CONNECTICUT MEN of the Navy Demobilization, Lido Beach Separation Center September 17th to 30th 1945 THE MEN ARE COMING HOME

• The Navy's demobilization program, ber. Each passing month will see, the which went into operation immediately Navy says, an increase in the number after the Japanese agreed to surrender, of those returning to their homes in this moved quickly into high gear. Present state. plans call for discharge of one of every During the period covered by this book• two men by March 1946, and for the Navy let the average number of to be down to its regular post-war comple• men being discharged daily was more than ment by September 1946. When overseas thirty. credit was granted, effective September Under present schedules, approximately 15, 1945, the number of Navy men eligible 20,000 Connecticut men will have com• for discharge was doubled. pleted their naval service and returned The Lido Beach Separation Center handles to civilian pursuits by next March. all discharges for enlisted men in Connecti• cut, metropolitan New York and northern A MESSAGE FROM THE New Jersey. Headquarters of the center GOVERNOR TO CONNECTICUT are established in the Lido Beach Hotel, which, until a few years ago, was an elaborate beach resort. Nearby, the Navy Connecticut has a great seafaring tradi• has constructed more than a score of huge tion. In every war her men have fought barracks where men awaiting discharge gallantly for freedom. In days of peace her sons have offered and manned ships that are quartered. have carried our American commerce From the fighting ships of the Fleet, everywhere in the world. Connecticut from bases overseas, from shore stations people are proud of that tradition. In this greatest of all wars just ended and installations in this country, and from you, as a son of Connecticut, have coura• training schools Connecticut men eligible geously and faithfully maintained that for separation from the Navy are routed tradition. Indeed, you have raised it to to Lido. There they start the rapid new glorious heights. You have added to "processing" that has them restored to that enduring list, started by Isaac Hull of Derby in 1812, immortal civilian status within a few days. names—Macassar Straits, Java, Coral Sea, Set up as a model separation center Savo Island, Santa Cruz, Midway, Lunga Point and Guadalcanal. after long study, Lido's aim, the Navy To the lot of some of you fell the burden says, is constant improvement in its of the training and supply services at home system, to the end that each man eligible and in ports, great and obscure, the world for discharge can be separated from the over. In fact, there are now new ports for service as efficiently and as speedily as the air arm and for the fleet, some of which will endure as monuments to that new arm possible. of the Navy, the Seabees. Official figures, as of July 1, show that Your fellow citizens in Connecticut are Connecticut had a total of 44,302 en• proud of your service. listed men in the Navy. Except for those Raymond E. Baldwin electing the Navy as a career, all those Governor men should be back home by next Septem•

2 HERE ARE THEIR STORIES Editor's Note: It has been the experience of veterans of all wars that memory tends to fade with' the passing of the years. Details will grow vague, half forgotten. A tendency develops which makes for difficulty in distinguishing between personal experiences and those of shipmates. Events, dates and places become confused; thus, the references to "veteran's tales", with all the implications of that phrase. To record here and now the mood, the impressions, the exciting events, of the worst days and of the best days, is the purpose of these stories. Connecticut men were asked for their own stories and in their own words they are here recorded: Barnes, Norman S., AMM 1/c, Flight Butler, John F., SK 1/c, Pearl Harbor Test Units, West Hartford. Sub Base, New London. "I was on my way overseas, heading "Off Block Island, in July 1942, I was for duty at Guam, when I was ordered aboard the YP175, assigned to Atlantic back East for discharge. I left Wesleyan sub patrol, when we thought we located University to enlist in February 1942, a sub and dropped depth charges. We and then I started on a series of schools. never got tangible proof that we hit it; Down at Jacksonville, Florida, we had the task of checking and re-checking dam• aged planes which had been repaired and overhauled. Before I entered the Navy CONNECTICUT VETERANS I thought that a propeller was just a COMMEMORATIVE BOOKLET piece of wood, but at Jacksonville I Vol. VI Sept, 30. 1945 No. 1 sometimes got in several hours of flight CARLETON B. CLYMA, Editor time a day. Now I like aviation so much that I'm thinking seriously of a civilian This booklet is published by the State career in aeronautical engineering." of Connecticut, through the Office of the Governor, as an addition to the souvenirs Blackington, A. L., CMoMM, Repair and memorabilia of the Connecticut men Ship Diomedes, West Granby. who served in the "Anzio Beachhead was the toughest during World War II. and Normandy was the most interesting. The courtesies and assistance of public We were on the receiving end of the information officers of the 3rd Naval District and the Naval Separation Center, 'Anzio Express', the big railroad gun they Lido Beach, L.I., N.Y., greatly facilitated were shelling us with. We never knew when the gathering of the material for this they'd open up and that suspense made it booklet. The group and ship pictures are tough at Anzio. At Normandy it was the from official U.S. Navy photographs. The illustration of the USS Saratoga is from a size of the operation, and the number Press Association photograph. of ships—there was no end to it—that Copies of this booklet are provided for made it interesting. I spent 20 months the men whose names appear on the over there." Final Muster Call, herein, and there Braunau, Edward J., MM 3/c, De• are none available for general distribution. A copy is on file for reference purposes in stroyer Stembel, Stamford. each of the 200 public libraries in the State. "Our ship was in most of the battles Reproduction of the material in this in the Pacific with Task Forces 38, 58 booklet is permissible only with written and the Fifth and Third Fleets. We saw a authorization. great deal of action, but I'm glad it's all over and I'm going home." 3 there was no wreckage surfaced, but it or so and they shipped me back home to was probably my most exciting time in make me a civilian. I had only one liberty the Navy." at Honolulu and I can't say that I liked the Campbell, Charles D., EM 2/c, place very much. Connecticut's the spot for Sub-chasers, Milford. me. Our family has been well represented in "Just about five minutes more and I the services, with one brother in the Ma• would have been an iceberg. Our ship, rines, one in the Army, a third one in the the SC-1067, went down in a terrific Army Air Force, and me in the Navy. I'm storm in the North Pacific, off the Aleu• glad to say that we all came out of it all tians. I was in the water about 15 or 20 right." minutes before a rescue ship picked me up. Collins, Patrick J., MM 1/c, Milne And that water was cold, believe me. Bay, New Guinea, Naval Base, New Most of our crew came out of it all right, Haven. but it was an experience none of us will "I think New Guinea stinks! I saw a ever forget. When I left the Atlantic lot of places there I never want to see for duty in the Pacific, they told me the again. In a way, the Navy was a good ex• seas were nice and calm there; but I saw perience. It teaches a fellow to appreciate rougher weather in the Pacific than I ever his own home town." had in the Atlantic. For my money, the Corneliuson, Edwin A., M 3/c, Repair Pacific, especially in the north, is a lot Crews, Rockville. worse than the Atlantic." "I did a hitch in the old peace-time Carson, Bert E., CSK, Fire Fighting Navy, from 1926 to 1930, and I saw the Rescue Ship, South Coventry. world then, with a lot of duty in China "July 29, off the Anzio beachhead, we and the Philippines. This time they had the worst day. One of our LST's, a hot kept me in the States. It seemed to me Liberty ship and a British cruiser blew up that discipline in the war-time Navy was after hits from German glider bombs— a lot stricter than in the old days, but I 'Chasing Charlies'. It was bad. The LST suppose they had to have it when it got blew and sank and we could save only 21 so big. One of my most interesting jobs out of about 500. The British Cruiser in the war was helping to repair the Spartan turned over and sank while we Carrier Franklin. The crew of that ship were fighting her fires, and we saved about did a wonderful job to get her home after 200 men from her. The Liberty ship got a all the damage she took." second hit, while we were fighting fire along Daly, John F., Sp(X) 2/c, Office of side of her, when, about an hour and a Naval Attache, London, New Haven. half later, the Germans made a return run "My job with the office of the Naval over us. That bomb euchred us, too. Our Attache was extremely interesting. It had power quit and we had to be towed off and to do with the collection and evaluation beached. We were at General Quarters of all of Germany's naval technical that day for 18 hours." materiel and contemplated weapons. Most Ceccarelli, John, MM 2/c, Minecraft, of the things we learned about German Bridgeport. naval weapons are still on the secret list "After about three and a half years of as far as I know, and I can't talk about duty in the States, they finally sent me over• them. Otherwise, I could really give you a seas. I was at Pearl Harbor only two weeks story!"

