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| Sgt. Joseph Galbally, 1st Infantry Division, was wounded and captured during the Battle of Aachen. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/58778971/joseph-e_-galbally https://www.pinterest.com/pin/538672805416553230/?lp=true |
Joseph E. Galbally never had a chance to reach 100 years old today. Instead, he sacrificed his life for our freedom.
He was born on November 18, 1919 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His parents Edward and Anna were born in England and Pennsylvania, respectively. His father worked as a music publisher. Joseph had four older brothers, one younger sister, and two younger brothers. By 1940 Joseph was still living at home. He had completed three years of high school and worked as a pressman.
He enlisted in the army in July 1942. He became a sergeant in Company C, 1st Battalion, 26th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division. Sgt. Galbally was with the Big Red One from the start of the fighting. He was in North Africa when it landed in November 1942. His father died unexpectedly a month later. Sgt. Galbally next served in Sicily. He landed on Omaha Beach on D-Day. He was with the division through its march through France up to the German border where he fought in the battle to take Aachen.
Sgt. Galbally was wounded and then captured by the Germans on September 18, 1944. He died of wounds in a German hospital for POWs on November 6, 1944.
His grave is at Holy Sepulchre Cemetery in Cheltenham, Pennsylvania. If anyone can take a photo of this, please add it to his findagrave.com profile.
Last year on this date I profiled P-40 officer Benjamin Duke. You can read about Benjamin here.
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!
I created this video to explain why I started this project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXt8QA481lY.
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