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A WW II Airman’s Story Europe: Normandy through VE-Day Presentation make to Special Friends June 2005. 6Z. Special Friends. Sources: Photos by Anando Kramer Photos & Data from “Into the Valley” Col. Charles H. Young, 1995 Y’s Tales, York High Year Book - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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A WW II Airman’s StoryEurope: Normandy through VE-Day Presentation make to Special Friends June 2005

Special Friends

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Sources:

Photos by Anando Kramer

Photos & Data from “Into the Valley”Col. Charles H. Young, 1995

Y’s Tales, York High Year Book

Tower ’44, Wheaton College year book

Photos from family albums

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Anando Kramer, photographer

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My Name is Donald Frank Beaumont

Prologue1924 to 1942

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Life Changing Events1924 - Born with two wonderful parents

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I am the oldest of three sons ofFrank Beaumont 1900-1990Beatrice Beaumont 1900-1997

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Life Changing Events1924 - Born with two wonderful parents1930 - Moved 6 times by end of 1st grade

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Life Changing Events1924 - Born with two wonderful parents1930 - Moved 6 times by end of 1st grade1928 - First airplane ride

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First Flight:1928 Pittsburg: Dad & Me

Curtis Robin

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Most Recent Flight: 2004 Georgetown, Texas

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76 Years!!!

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Life Changing Events1924 - Born with two wonderful parents1930 - Moved 6 times by end of 1st grade1928 - First airplane ride1934 – Chose Jesus Christ, Savior & Lord1936 – Joined Villa Park Bible Church1938 – Attended York High School

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The High School Years

Teen Years: Family, Church Cars, a Girl Named Frances

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Don and the ‘35 Ford Roadster

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June 1942I graduated from York High School Elmhurst, Illinois

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List of York Servicemen from Classes before 1942! Three more classes were added by war’s end.

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Young Men in Villa Park Bible Church Class of 1942

Kenny Goodheart Fred Damerion Killed in France, 1945

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Life Changing Events1924 - Born with two wonderful parents1930 - Moved 6 times by end of 1st grade1928 - First airplane ride1934 – Chose Jesus Christ, Savior & Lord1936 – Joined Villa Park Bible Church1938 – Attended York High School1942 – Attended Wheaton College

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September 1942 to January 43I attended Wheaton College, Illinois

Wheaton, Dear old Wheaton live foreverBrave Sons and Daughters trueWe will ever uphold thy colorsThe Orange and the Blue

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Life Changing Events1924 - Born with two wonderful parents1930 - Moved 6 times by end of 1st grade1928 - First airplane ride1934 – Chose Jesus Christ, Savior & Lord1936 – Joined Villa Park Bible Church1938 – Attended York High School1942 – Attended Wheaton College1943 – Drafted into US Army

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The War Years 1943 to 1945

1943

February 1943Drafted: 36737213

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I served in the Army Air Corps Feb. 27, 1943-Nov. 23, 1945

I served in the Troop Carrier Command 96th TCS 440th TCG

Aircraft Electrical Specialist

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Oh, What a difference 61 years makes

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96th TCS 440th TCG February 1944 – August 1945European Theater of Operations

Dropped Airborne Infantry Towed GC-4A & Horsa Gliders Dropped parapack re-supplies Hauled gasoline jerry cans Repatriated wounded & POW’s

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96th TCS 440th TCG February 1944 – August 1945European Theater of Operations

D-Day Normandy: Op. NeptuneSouthern France: Op. DragoonHolland: Op. MarketBastogne: Battle of the BulgeRhine Crossing: Op. Varsity

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February 27, 1943

Chicago, IllinoisInduction Physical

Camp Grant, Rockford, Illinois Induction into army

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Kessler FieldBiloxi, Mississippi

Basic training

March 1943Assigned to Army Air Corps

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March 1943 Kessler FieldBiloxi, Mississippi

Basic training

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Amarillo Field Amarillo, Texas

May 1943Aircraft Mechanics School

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Chanute Field, Illinois

August 1943Aircraft Electrical Specialist School

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Life Changing Events1924 - Born with two wonderful parents1930 - Moved 6 times by end of 1st grade1928 - First airplane ride1934 – Chose Jesus Christ, Savior & Lord1936 – Joined Villa Park Bible Church1938 – Attended York High School1942 – Attended Wheaton College1943 – Drafted into US Army1943 – Flight Crew Physical Exam; Eye Test

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August 1943Chanute Field, Illinois

Aircraft Electrical Specialist School headed for B-29 in the Pacific?