5 DeFilippo, Louis P., CSp (A), 7th Fleet Ferber, John L., AMM 2/c, Airplane Naval Base, Philippines, Woodbridge. Base, Brazil, Greenwich. "After I get my discharge I'm going "Now this good-will business toward back to the Giants football team and Brazil; it may have done some good to get expect to be in the line-up for their first our troops across there but that's about game in October. I don't know whom they all. I think some Brazilians are not very are playing, but I think I'll be in there. friendly toward Americans. I don't think I'm in good shape because I've been there is much democracy in Brazil. Some doing a lot of athletics in the Navy, say Getulio Vargas is a dictator and as being in the Welfare and Recreation far as I could find out, the people have Office. I noticed a lot of young high school no say in the government. Many of the age kids playing various sports in the people are ignorant. There are hardly Navy, and I think the Navy has developed any schools for the greatest part of the a lot of good material for colleges and population. It looked like the schools are high schools. They've been built up for the wealthy. The poor people have physically and it has also helped them nothing. A lot of them live in mud huts mentally. They're more mature now in with dirt floors and exist on fish heads and their thinking which I think makes for rice. They walk around with old, dirty better athletes. As for me, I don't think burlap bags wrapped around them and no the Navy has slowed me up any. As a shoes. They carry just about everything matter of fact, it has done wonders for me." on their heads—radios, beds—well, just Ehrhard, Milton R., SM 2/c, Supply everything. Ship Hyades, Danbury. "The best spot in Brazil and the one "Last September, enroute to Panama, which fools most foreigners about the and off Daytona Beach, Florida, the country is Rio. It is beautiful. They have Hyades ran into one of the worst storms night clubs there which are just about on the Atlantic, which was called the as good as ours and their floor shows are 'Great Atlantic Hurricane'. Our de• equal to the ones we see in our night clubs. stroyer escort went down. After a search, In short, I didn't enjoy my stay in Brazil. in the roughest kind of going, we picked And, incidentally, this business about up the survivors, about 60 out of the Latins being great lovers is the bunk! We ship's crew of 300. The wind built up to did a lot better than they did with the 120 miles an hour, and it was just by luck women down there." we got through. I was more scared then Gardner, Cleo M., SC 1/c, Submarine than at any time during my four years' Base, Pearl Harbor, Norwich. service in the Navy." "I think the Navy has improved me Evrard, Arthur F., CCS, Jacksonville in many ways. I've learned to take orders. Air Station, Cheshire. It's a good deal for anyone. I would join "This is my second war and I was only the regular Navy myself if I didn't have a beachcomber this time. In World War I, a family to take care of. During the forty- I was in the submarine service, but in four months I spent in the Navy, I got this tour of duty there was nothing I want to know men better than if I had spent to remember as I was disqualified for that time in civilian life. Also, I did a lot sea duty. I'll be glad to get back to good of travelling and saw a lot more of the old Connecticut." world than I would have seen otherwise.

6 Adding it all up, I would say that the Jakubczyk, Walter S., GM 3/c, De• Navy made a better man of me. It has stroyer Minesweeper Hobson, New Britain. taught me, among other things, how to "At mid-morning one day in March take on responsibilities. And I learned how 1943, on sub-patrol in the Bay of Biscay, to cook which I intend to do when I get we located a submarine. Battle stations out. Someday I hope to own my own were sounded. We manned the guns and business—in Norwich, maybe." made depth charge runs. The sub surfaced and we opened fire. Our first salvo struck Glooman, Paul E., CCM, 86th and the conning tower and six minutes after• 27th Seabees, New Britain. wards the sub sank. We picked up 17 "For two years I did nothing but build Germans, including the sub captain. That roads and airports in that lousy hole, the was my most exciting day in the Navy." Aleutians, and was transferred into the 27th for the Okinawa operations. We Karasinski, Theophile A., SoM 3/c, built more roads and more airfields there, Destroyer Waldron, Naugatuck. under fire from snipers and artillery much "Our ship was the first 2200 tin can to of the time. You saw things on Okinawa— go into Sagabi Bay in the Japanese Japanese and Okinawan dead, piled ten homewaters. We went in with the Mis• deep after they had been herded into a souri. We had about six Japs aboard whom mile square area, where we gave them we brought to the British ship Yorktown everything we had from ship and shore, in the bay. As they were coming aboard and still they wouldn't give up. And our on the trolleys, most of the men were Marine dead—truck loads of them. Then pretty quiet, but some were calling the I was assigned to the job of rehabilitating Japs 'yella b ' and thought we shouldn't the natives—an awful job, handling people take them aboard. I guess they wanted who by our standards lived like savages to see them drown in the bay. with no conception of sanitation or "What got me more than anything cleanliness. Their condition was beyond else while we were there was looking at description after they went through what Mount Fujiyama. When you see it after civilians get in a battle area. I wouldn't reading about it and everything, it gives take a million dollars for my experience you quite a thrill to actually see it—you and I wouldn't pay a cent for a repeat feel as though you've really seen something. performance." Something else which is thrilling to see is Graulich, Russell W., Jr., Av. Cad., a Kamikaze diving into a flat top. It's a NATTC, Memphis, Kensington. different kind of a thrill from seeing "My twenty-seven months in the Navy Fujiyama. It's the kind of a thrill that were spent for the most part in training, makes your heart come to your mouth. aviation, gunnery and radio. I learned a lot Those boys whose ship happens to be a besides that, like about how civilians treat target for Kamikaze planes have to be you when you're in the Navy. Up North it made of iron to stand that stuff. It's was good; the South was enemy territory, something, too, to see our five inch shells and I'm a Damyankee myself. The Navy knocking off those pill boxes on shore at treated us well and I hope to put to use Iwo Jima. Our can also was in the show what I learned when I get to work as a at Okinawa where we screened the in• civilian in a control tower." vasion. We travelled around for 80 days

7 without dropping the hook. been opened to traffic. That was the "But I'm glad to be back in God's closest call I ever had." country—the U.S.A. I think we should Mazzucco, William, AMMP 3/c, Air• always be prepared. Too many guys died craft Carrier Service Unit, Atlantic City, for nothing. They tell the Boy Scouts New Haven. to be prepared. How about those big "The Navy is okay, but it's the people shot politicians? Somebody should tell in it who are no good. Especially the them about being prepared. It's a good ninety-day wonders! An oldtimer working motto for us to follow—'Be Prepared.' " for an oldtimer is okay, but when an old- Kordorsky, Anthony P., EM 3/c, timer has to work for a ninety-day wonder, Cruiser Brooklyn, East Haven. then it's no good." "In the invasion of Southern , I'll never forget the time the torpedo McCullough, Frederick N., RdM 2/c, bombers came after us. I thought that was Minesweeper Y.M.S. 79, New Haven. it! I was down about the fifth deck on the "My draft number was the tenth one port side and that's where they were drawn in the lottery back in 1939 when coming in—on the port side of the ship. the draft began. But at that time I was I found that out through the intercom classified 4F because of having four ribs while the attack was going on. The attack missing. I remained in 4F until I got lasted about ten minutes and I was scared into the Navy in July 1943. Since being the whole time. That happened for about in the Navy, every time I even as much as three nights in a row and I was really come near a doctor, he slaps me behind sweating them out down there." an X-ray machine. I've been in the Leitkowsky, John N., SF 1/c, Sub• hospital five times since I've been in the marine Base, Pearl Harbor, New London. service. They took some more X-rays "The thing which impressed me most when I got here—now maybe they will during my service in the Navy was the hold up my discharge, just like they held raising of the Battleship Oklahoma in up my induction back in 1939!" Pearl Harbor. It was a masterpiece of McGhee, Laymond L., MM 2/c, work. The Oklahoma was an awful sight Tankers and Submarine Rescue-Salvage, to see after she was raised. The damage East Haven. on it was pretty awful. The Japs really "During five years and ten months in did a good job in sinking her, but we did a the Navy, I served in both the Atlantic better job in raising it." and the Pacific. I was out in the Pacific Mariano, William J., GM 3/c, Tanker from May of 1940 to November of 1942. Corinth, Waterbury. Our tanker was with a carrier task force "I was aboard the Freighter Arizpa, off and we were in the Kiska and Attu in• Belgium, in December 1944, when the vasions. Sub rescue work in the Atlantic ship struck a mine at dawn. I was on deck gave us many thrills. My biggest moment duty at the time. There was a big flash, came when we raised a sub that had been the ship shook and started to list. The sunk for days off the coast of Maine. Chief Mate and Chief Engineer went When we got it to the surface we found below and did a damn good job to save the that every single member of the crew ship. Two British destroyers towed us was safe. It was a great feeling to be part into the port of Antwerp, which had just of a rescue