CONNECTICUT MEN of the Demobilization, Lido Beach Separation Center January 5 to 7, 1946 STATE OF CONNECTICUT EXECUTIVE CHAMBERS HARTFORD

To Connecticut Naval Veterans of World War II:

Connecticut has a great seafaring tradition. In every war her men have fought gallantly for freedom. In days of peace her sons have officered and manned ships that have carried our

American commerce everywhere in the world. Connecticut people are proud of that tradition.

In this greatest of all wars Just ended you, as a- son of Connecticut, have courageously and faithfully maintained that tradition. Indeed, you have raised it to new glorious heights.

You have added to that enduring list, started when Midshipman

Nathaniel Fanning of Stonington took part in the historic encoun• ter of John Paul Jones' Bon Homme Richard and HMS Serapis in 1779] immortal names - Macassar Straits, Java, Guadalcanal, Savo Island,

Coral Sea, Santa Cruz, Midway and Lunga Point.

To the lot of some of you fell the burden of the train• ing and supply services at home and in ports, great and obscure, the world over. In fact, there are now new ports for the air arm and for the fleet, some of which will endure as monuments to that new arm of the Navy, the Seabees.

Your fellow citizens in Connecticut are proud of your service.

Yours very sincerely,

Governor HERE ARE THEIR STORIES War correspondents of World War II frequently embellished and often overwrote the action stories of modest sailors. The aggregate result pleased editors, made headlines, and, on occasion, embarrassed the sailors. In retaliation, the correspondents and their victims were labelled, in characteristic service language, "Joe Blow". Actually, the "Joe Blows" were few and far between in this war. The purpose of these stories is to record without embellishment, the mood, the impressions, the exciting events, of the worst and best of the great days, before time blurs memories with resulting confusion as to events, dates and places. These are Navy men's stories, here recorded as near verbatim as possible in their own words—The Editor.

Antonucci, Raymond E., F 1/c, Bridge, Ralph W., F 1/c, EM, Shore Transport Holland, Meriden. Base, Guadalcanal and Tulagi, Old Green• "I was stationed in the engine room wich. which was below the water-line and I "I was land based most of the time with sweated out what would happen to me if a a unit that supplied men, food and arms got us. Chances are slim for get• to the ships from the fleets or task forces ting out of the engine room when you get that came in for them. At Tulagi the hit and I grew gray hairs worrying about weather was hot and wet most of the it. It's over now and I hate to talk about time and the work was hard. It was not the rotten war and all it stands for. Any• a nice place to have to spend a war, but body who's been away from home can tell I got transferred to Guadalcanal where what it is to be back after wondering if I did electrical work and that was a real you'd ever make it." change. The only bad thing about it was Bazzano, Anthony, MM 1/c, 58th that there was no place to go on liberty, Seabees, Winsted. so I took no leaves there at all. I don't "My outfit was attached to the 6th know whether I would have got liberty Marines and we landed with them at D- if I asked for it. The trip back to the States Day at Okinawa. I sat in the driver's seat was rough, but I stood it all right as I of a bulldozer and as soon as we hit the knew that once I got back I would never coral reef I drove it ashore. It was my have to make the trip again." assignment to get the bulldozer in and Burns, Robert J., S 1/c, LCI-591, I'm glad I was able to do it without too Naugatuck. much trouble. There was just occasional "I was one of the first men to go ashore sniping but nothing serious. I helped in Southern France. Under the plan, build a road so we could bring the casual• arrangements had to be made to pull the ties back and the munitions forward." ship into the beach in case she was hit Body cote. Judge L., Cox, 7th Fleet, while landing. Another fellow and I left East Norwalk. the LCI as it came near the beach and "In 25 months of sea and overseas duty swam into shore with lines tied around our I served with the armed guard on four waists. With a helmet and all, it was tough ships in the Atlantic and the Pacific, and swimming but we made it okay. The 591 also worked with the boat pool of the took some hits from German shore guns Seventh Fleet. Headquarters of the boat at Cavalier and the water tanks were pool were at Subic Bay and we had a whole blown open. From the ETO the 591 went lot of craft there. Ships in convoys I was all the way up to the Aleutians. Incidental• in were hit, but none that I was on ever ly, it's a special thrill for me to be dis• took a bomb or torpedo." charged at Lido as I worked at the 3 separation center there from September Army to drive me out. Just let me see of 1945 until my own name came up. Connecticut once again and I'll be satisfied After seeing so many thousands of other for the rest of my life." sailors go through for discharge, it's Duff, William H., Jr., S 1/c, Kanohe really something to go through myself." Bay Air Station, , Fairfield. Dennis, Robert R., RM 3/c, Cruiser "Take a trip to Honolulu on leave and Denver, Meriden. come back broke. In fact any place that "It was a long haul out there in the you went in Hawaii would put a dent in Pacific and at times I wondered if I'd your pocketbook as big as your fist. That ever get out of 'blues'. Things have hap• is about the worst place for high prices pened out on the water that seem unreal I ever saw. I was stationed there for 20 now. We hit Leyte, Lingayen, , and months as a ground crewman at a bomber Mindonoro. Leyte was about as tough a base and saw enough of that territory place as any because those Jap Kamikaze to last me the rest of my life. It's a good planes were thick as flies. To me it was a place to be from, and am glad I now can lot of noise and confusion. You don't feel say that." too safe when you know that planes are Everett, William A., HA 1/c, San Juan out to get you and it seems that every (P.R.) Naval Hospital, New Haven. plane is after the ship you're on. I've sweat• "I was on my way out to the Pacific ed and swore like all good Navy men do when the Japs surrendered and they kept and now that I'm out I don't care to fight us at Pearl from May until December. the war over again." I'd expected to see some action out there DiDonno, Vito F., RM 3/c, LST-929, after fighting mostly the climate down in New Britain. the . I spent 14 months at "The 929 was in the campaigns at the Puerto Rico, and then three months at , and Okinawa. They Guantanamo Bay in before starting didn't give her the easiest job in the world for duty in the Pacific." because she was a hospital and evacuation Gentile, Nicholas A., S 1/c, ship and had to go right in to the beaches Cassin Young, Shelton. to bring out the wounded. We had plenty "The Kamikaze planes gave the Cassin of close calls but the Nips weren't able to Young about everything they had and hit us. All the LSTs did a mighty good managed to hit her twice, both times job out there. They weren't fast but they at Okinawa. After the first hit, she was got the troops and the supplies to the beaches." AND CRUISER DiNello, Carl, CM 3/c, Seabees, New Haven. USS HEALY — One of the war program de• stroyers (top), a 2,100 tonner of the Fletcher type, "My luckiest break was the time they carries five 5-inchers and ten tubes, built as an didn't let us go with the 4th Marine answer to the Jap Kagero class. Division after we had taken invasion train• USS YOUNG — Another destroyer of the Fletcher Class, shorter and beamier than the ing with them. That division saw some pre-war destroyers; flush deckers with flat stacks, pretty rough times and I wouldn't be as built at Puget Sound Navy Yard. healthy as I am now if I had gone along USS VINCENNES — Ten thousand tonner, the with them. There is nothing like being ex-Flint, commissioned in 1943, armed with twelve 6-inchers in four turrets, twelve 5-inch AAs in back in the States and it will take an twin mounts, with geared turbines and four screws.

