Anytime gentlemen, anytime!
One of the men who gave his life for our freedom. I hope to find out more about him. I made this picture on March 27th ... take a look on the date. Strange feeling especially because it's my father's birthday on the 26th.
I just found out that there are only 5 men of the 105th buried in Margraten and 7 men in Henri-Chapelle.
There are 18 records about them on the ABMC website.
You can rest assured his family would be very happy to see this.
Received this a few weeks ago...
Hi! I’m hoping you can guide me. My father Rocco D. Petruzzi (deceased 2013) was a member of 105 Combat engineers, 30th Division in WWII. I’m not sure what company he was in but I know he was assigned to water point. I know he was in Mortain and Mogdanberg, Heerlen,Maastricht and he was there when the German propaganda leaflets were dropped. I’m trying to find out the path and time line of his march across parts of Europe. He always said he landed in Normandy D-day +6. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you!
Also, do you know how I would find out about a uso show held in a theater that featured the showing of the film of latest baseball world series. It also had special appearances of Mel Ott one of the players.
Sincerely,
Maryke Petruzzi
Gave her some of the info from our forum and I also added these links of interest:
3d Platoon, Company B, 105th Engineer Combat Battalion earned a PUC for actions of 7 July 1944. Medical Detachment and Headquarters and Service Company earned an MUC for actions from 1 June - 31 July 1945. (Marion's note - PUC stands for Presidential Unit Citation)
That should get you off to a good start. Let me know.
Smiles, Marion
Thanks Marion I so appreciate your help. My father talked about a show he saw in a theater, I think it was before Christmas ’44 I’m not sure what town in Europe at the moment but they showed news film about the ’44 world series and some of the players were present to answer questions from the solders. I need to track that down because my dad asked a question and one of the players threw him a signed ball which my dad cherished. I would like to find out more about the event… any thoughts on how to proceed???
Well now that I have a little more info about the show, maybe I can find something else about the USO show. Earlier this morning, I gave her a link to the USO website. Thought maybe they could shed some light on this subject.
While doing this, I found a quote from Hall of Famer: "Ducky" Joe Medwick (1932-1948). This was so funny, I just had to share.
In a 1944 World War II USO Tour, he was lucky enough to meet Pope Pius XII, he greeted him by saying; "Your Holiness, I'm Joe Medwick. I, too, used to be a Cardinal."
