Waymon GARNER was born on february the 21st 1921 in He was enlisted in the US Army at .. in .. He was attached to the 887th Glider Airborne Engineer company and participated to the European campaing from Italy to Germany. On august 15th 1944, Haymon was landed by glider in the landing zone 15 miles inland vanguard of the second "D" Day in southern France under code of "Operation Dragoon". Waymon remember his glider landing. " Prior the operation we found a baby dog in Italy and she adopted...
Lt. Col. Gordon LIPPMAN enlisted in the Army on 19 March 1943 at Los Angeles, California. He served with the 517th Parachute Regiment in the ETO as Platoon Sgt. of the machine gun Platoon, 1st Brigade HHC His unit served in Italy, Southern France, the Ardennes-Alsace, and in Germany. The 517th fought during the Battle of the Bulge at Soy and Hotten. During this service period he was awarded two Bronze Stars. After his his Honorable discharge as Platoon Sgt. May 13 1945 he received his...
Thomas , "Red" , FORAN, Baron, duc de Saint Bar. le parachutiste du 551em , radio du colonel JOERG devenu aide de camp du Roi de Yougoslavie. De racines Irlandaises, Tom FORAN est né à New Haven, Connecticut en 1922 il est le fils de John K Foran and Valerie Shannon. Un ancêtre présumé était Job Foran, un amiral de la flotte française qui a été fait baron par le roi Louis XIV en 1688. Le titre ducal de Saint Bar aurait été conféré à un autre ancêtre en 1799 par le roi de Naples...
Veterans · 01 September 2022
Cyril Peter HEYGATE, The King's Regiment, circa 1941
Veterans · 03 August 2022
Michael COMPTON was born in HAMBURG, on May 07, 1921, under the birth name of David HOFFMANN. German of Jewish religion, they will quickly be under pressure from the Nazi regime, which grew up in Germany in the 1930s. His parents decide to leave Germany and go to England. These German Jews will be numerous to follow this same path, they are known in the United Kingdom under the nickname "ALIEN", which is the name of a parliamentary act created to control this mass Jewish immigration at the...
Georges SHIRLEY was born 24th of august 1915, he join the US Army in 1942 and trained in Camp Gordon, Georgia, this fort was created in July 1941 as a infantry shool. on the 10th of june 1942, the 83rd chemical battalion was activated in this place. This battalion was designed to carry 36 mortars of 4.2 inches caliber, with each shell weighing about 25 pounds, for a total firepower effect equivalent to three 105mm howitzers. The 4.2 inch mortar brought a lethal, mid-to-close range fire support...
Robert "Bob" DALRYMPLE was born in Brazil, Indiana, on the 10th of june 1917. He was the younger brother of sister, Ruth, and brother, John. After joining the US army and the corp of Engineers Robert DALRYMPLE had been asked to join the airborne troops as the US army was planing to activate some Engineer units attached to the infantry. Before he had attended with his officers a 30 day course at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, after that hard training period. At the end of that period he was asked to...
"A great officer loved by his men" ... It was a privilege to have him as one of the best supporter of our association for over 20 years. Dick SEITZ was born in Leavenworth, Kansas on Feb. 18, 1918, he grew up in that city and then attended Kansas State University where in 1939 as a junior he began dating his first wife, Bettie Jean MERRIL. That same year Dick, foreseeing WWII looming on the horizon, accepted a commission as a 2nd Lieutenant in the US Army. Once in the Army he went through the...
Veterans · 28 February 2022
Barthélemy SORDELLO est né le 18 août 1919 à Gardanne (Bouches du Rhône) Incorporé au 7em génie d'Avignon pour son service National, il est mobilisé en Septembre 1939 à la déclaration de guerre. A la défaite de Juin 40 il retourne à Lorgues et reprend son activité de maçon. Le 19 juillet 1941 il épouse Jeannette MATHIEU à Lorgues . Contacté par la résistance, il va se porter volontaire pour la distribution de tracts anti-gouvernement de Vichy. Lors de l'instauration du STO, le...
Veterans · 16 February 2022
Achott ARAKELIAN est né le 17 février 1925 à Sétif, Algérie. Il se destinait à la Prêtrise, il avait fait le petit puis le grand Séminaire. Mais la guerre en décide autrement. Alors étudiant, Il n’as que 18 ans et se porte volontaire , s’engage avec quelques copains le 24 décembre 1943 pour la durée de la guerre. Il est reçu par le colonel BIRABEN, commandant de la 25em escadron du train du 7èm régiment de tirailleurs Algériens. Achott ARAKELIAN est à pour poste...