Co A, 26th Battalion
Wayne Mocas is in the back/top row,
third from the left near the flag. He was eighteen and had almost never
been
Co B, 26th Battalion A photo mailed home from Private Sol Sofsky of Vineland, NJ
Co B, 26th Battalion W. E. Stewart, third from the right on the bottom row, was wounded in France on August 9, 1944. Click here for a PDF file showing the names of all soldiers in this image, courtesy of Barbara French. The eighth soldier in the back row (listed as "Pvt Me" in the PDF) is Barbara's great-uncle, Arthur "Mike" Austin.
Co B, 26th Battalion Chip's grandfather, Captain Randolph E. Carothers (see inset), is on the second row, fourth from right.
Co B, 26th Battalion In this image, Captain Carothers (see inset) is in the second row, third from the right
Co C, 26th Battalion
Co B, 27th Battalion "The man with the pennant has his left hand on my dad's left shoulder (Ben Armusik). I don't have a lot of information, but I know that he was stationed in the Philippines (Luzon) and ran a motor pool. Later he was sent to Japan to the town of Utsonomiya, where he was part of the occupational forces."
Co A, 28th Battalion
Co A, 28th Battalion
Photo is of the 28th Battalion - Company A at Camp Croft. Date of photo would be late 1943 or early 1944. My dad was Michael Carabio from Michigan. He served in a number of campaigns in Central Europe during WWII. My dad was the kind of guy who would have liked to have every soldier in this photo recognized and remembered. My father is the located in the 4th row from the bottom and 5th man to the left. .
Co C, 28th Battalion, 2nd
Platoon Top – Kruza, Frederickson, Garrison, Gougan, Lane, Higham, Hallas, Eisel, Finn, Kemph, Lambotot, Hoyt, Kross, Jones, Johnson, Keefe, Keith. 2nd – Fitaler, Ferrairi, Jalbert, Lansberry, Kruk, Johns, Jones, Jenkins, Fitzpatrick, Holman, Kidd, Fisher, Geoffrey, Johnson, Greenier, Kersey. 3rd – 1st Sgt Dubetsky, Laylor, Gaudreau, Fenton, Fletcher, Foley, George, Cpl Kunkel, Sgt Bartolomel, Platoon Sgt May, Knuckley, Cpl. Arnott, Horuath, Howarth, Grassbard Front – Gould, Hewel, Fabrizzio, Hostetter, George, Gardina, Fencik, Jozefcayk, Engler, Kichline
As C. Del Giudice relates, he is
in "... the second row, 1st on right, next to me is Cherberko (The Mad
Russian)
Courtesy Fletcher Family Archives "Tex" Fletcher is seen in this platoon photo of either his training cycle or one in which he was a cadreman some time in 1942.
Believed to be from around May 1941 and owned by a soldier only know as "Charlie". This item was obtained along with a worship service bulletin and letter to his wife Nathalie AKA "My Baby Norb".
He went on from Camp Croft to serve in the 185th Infantry, 40th Infantry Division, departing the U.S. on 19 October 1944, returning from Korean occupation duty 5 March 1946,
receiving campaign credit for New Guinea, Southern Philippines and
Luzon.
Co. B, 30th
Battalion
2nd Platoon, Co D, 30th Battalion He served as a Machine Gun Sergeant with the 45th Infantry Division in WWII. He received the Purple Heart and Bronze Star for Heroism. During the Korean Conflict, he served with the 808th Military Police at Fort Drum. He retired July 1, 1988 from Carthage (NY) Police Department after 36 years of dedicated service.
Then the son of Ed Hazlett (2nd row 4th from the right) send a higher quality image in 2012 that included a reverse view with names of the soldiers. Ed was discharged in June of 43 and later became the first permanent Fire Chief in the Town of Winthrop, Massachusetts.
1st Platoon, Co D, 30th Battalion My father, Michael N. Atamaniuk is in the front row, second one in from the left. Dad was from Brattleboro, VT before joining the army on August 14, 1945. I remember him telling me basic training totaled about 13-14 weeks so if the photo was taken at the end of basic training it would have been sometime in December '45.
Co. C, 32nd Battalion, 6th Regiment
Co
A, 33rd Battalion
Co
A, 33rd Battalion, 4th platoon About half these men are from Western North Carolina
Co
B, 33rd Battalion "Theron Durald Price" is located at the second row from the top and fifth from the right.