4 repaired at , then went back up to Seabees all the way from the South Okinawa. The second time she was hit by Pacific right up to the Philippines. I a suicide plane and was so badly banged-up helped build so many roads that if they that she had to go back to the States. The were all put together they would have Young was a great ship and she did a swell been long enough to go right into Tokyo. job out in the Pacific." We started at Guadalcanal, moved up to Harris, Stanley F., Cox, New York Emirau, then to Manus in the Admiralties, Harbor Duty, Willimantic. and finally to Luzon in the Philippines. "Working on a tug from Staten Island We had some wonderful heavy stuff to in New York harbor I helped get some of work with and a little thing like the jungle the biggest ships into their docks. We couldn't stop us when we were building handled all sizes but some of those big ones roads, bridges or anything else." gave us a tough job. I was assigned to tug Jurgrau, Harold J., SK 1/c, Seabees, duty in March of '45. Before that, among Meriden. other things, I'd been in the big Navy "Construction of anything any place was band at Great Lakes and had gone to true of our outfit. We'd go with invading Hampton Institute to study to be a cox• troops and build areas for landing goods swain." from the landing barges. It wasn't too Hosp, Joseph F., S 1/c, Transport easy because at times the Japs would land Vandera, Centerbrook. artillery and all Seabees would have two "We had a couple of very interesting things to worry about. Staying alive and runs. One of them was bringing troops doing their job. There wasn't anything from the United States direct to Okinawa that the Seabees wouldn't try. We built after the invasion there. Another one was barracks, roads, camps, bridges, and even bringing some of the first American troops unloaded ships. It was tough work but which went into . The attack trans• now that I'm home I can say I know what ports had an important job to do and I was work is." glad to have the chance to serve on one of Kaczmarczyk, Stanley J., AMM 3/c, them. We would have been all ready to Carrier Lexington, Milford. take part in the invasion of if we'd "It was the second carrier Lex that I had to." was on and the Japs were after the second Hylwa, Stephen, S 1/c, Liberty Ship one the way they were after the first. We Moore, Shelton. were torpedoed in the Marshalls and "We were just off the English coast, later were hit by a Kamikaze off Formosa about six miles or so, when a German sub at the time of the Second Battle of the caught us with a tin fish. We were able to Philippine Sea. But the Lex could take it. limp back into port for repairs and we were She was in battles and invasions all over all mighty glad it hadn't happened far the Pacific and the crew rates 11 stars." out in the ocean. Aboard the Moore, and Kappus, Eugene C, RM 3/c, Mine• also aboard the tanker Meuse Argonne, sweeper Dynamic, Westport. I hit such different places as South "With the Dynamic we did minesweep- America, and ." ing work in the Atlantic, a lot of it down Jaroszewski, Francis M., EM 3/c, 63d around . Later I was with the Seabees, Seymour. crew of PC-1595, which operated around "I handled heavy equipment for the the Mediterranean. Our patrol craft took

6 part in the invasion of Southern France standing. That bomb really did all they and we did months of patrolling in all claimed for it." parts of the Mediterranean. Those little Kornilieff, Nickolas, S 1/c, Samar craft had to go into a lot of dangerous Navy Supply Depot, Norwich. spots." "We were at Samar in the Philippines Kasprzycki, Chester H., S 1/c, Cruiser when V-J Day came. We had a little extra Vicksburg, New Haven. beer but there wasn't much of a celebra• "I was with the Vicksburg from the time tion. Everyone was just glad it was all she was commissioned in the spring of over and we could start thinking about get• 1944 until I left her on the West Coast ting home. From V-J Day on I really late in 1944. She was a new ship and a sweated it out, but finally I started back good ship, getting into action in time to for the U.S. in December. I was over in help out at Iwo Jima and Okinawa. We the Philippines for a year, and boy, that were ready for more cracks at the Japs was a long 12 months." when they decided to quit the war." Kowalchyk, John, GM 2/c, Battleship Kessler, John E., SAI 3/c, Repair Ship Pennsylvania, Stamford. Ajax, Waterbury. "They used the Pennsy's big guns to "Working out of the Marshalls, the help cover the invasion of Normandy. She Philippines and Okinawa, we repaired had a lot of fire power and tossed a lot of dozens and dozens of ships. About the steel at the Germans. They finally scuttled biggest ones we repaired were the carriers her in low water so she could be used for Essex and Wasp, but we had plenty of fixed fire from the sea against German others that weren't so small. After those strong points on the beaches and inland. in the Pacific we had all the re• I had 13 months on the Pennsy, then did pair work we could handle. Some of those 18 months duty with the Newton D. Baker, LSTs had taken an awful beating in those a Liberty ship. On her I made a run from storms and we had to get them all fixed the Atlantic to the Persian Gulf and up as quickly as possible." India." Klein, Karl D., CQM, Hospital Ship Kreaseck, Joseph, Jr., AFC 1/c, Haven, South Norwalk. Carrier Monterey, Meriden. "The Allied soldiers and sailors who had "Jap planes came in close enough to been prisoners of the Japs in camps on strafe us a few times but we missed their Kyushu were in bad shape. We processed bombs and suicide dives. The whole crew more than 10,000 of them — American got a kick out of it when we went right British, Dutch and Canadian — and they into Tokyo Bay, and an even bigger one all spoke of mistreatment and cruelty. when the Nips signed the surrender terms Most of them had been in prison camps on the Missouri." on Kyushu for about three and a half Kriebel, John A., SM 2/c, LCT 204, years. The Haven was a new hospital Meriden. ship with the latest equipment and "An LCT is a bucking bronc in the handled a lot of the battle casualties from water and I don't advise anyone to take a , and Okinawa. When we trip in one. I think we hit every wave we pulled into Nagasaki, I had a chance to see sailed in and I'm still groggy from the the damage done by the atom bomb. In beating we took from the water. It didn't the bombed area there wasn't a thing left make any difference to an LCT if it sailed

7 in calm or rough weather, it bucked any• loading at the beaches. Some of those way. There were many ships in on the suicide planes came too close for comfort. invasion of Normandy but our LCT did Operating as a gunboat, our LCI went in just as good a job as any. I guess planes close to shore to fire at Jap positions at gave us the most trouble that day but we Leyte, Luzon and Okinawa; but none of got the troops in and that was the impor• those jobs were as bad as the picket line tant thing. There were underwater obsta• where we spent a total of three months." cles off shore and if you hit any of them Marino, Michael S., Cox, Seagoing the bottom would be ripped out." Tug 200, Middletown. Kurzweil, Casimer J., AM 2/c, Naval "We pulled damaged ships from the Air Station. San Diego, Calif., Meriden. beaches and also towed those and other "Repairing was up my alley and I sure ships at sea. At Okinawa we had a struggle did plenty of it. We worked on all types getting a Liberty ship off the beach where of airplane motors and it was the same it had been run after being bombed. My kind of duty every day. Something was year with the tug came after 15 months always wrong with some plane and I was in the Atlantic with a Liberty ship and a always climbing in and out of engines tanker. That tug work was plenty exciting looking for the trouble. Most of the time and we covered a lot of ocean, working I was black from engine grease and my mainly around Guam, Ulithi and Okin• buddies didn't recognize me at all. I awa." thought I'd be in the Navy for life be• McNamara, Irving H., RdM 3/c, cause the war seemed to be dragging and Cruiser Brooklyn, New Haven. it seemed as if it would never end. When I "The Brooklyn didn't miss much going heard that the Japs had given up I knew on in the ETO. She was in the invasions of that it meant one thing to me and that was North Africa, Sicily, , and Southern that I'd be getting out sooner than I France. At North Africa — I believe it thought." was at Fidelia — the ship was hit by shells Laga, John, QM 3/c, LCI-35, Bristol. from shore batteries. Like other ships we "Our little landing craft was right in were on our way to see action out in the there over in the ETO. We went in at Pacific when the Japs surrendered and the Tunisia, Anzio and Normandy. I got war was declared over." some pieces of shrapnel as souvenirs during Mingo, Gaston E., RdM 2/c, Destroyer the landings at Bizerte, being hit in the Isherwood, New London. legs. After being laid up for a month, I "When the Kamikaze plane began its rejoined the 35 and went with it up to dive I was heading for a gun mount. There Italy and Normandy. Those landing was a crash as it hit but I wasn't hurt. crafts went right into the beaches, taking Then there were more explosions, coming fire from Germans on the beaches and from depth charges which were set off by giving a lot of fire themselves in return." falling steel. There were eight fires on MacDougall, Earnest J., S 1/c, LCI(G)- deck, and about one-third of the crew were 565, New London. casualties. We managed to get into "That picket line at Okinawa was a Kerama Retto, off Okinawa, for temporary tough spot. We stayed there for weeks, repairs and then started home for the intercepting Jap planes trying to get in at States. The Isherwood was in a lot of transports and cargo ships which were un• excitement. She worked in the Aleutians

