, and siblings were interned at the Heart Mountain Relocation Center near Cody, Wyoming. This was one of ten relocation centers created during the war for people of Japanese descent, who were deemed to be a threat to the country. His stepfather would die of cancer inside the camp on December 21, 1944. The rest of the family would be released between April and July 1945, including Joe’s nephew, born in the camp.</span></p>
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<p style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Hayashi served stateside until the 442<span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><sup>nd</sup></span> Regimental Combat Team was created in 1943. This unit consisted of second-generation Japanese soldiers, many of whose families were held in the internment camps. Hayashi was assigned to the 3<span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><sup>rd</sup></span> Battalion, Company K. The unit trained in Mississippi, and arrived in Anzio, Italy in May 1944.</span></p>
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<p style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The 442<span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><sup>nd</sup></span> fought in Italy along the western coast from May to September 1944. They transferred to France, where they sustained heavy losses rescuing the “Lost Battalion” of the 141<span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><sup>st</sup></span> Infantry Regiment in October 1944. The regiment returned to northern Italy in March 1945. In April 1945, the Germans dug in for their final defense in Aulia, Italy. The 442<span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><sup>nd</sup></span> made its final push April 19-23 to take Mount Nebbione. Joe Hayashi died in action on April 22 near Tendola. The war ended in Italy on May 2, and in all of Europe on May 8, 1945.</span></p>
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<p style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Joe was promoted to the rank of sergeant posthumously. By 1949, he was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross, Bronze Star, Good Conduct Medal, Combat Infantryman’s Badge, and Distinguished Unit Citation. In 2000, with other Nisei soldiers, he was awarded the Medal of Honor, recognizing that these men had been neglected for higher commendation due to their ethnicity.</span></p>
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<p style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">His Medal of Honor citation reads:</span></p>
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<p style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #292622; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>"On 20 April 1945, ordered to attack a strongly defended hill that commanded all approaches to the village of Tendola, Private Hayashi skillfully led his men to a point within 75 yards of enemy positions before they were detected and fired upon. </i></span></p><p style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #292622; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #292622; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>After dragging his wounded comrades to safety, he returned alone and exposed himself to small arms fire in order to direct and adjust mortar fire against hostile emplacements. Boldly attacking the hill with the remaining men of his squad, he attained his objective and discovered that the mortars had neutralized three machine guns, killed 27 men, and wounded many others. </i></span></p><p style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #292622; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #292622; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>On 22 April 1945, attacking the village of Tendola, Private Hayashi maneuvered his squad up a steep, terraced hill to within 100 yards of the enemy. Crawling under intense fire to a hostile machine gun position, he threw a grenade, killing one enemy soldier and forcing the other members of the gun crew to surrender. Seeing four enemy machine guns delivering deadly fire upon other elements of his platoon, he threw another grenade, destroying a machine gun nest. He then crawled to the right flank of another machine gun position where he killed four enemy soldiers and forced the others to flee. Attempting to pursue the enemy, he was mortally wounded by a burst of machine pistol fire. </i></span></p><p style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #292622; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #292622; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>The dauntless courage and exemplary leadership of Private Hayashi enabled his company to attain its objective. Private Hayashi's extraordinary heroism and devotion to duty are in keeping with the highest traditions of military service and reflect great credit on him, his unit, and the United States Army".</i></span></p>
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<p style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">His grave is at Evergreen Cemetery, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California.</span></p>
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<p style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Thank you, Sergeant Joe Hayashi, for your sacrifice. Let's <a href="https://mail.yahoo.com/d/folders/1/messages/AAjLL2hmDi_rXwZ_AwImyL25qpQ?.src=fp#m_-959253768568333169_m_-8225299489563583182_m_-7250114029501535787_"><span style="color: #1652ca;">Earn It</span></a> for Joe.</span></p>
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<p style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><span style="font-family: arial;">This profile was written by Marilyn N. Clark. "I have a long-standing interest in World War 2. My grandfather and numerous great-uncles served in that conflict. I have a BA in history from the University of Utah and have a lot of experience with volunteer genealogical research. It’s an honor to find and share information about these heroes that made such great sacrifices. Many thanks to Don for organizing this effort to share their stories.”</span></i></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="">This is one of the final 50 stories (20) to be written as part of this project which ends on September 2, 2020, the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II. At that time more than 1,370 men and women will have been profiled. The project will live on in an expanded program to write the stories of all 400,000+ US World War II fallen. Visit </span><a href="http://www.storiesbehindthestars.org/" style="color: #667700; text-decoration: none;">www.storiesbehindthestars.org</a><span face=""> to learn more. </span><u>We welcome your continued support and interest and encourage you to help write some of these stories</u><span face="">.</span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Last year on this date I profiled Stephen Mitrick, 4th Ranger Battalion. You can read about Stephen </span><a href="http://ww2fallen100.blogspot.com/2019/08/ww2-fallen-stephen-mitrick-4th-ranger.html" style="color: #667700; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">here</span></a><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></span></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">On behalf of the fallen, if you would like to see more people become aware of this project to honor the WW2 fallen, be sure to share with others on Twitter, Facebook, etc. Thanks for your interest!</span></span></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I created this video to explain why I started this project: </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXt8QA481lY" style="color: #667700; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXt8QA481lY</span></a><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Follow on Twitter @ww2fallen100</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white; color: red; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Please consider joining the public Facebook group to increase the exposure of this project. Go to:</span><span style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/1816709708600092/?ref=bookmarks" style="color: #667700; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">WW2 Fallen 100</span></a></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-top: 3pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">WW2 Fallen 100</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is supported by</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-top: 3pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Greatest </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">GENERATIONS</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Foundation</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-top: 3pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Where Every Day is Memorial Day”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i></i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.tggf.org/" style="color: #667700; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.tggf.org</span></a></p>