E C D AM O F P N

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On Furlough, December 1943 with DadWaiting for Notification of Assignment

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December 1943Assigned to the Troop Carrier Command

440th Troop Carrier Group 96th Troop Carrier Squadron 6Z

The C-47 transport!

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Douglas DC-3

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Cockpit of a C-47 Dakota

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December 1943Sedalia Army Air Field, Missouri

440th Troop Carrier Group96th Troop Carrier Squadron 6Z

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December 1943Sedalia Army Air Field, Missouri

440th Troop Carrier Group96th Troop Carrier Squadron 6Z

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January 1, 1944Pope Field, Fort Bragg

North Carolina

Training with Airborne Infantry

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January 1, 1944Pope Field, Fort Bragg

North Carolina

Training with Airborne Infantry

GC - 4A glider

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Vs of Vs in Trail

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February 1944Baer Field, Fort Wayne, Indiana

Ground Echelon leaves for EnglandVia Camp Shanks, Orangeburg, NY

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February 1944Baer Field, Fort Wayne, Indiana

Air Echelon leaves for EnglandVia South America & North Africa

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C-47 cargo area with ferry tanks

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The War Years 1943 to 1945

1944

England, France, & Holland

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February 1944Camp Shanks, Orangeburg

New York

Ground Echelon Sails for England

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Troop Ship Louis PasteurFormer French Luxury Liner

Ground Echelon’s carrier: New York to Liverpool

No convoy: 3rd fastest ship at that time!

E7Port

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March 1944 Landed in Liverpool Bottesford Air BaseNottinghamshire, England

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March 1944 Bottesford Air BaseNottinghamshire, England

Training with Airborneand British Horsa Gliders

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Horsa Glider Tow

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England from the Air

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April 1944 Exeter Air Base Devonshire, England

Getting Ready for Normandy

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Loading a jeep enroute to Exeter

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Where do we sit?

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Enroute to Exeter

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April 1944 Exeter Air BaseDevonshire, England

Getting Ready for Normandy

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May 1944Exeter, Devonshire Group Review

Note: No D-Day black and White Paint yet

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June, 1944 Exeter, Devonshire Colonel Krebs radar shippainted for Operation Neptune

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Pathfinder guides to DZ’s and LZ’s

Specially trained:Troop Carrier flight crewsParatroopers

Mission:15 to 30 minutes before 1st serialSet up:

Eureka (Rebecca) nav aidLighted or florescent “T” panels

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Pathfinders: A brief history

1st used in the invasion of Italy (deemed essential after the bad drop scattering

during the invasion of Sicily).Success in Italy=use on D-Day Normandy.

Day-Day Normandy: 20 C-47 pathfinders30 minutes before the 1st SerialsOnly marginally successful

Night landing errorsEquipment failures

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From: C H Young1995

D-Day NormandyOperation Neptune

UtahOmaha

Exeter

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Barracks & Air Raid Shelters Exeter, Devonshire

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May 1944Exeter, Devonshire Group Review

Note: No D-Day black and White Paint yet

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From: C H Young1995

D-Day NormandyOperation Neptune

June 5-6: Only ETO night dropPlanes Gliders Troops Air Fields

1038 103 17,000 15 England

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D-Day Normandy American Part

801 C-47’s 13,000 paratroopers Formations formed with red & green fm lightsOff Normandy: red & green off, blue fm on dim20 minutes from drop: remove jump door 4 minutes from drop: red cabin light Stand & hook up to static cabin line Descend to 700 feet reduce 140 to 110 mph Green light = kick out parapacks & JUMP

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440th TCG Op Neptune June 5-6, 1944

440th TCG45 C-47’s, lost 23rd Bat, 506th Para InfCo C 326th air eng bat101st Airborne Division

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D-Day black & white paint job

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Flight Line: June 5, 1944 439th TCG

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D-Day Normandy, June 5th-6th

101st Airborne

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Never Forget What They Did!

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Omaha Beach D-Day!

From Where They Fell

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DZ’s around Ste-Mere-Eglise

UtahBeach

Ste MereEglise

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Ste Mere Eglise in 1999

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Ste Mere Eglise Church Airborne Image 1999

ParatrooperFigure

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Parachute Museum, Ste Mere Eglise

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Col C H Young’s C-47

ArgonneLead the 339th TCG June 5-6,

1944

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Omaha Beach, May 199955th Anniversary of Normandy

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D-Day plus one

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Airborne Infantry on GC-4A Glider Enroute to Normandy

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Tug C-47Glider

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Horsa & CG-4A Gliders in Normandy

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Horsa glider & casualties

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Jeep off loaded from GC-4A Glider

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Waco CG-4A Glider &Rommel’s Asparagus

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Fought with infantry until repatriated

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Ready-made Runway

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Southern FranceOperation Dragoon Take-off: Italy

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Invasion of Southern France Operation Dragoon August 15, 1944

Italy

France

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August 1944Move from Exeter, England to Reims, France

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August 1944 Reims, FranceBombed Hangers

Here by accident!We’re C-47’s not P-47’s!!!

