Connecticut veterans commemorative booklet. Vol. 9, no. 2. Connecticut men of the United States Army, demobilization, Fort Devens, Massachusetts. December 9 to 10, 1945

              CONNECTICUT MEN
of the United States Army
Demobilization, Fort Devens, Massachusetts
December 9 to 10, 1945 To Connecticut Veterans of World War II:
Connecticut men have written brilliant pages in the military history of this nation since the days of Bunker Hill. Indeed, in days of peace Connecticut men prepared for war so well that they always have been among the first to fight.
In this, the greatest of all wars just ended, you., as a son of Connecticut, have courageously and faithfully main­tained
that tradition. In fact, you have raised it to hew heights. You have added immortal names to the historic list of victories — New Georgia, Tunisia, Cassino, Anzio, Normandy, Ardennes Bulge, Hurtgen Forest, Leyte, Luzon, Ruhr Pocket, Apennines, Okinawa, and more.
Chance and talents assigned many of you to tasks along the supply routes, in hospitals and at bases, or to toil and sweat in such places as the Lido Road and along the Persian Gulf. All this made victory possible. Connecticut men, too, played a glorious role in that part of the victory which is credited in the ledgers of history for the Air Force.
Your fellow citizens in Connecticut are highly proud of your service. And they are very, very grateful.
Yours very sincerely,
STATE OF CONNECTICUT
EXECUTIVE CHAMBERS HARTFORD
Governor
HERE ARE THEIR STORIES
Military history for the most part is written by non- combatants and the " brass" from official records, " edited" by commissioned officers. War memoirs, too, most frequently record the views and opinions of commissioned officers. Only on infrequent and exceptional occasions is war experience recorded by enlisted men, save for that by specialists or professionals. That combat looks different as between the foxhole and the regimental CP is universally agreed. These stories, without historical pretensions per se, may well be in fact unique source material for Connecticut history. These are enlisted men's stories in their own words and the GI substitutes therefor reported as near verbatim as possible. — The Editor.
Abraham, Nick, T/ 4, Co. C, 543d Engr. Regt., 3d Engr. Spec. Brigade, Danbury.
' We hit Zamboanga in March ' 45 com­ing
in on LCIs with the initial wave. I had just hit the beach when a mortar shell scored a direct hit on the LCI I had just left, killing one man and damag­ing
the ship. I ran for cover of a tree be­cause
the ground was too hard to dig a foxhole. I just crouched behind that tree and hoped I wouldn't get hit. I was looking for souvenirs with a buddy of mine when snipers fired and killed him. I hit the ground and tried to spot where he was hidden but it was impossible and I made a dash for the rear. The medics returned for my buddy but he was killed instantly and there was nothing we could do. About the only good thing of that landing was finding a house full of saki. Everyone just helped themselves and there were plenty of hangovers the next day."
Allan, Percy, Pfc, Co. H., 322d Inf., 81st Div., Hartford.
" Palau was my first and only invasion and if I say I was nervous that's putting it mildly. I heard the mortar shell hit the ammo dump, dropped what I was carrying and dug one of the fastest holes in my life. It so happened that the hole I dug was right in front of a Jap pillbox, but I didn't know it until they threw a few hand grenades at me. I took off in a hurry and returned with a flame thrower crew and sealed up the pill box.
Three days later we returned and flushed 20 Japs out of that position."
Ball, Louis A., S/ Sgt., 432d Sq., 475th Ftr. Grp., 5th Air Force, West Haven.
" We were a damn happy mob on Ie Shima on August 15, 1945, the day our radio told us that the Japs had offered to surrender. We stood by that radio all day waiting for confirmation and further info, but very little came and we almost lost hope completely when during an official announcement of the negotiations the radio over on Okinawa cut in with warning and instructions directing ackack fire against another Nip air raid. That proved to be their last on Okinawa."
Carroll, Walter J., Pfc, 125th Cav. Ren., ( Mechanized), Waterbury.
" Our light tank outfit was the first such group to contact the Russians for the Ninth Army. Boy, were those babies ever tough. They didn't care a damn what happened to them or anyone else it seemed. I never saw such an attitude among soldiers, and I've seen some rough times myself. I was a tank gunner and I've had a couple of them knocked out but I was never hurt. ' Fortunate Carroll' was what the guys in the outfit called me."
Chamberlain, Lawrence C, Sgt., 433d Sq., 475th Ftr. Grp., 5th Air Force, Windham.