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<p style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: arial; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><br /><i></i></p>WW2 Fallen 100 Projecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01652061709901284477noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1232607911651619990.post-40066336559364192552020-08-13T04:10:00.000-07:002020-08-13T04:10:12.391-07:00WW2 Fallen - Distinguished Flying Cross hero and P-39 pilot Lucien Johnson<p><span style="font-family: arial;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFS18DooJos3JkhxoGgvYIXToQ727IroSquEsazbeKMsf_IEv7nx6TvOQl-0sgtR8QxbwfAh2x7i-OCxjXtiyOntpnOgrs7L3qvaAK38N124IWtbqx3n6VmNvAKQD8aXg_AtgtXfLxSP3S/s1280/johnson+lucien+collage.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFS18DooJos3JkhxoGgvYIXToQ727IroSquEsazbeKMsf_IEv7nx6TvOQl-0sgtR8QxbwfAh2x7i-OCxjXtiyOntpnOgrs7L3qvaAK38N124IWtbqx3n6VmNvAKQD8aXg_AtgtXfLxSP3S/w400-h225/johnson+lucien+collage.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">1st Lt. Lucien earned the Distinguished Flying Cross while serving in the 41st Fighter Squadron in New Guinea.<br />https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/35021604/lucien-roy-johnson<br />https://www.flickr.com/photos/peacelovescoobie/5633542133</span></td></tr></tbody></table></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="">First Lieutenant Lucien Roy Johnson never had a chance to reach 100 years old today. Instead, he sacrificed his life for our freedom.</span></span></p>
<div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><div align="left" dir="ltr" style="margin-left: 0pt;"><table style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none;"><tbody><tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(0, 0, 0); overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 5pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #1d2129; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">If you have enjoyed reading the stories of the WWII fallen, <b>Can you help write some stories?</b> It's a big project. The more help, the better. </span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 5pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #1d2129; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Announcing "The Stories Behind the Stars", see </span><span style="color: #385898; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.storiesbehindthestars.org/?fbclid=IwAR0j-vBLbbQFpbP6RfzRXoDq0bHeKPTdZcS9KbpoH10fdTH2OGyxFfj8_X8" style="color: #667700; text-decoration: none;">https://www.storiesbehindthestars.org</a>.</span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 5pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #1d2129;">This crowd-sourced national project has the goal of compiling stories of all 400,000+ of the US World War II fallen in one free-to-access central database. </span><b><span style="color: red;">We are going to need a lot of volunteers.</span></b></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #1d2129; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Anyone visiting a war memorial or gravesite will be able to scan the name of the fallen with a smartphone and his story will appear on the phone.</span></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">He died at the age of 23 on December 3, 1943 when his fighter plane crashed on takeoff from Nadzab, New Guinea. </span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Born August 13, 1920 in DeQuincy, Louisiana, he was the third of seven children, four girls and three boys, of Paul Nathan Johnson and Agnes Roy Johnson. His father, a conductor with Kansas City Southern Railway, had two children from a previous marriage. After his first wife died in 1910, he married Agnes in 1916. He died of a heart attack at age 72 in March 1944, just three months after his son was killed. Lt. Johnson’s mother passed away in 1964. </span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">He attended Southwestern Louisiana Institute (now the University of Louisiana at Lafayette) for three years before enlisting in the Army Air Forces on June 5, 1941 at Ft. Sam Houston, Texas. After earning his wings from a base in California he was sent to the Pacific in late 1942, where he flew the one-seater Bell P-39 Airacobra fighter plane.</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">He flew numerous combat missions while serving with the 35th Fighter Group, 41st Fighter Squadron. For his service he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for <i>“. . . extraordinary achievement while participating in fifty operational flight missions in the Southwest Pacific area during which hostile contact was probable, and attack missions, and patrol and reconnaissance flights. In the course of these operations strafing and bombing attacks were from dangerously low altitudes, destroying and damaging enemy installations and equipment.</i>”</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">He was initially interred at a cemetery in New Guinea, and his remains were returned to the United States in 1949 for burial at the Perkins Cemetery in DeQuincy, Louisiana. In 1950, Southwestern Louisiana Institute placed a plaque on the campus in memory of the 132 alumni who died in the war, including Lt. Johnson.</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">All three of his brothers served in the war and survived. The last of his siblings, his sister Letitia, died in 2010.</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Thank you, Lt. Lucien Roy Johnson for your sacrifice. Let's <a href="https://mail.yahoo.com/d/folders/1/messages/AAjLL2hmDi_rXwZ_AwImyL25qpQ?.src=fp#m_-959253768568333169_m_-8225299489563583182_m_-7250114029501535787_">Earn It</a> for Lucien. </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">___________________</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; font-style: italic;">This profile was written by John F. Schlatter. “I’m from Knoxville, Tennessee and a retired corporate public relations manager, living in Las Vegas. I served as an active duty and reserve Army officer 1974-82. I’ve written two books about veterans. One tells the stories of WWII veterans through postcards they wrote to the folks back home, and the other honors about 50 of the 168 Americans who died in Vietnam on the Fourth of July. I’ve also been a volunteer in the effort to find photographs of all 58,000 Americans who died in Vietnam</span><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; font-style: italic;">. Researching and writing the stories of those who died to preserve freedom has gone from a hobby to a passion for me. If we don’t honor and remember, who will?”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="">This is one of the final 50 stories (21) to be written as part of this project which ends on September 2, 2020, the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II. At that time more than 1,370 men and women will have been profiled. The project will live on in an expanded program to write the stories of all 400,000+ US World War II fallen. Visit </span><a href="http://www.storiesbehindthestars.org/" style="color: #667700; text-decoration: none;">www.storiesbehindthestars.org</a><span face=""> to learn more. </span><u>We welcome your continued support and interest and encourage you to help write some of these stories</u><span face="">.</span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Last year on this date I profiled Guadalcanal fallen and US Naval Academy graduate Eugene Huntemer, USS Cushing. You can read about Eugene </span><a href="http://ww2fallen100.blogspot.com/2019/08/ww2-guadalcanal-fallen-naval-academy.html" style="color: #667700; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">here</span></a><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333;" /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">On behalf of the fallen, if you would like to see more people become aware of this project to honor the WW2 fallen, be sure to share with others on Twitter, Facebook, etc. Thanks for your interest!