8 first and took part in the bombardment with all of them scoring hits. We operated of Paramosmiri in the Kuriles. Then she from Pearl, Johnston and Midway, and moved south for the campaigns in the worked right over in the home waters of Philippines and the Ryukyus." the Japs. With 40 months in the Navy, I O'Neal, John J., S 1/c, Battleship had 38 months of sea duty, with 36 of Maryland, Bridgeport. them on the Seal." "I was at the No. 4 turret on the Raponey, Joseph E., CM 2/c, 42d Maryland when a Kamikaze pilot came Seabees, Bristol. down in a suicide dive. He crashed into "When I was up in the Aleutians, the No. 3 turret. I was a mighty lucky guy working on new installations, it looked to come out of that without being killed like a long, long road to Japan, but once or hurt. We were on our way back into the American forces had a chance to action after repairs in the States when the really move they moved fast. After two Japs surrendered. I stayed a few months years up in those cold and lonely islands, at Pearl, then started home for good. it was a change when I joined the 90th Before joining the Maryland, I'd spent Seabees and went to Pearl Harbor, Iwo six months on the Battleship Washington Jima and finally Japan itself. I saw Yoko- in the Atlantic." suka and Yokohama myself and from the Papallo, Rudolph C, S 1/c, Battleship poundings those places had taken I could South Dakota, Meriden. see why the Japs were ready to surrender." "Two things stand out in my mind the Rear don, William J., Cox, LST-397, most. The first thing is the thrill we got in Groton. knowing that our ship was the first to "LST means large slow target, and I bombard the Jap homeland. We put some guess that we were just that although we shells on Komoiski, and it was the first didn't get hit. We were in on most of the time any ship dared to come so close to invasions in the Pacific with the Solomons the Jap mainland. We were also one of the being the toughest due to the air super• first ships to enter Tokyo Bay for the iority that the Japs had at that time. In signing of the Jap surrender. The Dakota the invasion of the Philippines, the has seen action in plenty of places in the mortar fire from the shore batteries was Pacific. We hit Savo, Saipan, Iwo Jima, almost as bad and a little more accurate and Okinawa. The last two places were than the Kamikaze planes. I don't know the toughest for us because the Japs had who was praying for us all through those their Kamikaze planes out in full force invasions, but I know somebody was or and they did their best to knock us out. else that large slow target would have Okinawa was the same as far as action been hit more times than I like to think went and I thought I was going to be blown about." to hell any minute by one of those planes." Rouleau, Felix G., S 1/c, Destroyer Pellegrino, Louis A., MoMM 1/c, Escort Atherton, South Meriden. Seal, Norwich. "We were patrolling off of the coast of "The Seal was credited with sinking two Rhode Island and we were sure that we'd Jap destroyers and nine merchant ships. never spot a sub. We found out we were We had some others as probables. In wrong when we picked up soundings of a October of '44 we went right into the Sea sub on April 3, '45. All of us were excited of Japan and while there we fired 20 fish, and at first we didn't think it possible for

10 a sub to be so close to our shore but we let Santalucia, Joseph, S 1/c, LST-772, go with depth charges and from the slick Bridgeport. that came up we must of hit it. Divers "Going into Okinawa the first time was were sent down to make sure that we got bad enough and we stayed there for 25 the kill and it was reported that the sub days while Jap planes came down almost was lying on it's side in shallow water with hourly. But then we made four other it's conning tower ripped open. The sub trips in, carrying troops and supplies each was the last kill of the war for the Navy, time. We were mighty lucky that none of because V-E day was announced 24 hours those suicide planes got us as there were later." plenty of them around us at different Ruchinskas, John P., S 1/c, Fleet times." Aviation Units, New Britain. Schacht, Louis, BM 2/c, Destroyer "I worked with PBYs, PBMs, and Escort Jaccard, Stamford. PB4Y-2s from Australia to the Philippines, "I've seen all of the Pacific I want to see by way of New Guinea, the Admiralties and I'll take Connecticut for the rest of and Morotai. I was an aviation machinist my life. You can say that Okinawa was and did work on many of the big Navy the toughest place I've been to because planes. They mightn't be pretty or grace• we had to dodge suicide planes every ful, but they did have terrific range and few minutes. Although we never were could give and take a great deal of hit, every plane I saw seemed to be punishment." diving right at us. I pulled 18 months Rydey, Frederick L., MM 3/c, De• of sea duty out there on the Jaccard and stroyer C. K. Branson, Hartford. once you come off of this DE you never "All but two months of my three years want to go to sea again." and a half in the Navy were on sea duty. Schaefler, Sidney, PhM 2/c, Naval First it was with the Savannah in the Medical Office, New Haven. Atlantic, then with the Bronson in the "For 20 months, I was a medical inter• Pacific. The Bronson went through 11 viewer attached to the office of the Navy engagements, some of them extra tough, recruiting bureau at 90 Church and also without getting a scratch. After Iwo Jima at the . I spent 10 we came back to the States, but headed months at each place and my job was to out again three months before the end of interview applicants for the civilian jobs the war." at Pearl Harbor. The work was very St. Amand, Leonel J., Ptr 2/c, J$d Seabees, Bristol. "From cold weather to hot — that was me. I spent 16 months up in the Aleutians with the 42d working on installations of all kinds. After that it was Pearl Harbor and then Samar in the Philippines. Next I joined the 75th Seabees and worked with them at Callicoan in the Philippines. That jump from the Aleutians to the tropics was quite a change in weather, but it had been plenty lonesome up there." interesting. I had to compile a medical trip to the Asiatic theater. That took us to history of each applicant. I suppose that I India and as far as I am concerned we could have got a better deal in the Navy, might as well have stayed home. There's but I don't know how. That's one of the nothing over there that I want to see jobs a guy dreams about." again. The duty in the Atlantic was good Schnabel, Erwin A., SF 2/c, Cruiser in that there was always plenty of liberty Minneapolis, Meriden. when we hit the European ports. There's "I'm out, and let me tell you that's the also good chow and quarters on a mer• greatest feeling I've had in a long time. chant ship. I'm glad I was lucky enough to The Pacific is where I pulled my duty and grab that kind of duty." I don't think you'll ever find me out there Thompson, Harry A., Jr., RdM 3/c, again. There's a lot of nothing out there Danbury. and we had to fight for it. Subs and planes "The Fleet Service Schools at were always giving us scares and I'll Beach and Point Loma, San Diego, never forget the time a plane looked as if it claimed me for the 19 months I spent in were going to give us the business but the service and I don't regret my stretch somehow it was scared off and beat it. one bit. In fact I found things to be a It's hard to remember names and places little better than good. I served as an I've been to but the Pacific should cover it. instructor in radar and I found the work The war may have ended suddenly but to be very interesting. I think that if I for the guys out there it didn't end fast could move back the years a bit, I would enough." stay in; that is, if I got the same deal. But Steele, Peter R., CRM, Port Blakely, now, being a family man, I am anxious Wash., Meriden. to get out and get back in the swing of "Now that the war is over I can say things." that the next best thing was that I was Toohey, Bernard J., GM 3/c, Destroyer discharged. After being home awhile I Healy, Hartford. get to feel as if I've never been away. "You didn't hear an awful lot about the There's one thing I can say about the tin cans and the smaller ships but they Navy and that is if they teach you some• were in there pitching all the time too. The thing you won't forget it fast. I know Healy was in 11 invasions and engage• something about a radio besides dialing ments, working with both the Third and and tuning in now and the thanks goes Fifth Fleets. She was a fighting ship and to the Navy. The worst thing I hated was didn't try to run away from any trouble." being away from home but I guess I Treber, Paul N. WT 1/c, Carrier wasn't the only one and the important Monterey and APA62 Berrien, Danbury. thing is that I'm back. All in all the "The biggest thrill I got was joining experience may be something that will in the V-J celebration at . never happen again." We landed there the night before and Sweeney, Edward C, S 1/c, SS Thomas were in time for all the fun. I joined in it Clyde, West Haven. wholeheartedly for, after 23 months in the "The ship on which I was a member of Pacific, I had enough of war and enough the armed guard made most of its runs of sea duty in that sector. With the in the Atlantic, but we did get in one Monterey, we were in the Marshall and