" With the formal declaration of V- J Day we were bound for Jensan, Korea, out of Okinawa Harbor for occupation. On the 17th of September our flat- bottomed LST hit that typhoon and for two days we were tossed around on that rough sea by an 80 mile an hour wind. I don't know how she did it but that old flat- bottom rode it out and made it into Jensan without casualty or serious loss of equipment."
Chapron, Alfred J., Pfc, Btry. A, 379th A. A. A. Gun Bn., Rocky Hill.
" Best sight I ever had overseas was near Neu Dachau, Germany, on May 5, 1945, when the Heinies were folding up fast. The 3d Armored Division up ahead was scooping ' em up by the thousand and sending ' em back to our area for ' safe­keeping'.
On that day they came in on foot, by truck, wagon, bicycle, cart and everything, even bringing along some DPs, until by the end of the day we had to guard about 20,000 Krauts. Boy, that ain't hay and we knew it was in the bag then!"
Christensen, Clarence E., Cpl, 2107th Sv. Unit, 6th Air Force, West Hartford.
" Biggest fun we had in Panama was fishing for alligators during the wet season in the early part of August in the swamps of Aguadulci. We would try to snare ' em in volley ball nets and shoot ' em when we had ' em up on land. Every ¬ time they got in to the nets, however, they would bite and thrash their way out and give you quite a fight. We never caught one that way and gave up until the dry season when we could hunt them on dry land."
Clark, Charles E., Pfc, Co. G., 132d Inf., Americal Div., New London.
" We walked into an ambush oh Leyte when I went along* into Jap lines. The first thing I remember was lying oh the ground with shrapnel all over my body. A shell had exploded three feet from me. I was dazed, but to avoid being captured I walked back to our lines and swam a stream in order to do so. One of my bud­dies
gave me a hand and if I didn't have his help I would have never made it. I was taken to the hospital and while in the hospital I caught malaria just to make things worse. I was in the hospital a total of seven months."
Dagliere, William G., Pfc, Co. F., 327th Gl. Inf., 101st Airborne Div., New Haven.
" As a glider trooper I got into Normandy on June 6, 1944, just before H- Hour. That was not a pleasure trip by any means but rough as it was, the roughest was the landing I made in a glider at Bastogne. I made another landing in Holland September 18, 1944. But the most dramatic of all was when the Ger­mans
attacked us in the Bulge. Those Krauts gave us two hours for the whole division to surrender. Colonel Harper told them to go to hell and we spent the two hours cleaning our rifles. It was a pretty rough battle but we didn't sur­render
even if we had to back up some."
Davis, Raymond H., Pfc, 1922d Ord. Ammo. Co., ( Avn.), 9th Air Force, Sv. Comd., Willimantic.
" Actually it's tragic, but as you look back sometimes things like that seem funny. We were stationed in ' Buzz Bomb Alley' in England. The exact place was in Kent and we had rigged up a shower for the guys. Well one day as soon as the water got hot they all piled in to wash up, and then it started. The buzz bombs began flying, dropping all over the area. One hit about fifty feet from the shower and those guys, all naked as the day they were born, came piling out of the place trying to run and at the same time scramble into their clothing."
Duncan, Randall S., T/ 5, 1318th Engr., Bridgeport.
" There was no furlough for me after my job was done in the ETO. They just packed the whole outfit into a ship and redeployed us directly through the Canal to Okinawa. As far as I was concerned there was not a single interesting thing about my work. I guess the only novel adventure I had was when I took a shower, my first one after landing in Okinawa, in the heavy rain that accom­panied
the typhoon. Good old soft rain­water
and you hardly needed GI soap. It's a wonder I wasn't blown away. I'll admit it wasn't the safest kind of a bath."
Dzekiewicz, Michael J., T/ Sgt., Army School of Malariology, Panama, Wethers- field.
" We were building a road through the jungle in the interior of Panama in July 1944 and at this point it ran along near the shore. The jeep assigned to our section was standing by on the beach and the driver, under the hot tropical sun, fell asleep behind the wheel as the tide came in fast. It wasn't long before the MPs got a call from someone who ' had seen a jeep floating around with a man in it.' In the meantime the tide had swept up over the hood and that driver woke up fast and took off on foot for the beach just in time to help the MPs pull the jeep out with a tow truck."
Gondola, Joseph A., Sgt., 554th S. A. W. Bn., 6th Air Force, Bridgeport.
" We'd seen a lot of snakes in Panama but I had my biggest scare on June 15, 1945, near Santa Maria. I was brushing my teeth next to another soldier and star­ing
into the mirror in an outdoor latrine when some men coming from behind us shouted, ' Watch out for the snake.' Sure enough, curled behind the mirror was a 19- inch coral snake. We reacted damn fast and killed him with a broomstick."
