A WW II Airman’s Story Europe: Normandy through VE-Day
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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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