crew that saved 85 men." 8 Metzger, Robert W., MM 1/c, Air• "All I can say about Panama is that craft Carrier Bon Homme Richard, the whole damn place is one big hell• Bridgeport. hole." "I just got back from the Tokyo area Moran, Frederick P., RdM 1/c, De• where our ship took part in the strikes stroyer Minesweeper Hobson, New Haven. against the Japanese homeland as part "April 16, off Okinawa, was the most of Task Force 38. Our ship stood off exciting day I spent in the service. At about 50 miles from shore to screen the 8:30 in the morning we heard over the landings and protect against any Nip interphone that suicide planes were diving trickery. A lot of Marines landed from at the Hobson. The suspense between that our ship. But we never got close enough to time and the moment the plane hit the the home islands to see any part of it." Hobson made it seem like a lifetime. The Migliore, Charles L., BM 1/c, Mine• 250 pound bomb landed in our engine layer Terror, Meriden. room, and the plane's engine went through "All I got to see was islands in the the deck house. We had four killed and Pacific and hell, there's nothing there. six wounded. The Hobson got credit for One thing I've learned in the Navy and shooting down five Jap planes." that is how to get along with people. In civilian life, if you don't like a person, Paulin, Aristed J., MoMM 1/c, Mine• you just shove off. In the Navy you live sweeper Curlew, Bridgeport. so close together you can't help but do "I didn't think much about anything things for each other. As a result you learn the time we hit a mine sometime in to get along with everybody. Under fire December 1943, in the Caribbean. I was you can't figure out whether a guy is a on throttle watch at the time in the engine good guy or not. The only thing which room. The ship was going along looking combat proves is whether a guy is level• for mines and all of a sudden it found one— headed. Some of the best guys in the but not the way we usually find them. We world crack up under fire." struck it and it blew the bow off. There was not much I could do but stay down Molleur, William J., SM 1/c, Com• there in the engine room and wait for munications, Waterbury. orders. I knew the minute I heard the ex• "I was sent to the Pacific with an plosion that we had struck a mine. Pretty amphibious force in early 1943, but I soon we got our orders to pump out the was transferred and wound up at American bilges forward. We did." Samoa. I worked on a signal tower in communications work. Samoa was pretty Perzanowski, Theodore S., Cox, Air• dull, but the natives are at least a lot craft Carrier Monterey, Meriden. more civilized there than on most Pacific "Our ship took part in every invasion islands. I liked British Samoa much more from the Gilberts to the Philippines. That than American Samoa; it's a lot more counted up to nine major engagements. modern and they even have some good- The one invasion—or rather, engagement, looking buildings. I'll tell you I was which really scared me was the time we certainly glad to see the States after went up to Kavieng. The rest, after that, twenty-two months overseas." came easy. We went up to Kavieng on Molnar, Gaze P., AM 2/c, Coco Christmas of 1943. There were about 200 Solo Air Station, Panama, Hamden. Betty's after us down there and they were 9 all after our carrier and the Carrier one. We stayed around all night long try• Bunker Hill. We were trapped in there ing to find others, but we didn't have any for about three weeks by the Jap airforce. luck." I counted 21 torpedos thrown at us in four Quimby, Edward J., S 1/c, Battleship days during that time. I was a gunner on North Carolina, Bridgeport. a Quad 40. I don't know how many "We were in on the invasion of Guadal• planes our ship or my particular gun canal in August of 1942, but although knocked down that day, but one night I we were there on D-Day, our ship didn't saw seven planes come down." fire a shot. But after we left there and Poland, Noal E., CMoMM, Cruiser were patrolling in the waters around Pittsburgh, NewT London. there, we were attacked by 88 planes. "I was aboard a destroyer escort on That's when we really did a lot of shoot• convoy duty off the Azores in August ing. We didn't get hit ourselves, but the '44, when she was hit by a torpedo. I was Aircraft Carrier Enterprise which was in the forward motor room, and I went out next to us got hit. I was on an antiair• like a light. I came to in the water, with craft gun during the attack. I don't the survivors, wounded and almost help• know if we brought down any planes but less. The men who weren't wounded helped we sure did a lot of firing on that gun. me keep afloat 'til they got me on to a The attack lasted about 12 minutes. We raft. I spent about five hours in the water were on the Enterprise's quarter when and on the raft before we were picked up, she was hit and right after the rack of and was hospitalized for more than three bombs struck, the whole ship became a months. That was my closest call in the mass of flames and smoke." Navy. The best tour of duty I remember in the Navy was aboard the Pittsburgh, Sagor, Charles N., PhoM 2/c, Aircraft in the Orient from 1927 to '30." Carrier Essex, New Haven. "I travelled 200,000 miles—that's a Pole, Frank N., SF 1/c, APA Burleigh, conservative estimate—and 1 didn't see Fifth Amphibious Fleet, So. Norwalk. anything! We'd pass within fifty miles of "Before I was transferred to the Bur• Guam and somebody would say if you look leigh, I was on a sub chaser in the South out on the horizon you'll see Guam. Atlantic. The most thrilling experience As a Photographer's Mate I got some good I had during that time was in November pictures. My best one, I think, was the of 1942 when we sank a German sub. one I took over Roi Namur in the Mar¬ About five o'clock one evening we received shalls. It was a picture of oil dumps going a message from shore radar station that up in flames which I took during an air a sub was in our area. We couldn't do strike from our carrier. I think it was the anything about it for about one hour be• best I had taken because it was a spec• cause our generators were out of order—we tacular looking picture." couldn't even tell the base we had received their message. Finally we got the genera• Schmid, Arthur A., M 1/c, Submarine tors working and went out after the sub. Tender Sperry, Waterbury. We spotted it and then let go with our ash "There wasn't any high spot in my cans. I was firing a K gun from the fantail Navy career. The nearest I got to combat and we dropped about nine cans. We saw was Guam, after the invasion. Guam was the sub roll over, so we know we got that a damned hole, full of rats and lizards #

11 But I've learned a lot in the Navy; the Spalin, Robert G., AMM 2/c, Jackson• fellows are a swell bunch of eggs, and I ville Naval Air Station, Cos Cob. ran across two good officers too." "During my four years in the Navy, I've learned considerable about planes. Scionti, Anthony J., CCM, Navy I've worked on almost all types of Navy Ship Salvage, Waterbury. planes, chiefly their engines. I hope to "I trained as a Navy diver on the French work on planes or automobiles when I'm liner Normandie as she lay on the bottom returned to civilian life. I'm glad I of the slip at Pier 88, North River, New volunteered before the war. My Navy York, and a few months later went over• experience was well worth it." seas where I spent two years. Most of our work was removing sunken ships for Streitwieser, Douglas W., MM 2/c, harbor clearance. We cleared the harbors Aircraft Carrier Monterey, New Haven. at Casablanca, Bizerte, and in Sicily, "The Monterey while I was with it Italy and France. Our biggest job was at took part in everything from the Gilberts Naples and it was one of the most cluttered to the Philippines. We were lucky because harbors that we cleared. Before I entered they missed us every time. We were es• the service I was on construction work and pecially lucky in October of 1944 when our had done no diving. I like it, but I wouldn't task force made an air strike against do it as a civilian." Formosa. The Nips sent out a hell of a lot of planes to attack us. They hit two of Smith, Robert L. SSML 2/c, Tanker the cruisers—the Houston and the Can• Kaweah, Windsor Locks. berra—but missed us! But what the Japs "We were heading from the East Coast couldn't do in October, the typhoon did to North Africa with a load of high-octane in December. We were on our way to the gasoline, which is mighty dangerous stuff. Philippines when it hit us. It damaged We ran into a bad storm and during it we the ship a great deal. Many of the planes had a collision with another ship. It aboard caught fire. As a result of the happened to be, of all things, an ammuni• damage, we had to come home for repairs." tion ship and it's a miracle that we weren't all blown sky-high. Our tanker was Turley, John A., WT 2/c, Cruiser damaged but we were able to keep on and Brooklyn, West Hartford. we reached Casablanca safely. Incident• "Of all the shows I was in with the ally, Casablanca and the rest of North Brooklyn in Casablanca, Sicily, Southern Africa impressed me a whole lot. One of France and Anzio, the last one mentioned the nicest stops we had on our trips over was, by far, the toughest because it lasted there was Gibraltar." the longest. We got a lot of artillery fire from shore batteries, but mostly we Soares, Antonio B., Ck 3/c, Cruiser were attacked by planes. One week of it Brooklyn, Bridgeport. was the toughest part of that whole show. "The attack on the Anzio beachhead They threw everything at us and we threw was the scariest. We were fighting against it right back. In Sicily, after the invasion, shore batteries. We were firing at them we were patrolling around the island when and they were firing at us. It lasted for we hit two mines. There wasn't much dam• four days—mostly at night. I was glad age from them though and we were all set when it was over and we got out of there." for the Anzio deal when it came off."