12 Gilbert landings and participated in raids Williams, Ralph A., RdM 3/c, LST- on Rabaul and Kavieng in conjunction 666, New Britain. with the Bunker Hill. Kavieng was no "At Borneo we had a rough time of it. picnic as the planes from the Jap carriers Our LST was being used as an evacuation gave us lots of trouble. With the Berrien, and hospital ship and when we went in to I was in the landings at Iwo Jima and take off casualties the Japs came very close Okinawa. The latter place was especially with many rounds of mortar fire. The tough because of the Jap suicide planes. shells were dropping all around us but we I disliked the Pacific so much that any got the wounded men away from there place in the U. S. would be heaven for safely. As part of the amphibious forces me. I'm glad to be out." of the Seventh Fleet we also went in at Uryasz, Walter J., S 1/c, Destroyer Morotai and at islands of the Philippines, but none of those was as bad for us as Black, Meriden. Borneo." "Take a cruise out into the Pacific and you'll see that it isn't what the travel Wysocki, Stanley J., WT 3/c, Cruiser books say it is. The beautiful sunshine is Savannah, Bridgeport. enough to burn you to a crisp and the "We were a proud bunch when President plates of the ship are plenty hot after the Roosevelt picked our ship to take him to sun shines all day long. The calm ocean I for the Cairo conference. On the heard about but never saw seemed to be trip to Alexandria we made sure that reaching for guys to swallow. I could stand everything was especially spic and span. the sun and the 'calm' ocean but my cruise I seemed to be a cruiser man all through had to go one better and worry about Jap because I was on the Brooklyn for a year planes and subs. There were many nights and a half before joining the crew of the that we were called out to stand by Savannah. With the Brooklyn, I was in at because of an alert. It looked to me as if the invasions of North Africa, Sicily and we were all over the Pacific and we'd Anzio in Italy." never get home but the atom did the Zotts, David D., S 1/c, Cruiser Vincen- trick and I'm not sorry that it did." nes, New Haven. Wallin, John H., CM 1/c, Repair Ship "The Second Battle of the Philippines Ulysses, Stamford. Sea was really some scrap and gave my "The toughest and longest repair job buddies and me about our biggest thrill of we had was fixing up the ships that were the war. During all the shooting we got damaged in typhoons off Okinawa. We one Jap heavy cruiser in San Fernando must have worked on at least two dozen Strait. We'd been all over the Pacific but of them and some of them were in mighty that was the first chance we had at any bad shape. Those typhoons are terrific big Jap ships. Sinking that Nip cruiser was storms and can cause an awful lot of even a bigger kick than being in the first damage to even a great big ship. When I big strike at Japan itself. I did 26 months saw some of the ships I wondered how they at sea out of 29 months in the Navy and had been able to ride out the as our ship hit the Japs everywhere we could they were in such poor shape." find them."

13 THE MUSTER OUT ROLL CALL Names, ratings and addresses of Connecticut men discharged from January 5 to 7, 1946 inclusive, from official Navy records, Separation Center, Lido Beach, L.I., N.Y.

ADAMS, Charles J., S 1/c BODYCOTE, Judge L., Cox High St., Baltic 29 Melrose Ave., East Norwalk ALBINI, Mario, PhM 1/c BOGDANOWICZ, Charles J., Cox 160 Easton Ave., Waterbury 35 Marcel St., Bridgeport ALCORN, Paul, Jr., GM 3/c BOHAN, James J., S 1/c Box 43, University of Conn., Storrs 639 Washington St., New Haven AMANN, Ralph C, AMM 2/c BRAY, Harold H., EM 1/c 36 Lilac St., New Haven 270 Clinton Ave., New Haven AMMON, William P., QM 1/c BRAZITIS, Peter J., S 2/c 220 Adams St., Bridgeport Box 166, Washington Depot ANDERSON, Harold F., WT 2/c BRENNAN, Edward V., S 1/c 13 Hilton Ave., Box 357, Short Beach 457 Greenwich Ave., New Haven ANDERSON, Robert R., Cox BRODERICK, John H., Sp(J) 1/c 40 So. High St., New Britain 38 Hilltop Road, New Haven ANDRADE, Clarence, AMM 2/c BROWN, Allan M., PhoM 2/c 136 Park Terrace, Hartford South Street, Bantam ANSEGO, Angelo A., S 1/c BROWN, Frank J., EM 2/c RFD 2, Box 26, Harwinton 89 Robert St., Waterbury ANTONUCCI, Raymond E., F 1/c BROWN, Merton, SoM 2/c 3 Merriam St., Meriden East Side Rd., Woodbury ARENTS, Harris M., BM 2/c BUCHHOLZ, Alfred L., S 1/c 219 North Broad St., Milford 80 Collins St., New Britain ARNOW, Raymond V., MM 2/c BUCKLEY, James W., ARM 3/c 773 High Ridge Rd., Stamford 85 Wyllys St., Hartford AVIGNE, Joseph, C. SSML 3/c BURGESS, Joseph L., Jr., RM 3/c 615 Second Ave., West Haven 1125 1/2 Albany Ave., Hartford AYOTTE, Robert L., S 1/c BURNS, Raymond H., SM 2/c Peach Orchard Rd., Waterbury 31 Pellom Pl., Stamford AZZARITO, Nicholas J., S 1/c BURNS, Robert J., S 1/c 82 Garfield Ave., Danbury 64 Pleasant Ave., Naugatuck BABA, John P., SM 3/c BURRIESCI, Augustine C, F 1/c 98 Miller St., New Britain 119 Belltown Rd., Stamford BACCO, Edmund P., S 1/c BURROWS, Kenneth H., Sp(S) 2/c Box 728, Waterbury 96 Carlisle St., New Haven BACKIEL, Herman H., AEM 1/c BUSHEY, Henry T., S 1/c 84 Cabot St., New Britain 161 Howe St., Bridgeport BALAN, Joseph S., ARM 1/c BUTLER, John W., BMA 2/c 15 Hallock St., New Haven 72 Bellevue Sq., Hartford BALCIUS, Joseph, AMMI 1/c CADY, Roger L., SoM 3/c 20 Peach St., Naugatuck Leonard's Bridge, Lebanon BANKS, Herbert, St 1/c CAMARRA, Raymond L„ PhM 2/c 11 Portland St., Middletown 405 Poplar St., New Haven BARBERI, Frederick J., S 1/c CAMPAGNANO, Pasco R., RdM 3/c 9 Oak St., Windsor Locks 1044 Broad St., Meriden BARONE, Edward J., CPtr CAMPBELL, John R., S 1/c 30 Morris St., Hamden 476 Columbus Ave., New Haven BARTLEY, Arthur J., BM 2/c CAPALDO, Otto A., RM 3/c 253 Putnam St., New Haven 108 Beech St., Waterbury BASILE, Salvatore, AMM 3/c CAPEN, Robinson, BM 2/c 144 Wadhams Ave., Torrington 412 Main St., Winsted BASISTA, John J., CM 3/c CAPOZZI, Albert V., EM 3/c 349 Kent Ave., Bridgeport 20 Fourth St., Waterbury BASSETT, Kenneth W., GM 3/c CAPPA, Vito, MM 3/c 29 Westfield Rd., West Hartford 166 Buck's Hill Rd., Waterbury BEAUDRY, Victor J., AOM 3/c CAPPUCCIO, Louis G., SSML 3/c Box 9, Grosvenordale 36 Crane St., Bridgeport BELARDINELLI, Tiberio, GM 2/c CARBONI, Olinto P., Y 3/c 23 Gregory Blvd., East Norwalk 24 Gilbert St., Ridgefield BELLAIRS, Clement K., EM 1/c CARD, John H., RM 2/c 113 William St., Stamford South Windham BERGLUND, Walter R., SKD 2/c CARDILLO, Mario, SoM 2/c 48 Andrews St., New Britain 46 Easton St., Hamden BIGELOW, Stanley F., SKD 1/c CAREY, Richard J., MMS 3/c 851 Wethersfield Ave., Hartford 89 Kelsey St., Waterbury

