Married 1st Frances True Meyers 25 Aug 1928
Married 2nd Roberta Marie Nelson 21 Jul 1946 in the West Side Christian Church, Kansas City, Jackson Co., MO
Military
1941-1945 Sicily, Naples, Anzio, Rome (per papers)
Enlisted Philadelphia 7 Jul 1942
Basic at Ft. Dix and assigned to a Port Battalion unloading Liberty ships of supplies for the war effort from Africa to Italy in the course of the next 36 months. After VE (Victory in Europe 8 May 1945) Day he was getting ready to board ship (thinking they were to be sent to the Pacific to help in winding up that fracas) when VJ (Victory in Japan September 2, 1945) Day was announced soon after they had put to sea and it was with great joy that the ship headed for home. (per wife)
Dad told us that he and his crew stayed on Anzio (Jan - Jun 1944) while ammo ships came and went, carrying ammo and weapons back and forth from Sicily...he and his crew boarded and unloaded the ships but slept in foxholes between shiploads...the Army thought they were safer on Anzio than riding back and forth on the ships transporting the ammo... (per son)
Separated 29 Aug 1945 Ft Bliss, TX
Family has letters from North Africa, Sicily, and Italy
Border Patrol
Dec 1941, left for WWII, returned Oct 1945 in Philadelphia
Mar 1946 transferred to El Paso,
Jan 1949 transferred to Alamogordo.
Mar 1956 transferred to El Paso
1960-1971 Fradulent Document Section
Apr 29, 1971 Retired El Paso
Married 2nd Roberta Marie Nelson 21 Jul 1946 in the West Side Christian Church, Kansas City, Jackson Co., MO
Military
1941-1945 Sicily, Naples, Anzio, Rome (per papers)
Enlisted Philadelphia 7 Jul 1942
Basic at Ft. Dix and assigned to a Port Battalion unloading Liberty ships of supplies for the war effort from Africa to Italy in the course of the next 36 months. After VE (Victory in Europe 8 May 1945) Day he was getting ready to board ship (thinking they were to be sent to the Pacific to help in winding up that fracas) when VJ (Victory in Japan September 2, 1945) Day was announced soon after they had put to sea and it was with great joy that the ship headed for home. (per wife)
Dad told us that he and his crew stayed on Anzio (Jan - Jun 1944) while ammo ships came and went, carrying ammo and weapons back and forth from Sicily...he and his crew boarded and unloaded the ships but slept in foxholes between shiploads...the Army thought they were safer on Anzio than riding back and forth on the ships transporting the ammo... (per son)
Separated 29 Aug 1945 Ft Bliss, TX
Family has letters from North Africa, Sicily, and Italy
Border Patrol
Dec 1941, left for WWII, returned Oct 1945 in Philadelphia
Mar 1946 transferred to El Paso,
Jan 1949 transferred to Alamogordo.
Mar 1956 transferred to El Paso
1960-1971 Fradulent Document Section
Apr 29, 1971 Retired El Paso
Married 1st Frances True Meyers 25 Aug 1928
Married 2nd Roberta Marie Nelson 21 Jul 1946 in the West Side Christian Church, Kansas City, Jackson Co., MO
Military
1941-1945 Sicily, Naples, Anzio, Rome (per papers)
Enlisted Philadelphia 7 Jul 1942
Basic at Ft. Dix and assigned to a Port Battalion unloading Liberty ships of supplies for the war effort from Africa to Italy in the course of the next 36 months. After VE (Victory in Europe 8 May 1945) Day he was getting ready to board ship (thinking they were to be sent to the Pacific to help in winding up that fracas) when VJ (Victory in Japan September 2, 1945) Day was announced soon after they had put to sea and it was with great joy that the ship headed for home. (per wife)
Dad told us that he and his crew stayed on Anzio (Jan - Jun 1944) while ammo ships came and went, carrying ammo and weapons back and forth from Sicily...he and his crew boarded and unloaded the ships but slept in foxholes between shiploads...the Army thought they were safer on Anzio than riding back and forth on the ships transporting the ammo... (per son)
Separated 29 Aug 1945 Ft Bliss, TX
Family has letters from North Africa, Sicily, and Italy
Border Patrol
Dec 1941, left for WWII, returned Oct 1945 in Philadelphia
Mar 1946 transferred to El Paso,
Jan 1949 transferred to Alamogordo.
Mar 1956 transferred to El Paso
1960-1971 Fradulent Document Section
Apr 29, 1971 Retired El Paso
Married 2nd Roberta Marie Nelson 21 Jul 1946 in the West Side Christian Church, Kansas City, Jackson Co., MO
Military
1941-1945 Sicily, Naples, Anzio, Rome (per papers)
Enlisted Philadelphia 7 Jul 1942
Basic at Ft. Dix and assigned to a Port Battalion unloading Liberty ships of supplies for the war effort from Africa to Italy in the course of the next 36 months. After VE (Victory in Europe 8 May 1945) Day he was getting ready to board ship (thinking they were to be sent to the Pacific to help in winding up that fracas) when VJ (Victory in Japan September 2, 1945) Day was announced soon after they had put to sea and it was with great joy that the ship headed for home. (per wife)
Dad told us that he and his crew stayed on Anzio (Jan - Jun 1944) while ammo ships came and went, carrying ammo and weapons back and forth from Sicily...he and his crew boarded and unloaded the ships but slept in foxholes between shiploads...the Army thought they were safer on Anzio than riding back and forth on the ships transporting the ammo... (per son)
Separated 29 Aug 1945 Ft Bliss, TX
Family has letters from North Africa, Sicily, and Italy
Border Patrol
Dec 1941, left for WWII, returned Oct 1945 in Philadelphia
Mar 1946 transferred to El Paso,
Jan 1949 transferred to Alamogordo.
Mar 1956 transferred to El Paso
1960-1971 Fradulent Document Section
Apr 29, 1971 Retired El Paso
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