12 Walters, George S., AMMH 2/c, half in two and drove right through to the Jacksonville Air Station, Waterbury. keel. It was worse than a torpedo hit—the "I'm wondering if I came close to a record, whole ship came into us. All of us were up with forty-four months in the Navy as a result of the first crash, which was and all of that time spent in this country. lucky because none of the men were in Down at Jacksonville I helped repair their bunks which is where the ship hit. fighter planes to get them ready for We were all in the mess hall at the time action again. We worked on carrier planes and the ship hit the quarters just forward and some of them were pretty badly dam• of the mess hall. No one was hurt. They aged. Some of the Corsairs especially had towed us into Bengal Bay, near Belfast, taken a great deal of punishment. Florida where we stayed for about six weeks while may be all right for the people who live repairs were made on the ship." there, but Connecticut gets my vote." Wolf, Frank H., CGM, Yale University Whitney, Nathan D., BM 2/c, Trans• NROTC, Hamden. port Duty, Devon. "On April 6 I finished my 29th year in "The time I was most excited was not the Navy, but I'll never finish the 30th. the result of enemy action. On a foggy I served in the armed guard in World War night in the Irish Sea just off the Isle of I, and was aboard the SS Brazilian when she was torpedoed off Italy in November Man in July of 1943, we were hit twice by 1917. In that war I worked on laying the two different ships. We were forming a 16 inch guns at Verdun, and my sea duty convoy to come back to the States when it in this war was Atlantic escort service. As happened. At 0252 a ship struck us in the an instructor later in ordnance and fog. That one got us in the stern. We were gunnery for naval reserve officers, I had just licking our wounds, so to speak, when a tour of duty in the Greenland-Iceland we got hit again. This time we were hit area, and I spent two years instructing amidship. The second one cut our ship cadets at Yale." THE PICTURES The Men — Pictured on Page 4. ordered from Federal. She displaces about Connecticut men at Lido Beach Separa• 20,000 tons and has geared turbines tion Center awaiting the final navy muster driving twin screws. Center: The USS call. The top and center photographs Hobson, a destroyer, was commissioned in were taken on September 21, the lower on 1942. Named for a hero of 1898, the Hob• September 24. Men at Lido are informed son is fitted for escort duties. She carries over the public address system at frequent four 5-inch-38's, several twinned Bofors intervals that group photographs will be 40's and smaller AA's. Bottom: The USS taken for these booklets at a given time Brooklyn, a light cruiser, was commissioned and place. in 1937. Her hangars house up to six folded The Ships — Pictured on Page 10. seaplanes and parts equivalent to another Top: The USS John Pope, an army trans• and several spare engines, housed below port named for an Army General, was the decks, protected in all weathers. An eleva• first of fourteen 600-foot P-2 Transports tor lifts them to main deck level.

13 THE FINAL MUSTER CALL Names, ratings and addresses of Connecticut men discharged from September 17 to Sep• tember 30, 1945, inclusive, from official Navy records, Separation Center, Lido Beach, L.I., N.Y.

ADAMOWICZ, John T., TME 3/c BOGEN, Herbert L., FCO 2/c 106 Poplar St., Bridgeport 48 South St., Fairfield ALBINO, Guerino, WT 1/c BOISE, Harry S., BM 2/c 162 Hill Street, Waterbury 84 Burton St., Waterbury ALHAGE, Louis J., RM 2/c BOND, Leo J., Jr., AMM 2/c 40 Liberty St., Danbury 45 Brownell Ave., Hartford ALLARA, Eugene, EM 1/c BONNER, Clarence M., CBM 755 Orchard St., New Haven 220 Fairfield Ave., Hartford AMENDOLA, Salvatore N., SF 2/c BONVILLE, Louis J., AMM 2/c 71 Water St., New Haven 2 Starr St., New London ANDREWS, Richard H., AM 3/c BORKOWSKI, Sigmund J., BM 2/c 10 Livingston St., So. Norwalk 29 Grove St., Ansonia ARNOLD, Richard T., AvCad BOROWSKI, Edward J., AvCad 11 Kellogg St., Windsor 30 York St., Waterbury ASTON, Robert F., PhM 2/c BOUTON, Harry W., RdM 2/c 366 Willow St., Waterbury 20 Fairfield Ave., So. Norwalk ATTANASIE, Jerry E., MM 3/c BOWER, Howard C, S 1/c RFD 3, Golden Hill Rd., Danbury 67 Kensington Ave., Meriden AUGUSTINE, George J., MoMM 1/c BRADLEY, Robert W., S 1/c 44 Allen St., Bristol 330 East Main St., Waterbury AVERY, Roosevelt, S 1/c BRANNAN, Edward J., MM 3/c 89 Admiral St., New Haven 75 Maple Ave., Stamford BAILEY, Lawrence G., ACOM BROOKS, Lester R., SoM 2/c Ingleside Contentment Island, Darien 125 Anderson St., West Haven BAIN, Ralph C, AvCad BROWN, Robert C, AvCad 85 Albion St., Apt. 14, Bridgeport 289 Bradley Ave., Meriden BAKER, Royal P., M 3/c BRUCE, Wilbur A., Jr., AOM 2/c 261 Brewster St., Bridgeport 15 Ambrose Terrace, East Hartford BAMFORD, William B., CBM BUCELLO, Sebastian N., SSML 3/c 84 Leete St., West Haven 80 Edwards St., Hartford BANNON, James F., AMM 2/c BUCK, Spiva L., Jr., CMoMM 676 Third Ave., West Haven 114 Thames St., Norwich BARNES, Norman S., AMM 1/c BUGNACKI, William J., GM 2/c 11 Pelham Rd., West Hartford 55 Lyman St., New Britain BARRETT, William W., S 1/c BURDACKI, Edward J., WT 1/c High Ridge Road, Stamford View St., Meriden BEACH, Walter H., BM 1/c BURELLE, William J., AM 2/c 172 1/2 Pratt St., Meriden 28 Seventh St., Norwich BECHSTEDT, Norman R., AvCad BURKE, Robert D., SKV 1/c Terryville Rd., RFD 3, Bristol 17 Grove St., Norwich