14 CARRANO, Joseph A., TM 3/c DiGIACOMO, Peter R., SSMT 3/c 105 Oakley St., New Haven Bucks Hill Rd., Waterbury CARROLL, George A., SM 2/c DIMORO, Sebastiano J., SM 1/c 22 Melrose Ave., Waterbury 124 Freestone Ave., Portland CARUSELLO, Frank J., S 1/c DOGOLO, Ralph, SSML 3/c 240 Charles St., Waterbury 240 Hemingway Ave., East Haven CASSETTI, Salvatore, SC 3/c DONAHUE, John P., Jr., PhM 2/c 73 Root Ave., Ansonia 153 Rivercliff Drive, Devon CASTLE, Albert, StM 2/c DOPP, Cleland E., GM 3/c 15 Pliny St., Hartford Bethlehem CAVANAUGH, James G., Jr., WT 2/c DOUGLAS, William, Jr., StM 1/c Box 33, Botsford 45 High St., Ansonia CHAPELLE, Leonard A., PhM 1/c DREW, Leroy B., BM 2/c 304 West Main St., Milford 124 Woodward Ave., So. Norwalk CHILDS, John M., RT 2/c DRURY, Wilson J., BM 2/c 15 Evergreen Ave., Hartford 198 Church St., West Haven CHIPELO, Francisco F., S 1/c DUFILIE, Pierre A., BM 2/c 13 Pleasant St., Waterbury 72 Poquonnock Rd., Groton CIACCIA, Nicholas J., S 1/c DUNN, John M., SSML 3/c Triangle St., East Norwalk 186 Pine Creek Ave., Fairfield CIANCI, Joseph J., CM 3/c EASTHAM, George J., MM 3/c 56 Wilton Ave., Norwalk 85 East Main St., Jewett City CLARKE, Samuel J., CM 3/c EICHINGEN, Roger N., SF 2/c 20 Foxridge Rd., West Hartford 717 Laurel Ave., Bridgeport CLAYTON, Americus H., AMM 3/c ELLIOTT, Richard D., Cox 675 Migeon Ave., Torrington RFD 2, Allmont St., Milford COHEN, Saul S., SK 1/c ELY, Raymond P., MoMM 3/c 216 Winthrop Ave., New Haven 369 Valley St., Willimantic COLANGELO, Henry J., PhM 3/c EMMERT, Elmer E.. Cox 67 School St., Hartford 231 South Main St., New Britain COLE, Lester D., Jr., EM 3/c ETTER, Frederick J., RM 2/c 17 High St., Killingly 25 Whittier St., Bridgeport COLELLA, Louis J., S 1/c EVERETT, William A., HA 1/c 145 Granby St., Waterbury 53 Winter St., New Haven CONLIN, Thomas F., GM 3/c EZZO, Laurence, S 1/c 17 Pulaski St., Norwalk 545 Ellis St., New Britain COPPETTA, Edward F., CMoMM FALCO, Corrado R., CM 2/c 238 Grand Ave., New Haven 72 Hamilton Ave., Greenwich CORBIN, Albert A., MoMM 3/c FANELLI, Francis J., AMM 2/c 13 Washington St., Forestville 39 Whitmore St., Hartford CORBO, Joseph M., BM 2/c FARNSWORTH, Irving I., MoMM 3/c 22 Rose St., Waterbury 43 Kingswood Rd., West Hartford COUTANT, Harry C, S 1/c FEDORUK, Steven, Cox 19 Bradley St., New Britain 21 Maple St., Ansonia COUTURE, Isidore R., M 3/c FETKO, George A., S 1/c 31 Pulaski St., Jewett City Elm Plains, Pattenlen Rd., Windsor Locks CRANE, Hubert E., S 1/c FIDDNER, James F., MM 3/c 135 Greenwood Ave., Waterbury 1 Prospect St., Danbury CRONIN, Edward J., CSp (A) (T) FINGER, George D., EM 3/c 282 West Ave., South Norwalk 208 Wilmot Rd., Hamden CROSO, Frank A., S 1/c FLINT, Frederick W., B 2/c 260 James St., New Haven 31 Kohary Drive, Devon CURNAN, Earl F., MM 3/c FOLEY, Lawrence R., ARM 2/c Walnut Tree Hill, Sandy Hook 1666 Chapel St., New Haven CURRAN, Paul B., PhM 1/c FRANZI, Joseph A., MM 1/c Mill Road, Old Saybrook 293 East Main St., Torrington D'AGOSTINO, Leonard J., SC 1/c FRANZINO, Anthony, EM 1/c 247 West Main St., Stamford 122 Vincillette St., Bridgeport DALY, Gerald J., PhM 2/c FREDA, Michael A., S 1/c 47 Avon St., New Haven 182 Wallace St., New Haven DECKER, Wilson C, M 1/c FUESSENICH, John C, S 1/c 100 Riverview Ave., New London Box 235, Torrington DelRUSSO, Louis M., PhM 1/c GALETTO, James, AOM 3/c 166 Oak St., Waterbury 21 Grace St., Torrington DePINO, Andrew, MM 3/c GALLOWAY, Raymond W., F 1/c 117 Chapel St., New Haven Oak St., Hazardville DeRUBBO, Nicholas E., S 1/c GANDOSSY, Marcus L., MoMM 2/c 147 Hollywood Ave., West Hartford 215 Dodge Ave., East Haven DESPATHY, Robert G., RT 2/c GANSER, Philip J., Sp (S) 1/c 89 Broad St., Danielson 42 Hurd St., Fairfield DiCAPUA, Arthur, MoMM 3/c GARDNER, Kenneth J., MM 1/c 481 Washington Ave., New Haven 15 Wilson St., Bridgeport DiDONNO, Vito F., RM 3/c GARRISON, John, Jr., MoMM 3/c 123 Pendleton Rd., New Britain 1039 Dixwell Ave., Hamden

15 GEBULA, Edward J., S 1/c HOYT, James P., SKD 1/c 61 Smith St., New Britain 559 Nichols Ave., Stratford GENTILE, Nicholas A., S 1/c HRICKO, Henry A., ARM 2/c 55 West St., Shelton 95 Brightwood Ave., Torrington GIANNETTE, Paul, F 2/c HUGHES, Edward C, Jr., EM 3/c 178 Wethersfield Ave., Hartford 95 Leroy Ave., Darien GIANNINOTO, Sebastian T., GM 2/c HUNTER, Dickon R., AerM 3/c 323 Oak St., New Britain 23 Seaview Ave., East Norwalk GIBSON, Allen P., AMMC 2/c HUNTINGTON, George E., AMM 3/c 1515 Park Ave., Bridgeport 150 Hollow Tree Ridge Rd., Noroton Heights GIFFORD, Thomas A., BM 2/c HURWREY, Edmund A., MoMM 2/c 100 Ives St., Waterbury 203 Brightwood Ave., Torrington GILBERT, Raymond R., S 1/c HUTCHINSON, Arthur H., SoM 1/c 206 Victoria Rd., Hartford 175 Greene Ave., Plainfield GINET, Raymond A., MoMM 1/c HYLAND, James F., CM 3/c 131 Bradley St., New Haven 237 Washington St., Forestville GIROUX, Leo P., GM 2/c HYLWA, Stephen, S 1/c 109 North St., New Britain 222 Howe Ave., Shelton GODERRE, Noe J., S 1/c JACKSON, Ira L., S 2/c Box 327, Baltic Box 737, New Haven GOMZI, John E., F 1/c JANOW, Arthur L., BM 2/c 493 Brooks St., Bridgeport 34 Hotchkiss St., New Haven GONYEA, David S., SM 2/c JAROSZEWSKI, Francis M., EM 3/c 1497 Park Ave., Bridgeport Mountain Rd., Box 95, Seymour GOULET, Leo J., S 1/c JASMINSKI, August J., F 1/c 792 Grand Ave., New Haven 15 Cross St., Thompsonville GRABOSKI, Edward P., S 1/c JASUT, John P., GM 2/c 567 Buckingham St., Oakville 164 Affleck St., Hartford GRAHAM, Vernon G., WT 2/c JERTSON, Robert W., SM 1/c Box 5, Wakely Hill Rd., Haddam 850 Noble Ave., Bridgeport GRAMIGNA, Arialdo E., MoMM 3/c JEWELL, Stephen H., GM 2/c 99 Bellevue St., Waterbury Box 33, Mechanicsville GRIECO, Thomas W., RM 1/c JOHNSON, Francis R., AMM 2/c 95 Brookside St., Torrington 79 Ives St., Waterbury GRIFFIN, John J., AM 3/c JOHNSON, Herbert W., F 1/c 38 North Elm St., Manchester 55 Nash St., Bridgeport GRIFFITHS, Raymond E., EM 3/c JOHNSON, Sven R., EM 3/c 89 Noble St., West Haven Gallup Lane, Waterford GUYLIELMO, Paul, SC 3/c JOY, Franklin B., CBM 339 Oak St., Waterbury 88 So. Cliff St., Ansonia HAASE, Irving E., EM 2/c JUDSON, Kenneth, BM 2/c 1 Mills St., Norwalk 327 Chipman St., Waterbury HALEY, Frederick R., AEM 3/c JURGRAU, Harold J., SK 1/c 234 Aloen Ave., New Haven 150 Murray St., Meriden HALL, Matthew W., S 1/c KACZMARCZYK, Stanley J., AMM 3/c Nod Road, Clinton 273 Cherry St., Milford HAMEL, Leonard A., AOM 1/c KALINSKI, Thaddeus T., WT 2/c 20 Lewiston Ave., Willimantic 795 State St., New Haven HAMMOND, Louis J., PrtrM 2/c KAPPUS, Eugene C, RM 3/c Buena Vista Rd., Stony Creek 60 West State St., Westport HARRIS, Stanley F., Cox KAPUSTYNSKI, Stanley J., Cox 44 Bank St., Willimantic 23 McClurg Ave., Stamford HENNESSEY, John E., S 1/c KARMEN, Edward F., S 1/c 72 North Elm St., Manchester 103 Locust St., Waterbury HEWKO, Harry, AMM 1/c KARUKAS, William J., QM 2/c 11 South St., Danielson 18 Sherman St., Stamford HOLLAND, Samuel G., RM 1/c KASHUR, John, GM 3/c 792 George St., New Haven RFD, West St., Plantsville HORAN, William F., Jr., MoMM 2/c KASPRZYCKI, Chester H., S 1/c 20 Orchard St., Danbury 81 Clark St., New Haven HORNAK, John J., SM 3/c KATONA, Rudolph, EM 1/c 26 Green St., Bridgeport 1 Willow St., Norwalk HORNEY, Robert, S 1/c KAUFMAN, Walter M., GM 1/c Great Hill, Seymour West Redding HOSP, Joseph F., S 1/c KEELER, Wayne M., S 1/c Main St., Centerbrook Georgetown HOTHAM, James M., PhM 1/c KELLER, Robert J., GM 1/c 431 Allyndale Drive, Stratford 122 Hillside Ave., Shelton HOVNYAK, John J., MoMM 2/c KELLOGG, Leroy A., MoMM 2/c 81 Ridge Ave., Bridgeport 71 Garden Drive, Fairfield HOWARD, Thomas M., M 1/c KESSLER, John E., SAI 3/c 2225 Main St., Bridgeport 872 No. Main St., Waterbury HOWARTH, Henry, RdM 2/c KIESEL, Albert J., BM 2/c 726 Connecticut Ave., Bridgeport 397 Hope St., Glenbrook