</span></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333;" /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I created this video to explain why I started this project: </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXt8QA481lY" style="color: #667700; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXt8QA481lY</span></a><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Follow on Twitter @ww2fallen100</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white; color: red; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Please consider joining the public Facebook group to increase the exposure of this project. Go to:</span><span style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/1816709708600092/?ref=bookmarks" style="color: #667700; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">WW2 Fallen 100</span></a></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); 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font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Greatest </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">GENERATIONS</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Foundation</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-top: 3pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Where Every Day is Memorial Day”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.tggf.org/" style="color: #667700; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.tggf.org</span></a></p><p style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /></p>WW2 Fallen 100 Projecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01652061709901284477noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1232607911651619990.post-91156535719834843172020-08-12T04:15:00.000-07:002020-08-12T04:15:25.768-07:00WW2 Okinawa Fallen - Robert Shaver, 1st Marine Division<p><span style="background-color: white;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjt4Rk6gCuT0HD3gLcLQRfvInXXWF9vq1BR5mt4vWVnT4ReIF6OEn_a4jM4QIItnF6uRUQE4kOdkNYUba2EGwPvw6MUtqBfRDY2ZMHxd0tMCRYDQpWRk034zMCBd9LEEi0MuKOzb0H3JRDl/s1280/shaver+collage.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjt4Rk6gCuT0HD3gLcLQRfvInXXWF9vq1BR5mt4vWVnT4ReIF6OEn_a4jM4QIItnF6uRUQE4kOdkNYUba2EGwPvw6MUtqBfRDY2ZMHxd0tMCRYDQpWRk034zMCBd9LEEi0MuKOzb0H3JRDl/w400-h225/shaver+collage.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sgt. Robert Shaver served with the 1st Marine Division during the Battle of Okinawa.<br />https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/134809212/robert-eugene-shaver<br />https://www.worldwarphotos.info/gallery/usa/pacific/okinawa/1st-marine-division-fights-japanese-on-okinawa/</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Robert Eugene Shaver never had a chance to reach 100 years old today. Instead, he sacrificed his life for our freedom.</span><p></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-101817cb-7fff-65f8-5362-36cfd0dafb64"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><div align="left" dir="ltr" style="margin-left: 0pt;"><table style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none;"><tbody><tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(0, 0, 0); overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 5pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If you have enjoyed reading the stories of the WWII fallen, <b>Can you help write some stories?</b> It's a big project. The more help, the better. </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 5pt;"><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Announcing "The Stories Behind the Stars", see </span><span style="color: #385898; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.storiesbehindthestars.org/?fbclid=IwAR0j-vBLbbQFpbP6RfzRXoDq0bHeKPTdZcS9KbpoH10fdTH2OGyxFfj8_X8" style="color: #667700; text-decoration: none;">https://www.storiesbehindthestars.org</a>.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 5pt;"><span style="font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #1d2129;">This crowd-sourced national project has the goal of compiling stories of all 400,000+ of the US World War II fallen in one free-to-access central database. </span><b><span style="color: red;">We are going to need a lot of volunteers.</span></b></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Anyone visiting a war memorial or gravesite will be able to scan the name of the fallen with a smartphone and his story will appear on the phone.</span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Robert was born on August 12, 1920 in Forty Fort, Pennsylvania. His parents Harry Howard Shaver and Edna S. (Lunger) Shaver were both born in Pennsylvania. His father worked as a painter and paper hanger. Robert had two older sisters and one younger brother. His father passed away in February 1942. Robert married the former Lydia Slabinski on 17 August 1938 in Luzerne, Pennsylvania, and they had a son, Robert E. Shaver, Junior.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Robert worked as a guard at the Calico Chemical division plant of the American Cyanamide Company in New Jersey before enlisting in the Marines on 13 July 1943. He trained at Parris Island, North Carolina and Quantico, Virginia and served in Company E of the 2nd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division as a sergeant. Sgt. Shaver went overseas in June 1944, and according to his obituary, was in the first wave of Marines to land at Peleliu, where he was wounded. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">After recovering from his wound, Sgt. Shaver rejoined his unit in time for the invasion of Okinawa, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific Theater of WWII. The 7th Marines were in the first assault waves to go ashore on Okinawa on 1 April 1945, and landed virtually unopposed and rapidly advanced inland against scattered Japanese resistance. The Marines were surprised by the initial lack of opposition resulting from the Japanese strategy to concentrate their defenses on the northern and southern ends of the island. Sgt. Shaver was killed in action the next day on 2 April 1945. When it was finally over on 22 June 1945, the battle of Okinawa was one of the bloodiest in the Pacific, with approximately 160,000 casualties on both sides. The Americans suffered over 12,500 killed in action, including 2,938 Marines. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Robert Eugene Shaver was buried on Okinawa and in 1949 was reinterred in Memorial Shrine Cemetery in Carverton, Pennsylvania. His widow remarried and passed away in 1984.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Thank you Sgt. Shaver for your sacrifice. Let's </span><a href="http://ww2fallen100.blogspot.com/2018/10/ww2-fallen-beaufighter-night-fighter.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Earn It</span></a><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> for </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Robert.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">_____</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This profile was written by Bob Fuerst. "I’m a NASA engineer, B-17 Flying Fortress enthusiast, and amateur genealogist so this kind of research is an ideal outlet for me. But more than anything, it’s a way to express my sincere appreciation for The Greatest Generation and the sacrifices that they made, especially those who made the ultimate sacrifice. They should never be forgotten and I’m grateful to Don for allowing me to play a small part in honoring them."</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face="" style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px;">This is one of the final 50 stories (22) to be written as part of this project which ends on September 2, 2020, the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II. At that time more than 1,370 men and women will have been profiled. The project will live on in an expanded program to write the stories of all 400,000+ US World War II fallen. Visit </span><a href="http://www.storiesbehindthestars.org/" style="color: #667700; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; text-decoration: none;">www.storiesbehindthestars.org</a><span face="" style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px;"> to learn more. </span><u style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px;">We welcome your continued support and interest and encourage you to help write some of these stories</u><span face="" style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px;">.