BEEBE, George H., CM 1/c BURNS, James S., SM 3/c Montowese Ave., North Haven Central Village BEHREND, Louis M., Jr., Cox BURTON, Donald B., AvCad 8 Cedarhill Ave., New Haven 60 Whitman Ave., West Hartford BENEDETTO, Patsy F., EM 3/c BUTLER, Charles R., CSF 39 Meadow St., Wallingford 198 Wolcott St., Waterbury BENEDICT, Charles B., AvCad BUTLER, John F., SK 1/c Belden Hill, Wilton 50 Williams St., New London BENNETT, Percy A., CM 2/c CAMPBELL, Charles D., EM 2/c Huckleberry Hill, c/o F.B. Root, Brookfield 103 New Haven Ave., Milford BENTLEY, Hudson M., AOMT 2/c CARDEN, Leonidas J., EM 1/c 157 Park Ave., Torrington 46 River Ave., Norwich BERKHART, Richard, GM 2/c CAREY, James F., MM 2/c P.O. Box 368, Stamford 318 Howard Ave., New Haven BILODEAU, Robert E., EM 1/c CAREY, James J., Cox 255 Vine St., Hartford 5 RFD, Bristol Rd., Burlington BINGEL, Louis J., S 2/c CARINI, John J., CM 1/c 66 Beaver St., Danbury 12 Danbury Rd., Ridgefield BISCHOFF, Willard R., AvCad CARLSON, Axel A., SC 1/c 87 Winsted Rd., Torrington Georgetown BLACKINGTON, Arlington L., CMoMM CARLSON, Ronald B., AvCad West Granby RFD 1, Rockville BLAKESLEE, Dwight W., Jr., CPR (AA) CARNAL, Charles R., MM 2/c Kings Highway, North Haven 38 Hickory St., Norwich BLASKI, Henry J., TM 2/c CARNEY, Arthur J., CGM Wallingford 78 High St., Manchester BLICKLE, Charles R., AvCad CARR, Henry D., RM 1/c Laydon Ave., North Haven 115 Sherwood Ave., Bridgeport 5 BOCZAR, Adolphe J., RdM 2/c CARRINE, Norman C, EM 1/c 204 Franklin Ave., Hartford 80 Rose St., Danbury CARROLL, William J., QM 2/c COWELL, Fred N., MoMM 2/c 131 Hanover St., Meriden 97 Cleveland Ave., Hartford CARSON, Bert E., CSK (AA)(T) COYLE, James, SC 2/c Seagraves Road, South Coventry RFD 1, Waterbury CARTA, Louis N., FC 2/c CRANE, William F., MoMM 1/c 207 William St., Middletown 95 Elmwood Ave., Waterburv CARTER, John H., AM 2/c CRICHTON, Douglas R., CM 1/c 92 Hilliard St., Manchester 563 Hope St., Springdale CARUSONE, Angelo A., CRM CROFTS, Alfred H., Jr., AvCad V-5 Greens Farms Rd., Westport RFD 2, North Stonington CARVAN, John M., CPtr CROWLEY, Lawrence P., CEM 223 N. Bishop Ave., Bridgeport 48 Willets Ave., New London CARVER, James P., CBM CUDDY, Eugene B., MM 3/c 19 Tenth St., New London 60 Madison St., Waterbury CARVILLE, Henry P., SC 1/c CUOMO, Saverio J., ART 1/c 398 Silas Deane Hwy., Wethersfield 69 Lyon St., New Haven CASE, Robert S., WT 3/c CURRAN, John L., AvCad 24 Westfield Rd., West Hartford 109 Main St., South Meriden CASEY, Martin K., EM 1/c CUSANO, Anthony A., BM 2/c 154 Bunker Ave., Meriden 13 Castle St., New Haven CASSARINO, Anthony M., AM 1/c DAKIN, Harold L., BM 2/c 443 Albany Ave., Hartford 5 27 Hough St., Plainville CAULFIELD, Charles J., CBM DALY, Daniel E., RdM 1/c 333 North Main St., Naugatuck 137 Preston St., Hartford CECCARELLI, John, MM 2/c (T) DALY, John F., Sp (X) (ID) 2/c 30 Pixlee Place, Bridgeport 327 Willow St., c/o Kohler, New Haven CECCOLINI, Harold A., BM 2/c D'AMATO, Joseph F., BM 1/c Paved St., Branford 25 Wolcott St., Hartford CHALLONER, Phillip B., SF 2/c DANOWSKI, Walter J., QM 2/c 27 Mansfield Ave., Darien 663 Brewster St., Bridgeport CHAMBERLAIN, Arthur G., EM 1/c DARROW, Harry W., BM 1/c 115 Mason St., Greenwich 25 Lewis St., Greenwich CHAPMAN, Robert R., RM 1/c DAVENPORT, James A., MM 2/c Box 36, Fitchville 511 Success Ave., Bridgeport CHARNEY, John A., BM 1/c DAVIS, Earl W., AM 2/c 47 Broadway Ave., Bridgeport Box 176, Saybrook CHASE, Raymond F., AvCad DAVIS, Lyle A., S 1/c 579 Dixwell Ave., New Haven 197 Harriet St., Bridgeport CHIDESTER, James E., CMM (T) DEEB, Joseph, CBM 37 Avon St., New Haven 66 Irion St., Waterbury CHINCHAK, Louis J., F 1/c DeFILIPPO, Louis P., CSp(A) 260 Bruce St., Stratford Litchfield Turnpike, Woodbridge CHOINSKI, Zigmond J., MoMM 2/c DeLUCA, Francis A., S 1/c 161 Maple Ave., Hartford 79 Dean St., Stamford CHOJNOWSKI, Joseph N., S 1/c DeMARIA, Peter D., BM 1/c 20 Lafayette St., Stamford 88 Lewis Ave., Meriden CHONKO, John J., CEM DeNIGRIS, Anthony R., WT 3/c 10 Anderson St., Union City 146 Greenwich Ave., New Haven CHRZANOWSKI, Frank S., Jr., S 1/c DENNING, Charles J., Cox 62 Willow St., New Britain 96 Main St., Broad Brook CLABBY, Joseph W., S 1/c DERAPS, Leon B., AvCad 320 Parrott Ave., Bridgeport RFD 1, Box 9, Sandy Hook CLAIRMONTE, Alfred F., EM 3/c DERRAH, Jack H., SoM 2/c Bldg. 40, Apt. 223, Success Park, Bridgeport 94 Court F, Yellow Mill Village, Bridgeport COLELLA, Amerigo N., AMM 1/c DEVLIN, James H., ARM 2/c 64 Lawndale Ave., Bristol 12 Elliott St., New Haven COLLINS, Arthur W., CMoMM DIETTE, James F., WT 2/c 806 State St., New Haven 515 Dixwell Ave., New Haven COLLINS, Patrick J., MM 1/c DIGGLES, Fred N., GM 1/c 93 Chatham St., New Haven 45 Chambers St., Waterbury COLLINS, Stephen A., RM 1/c DiLISIO, Louis R., EM 3/c 8 McDermott St., Danbury 45 Hull St., Ansonia COLTON, Herbert S., Jr., F 1/c DINTER, Randolph H., TM 2/c 4 Sunset Terr., West Hartford 4 River Road, Cos Cob CONLEY, Howard H., SF 1/c DOHERTY, Thomas P., SK 2/c 36 Van Zant St., East Norwalk 67 Lake Place, New Haven CONNOR, Robert C, AMM 1/c DOMARECK, Myron J., SF 1/c 168 Westwood Road, c/o J.B. Dick, New Haven 38 Rimmon St., Seymour CONWAY, Dermot P., ACRT DORNFELD, William J., CMM Broad Acres, West Cheshire 6 Rowe St., New Haven COOPER, Landis S., AvCad V-5 DOWLING, William H., S 1/c 42 Harvard St., Hartford 35 Washington St., Waterbury CORNELIUSON, Edwin A., M 3/c DOWNES, Peter W., CBM RFD 1, Rockville 99 Bennett St., Bridgeport COSTEINES, Nicholas N., ACM (T) DREWS, Joseph O., WT 1/c 220 Sheridan St., Bridgeport 30 Holbrook St., Milford COUSIN, Joseph S., CMoMM DUMLER, Ernest W., MMR 2/c 8 Brook St., New Britain 34 Kellogg St., Waterbury DUNN, Paul K., TM 1/c GENTH, William R., CTM High St., Canaan North Rd., Jordan Village, Waterford DUPONT, Clifford E., CRM GERJETS, Edward E., SF 2/c 158 Hynes Ave., Groton 129 Palm St., Hartford DUZMATI, Michael P., CMoMM GETTY, Malcom, WT 3/c 258 Kent Ave., Bridgeport Box 367, New London DYKE, Curtiss T., Jr., SoM 1/c GHIRARDINI, Angelo F., S 1/c 14 Gilbert St., Ridgefield 201 Chapel St., New Haven EDGERLEY, Kendall J., QM 2/c GILDEMEISTER, William N., CPhoM 1145 Chapel St., New Haven 52 Orchard St., Cos Cob EILER, Harold J., AMM 2/c GILL, Wilbur J., SoM 3/c 432 Hope St., Stamford 22 Forest Lawn Ave., Stamford ELY, Frederick C, CRM GILLEY, John P., CM 1/c 352 Bristol St., Southington 718 Capitol Ave., Bridgeport ELY, William M., ARM 2/c GLADDEN, Theodore N., SC 2/c Hilton St., Noroton Heights 117 Carmel St., New Haven ENERY, Bert P., Cox GLAZEWSKI, Henry J., AvCad 187 Spruce St., Bridgeport 37 Holbrook PI., Ansonia ENGLISH, John J., SC 3/c GLEDHILL, Herbert N., Bkr 2/c 22 Burbank St., South Norwalk 210 North Oxford St., c/o Ayres, Hartford ENGLISH, William G., PhM 2/c GLOOMAN, Paul E. J., CCM 52 Cedar St., Milford 95 Griswold St., New Britain EVRARD, Arthur F., CCS GLUNTS, Elliott N., AvCad Jar vis St., Cheshire 1286 Laurel Ave., Bridgeport FEENEY, Thomas J., ACRT GOERING, Russell I., ARM 2/c 342 King St., Stratford 154 Putnam Ave., Hamden FEIMSTER, Jay H., Jr., GM 2/c GOETZ, Clarence H., GM 2/c 38 McKinley Ave., Norwich RFD 3, Rockville FELLNER, John N., CRM GOLBA, Julian J., AMM 3/c 58 Robert St., Hamden 10 Hillside Ave., Middletown FENTIMAN, Richard E., Bug 1/c GOLDBLATT, Melvin N., AvCad 637 Burnside Ave., East Hartford 474 Woodland St., Hartford FERBER, John L., AMM 2/c GOODENOUGH, James H., AvCad 312 Davis Ave., Greenwich Amity Rd., c/o C.K. Thompson, Woodbridge FERET, Walter A., Jr., AM 1/c GOODMAN, Arthur E., CMM Belle Haven Ave., East Port Chester 167 Orange St., New Haven FERREE, Robert L., QM 1/c GOODWIN, Henry S., CCM (PA) 20 Brainard Ave., Middletown College Highway, Avon FERRESE, Anthony C, RdM 1/ GORDON, Stanley P., AOM 1/c 58 Butler Ave., Bridgeport 65 South St., Stamford FERRIOLA, Peter N., SSMB 2/c GORMAN, Norman S., RdM 1/c 683 Washington Ave., New Haven 2 Thompson St., Waterbury FESTA, Michael F., SK 2/c GORTON, Edwin T., M 1/c 35 Mohegan Drive, West Hartford 223 Laurel Hill Ave., Norwalk FINCHER, Sidney N., TM 1/c GRANT, David N., AvCad 125 Read St., New Haven Flat Rock Farm, Cornwall Bridge FITZGERALD, John L., CSF GRAULICH, Russell W., Jr., AvCad 5 Cedar Drive, Old Greenwich 200 Percival Ave., Kensington FITZPATRICK, John F., S 1/c GRAVES, Robert B., BM 1/c 102 Lamberton St., New Haven Higganum FLORCZYK, Stanley S., MoMM 1/c GRAY, Joseph L., Y 1/c 267 Spruce St., Bridgeport 158 Mill Hill Ave., Bridgeport FOLS, Frank E.. SSMT 1/c GREZEL, John E., CWT (A) Fols Ave., Meriden 165 Birch St., Manchester FOOTE, Proctor B., GM 3/c GRINDROD, Harvey N., F 1/c North Woodstock 261 Lexington Ave., Bridgeport FORASTIERE, Anthony J., PhM 2/c GROSSO, Anthony J., M 1/c 117 Cambridge St., Elm wood 19 Cottage Green, Thompsonville FREEMAN, Thomas F., F 1/c GRUTZ, Frederick W., MM 1/c P.O. Box 471, Avon 1425 Stratford Ave., Bridgeport FURMIN, Kenneth S., S 1/c GUARINO, Frank N., MM 3/c 63 Whiting St., Torrington 130 Piatt St., Waterbury GADDY, Louis C, Ck 1/c GUBICZA, William D., WT 1/c 39-A Bellevue Square, Bldg. 13, Hartford 122 Lexington Ave., South Norwalk GALLI, Ferdinand A., CGM GUERIN, Edward G., MM 3/c 14 Noank St., Groton 23 North St., Torrington GAMBLE, James R., SC 2/c HALBRITTER, Walter H., MoMM 1/c 41 Dubois St., Noroton Heights 31 Homestead St., c/o Carl Weber, Danbury GARDNER, Cleo M., SC 1/c HALLIGAN, Frank S., CM 3/c 433 Main St., Norwich Blakeslee Place, North Haven GARVEY, William A., GM 2/c HANSEN, Lester L., TM 2/c 68 Beach wood Ave., Milford 42 Flagler St., Newington GASPAR, Julius, GM 3/c HARPER, Wilfred E., AMM 1/c V-6 267 Cove Rd., Stamford 7 Lee St., Putnam GAYINE, Desire J., SK 1/c HARTLEY, Bernard J., GM 3/c Box 15, Somersville 305 Bellevue St., Hartford HAWKINS, George F., Y 2/c KNIGHT, Charles E., RM 1/c 18 Elizabeth Court, Poquonock Bridge Box 175, Versailles HAYNER, Russell V., TM 1/c KNOTOWICZ, Aloysius E., AvCad 218 Fairlawn Ave., Waterbury 77 Hoffman St., Torrington HEFFNER, August M., BM 1/c KORDORSKY, Anthony P., EM 3/c 71 Sherman St., Stamford 7 Massachusetts Ave., East Haven HEILPERN, George S., PhoM 1/c KORNACKI, Sigmund W., WT 1/c 32 Robin Rd., West Hartford 211 Franklin St., New Haven HEMINGWAY, Irving R., CMoMM KRIKSCIUN, Stanley A., WT 3/c 297 Lexington Ave., New Haven Washington Depot HENDLER, Louis H., ACRT KUCHY, John N., BM 2/c 107 Blake St., New Haven RFD 9, Norwichtown HERBERT, John P., AvCad KUHNE, Albert H., S 1/c Willow Point, West Mystic Curtiss Hill Rd., Sandy Hook HERMES, Carl W., Jr., AvCad KUHTA, Walter, AvCad 50 Sedan Terrace, Bridgeport 22 Billard St., Meriden HODNETT, Thomas F., CBM KULMANN, Rudolph P., SKV 1/c 124 Arnold St., Hartford Edge wood Rd., Oakville HOLMES, Lewis C, Jr., AvCad KUSHIGIAN, Jack P., Y 1/c 23 Harrison St., Danbury 98 Chapel St., New Haven HOLSTON, William E., S 1/c KUSY, Martin J., F 1/c 299 Washington Ave., West Haven 833 Hallett St., Bridgeport HORNBECKER, John W., AvCad LACROIX, Joseph E., CMMR RFD 1, Middlebury Hill Ave., Yalesville