16 KING, Francis A., S 1/c LISTON, Daniel A., AMMF 2/c 1157 New Britain Ave., Elmwood 44 Shelter St., New Haven KISSANE, William J., EM 2/c LITCHFIELD, Arthur L., RM 1/c 210 Hamilton St., Hartford 1010 Birmingham St., Bridgeport KLEIN, Karl D., CQM LITTLE, Eugene V., SSML 1/c 117 West Cedar St., So. Norwalk 11 Julius St., Hartford KLIMASZEWSKI, Francis A., MoMM 2/c LOMBARDI, Vincent W., MoMM 3/c 42 Colburn St., Ansonia 156 Sentinel Hill, Derby KNAUF, David A., RM 1/c LOUGHRAN, John A., S 1/c 66 Farrington Ave., Waterbury 272 Main St., Stamford KNIGHT, Edward L., S 1/c LUCAS, James F., St 2/c 26 Spring St., So. Norwalk 7 Hill St., New London KOLB, Calvin C, QM 3/c LUCAS, Peter, MoMM 2/c Edgewood Place, Seymour Chaplin KOMLOS, Stephen, AMM 1/c (T) LUCAS, William R., S 2/c 47 Clover St., Stratford 58 Fairfield Ave., So. Norwalk KOOZMITCH, William, Cox LUSSIER, Harris J., GM 3/c 107 Willis Ave., Meriden Box 173, Slater Ave., Jewett City KORNILIEFF, Nickolas, S 1/c MacDOUGALL, Earnest J., S 1/c 20 North High St., Norwich 450 Main St., New London KOSACK, Chester W., FC 2/c MACHELL, Ernest R., Jr., RdM 2/c 90 Mechanic St., New Haven 60 Alton St., Manchester KOSTEK, Edward J., S 1/c MACHRONI, Emil, S 1/c 48 Vine St., Hartford 79 Lewis St., Torrington KOWALCHYK, John, GM 2/c MacKENZIE, Donald J., CSp (I) 791 Atlantic St., Stamford 2 Broadway, Mystic KRAUS, John L., SM 2/c MAGAO, Jose A., SSMB 3/c 71 Rhode St., New Britain 303 Boys Ave., Goodyear KRAVSOW, Philip F., SF 2/c MAJKUT, Lucyan J., MM 3/c 57 Woodstock St., Hartford 116 Avon St., Stratford KREASECK, Joseph, Jr., AFC 1/c MARCHEWKA, Frank J., MoMM 3/c 90 Maple St., Meriden 36 Silver St., New Britain KRIEBEL, John A., SM 2/c MARIANO, Nicholas J., SSMB 3/c 56 Oak St., Meriden 55 Lyon St., New Haven KUHNE, Elliott H., CM 1/c MARINO, Michael S., Cox Riverview Court, New Milford 19 Green St., Middletown KURASINSKI, John, S 1/c MARTIN, Patrick J., EM 3/c 42 City Ave., New Britain 158 Greenwich Ave., Greenwich KURZWEIL, Casimor J., AM 2/c MARTINO, Fred M., S 1/c 53 Merriam St., Meriden 211 Franklin St., New Haven KUSER, Joseph E., GM 3/c MATHEWS, William L., Sp(G) 2/c 1590 Barnum Ave., Bridgeport 54 Church St., Norwich KUSKOSKI, Vincent C, BM 2/c MATULEWICZ, Joseph W., ARM 2/c 8 Beach St., Terryville 454 North Elm St., Torrington LABAZZO, Frank J., EM 3/c MAYKO, Peter, BM 2/c 58 Putnam Ave., So. Norwalk 83 Broad St., Ansonia LABBADIA, Louis F., MoMM 2/c MAZZUCCO, Raymond P., EM 2/c 59 Rappallo Ave., Middletown 21 Perth St., Bridgeport LaCOURSE, Albert J., S 1/c MCCARTHY, John G., F 1/c 28 Oak St., Norwich 120 South Main St., Middletown LAGA, John, QM 3/c McCORMACK, Thomas E., SM 2/c 210 Greene St., Bristol 291 West Ivy St., New Haven LANDERS, Robert E., F 1/c McCUE, Mervin J., AOM 3/c 40 Maple St., Somersville 552 Howard Ave., New Haven LATKOWSKI, Stanley W., S 1/c McGANN, Sherwood G., WT 3/c 200 Franklin St., New Haven 101 A Drive, Silver Lane Homes, Manchester LAVALLEE, Arthur L., BM 2/c McGINNESS, Thomas H., SM 1/c 138 Prospect St., Norwich 68 Bishop Street, New Haven LAVOIE, Paul J., SF 2/c McLAUGHLIN, Bernard E., CM 1/c 340 Piedmont St., Waterbury Warehouse Point LAWLER, Edward W., SoM 2/c McNAMARA, Irving H., RdM 3/c 26 Market St., New Haven 531 Ferry St., New Haven LEARY, Cornelius P., Cox MEANEY, William H., AOM 3/c Uncasville 120 Pauline St., Stratford LeBRUN, Herve V., TM 2/c MELBERG, Ingolf B., SoM 2/c 169 Shuttle Meadow Ave., New Britain 19 Livingston Rd., East Hartford LECHOWICZ, Walter, MoMM 3/c MELECHINSKY, John A., PhoM 2/c 42 Connerton St., New Britain 90 West St., New Britain LEE, Adin G., MoMM 2/c MELESCINSKY, Joseph P., RM 3/c Box 42, Simsbury 92 West St., New Britain LEWYANT, Frank, SC 2/c MELIUS, Frank C, AMM 3/c 26 Prospect St., New London RFD 1, No. Riverside Ave., Terryville LINSLEY, Charles E., SM 3/c MERRITT, Edward W., CM 2/c Twin Lakes, No. Branford Andover