33rd Battalion, 3rd Platoon
Co. A, 34th Battalion, 2nd
Platoon
Co B, 34th
Battalion, 4th Platoon My father, Leo (Lee) D.
Torosian, is in the first row, fifth person from the
Co B, 34th
Battalion, 3rd Platoon My dad, Walter “Gordon” Heath (he went by Walt while in the service) is in the third row….third from the right. A good buddy of his, Hummel, is in the second row….fifth one from the left ( next to the Lt.) My dad does not know what Hummel’s first name was but would like to make contact with him or his family. Please contact the webmaster with information.
Co C, 34th
Battalion Mario J Genova is circled in the second row. For more on Mario, including an image of the back of this photo where some of the men autographed it, click here.
Co D, 34th
Battalion My dad is the first gentleman on the left, holding the flag staff. He was at Camp Croft in the fall of 1944. After his basic training he was stationed in Germany, and then returned to his hometown of Hinton, WV where he still resides today.
Co B, 35th
Battalion
Co B, 35th
Battalion
Co B, 35th
Battalion Raymond A. Persing is in the picture the 2nd row from the back 7th man from the right side (wearing glasses). Our good friend Karen Holt interviewed Ray in May 2011 and scanned these photos for us.
Co C, 35th
Battalion
Photo courtesy of Joe Garland (see also
www.unknownsoldiersmemoir.com)
Co C, 35th
Battalion (2nd Platoon) Fourth row, in front of Garland, Goldfarb, then Furber. Below Dunleavy in the third row, Dave Goss. Standing, Corporals Mazurowski (left) and Magnuson (right).
Co C, 35th
Battalion
Co A, 36th
Battalion
Richmond S Frederick, second row from the bottom, fifth soldier from right (taller than others).
After training at Croft, he went on to earn a CIB for action in the European Theater.
He was drafted on October 20, 1944 and according to his military file, he was attached to Co. D 37th Infantry Training Battalion at Camp Croft from October 25, 1944 through February 17, 1945. After graduating basic training and going home on leave, he was sent to Europe as a replacement and assigned to Co. K 343rd Infantry Regiment 86th Division and fought in the Battle of the Ruhr Pocket and in Bavaria and Austria before the war ended. His division was one of the first two sent home from Europe after the Germans surrendered to prepare for the invasion of Japan. They were at sea when the Japanese surrendered and were diverted to the Philippines where they helped round up Japanese stragglers. He was returned home and discharged in May, 1946."
Company "A", of the 4th Platoon (38th or 39th ID...not sure which...) My uncle Raffaele DeRogatis was in this company. He is the man in glasses, 3rd row from the front, first on the far right. This picture is very cracked and creased and torn. My Uncle Raffaele created a scrapbook of his wartime experiences many years ago. He died in the early 1960's and the book was passed to his brother, my grandfather. When my grandfather passed, I was given the scrapbook.
Ellsworth Meyers is in the third row from the front and third from the right. Upon arrival at Camp Croft, he was assigned to Co. B., 41st Inf. Then, as one of his letters states, his company was moved to the 38th Infantry Training Building. From then on until he left Camp Croft, he was in Company B of the 38th Infantry. A letter from Fort Meade in late December says "Co. C 1st Bu 1st Reg. To confuse matters more, his letters from France have a return address of Inf. Co. A 3rd Pl. While the only letter I have from Germany states "Co. I, 376th Inf. All Dad's paperwork after that lists him as Company I of the 376th.
Robert Gray is in the first row, 3rd from the left
These photos were submitted by a kind benefactor from West Virginia, although none are the soldiers are identified. Most interesting is that an accompanying photo shows the cadre of D-38 ITB as well.
The son of Carl Olie Snyder (32287984) later contacted us and also identified his father in the second row from the front leaning.
Co B, 39th
Battalion
Co C, 39th
Battalion, 1st Platoon
Co C, 39th
Battalion
Carl was afterwards assigned to the 409th Regt., 103rd Infantry Division, K Company, 1st Platoon.
a photo taken in October 1944 (see Carl Diehl's photo above). This may be another platoon of the same company.
Co A, 41st Battalion Bottom left 4th from the left: Private Bako, Bridgeport, CT John J. Festa is middle row third from the right. He lives in Norwalk, CT.
Co B, 41st Battalion
Co B, 41st Battalion
Unfortunately, I don't know too much about my grandfather's service, other than the fact that he fought in the Philippines. Click on the image for a larger version and click here for the reverse which includes the names of the other soldiers.
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