HOTCHKISS, George R., PhM 1/c LaFOGG, Nelson L., S 1/c P.O. Box 1, Farmington Bailey Rd., North Haven HOUGHTON, Curtiss E., CPrtr LAMBERT, Normand M., AMM 1/c 151 Cherryan St., New Haven 51 Imlay St., Hartford HRYSYZEN, John T., AM 1/c LANDA. Albert J., S 1/c 17 Burley Ave., Stamford 121 Pleasant St., Meriden HUMPHREY, Leon M., SK 2/c LAPORTE, John C, AvCad 492 Main St., West Haven 1 Prospect Ct., West Hartford ISHAM, David N., CSF LaROCHELLE, William D., SAO 1/c 172 Laurel Hill Ave., Norwich 1 South Second Ave., Taftville JACKMAN, Warren W., CWT LAWRYNOVICZ, Stanley L., ACRM; (T) 120 Rubber Ave., Naugatuck Wooster Heights, Danbury JAKUBCZYK, Walter S., GM 3/c LAYTON, Urban H., Jr., AvCad 74 Seymour St., New Britain 803 Clinton Ave., Bridgeport JANECKO, Stephen J., MM 2/c LEE, Kenneth R., TM 2/c 13 Lasalle St., New Britain 34 Myrock Ave., New London JANSSEN, Werner A., AvCad LEINFELDER, Bernhard A., Jr., AvCad V-5 33 Foster St., Danbury Box 17, Route 1, Guilford JOHN, Ernest W., CSK LEITKOWSKY, John N., SF 1/c 72 Division St., Norwich 22 Lincoln Court, New London JOHNSON, Gilbert C, ARM 1/c LESIAK, John N., EM 2/c 60 Laurel St., West Haven 805 East St., New Britain JONES, Mark F,., AvCad LESS, John J., Cox 38 Forest St., New Britain Middletown Ave., North Haven JONES, Roland K., Ptr 1/c LHUILLIER, Charles H., CM 1/c 381 Third Ave., West Haven 194 Connecticut Ave., Bridgeport JONSEN, William R., WT 3/c LIBERA, Stanley N., RM 1/c RFD 1, Stonington 110 Broad St., New Britain JUNE, Donald O., AvCad LINES, Henry G., SOM 2/c 45 Turn-Of-River Rd., Stamford 288 Bostwick Ave., Bridgeport KALECK, Edward G., S 1/c LINK, Richard M., PhM 1/c 16 Oak Ave., Shelton 234 Palisade Ave., Bridgeport KARASINSKI, Theophile A., SOM 3/c LLOYD, Robert M., AvCad 28 Carroll St., Naugatuck Barnegat Rd., New Canaan KASPER, Chester J., ACEM LOE, Gunier A., MoMM 1/c 59 Moreland Ave., Newington Box 148, Jordan KATAJA, Raymond E., ARM 1/c LOEBER, William P., GM 3/c 55 Westover Rd., East Hartford Yellow Mill Village, Bridgeport KEEGAN, Edward T., S 1/c LONICKI, Alfred J., SC 1/c (T) 433 Blohn St., West Haven 146 Crown St., Meriden KELLEY, John F., MM 2/c LORENZO, Joseph A., AvCad 42 Prospect St., Terryville 13 Pershing St., Hartford KELLY, James H., M 1/c LOUDEN, Arthur B., COM 46 River Ave., Norwich 97 Harrison St., New London KENNELLY, Patrick J., CM 3/c LUNDBERG, Charles R., SoM 1/c 955 Baldwin St., Waterbury 200 Harriet St., Bridgeport KERSTEN, Harold K., SSML 2/c LYCZKOWSKI, Walter F., BM 2/c 411 Shelton Ave., New Haven 211 Hope St., Glenbrook KILROY, William C, AvCad LYNCH, James J., MoMM 2/c 62 Winthrop Terr., Meriden 56 Chestnut St., Manchester KLOS, Matty W., RM 3/c LYONS, Clifford H., S 1/c 495 High St., New Britain 140 Starr St., New Haven MacCREADY, Paul B., Jr., AvCad MIDDENDORF, Edward F., EM 3/c 156 East Rock Rd., New Haven 78 Englewood Ave., Bridgeport 6 MACY, Robert C, SC 1/c MIDLOCK, Bernard J., CRT (AA) (T) 1176 Fairfield Ave., Bridgeport 326 Main St., Norwalk MADDEN, Thomas J., SC 2/c MIGLIORE, Charles L., BM 1/c 20 John St., Putnam 110 Lewis Ave., Meriden MAILHOT, Ernest A., GM 3/c MILLER, James P., SF 1/c 26 Reynolds St., Danielson 6 1/2 Orchard St., Norwalk MAIN, Kenneth L., MM 1/c MILUTIS, Joseph W., AvCad 33 Starr St., New London 40 Starview Ave., Waterbury MAIO, Anthony N., Cox MISIORSKI, John S., Cox 64 Prince St., New Haven 326 High St., New Britain MALBOEUF, William F., Jr., AOM 1/c MOLA, Vincent J., Bkr 1/c 277 Middletown Ave., New Haven 14 Bartlett Manor, Norwalk MALLON, William J., SC 2/c MOLLEUR, William J., SM 1/c RFD 8, Norwichtown 43 Raymond St., Waterbury MANGIONE, Salvatore, CM 1/c MOLNAR, Gaze P., AM 2/c 232 Gilbert Ave., Winsted 86 Concord St., Hamden MANWARING, Clyde, Jr., AvCad MOODY, Merritt R., CCM (T) Prospect Ave., Niantic 51 Catoonah St., Ridgefield MANZONE, Paul S., MM 1/c MOONEY, Louis P., CSF 37 Winter St., Ansonia 183 Broad St., Norwich MARCANTONIO, Frank, BM 1/c MOORE, Joseph L., MoMM 2/c 3 Summer Place, Meriden 28 Laurel Rd., Hamden MARIANO, William J., GM 3/c MORAN, Frederick P., RdM 1/c Waterbury 282 Exchange St., New Haven MARKOWITZ, Charles W., MM 2/c MORAN, Joseph J., SF 3/c 212 Derby Ave., Derby 74 Schuyler Ave., Stamford MARKS, William, MM 1/c MORGAN, George F., RM 2/c Madison 104 West St., Danbury MARONEY, Patrick F., SF 1/c MOSCARIELLO, Fred J., WT 1/c 44B Dutch Colony Lane, Hartford 77 Eighth St., Derby MARQUARDT, Richard H., BM 1/c 280 Third Ave., West Haven MOUGENOT, Marcel O., CSF MARSH, Arthur C, AvCad 28 Jackson St., Torrington 131 Oakland St., Bristol MOYNIHAN, Cornelius F., AM 1/c MARTIN, John F., MoMM 2/c 1485 East Main St., Bridgeport 36 Alstrum St., Hamden MUDRY, John N., EM 1/c MATLEY, Charles B., CRM 21 Pine St., Seymour 35 Mulberry St., Hartford MULLINS, Joseph F., GM 2/c MAURICE, Joseph F., SAI 2/c 388 Waterville St., Waterbury 1224 Blue Hills Ave., Bloomfield MURPHY, Edward J., CRM (T) MAZZUCCO, William, AM MP 3/c 191 Cold Spring Rd., Stamford 114 Columbus Ave., New Haven MURPHY, Gordon L., MoMM 3/c McCORMACK, Thomas N., MoMM 1/c 55 Fairview St., Waterbury 33 Fairmount St., Waterbury MURPHY, Roger W., AMM 2/c McCULLOUGH, Frederick N., RdM 2/c (T) Yellow Mill Village, Bridgeport 591 Whalley Ave., New Haven NABSTEDT, Tracy S., CMMS McELANEY, John B., MMG 3/c 46 Hall St., Hamden 1033 Lindley St., Bridgeport NASH, Frank N., MM 2/c McGHEE, Laymond L., MM 2/c 61 Pleasant St., Danbury 115 French Ave., East Haven NASH, Wallace R., S 1/c McGUIRE, James M., SoM 2/c