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Last year on this date I profiled Bedford Boy Ray Stevens of the 29th Infantry Division. You can read about Ray </span><a href="http://ww2fallen100.blogspot.com/2019/08/ww2-d-day-fallen-bedford-boy-ray.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">here</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">On behalf of the fallen, if you would like to see more people become aware of this project to honor the WW2 fallen, be sure to share with others on Twitter, Facebook, etc. Thanks for your interest!</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I created this video to explain why I started this project: </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXt8QA481lY" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXt8QA481lY</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Follow on Twitter @ww2fallen100</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Please consider joining the public Facebook group to increase the exposure of this project. Go to:</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/1816709708600092/?ref=bookmarks" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #667700; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">WW2 Fallen 100</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-top: 3pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">WW2 Fallen 100</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is supported by</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-top: 3pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Greatest </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">GENERATIONS</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Foundation</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-top: 3pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Where Every Day is Memorial Day”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.tggf.org/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.tggf.org</span></a></p></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /><div>References:</div><div><br /></div><div><p><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Wilkes-Barre Times-Leader, 22 Feb 1949</span></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Okinawa" style="background-color: white; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Okinawa</span></a></p></div>WW2 Fallen 100 Projecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01652061709901284477noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1232607911651619990.post-62270373409108387212020-08-11T06:05:00.003-07:002021-12-08T11:21:25.730-08:00WW2 Fallen - B-24 ball turret gunner John Oprisko<p><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: Arial;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqHmkBISIu4bTHTOEjLVs9BqaAJSbiJpNmek50Y56sdrKDGUhF1Nnt9BqpBchNidYKIKavACV54quLK43GF0aeSCFnwEdTYqw66qXSXIYN4o_1Tc72fcSMZb66mj_fgZYDzAbi4aJf3gHr/s1280/Oprisko+collage.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqHmkBISIu4bTHTOEjLVs9BqaAJSbiJpNmek50Y56sdrKDGUhF1Nnt9BqpBchNidYKIKavACV54quLK43GF0aeSCFnwEdTYqw66qXSXIYN4o_1Tc72fcSMZb66mj_fgZYDzAbi4aJf3gHr/w400-h225/Oprisko+collage.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tech Sgt. John Oprisko served with the 451st Bombardment Group based in Italy.<br />https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/50881026/john-e_-oprisko<br />http://www.americanairmuseum.com/unit/419<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: Arial;">Technical Sergeant John Edward Oprisko never had a chance to reach 100 years old today. Instead, he sacrificed his life for our freedom.</span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: arial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 11px;"><br /></p><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><div align="left" dir="ltr" style="margin-left: 0pt;"><table style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none;"><tbody><tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(0, 0, 0); overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 5pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If you have enjoyed reading the stories of the WWII fallen, <b>Can you help write some stories?</b> It's a big project. The more help, the better. </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 5pt;"><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Announcing "The Stories Behind the Stars", see </span><span style="color: #385898; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.storiesbehindthestars.org/?fbclid=IwAR0j-vBLbbQFpbP6RfzRXoDq0bHeKPTdZcS9KbpoH10fdTH2OGyxFfj8_X8" style="color: #667700; text-decoration: none;">https://www.storiesbehindthestars.org</a>.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 5pt;"><span style="font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #1d2129;">This crowd-sourced national project has the goal of compiling stories of all 400,000+ of the US World War II fallen in one free-to-access central database. </span><b><span style="color: red;">We are going to need a lot of volunteers.</span></b></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Anyone visiting a war memorial or gravesite will be able to scan the name of the fallen with a smartphone and his story will appear on the phone.</span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: arial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: arial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">He was born on August 11, 1920 in Whiting, Lake County, Indiana. His parents, John Oprisko and Anna Maty, were both born in Austria-Hungary, later called Czechoslovakia. His father worked as a carpenter. John had 4 brothers, George, Nick, Albert and Peter and 4 sisters, Anna, Cathryn, Dorothy and Carolyn. Albert would later serve in the US Marine Corps during the war. By 1940, John graduated from Whiting High School and enlisted in the military.</p>
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<p style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: arial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">He enlisted the Army Air Force in November of 1939, and earned the rank of technical sergeant. The details about his first years of service were not found without requesting his records from the military, but in 1943, he was assigned to the 451<span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><sup>st</sup></span> Bombardment Group, 727<span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><sup>th</sup></span> Bomb Squadron. The group trained in Arizona, Tennessee, Florida, Utah and Nebraska before transfer to Europe in January of 1944.</p>
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<p style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: arial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">He was the ball turret gunner of the B-24H Liberator #42-52103 “Cravin Raven!” Part of the 15<span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><sup>th</sup></span> Air Force, the squadron was based in Gioia del Colle Airfield in Bari, Apulia, Italy, doing strategic bombing throughout Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean. </p>
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<p style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: arial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">On April 5, 1944, the crew of the Cravin Raven left on their thirteenth mission, assigned to bomb the oil fields in Ploesti, Romania. Near the target, they were attacked by fighter planes. The bomber took heavy bullet damage before exploding. The pilot, radio operator, and right waist gunner died aboard the plane. The copilot bailed from the aircraft, but for unknown reasons, his parachute didn’t open. The navigator, bombardier, top turret gunner, left waist gunner and tail gunner bailed out and were captured. </p>
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<p style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: arial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Oprisko also bailed out, wounded from the bullet strafing. He was captured with the others, and died of his wounds on April 7, 1944. The prisoners of war were eventually liberated.</p>