17 MESECONE, John A., S 1/c PATELLA, Joseph, S 1/c 273 Elm St., New Britain 61 Rowan St., Danbury MICHAUD, George A., SF 2/c PELLEGRINO, Louis A., MoMM 1/c 243 North Elm St., Torrington RFD 5, Norwich MILANO, Ralph, GM 1/c PELTON, Hudson C, GM 3/c 169 Gilbert St., West Haven 800 Poquonock Ave., Windsor MILLER, Charles L., S 1/c PERKINS, William G., Jr., CM 2/c 70 North St., Danbury Vauxhall St. Ext., New London MILLER, Malcolm, SKD 2/c PETRILLO, John P., S 1/c 23 Elm St., Danbury 50 Thorn St., New Haven MINERVINI, Morris, EM 2/c PETTI, Daniel, MM 3/c 15 Ailing St., New Haven 38 Lockhart Ave., Waterbury MINGO, Gaston E., RdM 2/c PFAU, Russell H., S 1/c 30 Robinson St., New London 63 Ferry St., So. Glastonbury MOMPHER, William H., TM 3/c PFEIFFER, James L., AMM 3/c 95 Federal St., New London 16 Leonard St., New Haven MONCHICK, Simon, MM 3/c PHELAN, Joseph A., S 1/c 22 No. Cherry St., Wallingford 821 Maple Ave., Hartford MONGILLO, Joseph E., S 1/c PHILLIPS, William M., MoMM 2/c 36 West St., New Haven 63 Howard St., New London MONTINI, Albert P., SF 1/c PIATAK, Michael, RM 3/c 57 Anson St., Derby Bldg. 42, Apt. 255, Success Park, Bridgeport MOON, John C, S 1/c PICARAZZI, Pietro, S 1/c Box 542, Bristol 6 Thompson St., Bridgeport MOORE, Leo Z., GM 3/c PIENKOS, Henry Z., S 1/c 12 Babcock St., Hartford 179 Broad St., New Britain MOORE, Richard H., AOM 3/c PIERCE, Russell A., BM 2/c 75 Sylvan Rd., New Britain 74 Laurel St., East Haven MORAN, John F., RM 1/c PINTO, Horace R., Cox 106 Chelsea St., Stratford 26 Brewster St., Waterbury MORESKO, Peter J., F 1/c PIVARNIK, Paul P., CSF 14 North Ave., Derby 376 Thompson St., Stratford MOULKETIS, Alexander J., GM 1/c PLANKEY, Robert A., S 1/c 1169 Summer St., Stamford RFD 1, Dyer St., Danielson MULLIEN, Robert, S 2/c POCOGRANO, Salvatore J., MoMM 3/c 28 Anthony St., Jewett City 52 Henry St., Stamford MULVEY, Vincent P., CM 3/c POGANY, Ladislaus L., CMM (T) Washington Ave., No. Haven 1 Hudson Court, Norwalk MUROKWICZ, Michael F., SM 3/c PORYDZY, Edward G., FC 2/c Old County Rd., Box 713, Windsor Locks Old Turnpike Rd., Southington MURPHY, James J., S 1/c POTENZA, Samuel J., CM 2/c 32 Palmer St., Springdale 97 Alden St., Stamford MYSZKOWSKI, Frank J., F 1/c POWELL, Earl E., MMS 3/c 49 Goodwin St., Bristol 64 Adams Ave., Stamford NARDI, Angelo J., AMM 3/c POWERS, Richard M., MoMM 2/c 63 Heath St., Hartford 37 Hamilton Ave., Norwich NORTON, William I., QM 1/c PRATT, Raymond A., SF 3/c 245 Migeon Ave., Torrington 294 Frost Rd., Waterbury OLSON, Roy A., F 2/c PROKOP, John, CM 3/c 23 Fairfield St., Manchester 370 East Ave., Bridgeport O'MEARA, Robert W., Cox PUPECKI, Stanley J., S 1/c 1810 Stratford Ave., Bridgeport 115 Silver St., New Britain O'NEAL, John J., S 1/c PUZZO, Sebastian P., Cox 1182 State St., Bridgeport 452 Franklin Ave., Hartford O'NEILL, Walter B., AMM 3/c RADZEWICZ, Tadeusz E., CM 3/c 238 Scott Rd., Waterbury 163 Bond St., Hartford OPALACK, Edward S., MM 3/c RAKAUSKAS, Alexander J., Cox 10 Wood Lane, Manchester 688 Broad St., Hartford OPPER, Sydney M., SM 3/c RAPONEY, Joseph E., CM 2/c 61 Lake Place, New Haven 39 Barnes St., Bristol PAGE, George L., Cox RAUTENBERG, Eric A., AM 3/c 311 Park St., West Haven 21 Ridgewood St., Manchester PAGHENSE, Vincent A., PhM 3/c RAY, Constantine J., RM 3/c 45 Pleasant St., Bristol 24 Cedar St., Stamford PALMER, Robert L., F 1/c REALE, Arthur A., RM 2/c 246 Falls Ave., Oakville 23 Franklin St., Westport PALMERI, Albert J., MM 3/c REDFIELD, Harold P., BM 2/c 224 Summer St., Plantsville 81 Connecticut Blvd., East Hartford PAPALLO, Rudolph C, S 1/c REICHENBERG, Edward F., S 1/c 2 Leonard St., Meriden 267 Litchfield St., Torrington PAPP, Ralph M., Cox REK, Julius P., F 1/c 220 Warren St., Bridgeport 248 No. Hoadly St., Naugatuck PARADISE, Anthony, PhM 1/c RESCOTT, John W., RM 2/c 40 Orlando St., West Haven 164 Adelaide St., Hartford

