Citizen soldier - Private - 56th Signal Battalion - First Corps. Drafted May 1941 to serve one year in the pre-war military service at Fort Jackson, South Carolina. In December 1941, Pearl Harbor, changed this to eventual direct participation in the…
Company "A" Gas Mask Drill. A "ragtag" bunch of recently drafted NY/NJ Citizen soldiers going through the adaption phase to military life...A far different well trained group they were when the Initial Assault beachead landings were made in June 1944…