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<p style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: arial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The crew of #42-52103:</p>
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<p style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: arial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">1LT Wilfred B Allister, pilot, KIA</p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: arial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">2LT William L Story, copilot, KIA</p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: arial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">1LT Jack T Sergent, navigator, liberated POW</p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: arial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">F/O Alfonse Szymanek, bombardier, liberated POW</p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: arial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">T/SGT Joe Schermerhorn, radio operator, KIA</p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: arial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">T/SGT Charles Ristline, top turret gunner, liberated POW</p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: arial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">T/SGT John Oprisko, ball turret gunner, KIA</p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: arial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">T/SGT John Massa, left waist gunner, liberated POW</p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: arial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">T/SGT John T Woods, right waist gunner, KIA</p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: arial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">T/SGT Milton Wexler, tail gunner, liberated POW</p>
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<p style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: arial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Oprisko’s grave is at St Marys Cemetery, Lake County, Indiana.</p>
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<p style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: arial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;">Thank you, Technical Sergeant John Edward Oprisko, for your sacrifice. Let's <a href="https://mail.yahoo.com/d/folders/1/messages/AAjLL2hmDi_rXwZ_AwImyL25qpQ?.src=fp#m_-959253768568333169_m_-8225299489563583182_m_-7250114029501535787_"><span style="color: #1652ca;">Earn It</span></a> for John.</p>
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<p style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: arial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>This profile was written by Marilyn N. Clark. "I have a long-standing interest in World War 2. My grandfather and numerous great-uncles served in that conflict. I have a BA in history from the University of Utah and have a lot of experience with volunteer genealogical research. It’s an honor to find and share information about these heroes that made such great sacrifices. Many thanks to Don for organizing this effort to share their stories.”</i></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14.85px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14.85px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">This is one of the final 50 stories (23) to be written as part of this project which ends on September 2, 2020, the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II. At that time more than 1,370 men and women will have been profiled. The project will live on in an expanded program to write the stories of all 400,000+ US World War II fallen. Visit </span><a href="http://www.storiesbehindthestars.org/" style="background-color: white; color: #667700; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;">www.storiesbehindthestars.org</a><span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"> to learn more. </span><u style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;">We welcome your continued support and interest and encourage you to help write some of these stories</u><span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Last year on this date I profiled Clarence Landry, 775th Tank Battalion. You can read about Clarence </span><a href="https://ww2fallen100.blogspot.com/2019/08/ww2-luzon-fallen-clarence-landry-775th.html" style="color: #667700; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">here</span></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></p><p style="color: #262626; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333;" /></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">On behalf of the fallen, if you would like to see more people become aware of this project to honor the WW2 fallen, be sure to share with others on Twitter, Facebook, etc. Thanks for your interest!</span></p><p style="color: #262626; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333;" /></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I created this video to explain why I started this project: </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXt8QA481lY" style="color: #667700; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXt8QA481lY</span></a><span style="font-family: arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Follow on Twitter @ww2fallen100</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: red; font-family: arial; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Please consider joining the public Facebook group to increase the exposure of this project. 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margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi58WTY0mTSsLGdTdT1LpjeoTD-MGEoWZridGn2AQRXDde7ApXHOfdkc9qfxrBTkkz-NpMAdzCp6qprEHZIlGxYAx3qTLyRhpqCQb5g6kvPBaFfUGvuElv2jB0aw4pg-oVgH-q0PnH0OFOE/s1280/mcallister+collage.jpg" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 1em 0px;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi58WTY0mTSsLGdTdT1LpjeoTD-MGEoWZridGn2AQRXDde7ApXHOfdkc9qfxrBTkkz-NpMAdzCp6qprEHZIlGxYAx3qTLyRhpqCQb5g6kvPBaFfUGvuElv2jB0aw4pg-oVgH-q0PnH0OFOE/w400-h225/mcallister+collage.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2nd Lt. Joseph Owen McAllister was a B-25 copilot in the 38th Bombardment Group in Australia.<br />References below.</td></tr></tbody></table><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial;">Joseph Owen McAllister </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: Arial;">never had a chance to reach 100 years old today. Instead, he sacrificed his life for our freedom.</span></p>
<div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><div align="left" dir="ltr" style="margin-left: 0pt;"><table style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none;"><tbody><tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(0, 0, 0); overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 5pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If you have enjoyed reading the stories of the WWII fallen, <b>Can you help write some stories?</b> It's a big project. The more help, the better. </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 5pt;"><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Announcing "The Stories Behind the Stars", see </span><span style="color: #385898; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.storiesbehindthestars.org/?fbclid=IwAR0j-vBLbbQFpbP6RfzRXoDq0bHeKPTdZcS9KbpoH10fdTH2OGyxFfj8_X8" style="color: #667700; text-decoration: none;">https://www.storiesbehindthestars.org</a>.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 5pt;"><span style="font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #1d2129;">This crowd-sourced national project has the goal of compiling stories of all 400,000+ of the US World War II fallen in one free-to-access central database. </span><b><span style="color: red;">We are going to need a lot of volunteers.</span></b></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Anyone visiting a war memorial or gravesite will be able to scan the name of the fallen with a smartphone and his story will appear on the phone.</span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: arial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;">Owen was born On August 10, 1920 in Salt Lake City, Utah to Joseph McAllister and Vera Bennion. He had two brothers Warren, and Gerald and one sister Bella. </p>