North St., Windsor Locks 1203 Boulevard, New Haven NASTU, Albert D., F 1/c McKEEN, James R., CM 2/c 58 Monroe St., Stratford 924 Broad St., Stratford NASZCYNIEC, Stanley J., GM 1/c 140 North Orchard St., Wallingford McLAUGHLIN, David W., AMM 2/c NAVICKAS, Edmund J., RM 1/c 272 Jefferson St., Hartford 94 Broad PL, Forestville McLAUGHLIN, Kenneth J., AvCad NICHOLSON, William J., Jr., GM 2/c 476 Park Ave., Bloomfield East St., East Granby McMEKEN, Raymond M., CCM NICKSE, Herbert T., AvCad 1427 Boulevard, New Haven 15 Clifton Place, Danbury McNEELY, John F., CM 1/c NIEDERSCHMIDT, Orval H., MMR 1/c 54 High St., Manchester 164 Fitch St., New Haven MEEHAN, Ward E., MoMM 2/c NIELSEN, Thomas D., SK 3/c 956 East Main St., Stamford 47 Prospect St., Portland MEEHAN, William J., SF 2/c NOLAN, Daniel M., S 1/c Lakeville 30 Adams St., Waterbury MENNA, Sabatino J., CBMA NOREN, Robert E., AvCad 175 Caroline St., Derby 26 Roosevelt St., Manchester MERTIN, Martin A., PR 2/c NORTHAM, Martin P., Jr., AMM 3/c 155 Graham St., Stratford Stony Creek MESSLER, Harold E., SF 2/c NORTHROP, Donald V., WT 1/c 34 Cottage St., New London 100 Willetts Ave., New London METZGER, Robert W., MM 1/c NUZZO, Donado R., AvCad 1407 East Main St., Bridgeport 45 Scofield PL, East Norwalk O'CONNOR, John R., BM 1/c QUINN, Francis H., MM 1/c 49 Stearns St., Bristol RFD 7, Norwich OLBERT, Zigmond S., BM 2/c RACANIELLO, Anthony N., S 1/c 38 Summer St., Manchester 47 Liberty St., Stamford O'LEARY, James R , SSML 2/c RACKSTRAW, Andrew L., AMM 1/c 159 State St., Meriden 69 Spring St., Middletown OLIVER, Anthony F., EM 1/c RAIMONDI, Adam M., WT 2/c 109 Water St., Stonington 2483 Main St., Hartford OLSEN, Einer N., CWT (AA) RAKSTEL, William R., AMM 2/c 187 Wilson St., Bridgeport New Haven OLSEN, Ray M., CRM RAU, Russell H., CTM 12 Euclid Ave., Stamford 15 Tocoma Court, Poquonock Bridge OLSON, Karl O., AvCad REICHE, Karl A., Jr., AvCad Seir Hill ,Norwalk 81 Oakland St., Bristol OMAN, Benjamin G., Jr., RM 1/c RENFROE, Linton B., SM 2/c 16 Brook St., Darien 10 Carroll Court, Naugatuck ORDAZZO, Salvino N., SK 1/c REVELLA, Joseph, AMM 3/c 74 North Place, West Haven 16 50 Mead Ave., East Port Chester ORGOVAN, Frank N., CM RICCIO, Anthony E., QM 2/c 235 Flax Hill Rd., South Norwalk Burritt Place, Naugatuck OTKA, Otto F., SF 3/c RIDEG, Frank N., AMMF 2/c 18 Fenwick St., Hartford 254 Soundview Ave., Fairfield PACKER, Stephen J., CCM ROBUSTELLI, William F., BM 1/c 1483 Pembroke St., Bridgeport 96 Lewis St., Greenwich PAINE, William C, B 1/c ROCHON, Clement M., CPhM 86 Ensign St., East Hartford Race Brook Rd., Woodbridge PARKES, Patrick E., AvCad V-5 ROGERS, Henry J., GM 2/c Pomfret School, Pomfret 42 Hotchkiss St., Middletown PATTON, Douglas C, AvCad ROHLMAN, Frank M., BM 2/c Route 2, Box 90, Riverside 297 Arbor Drive, Southport PAULIN, Aristed J., MoMM 1/c ROLLO, Angus L., CWT (T) 3 Buena Way, Bridgeport 56 Bradley Ave., East Haven PAVIA, Michael A., CSK (AA) (T) ROLLO, Joseph, CMoMM 365 West Main St., Stamford 131 Shelton Ave., New Haven PAVLICK, Joseph, MM 2/c ROMAN, Theodore N., RM 3/c 26 Hayes St., Bridgeport Kenyon Rd., Branford PECK, Harry N., SKV 1/c ROMANELLI, Eugene S., GM 3/c 338 West Rock Ave., New Haven 89 Dikeman St., Waterbury PERKINS, Edwin N., CSp(R) ROMANO, Frank N., CTM 131 Elm St., West Haven 85 Highland Ave., Groton PERRONE, Joseph M., EM 1/c ROOD, Louis N., SF 2/c 15 Piatt Ave., Norwich 195 Bunnell St., Bridgeport PERRY, Albert A., AvCad ROOT, Ralph E., SK 1/c 138 South Highland St., West Hartford Box 201, Cromwell PERZANOWSKI, Theodore S., Cox ROWLEY, Donald W., EM 3/c 17 Park Ave., Meriden 38 Mather St., Hamden PETERSON, Raymond W., CBM (T) RUBINO, Philip P., AMM 1/c 96 Commonwealth Ave., 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Ave., Norwich POULIN, Ernest T., MM 3/c SCHMID, Arthur A., M 1/c RFD Woodland Rd., Windsor 30 Lounsbury St., Waterbury POWERS, Earl R., MoMM 1/c SCHMITT, George T., SSML 2/c 283 Reservoir Ave., Bridgeport 100 Washington Ave., West Haven PRIESTER, Armound B., CWT SCHNEIDER, Dalton H., CSK 104 Burr St., New Haven 51 Lincoln St., Thompsonville PRITCHARD, Rodney W., WT 1/c SCHNEIDER, Philip E., AvCad 216 Pembroke Ave., Waterbury 46 Blue Hills Ave., Hartford SCHULTZ, Raymond J., SM 1/c QUIMBY, Edward J., S 1/c 394 North Masonic Ave., Wallingford 38 Lesbia St., Bridgeport SCHUTTE, George W., GM 1/c THAYER, Frank J., CCS 179 Elm St., New Canaan 150 Church St., Hamden 14 SCIONTI, Anthony J., CCM TINKER, Curtis F., CSF 87 Baldwin Ave., Waterburv 46 York St., West Haven SCIORTINO, Frank N., SC 2/c TOBIAS, Theodore H., MN 1/c 2045 Main St., Bridgeport 45 May St., Hartford SCOTT, Howard A., RM 1/c TOOKER, Russell L., CRM 149 Cold Spring Rd., Stamford 56 Claremont Ave., Bristol SEABERG, Louis J., 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St., Thompsonville 8 Emerald St., Waterbury SZOST, Anthony J., CM 2/c ZAWACKI, Raymond W., AMM 1/c RFD 6, 57 Silliman St., Fairfield 36 Avery St., Norwich TACINELLI, Howard J., MM 2/c ZEFFIRO, Anthony N., BM 2/c 1160 Dixwell Ave., Hamden 226 Hamilton St., Bridgeport TAYLOR, Wendell B., S 1/c ZEZIMA, Michael D., RM 1/c 349 Ocean Ave., New London 37 Liberty St., Stamford TENEDINE, Albert H., BM 1/c ZIMMER, Ramon P., AvCad RFD 2, Great Hill, Seymour 6 Lawncrest St., Danbury TESTA, Peter J., MM 2/c ZUFFELATO, John H., BM 1/c 500 West Main St., Waterbury 35 59 Park Ave., Torrington TETRO, Frederick H., PhM 1/c ZUILKOWSKI, Walter T., Cox Box 244, New Milford 113 Veteran St., Meriden