Carl may I be the first to wish you a happy birthday and say how much I appreciate your kindness to me during my stay with you,
This goes to you with my thoughts and wishes for your future well being and also with thanks from us all, I know, for your part in securing our future. You are a very special member of our gang of vets!
Hello! His name is Lawrence G Kowalski. He served in WWII, 36th Engineer Combat NM, 2828 Company C, as Tech 5. Thank you for any help. God Bless! Photos attached.
Hello.. I am the granddaughter of Herbert Atlee Downs aka Burke. Burke was from Germantown, MD and served in the army during the Battle of the Bulge. I know he received a purple heart but I have no details regarding this. His headstone reads that he was tec4. I recently ran across an ad in the Bulge Bugle 22 years late from an army buddy looking for him, but I believe this buddy has since passed. The ad gave me his unit info which was company a 324th combat engineer battalion 99th infantry division. The ad also mentions another buddy... Ben B. Potter with whom they shared a foxhole. Grandpa Burke died before I was born and my dad died when I was very young so this is the extent of my knowledge of his military history. I'd like to find anyone who may have known him or mr. Potter or mr. Kyser who placed the ad. Or if anyone can help me shed light on how to gain info on where he was and what his job may have been.
If you are interested in WW2 History of Italian Campaign you can’t miss the Centre of Documentation and Historical Research of Gotica Toscana npa!
The Centre hosts a permanent exhibition about the Gothic Line and the Altuzzo Battle and a temporary one presenting WW2 uniforms, equipments and original footage.
The actual temporary exhibition, available until march 2013, is dedicated to the EL Alamein Battle (North Africa).
The Centre is the HQ of Gotica Toscana npa and the MVPA representative in Italy
If you want you can also ask a guide either for the support to the exhibition or on demand to visit the battlefield.
Check the Centre's website and that of the North Apennines Po Valley Park we belong to. The North Apennines - Po Valley Park (NAPV) is a WWII theme park created to preserve the memory of an often forgotten phase of that conflict: the Italian campaign after the liberation of Rome.
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