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<p style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: arial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">In 1940 Owen was in his first year of college at the University of Utah. He enlisted on September 29, 1941 and took flight training at Cal-Aero and Victorville pilot training schools. In April of 1942 he received his commission and in August was assigned to the South West Pacific. As a sophomore attending the University of Utah he was the first student to complete his Civil Aeronautics Administration training course.</p>
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<p style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: arial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">He was attached to the 71<span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><sup>st</sup></span> Bombardment Squadron 38<span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><sup>th</sup></span> Bombardment Group, 4<span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><sup>th</sup></span> Air Dept Group, U. S. Army Air Forces which was sent to Australia. This unit was equipped with B-25 Mitchell bombers.</p>
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<p style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: arial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">On November 2, 1942, 2<span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><sup>nd</sup></span> LT McAllister was co-piloting the B-25D #341-29702 nicknamed ‘Satan’s Pet’ when the plane caught fire a few minutes after take off on a routine practice mission. The B-25 caught fire, the pilot attempted to make a landing over water. While it was only 200 yards off shore it exploded blowing the aircraft to bits with all crew onboard including:</p>
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<p style="font-family: arial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">2nd Lt. Walter T. Green, Jr. (0-659970) of Cooleemee, North Carolina - pilot </p>
<p style="font-family: arial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">2<span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><sup>nd</sup></span> Lt. Joseph O. "Owen" McAllister (0-724637) - acting Co-pilot </p>
<p style="font-family: arial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">S/Sgt Charles Evans (7022202) of Ambridge, Penn. </p>
<p style="font-family: arial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Cpl. Donald P. Evans (18069309), of Windsor Colorado </p>
<p style="font-family: arial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Cpl. John A. Halmekangas (17025693), of Virginia, Minnesota</p>
<p style="font-family: arial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">They were embalmed and buried in the Townsville US Cemetery, Queensland, Australia, 11 November 1942, grave 61, row 4, plat 3-C. They were later exhumed and reburied at the US Military Cemetery at Ipswich west of Brisbane in south east Queensland. In 1947 they were exhumed again and transported by the Victory ship <i>USAT Groucher Victory</i> to Guadalcanal where they were transferred to the <i>USAT Cardinal O'Connell</i>, a funeral ship, which then sailed to Hawaii, where they were repatriated. </p>
<p style="font-family: arial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Final resting place for 2<span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><sup>nd</sup></span> Lt. Joseph Owen McAllister took place on 6 March 1948, Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake, Utah.</p>
<p style="font-family: arial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Awards earned:</p>
<p style="font-family: arial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">United States Aviator Badge<br />
World War II Victory Medal<br />
American Campaign Medal<br />
Army Presidential Unit Citation<br />
Army Good Conduct Medal</p>
<p style="font-family: arial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Thank you, Joseph Owen McAllister for your sacrifice. Let’s <a href="http://ww2fallen100.blogspot.com/2016/12/earn-this.html"><span style="color: blue;">‘Earn It”</span></a> for Owen.</p>
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<p style="font-family: arial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">On February 19, 1943 a V-Mail was received by Owen’s parents, Joseph and Vera from 1<span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><sup>st</sup></span> Lt. George A. Gillespie, a friend of the family, offering not only sympathy but an explanation regarding their son’s death. The body of the message is as follows:</p>
<p style="font-family: arial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><i>My Dear Vera and Mac,</i></p>
<p style="font-family: arial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><i>I was very shocked when I received your letter about the tragedy that has struck your family, and I am personally grieved over your loss of Owen. A real man, and a gallant hero. My deepest condolences and sympathy to you. </i></p>
<p style="font-family: arial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><i>Owen’s squadron is in our command, so I went over immediately to see his squadron commander, Major (Bob) R.H. McCutcheon, whom I know personally. I had a long chat with him, and several of the other officers who knew Owen very well; and how proud you would be to know how much they all thought of your son, and how his tragedy hit everyone in the squadron. I learned the entire story of the accident, but due to ridgid regulations, cannot tell you everything via letter. Rest assured, that at the the first possible opportunity, I shall give you every minute detail.</i></p>
<p style="font-family: arial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><i>Major McCutcheon wrote you on January 8, which letter I have read, and frankly, I can write little more than what was contained in his letter, much to my dislike. Owen’s personal effects have been taken care of according to regulations, which means that any government property will be removed, and all personal property boxed up and sent directly to you. This all has been done already, so you should receive it soon. His insurance has been mentioned in the Major’s letter to you.</i></p>
<p style="font-family: arial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><i>After a talk with the Adjutant General and Chief of Staff of this command, I can tell you the mishap occurred 5 minutes after the take off of a routine practice mission. The plane caught fire, and the pilot attempted to make a landing over water. About 200 yards off shore and at the same altitude, it exploded, blowing the plane to bits, with none of the crew surviving. The end was instantaneous, and there was no suffering by any of them.</i></p>
<p style="font-family: arial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><i>Owen was acting co-pilot, and the pilot was Lt. Walter T. Green of Cooleemee, NC Rest of the crew were: Sgt. Charles Evans, Ambridge, Penn., Corp. Donald Evans, (no relation to the other Evans), Windsor, Colo., Cpl. John A. Halmekangas, Virginia, Minn. Exact location of the accident, and place of burial cannot be mentioned at this time, but full military honors were given the men, and the entire squadron were present to pay a last tribute.</i></p>
<p style="font-family: arial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><i>I attempted to find Owen’s best friend, and learned it was his regular navigator, Jack Mills who was not with him on that flight. However, Jack too, has given the same supreme sacrifice that Owen did, for a cause that is greater than any of us individually. Dear folks, I hope this gives you some picture of the tragedy, and any further service I can do for you,, please don’t hesitate to call on me.</i></p>
