Lt. Tillman J. Gressitt attendance to Officer's Mess Receipt, Tickets, and Calendar from Officer's Mess Rosecrans Field, St. Joseph, MO 2 October 1945.
Private Jose Fernandez served in the U.S. Army during WWII. He was born in 1916 in Spain and migrated to the United States where he became a citizen. He enlisted on October 10, 1941 at Fort Dix, several weeks before the attack on Pearl Harbor.
This is a picture of Virgil Painter in his uniform. Painter had been drafted in the army, however, as he was waiting in line for the army, he saw a navy recruiter waiting for volunteers. Painter approached the recruiter and ended up working in theā¦
This was a piece of parachute preserved by WWII veteran Robert Ranger. There is a small hole in the parachute that is believed by the family to be a bullet hole caused by a tracer bullet when Ranger was parachuting in Normandy.
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