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August 1944Reims, France Barracks

Air Echelon moved back to EnglandGround Echelon moved to Mets, France

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Ground Echelon moved to Le MansAir Echelon moved back to England for Operation Market (Holland)

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Invasion of HollandSeptember 17, 1944

Summary: Daytime Operation1532 planes 478 gliders20,000 Troops 18 Pathfinder C-47s

20 minutes ahead

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Sept. 17th Op. MarketHolland

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Sept. 17th: Op. Market440th dropped 82nd

Col Krebs plane lost

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Group CO Krebs’ C-47 Collided with another C-47Returning from Holland Drop

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Freddy Broga & Company 2 Weeks with the Underground

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Re-living the underground experienceThe Elevator hiding place

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Sept.18th:440th towed 82 gliders:

82nd Airborne

Sept.23rd:440th towed 96 gliders:

82nd Airborne

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Meanwhile back in Le Mans, France

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October 1944 Le Mans, France

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November 1944Move to Orleans Air Field

Ground and Air Echelons reunited

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November 1944 Orleans, France

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December 1944 Orleans, FranceOperation Bastogne

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Orleans Air Base OperationsArdennes: Battle of the Bulge

Dec. 16th 1944Nazis Attach with

250,000 troops 1,000 tanks

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Bastone

Meuse River

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Bastogne: Dec. 26th

AM: 96th TCS flew one C-47 & glidersurgical team and supplies

PM: 10 C-47’s & gliders (3 from 96th)

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Bastogne: Dec. 27th

439th TCG: 50 plane serial (13 440th)95th TCS lost 5 of 896th TCS lost 3 of 5

OUR WORST DAY of the WAR!!

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The War Years 1943 to 1945

1945

Germany, V-E Day!

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Orleans?, France Orleans, FranceBombed out German Barracks

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Orleans Air Base hangers

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Winter at Orleans Air Base

Where are the heated hangers?

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Orleans Air Base, France

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Rhine Crossing Op VarsityMarch 24, 1945

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Op Varsity: Crossing the Rhine Summary: biggest airborne ever!

1836 planes1348 gliders (592 double tow)17,000 troops

Flew in four lanes: three 1 ½ miles apartfourth 200 feet above

Took 3 hours and 12 minutes to pass given point!!!!

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Rhine Crossing

Rhine R

iver

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Rhine Crossing DZ’s & LZ’s

Wesel

Flight Path

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City of Wesel

Drop and Landing Zones

Rhine River

Dick Erdenberger Sun CityNeighbor was right here

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Rhine Return Flight

Rhine River

Wesel Bridge

Dick ErdenbergerSun City neighborWas right Here!

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Op. Varsity: Crossing the Rhine A glider operation

GC-4A gliders

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Operation VarsityRhine CrossingDouble Glider Tow

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Two Columns of C-47’s each with Two gliders

C-47sC-47s

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Rhine Crossing Runway Lineup

C-47s

C-47s

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Rhine Crossing Runway Closeup

Some other operations for Troop Carrier

C-47

GC-4A glider

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Air evacuation

Stretchers for wounded

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Air Evacuation Nurses: 440th TCG

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Loading Wounded

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Prop change: lots of help

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Not much fun in the winter

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Glider Pickup

Glider

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Some personal recollections

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Freddie Broga and Friends

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Roland Dahlberg best friend

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Roland Dahlberg

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Unloading 5 gallon Jerry Gas Cans

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Metz, France May 1945 V-E Day!!!!!

Gasoline to Patton’s Tanks

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More Gas for Patton’s Tanks

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Our C-46Getting ready to go to Japan

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440th TCG Prepares for Japan

J-Day!! 440th Reorganized

Ground Echelon Sails Home!! August 1945

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Camp Grant, Illinois November 1945 Discharged!!

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Home again!!!

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Mom, I’m home!

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96th TCS, 440th TCG

Gone but not forgotten!Gone but not forgotten!

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Epilogue1945 to 2005

Wheaton College Columbia University Middlebury College Texaco American Red Cross Knowledge Systems

Sun City, Texas

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