18 SEMASKVICH Edward, Cox RICHTER, Albert A., Y 2/c 23 Meadow St., Seymour 212 Wood St., Waterbury RICHTERS, Frank R., RdM 3/c SENKEWITCZ, John P., Cox 1045 Forbes St., East Hartford 11 Rose St., Norwich RICOTTILLI, Alfred, FC 2/c SERWANSKI, Frank E., MM 2/c 35 High St., Moosup 49 Brook St., Willimantic RIKTERAITIS, George J., BM 2/c SHATTUCK, Albert F., CM 3/c 172 Morro St., Oakville 101 Coniston Ave., Waterbury ROBINSON, Sherwood T., SC 1/c SHAWINSKY, Joseph N., CM 3/c 95 Smith St., West Haven 157 Frederick St., Stamford ROCKWELL, Lawrence D., RdM 2/c SHUMWAY, Edward L., CM 3/c Main Street, Ivoryton 321 Newhall St., New Haven ROGERS, Myles P., S 1/c SIERDY, Stephen, GM 2/c 40 Concord St., So. Norwalk 65 Siemon St., Bridgeport ROSS, George A., CSKD SINANIS, Paul, S 1/c 122 Arthur St., Bridgeport 219 Warren St., Bridgeport ROULEAU, Felix G., S 1/c SINGER, Howard M., GM 2/c Finch Ave., South Meriden 20 Birch Place, Devon ROY, Peter P., Cox SKIGEN, Harold, RdM 3/c 422 Thompson St., Stratford 176 West Main St., Stamford RUCHINSKAS, John P., S 1/c SMEY, Joseph J., Cox 66 Dwight St., New Britain 204 Spruce St., Bridgeport RUSSELL, Melvin E., WT 3/c SMITH, Frank A., S 1/c 45 Lenox St., Hartford 54 Maple St., Norwalk RYAN, Clement J., S 1/c SMITH, George J., GM 2/c 31 South Eagle St., Terryville 829 Main St., Manchester RYDEY, Frederick L., MM 3/c SMITH, Thomas H., EM 2/c 51 East Dutch Point Lane, Hartford East Weatogue, Simsbury SABO, John J., F 1/c SMUDA, Walter J., ARM 3/c 25 Flower St., Bridgeport 33 Union St., New Britain ST. AMAND, Eliodore O., RM 2/c SNYDER, Maurice P., AOM 3/c 10 Kibbe St., Hartford 264 Oak St., Manchester ST. AMAND, Leonel J., Ptr 2/c SPEISER, Robert W., Cox 44 Laurel St., Bristol 485 Jane St,, Bridgeport SALERNO, Antonio J., SSM 3/c SPEZIALE, Samuel V., SSMB 2/c 977 Central Ave., Bridgeport Box 211, East Canaan SALISBURY, Wallace D., SoM 1/c STANKOSKI, Bernard, BM 2/c Box 557, Plainfield 466 Church St., New Britain SAMMIS, Frederick R., S 1/c STEELE, Peter R., CRM 220 Ferry St., New Haven 759 Broad St., Meriden SANDERSON, Dwight H., S 1/c STERLING, Joseph A., BM 2/c 29 Lockwood Drive, Old Greenwich 103 Hamlin St., Manchester SANTALUCIA, Joseph, S 1/c STILES, Herbert W., MoMM 3/c 672 Berkshire Ave., Bridgeport 29 Sumner St., Hartford SAPORITE, Rudolph J., ARM 2/c STONE, Howard B., FCO 3/c 12 Hardy St., Torrington Elizabeth St., Kent SARASIN, Warren R., S 1/c STONE, John S., GM 3/c 945 So. Main St., Waterbury 15 Summer Place, New Haven SARINSKY, Louis, GM 2/c STREMEL, Arthur E., GM 3/c Colchester 21 Seymour St., Bristol SAULT, Clifford J., PhM 2/c SULLIVAN, Edward R., S 1/c 30 Foster St., Manchester 27 Plains Rd., Hamden SAUNDERS, Marvin M., MoMM 2/c SULLIVAN, John F., WT 3/c 71 Martin St., West Haven 61 Pine St., New Haven SCANLON, John T., S 1/c SWEENEY, Eugene J., EM 1/c 66 Carlisle St., New Haven 72 Ward St., Hartford SCHANZE, Raymond C, SF 3/c SWEENEY, William J., Sp(A) 1/c 9 South Well Ave., Danbury 67 Rose St., Waterbury SCHMIDT, Albert W., PhM 3/c TAFT, Orvis G., Jr., S 1/c 95 1/2 Osborne St., Danbury 170 Lovely St., Unionville SCHOFIELD, Ronald W., MM 1/c TAPPE, Elmer R., MoMM 1/c New Haven Road, Naugatuck Box 160, Rt. 18, Bridgeport SCHREINDORFER, Martin P., MM 2/c TARKA, Francis J., M 3/c Hebron Ave., Glastonbury 22 So. Prospect St., Hartford SCHWAB, Henry L., S 1/c TERRY, Louis, St 1/c 540 Church St., New Britain 77 Canton St., Hartford SCOFIELD, William W., Jr., MMS 2/c TEW, Frederick A., EM 3/c 193 Forest Rd., New Haven 26 Mill St., Unionville SCOPPOROTTI, Carmen, Cox THOMES, Kenneth R., F 1/c 80 Greyrock PI., Stamford 62 Frederick St., Stamford SCOTT, Harlan S., MoMM 2/c THOMPSON, Arthur W., Jr., S 1/c 250 Sisson Ave., Hartford 24 Belmont St., Wethersfield SCOZZARI, Fred, S 2/c THUEMMLER, Everett G., QM 3/c 35 Duffy Ave., Meriden RFD 2, Rockville

19 TIGANELLA, Salvatore C, S 1/c WONSEWICZ, Peter P., Jr., SCB 2/c 67 Cherry St., Naugatuck 17 Vega St., New Britain TOBEY, Howard W., CM 1/c WYNKOOP, Bernard, S 1/c 3 Monroe St., Norwalk 4 Warner Pl., Waterbury TOKLE, Kyrre, CBM WYSOCKI, Stanley J., WT 3/c Noroton 11 1/2 Armstrong Pl., Bridgeport TOOHEY, Bernard J., GM 3/c YOVAISIS, Matthew, S 1/c 118 New Park Ave., Hartford 2576 East Main St., Waterbury TORRESO, Carmine M., BM 1/c ZACCARIA, Edmond A., QM 2/c 102 Suggetts Lane, Bridgeport 8 Woodvine Ave., Oakville TOTH, Elmer A., RdM 2/c ZAKOWSKI, John C, Cox 722 Tunxis Hill Rd., Bridgeport 193 Elm St., Naugatuck TOTTEN, Benedict, CM 2/c ZAMAYDUK, Nicholas, ABM 3/c RFD, East Haddam 238 Grove St., New Britain TOWNSEND, William R., MM 1/c ZBRAS, Julius, MM 3/c 67 Washington Ave., Bridgeport 11 Clinton Ave., Bridgeport TRAHAN, Robert E., EM 2/c ZARCONE, John J., SoMH 2/c 2 South Main St., Danielson 3 Thorpe St. Ext., Danbury TREFFLE, Robert P., MM 3/c ZAVIDNIAK, Paul, AM 2/c 17 English St., New Haven 100 Main St., Derby TROY, John P., SoM 2/c ZAWACKI, Alexander, SF 1/c 185 Bayberry Drive, Bristol 36 Avery St., Norwich TULLER, Russell P., SSML 2/c ZEBROWSKY, Kasmer C, SoM 3/c Box 88, Hadlyme 10 Orchard St., Bridgeport TUTTLE, Louis E., S 1/c ZETT, Bartholomew P., SAI 2/c 21 Hudson St., Manchester 25 Dorothy St., Hartford URYASZ, Walter J., S 1/c ZIENTEK, Henry A., CMoMM 91 Olive St., Meriden 77 Plains Rd., Milford VAITEKAITIS, Edmund J., S 2/c ZOTTS, David D., S 1/c 933 Bank St., Waterbury New Haven VINCI, Vincent J., RdM 3/c 262 Oak St., New Britain VISKI, Andrew, S 1/c CONNECTICUT VETERANS 228 Clifton St., Wallingford WADHAMS, Nathan J., EM 3/c COMMEMORATIVE BOOKLET 72 Camp Ave., Springdale WAGNER, Henrv G., S 1/c Vol. VI Jan. 8, 1946 No. 20 9 Cherry St., East Hartford WALKER, Kenneth S., SM 3/c CARLETON B. CLYMA, Editor 165 Lamberton St., New Haven WALLIN, John H., CM 1/c This booklet is published by the State Grenhart Rd., Stamford WARGO, John G., S 2/c of Connecticut, through the Office of the 65 Waldorf Ave., Bridgeport Governor, as an addition to the souvenirs WARREN, Russell L., GM 2/c and memorabilia of the Connecticut men RFD, Killingly Center WARYKAS, Joseph F., BM 1/c who served in the United States Navy 224 Mt. Pleasant St., Norwich during World War II. WEIGEL, Arthur N., MM 1/c The courtesies and assistance of public 324 DeLevan Ave., East Port Chester WELGE, Brant L., Cox information officers at the Ports, the Third 40 Main St., Clinton Naval District and the Naval Separation WEST, William E., GM 2/c Center, Lido Beach, Long Island, N. Y., 35 Orchard Rd., Woodmont WESTPHAL, Frederick H., SKD 2/c are acknowledged herewith. 155 Wethersfield Ave., Hartford Copies of this booklet are provided for WHEELER, Albert L., GM 3/c the men whose names appear on the Final 189 Concord St., New Haven WHITEHOUSE, Daniel E., MoMM 2/c Muster Call, herein. A copy is on file for Mansfield Center reference purposes at each of the 200 WICKSON, Stuart, AOM 1/c public libraries in the State. So. Pleasant Valley Rd., Groton WILCOX, James F., RT 2/c Reproduction of the material in this 77 Pond St., New Haven booklet is permissible only with written WILLIAMS, Charles A., ETM 2/c authorization. 24 Grand St., Norwalk WILLIAMS, Frank C, SM 3/c The personal experience stories were 58 Spring St., So. Norwalk reported by Raymond J. Fitzpatrick, and WILLIAMS, Ralph A., RdM 3/c George E. Allis. The cover illustration of a 250 Maple St., New Britain WILLS, Robert F., EM 2/c PT Boat and the ship pictures are from 140 Swanson Ave., Stratford official U. S. Navy photographs. WOLCOTT, Ellsworth A., Jr., FC 2/c 12 Willard St., Hartford

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