<p style="font-family: arial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><i>Sincerely, George</i></p><p style="font-family: arial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">(Copy of the original V-Mail below)</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px; min-height: 13px;">_______________</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1e00fd; font-family: arial; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px;"><i>This profile was written by Linda Simpson. I have been an avid genealogist and historian for over 40 years. When I saw an article on Don’s project I knew I wanted to be a part of Stories Behind the Stars. What an amazing way to honor our fallen, by ‘Earning It’ for them.</i></p><p style="font-family: arial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-size: 14.84999942779541px;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: arial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-size: 14.84999942779541px;">This is one of the final 50 stories (24) to be written as part of this project which ends on September 2, 2020, the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II. At that time more than 1,370 men and women will have been profiled. The project will live on in an expanded program to write the stories of all 400,000+ US World War II fallen. Visit </span><a href="http://www.storiesbehindthestars.org/" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #667700; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; text-decoration: none;">www.storiesbehindthestars.org</a><span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-size: 14.84999942779541px;"> to learn more. </span><u style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px;">We welcome your continued support and interest and encourage you to help write some of these stories</u><span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-size: 14.84999942779541px;">.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Last year on this date I profiled Hellcat pilot Joseph Cox, <i>USS Enterprise</i>. You can read about Joseph </span><a href="https://ww2fallen100.blogspot.com/2019/08/ww2-fallen-hellcat-pilot-joseph-cox-uss.html" style="color: #667700; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">here</span></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></p><p style="color: #262626; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333;" /></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">On behalf of the fallen, if you would like to see more people become aware of this project to honor the WW2 fallen, be sure to share with others on Twitter, Facebook, etc. Thanks for your interest!</span></p><p style="color: #262626; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333;" /></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I created this video to explain why I started this project: </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXt8QA481lY" style="color: #667700; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXt8QA481lY</span></a><span style="font-family: arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Follow on Twitter @ww2fallen100</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: red; font-family: arial; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Please consider joining the public Facebook group to increase the exposure of this project. 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<p style="color: blue; font-family: arial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="color: black;">Australia At War – <a href="https://www.ozatwar.com/ozcrashes/qld96.htm"><span style="color: blue; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">https://www.ozatwar.com/ozcrashes/qld96.htm</span></a><br />
Ancestry – <a href="http://www.ancestry.com"><span style="color: blue; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">http://www.ancestry.com</span></a> <br />
Find A Grave – <a href="http://www.findagrave.com"><span style="color: blue; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">http://www.findagrave.com</span></a> <br />
Honor States – <a href="http://www.honorstates.org"><span style="color: blue; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">http://www.honorstates.org</span></a> <br />
Google Images – <a href="http://www.google.com"><span style="color: blue; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">http://www.google.com</span></a> B-25 Mitchell Bomber (Satan’s Pet) <br />
</span><span style="color: #161616;">Newspapers.com – <a href="http://www.newpapers.com"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.newpapers.com</span></a> </span><span style="color: black;"><br />
</span><span style="color: #161616;">Wikipedia – <a href="http://www.wikipedia.com"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.wikipedia.com</span></a> </span></p>WW2 Fallen 100 Projecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01652061709901284477noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1232607911651619990.post-53468607117963488312020-08-09T06:45:00.001-07:002020-08-09T06:45:31.710-07:00WW2 Fallen - Foster Towle, USS Savannah<p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUj93Hvch_E8qkBgLNuFwdkcpDDpa1XJ-GVxS1ahHZkPBd3gE2hyT7uWlF8t2uyy0CDrCqGbzTIarzoi9ql91j0Tdp1N-Jq0FcCqjyio8OyBFm3KjqClkydQLMFTzF1JnmGwLr6tNvU7O4/s1280/towle+collage.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 1em 0px;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUj93Hvch_E8qkBgLNuFwdkcpDDpa1XJ-GVxS1ahHZkPBd3gE2hyT7uWlF8t2uyy0CDrCqGbzTIarzoi9ql91j0Tdp1N-Jq0FcCqjyio8OyBFm3KjqClkydQLMFTzF1JnmGwLr6tNvU7O4/w400-h225/towle+collage.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Foster Towle was a ship fitter 3/c on the cruiser USS Savannah in the Mediterranean.<br />References cited below.</span></td></tr></tbody></table></p><p><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Foster Brown Towle never had a chance to reach 100 years old today. Instead, he sacrificed his life for our freedom.</span></p>
<p style="color: #262626; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><div align="left" dir="ltr" style="margin-left: 0pt;"><table style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none;"><tbody><tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(0, 0, 0); overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 5pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If you have enjoyed reading the stories of the WWII fallen, <b>Can you help write some stories?</b> It's a big project. The more help, the better. </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 5pt;"><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Announcing "The Stories Behind the Stars", see </span><span style="color: #385898; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.storiesbehindthestars.org/?fbclid=IwAR0j-vBLbbQFpbP6RfzRXoDq0bHeKPTdZcS9KbpoH10fdTH2OGyxFfj8_X8" style="color: #667700; text-decoration: none;">https://www.storiesbehindthestars.org</a>.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 5pt;"><span style="font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #1d2129;">This crowd-sourced national project has the goal of compiling stories of all 400,000+ of the US World War II fallen in one free-to-access central database. </span><b><span style="color: red;">We are going to need a lot of volunteers.</span></b></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Anyone visiting a war memorial or gravesite will be able to scan the name of the fallen with a smartphone and his story will appear on the phone.</span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;">Foster was born on 9 August 1920 in Greensburg, the county seat of Kiowa County, Kansas, to Edward Foster Towle (1868-1961), who was originally from Missouri, and Carrie Blanche Steadman (1881-1957), who had been born in Wisconsin. The couple had married in Greensburg about 1903 when Edward was 35 and Carrie was 22. Foster was the seventh of their eight children. The family lived on Grove Street, Greensburg.</p>
<p style="font-family: helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;">On 16 February 1942, Foster registered for the draft in Finney County, Kansas. At the time, he was living at 623 Garden City Avenue, Garden City, Kansas, about 100 miles from the family home. The twenty-one-year-old was six feet, two inches tall and weighed 170 pounds. He had brown eyes, brown hair, and a fair complexion. It was noted he had “two upper front teeth bridged in.”</p>
<p style="font-family: helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;">Foster enlisted in the U.S. Navy (Service No. 6-285796) on 23 June 1942 and was assigned to the U.S.S. Savannah as a shipfitter, 3<span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><sup>rd</sup></span> Class. He was paid approximately $78 a month. </p>
<p style="font-family: helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;">On 7 December 1942, Foster married Julie Patricia Concannon in a Methodist ceremony in Alexandria, Virginia. His twenty-one-year-old bride, a secretary, recorded her home address as 319 10<span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><sup>th</sup></span> Street, Garden City, Kansas.</p>
<p style="font-family: helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;">By May 1943, Foster was aboard the cruiser <i>U.S.S. Savannah</i>, as it headed for the war in Europe. The <i>Savannah</i> left Norfolk, Virginia, with a troop convoy heading for the Mediterranean to take part in the invasion of Sicily. Over the next few months, the <i>Savannah</i> supported the troops fighting on land in Sicily, Palermo, and Salerno, Italy.</p>
<p style="font-family: helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;">On 11 September 1943, while in the waters near the port of Salerno, the <i>Savannah</i> was hit by a German FX1400 radio-controlled bomb, which went straight through the Number 3 turret and exploded in the lower handling room. The bomb was estimated to weigh about 3,000 pounds. According to an article on <a href="http://www.historyofwar.org"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">www.historyofwar.org</span></a>, “… a large hole was blown out of the bottom of the ship. Secondary explosions followed for the next 30 minutes.” </p>
<p style="font-family: helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;">One hundred and ninety-seven men were killed in the attack on the <i>Savannah</i> that day. Among them, twenty-three-year-old Foster Brown Towle. He had been married for nine months.</p>
<p style="font-family: helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;">Foster’s body was eventually interred at the Sicily-Rome American Cemetery in Nettuno, Italy (Plot C, Row 15, Grave 41). He was posthumously awarded a Purple Heart. </p>
<p style="font-family: helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;">On 15 February 1962, Foster’s sister Rubye Jane (Towle) Prosch, who lived in Hutchinson, Kansas, applied to the U.S. government for a flat granite marker with a Latin Cross, to be placed at the Towle family plot in Fairview Cemetery, in Greensburg. </p><p style="font-family: helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;">________</p>
<p style="font-family: helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;"><i><span style="color: #2b00fe;">This profile was written by Joanne Dillon. “I’m a writer, amateur genealogist, and history buff. Writing profiles of the men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice in World War II is a way I can use my skills to help ensure they are not forgotten. It’s truly an honor to participate in this project.” </span></i></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px;"><span face="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;">This is one of the final 50 stories (35) to be written as part of this project which ends on September 2, 2020, the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II. At that time more than 1,370 men and women will have been profiled. The project will live on in an expanded program to write the stories of all 400,000+ US World War II fallen. Visit </span><a href="http://www.storiesbehindthestars.org/" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #667700; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;">www.storiesbehindthestars.org</a><span face="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"> to learn more. </span><u style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;">We welcome your continued support and interest and encourage you to help write some of these stories</u><span face="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;">.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Last year on this date I profiled B-17 gunner Bernard Vermeer and a famous sportscaster. You can read about Bernard </span><a href="https://ww2fallen100.blogspot.com/2019/07/ww2-fallen-b-17-gunner-bernard-vermeer.html" style="color: #667700; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">here</span></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></p><p style="color: #262626; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333;" /></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">On behalf of the fallen, if you would like to see more people become aware of this project to honor the WW2 fallen, be sure to share with others on Twitter, Facebook, etc. Thanks for your interest!</span></p><p style="color: #262626; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333;" /></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I created this video to explain why I started this project: </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXt8QA481lY" style="color: #667700; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXt8QA481lY</span></a><span style="font-family: arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Follow on Twitter @ww2fallen100</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: red; font-family: arial; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Please consider joining the public Facebook group to increase the exposure of this project. Go to:</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/1816709708600092/?ref=bookmarks" style="color: #667700; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">WW2 Fallen 100</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-top: 3pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">WW2 Fallen 100</span><span style="font-family: arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is supported by</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-top: 3pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Greatest </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">GENERATIONS</span><span style="font-family: arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Foundation</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-top: 3pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Where Every Day is Memorial Day”</span></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px;"><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 14.266666412353516px;"></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.84999942779541px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.tggf.org/" style="color: #667700; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.tggf.org</span></a></p>
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<p style="font-family: helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;"><b><i>S</i>OURCES</b></p>
<p style="font-family: helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;"><span style="color: #0b4cb4; text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.ancestry.com">www.ancestry.com</a></span>. 1920, 1930, 1940 U.S. Federal Census; 1925 Kansas State Census; Draft Registration Card; Marriage Certificate for Foster Brown Towle and Julie Concannon; Application for Grave Marker; Headstone Inscription; and Interment Record for Grave in Italy. </p>
<p style="color: #0b4cb4; font-family: helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.cv6.org/company/muster/organization.htm">http://www.cv6.org/company/muster/organization.htm</a></span><span style="color: black;">. Salary Information for Naval Personnel in WWII.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;"><span style="color: #0b4cb4; text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.findagrave.com">www.findagrave.com</a></span>. Photo of Foster Brown Towle; Photo of Cross on Foster Brown Towle’s Grave in Sicily-Rome American Cemetery, Italy; Information on Parents and Siblings. (Note, this list omits youngest child Wayne Towle.)</p>
<p style="font-family: helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;"><span style="color: #0b4cb4; text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.historyofwar.org">www.historyofwar.org</a></span>. “USS Savannah CL-42.” General Information on USS Savannah.</p>
<p style="font-family: helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;"><span style="color: #0b4cb4; text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.navsource.org">www.navsource.org</a></span>. Photo of U.S.S. Savannah Leaving NY Harbor</p>
<p style="font-family: helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;"><span style="color: #0b4cb4; text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooklyn-class_cruiser">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooklyn-class_cruiser</a></span>. Photo of USS Savannah Hit by Germans, 11 September 1943.</p>WW2 Fallen 100 Projecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01652061709901284477noreply@blogger.com0