Greeney, James J., T/ 4, Co. B., 543d Amph. Engr. Boat and Shore Regt., Stamford.
" Everyone was pretty blue on Christ­mas
Eve 1944 in the harbor of Sansapor in the Dutch East Indies, and it didn't help any when we learned that we had to take our LCMs out to unload a bunch of ships that night, although it didn't make too much difference because there wasn't anything else to do. Some dispatcher made a mistake, however, and I took on two slings, or about 150. cases, of good Ameri­can
canned beer. I looked for the dispatch­er
— for about three minutes — and could­n't
find him so by three o'clock my crew of two and I didn't have any recollection of Christmas Eve or Christmas Day and as a matter of fact it lasted until New Years."
Hamilton, Edward R., S/ Sgt,, 35th M. R. & R. Sq., 26th Sv. Grp., East Hartford.
" I served all over the British Isles and through France and Germany. I feel that I really traveled in this war. Of all the things that happened, though, the one I'll recall longest was the heavy shelling and strafing we took on New Years Eve of ' 45. That day was hell. It was at the Bulge and nobody knew what to expect next,"
Iodice, Joseph P., T/ 4, Co. A., 322d Inf., 81st Div., Fairfield.
" A Jap mortar shell landed in our ammo dump on Palau. I was sitting on the edge of a bomb crater eating at the time, only 100 yards away. There were four of us and when the ammo dump blew up a piece of shrapnel hit and killed the man sitting next to me. I somehow lost my appetite when he was hit and I thought I would lose some of the food I had already eaten. That was the closest I ever came to being hit and I think I was damn lucky that I wasn't a few inches closer to him."
Iovanna, Armando, T/ 5, Btry B., 64th A. A. A. Gun Bn., 10th Army, Stamford. " The thing I remember the most hap­pened
on Guam in September ' 44. I was on patrol when the man directly in front of me was hit by a sniper. Medics came up and pulled him out but we stayed in the area trying to locate where the shot came from. We advanced toward the place we heard the shot and we saw the Jap make a run to a cave. Everyone of the 12 men on the patrol fired and killed the sniper and each one thought his shot was the one that killed him. Snipers gave us more trouble than anything else be­cause
it was difficult to locate them."
Jacobs, Raymond, Sgt, Co. M., 315th Inf., 75th Div., West Hartford.
" The first time I was wounded was during the fighting at the breakthrough at St, Lo on July 26, 1944. A bit of shrapnel caught me in the thigh of my right leg. As soon as I was out of the hospital I was back in the lines ready for what I didn't know was going to happen again. On September 30, 1944, my good old right leg got it again. It was more shrapnel and it was just a sample of what many of the others caught during the attack north of Strasbourg. Anyway, each time I got the Purple Heart it was while my outfit was advancing. My leg's not too bad now."
Jacovino, Anthony S., Sgt., Co. B., 644th T. D. Bn., 8th Div., Stratford.
" On April 28, 1945 I went into Wal ¬ smuhlen, Germany, on recon for a good road for our tanks, with the jeep and a lieutenant, the unit mail orderly, and the driver. The looey reading the map gave us the wrong road and we wound up right in the center of town still held by 275 Jerries. All we had were our own personal weapons, but I got hold of their first sergeant and with what German I knew, I convinced him that our troops were all around the town so they'd better surrender. Every­thing
was all set until their officers showed up and the major tried to talk him out of it, but I cut him short by motioning with my carbine and we rounded the whole force and took ' em to the PW cage at Wittenburg. I got the Bronze Star for it."
Jarvis, Sidney D., Pfc, Co. B., 323d Inf., 8lst Div., Hartford.
" On Palau a Jap grenade hit my helmet and exploded. I couldn't hear a thing for an hour, otherwise I was unhurt. We were taking a strong point when this Jap let got with the grenade and I didn't know what hit me until I saw the dent in my helmet. I went out to pick up two Japs who were wounded the night before and just as I got to them, they pulled a hand grenade and killed themselves. I thought for a minute that they were going to let me have it but they must have decided that it would be heroic to die."
Lucas, William J., S/ Sgt., Sv. Btry., 497th F. A. Bn., 13th Armd. Div., Bridge­port.
" The thing I remember the most was our landing in Le Havre last January. It was the coldest day in the year and there were no facilities for handling us; we were cold, miserable and didn't care too much what our future was. I did have one close call in Germany when time bursts exploded overhead. A foxhole wasn't too safe a place for that kind of fire and I hauled myself under a truck for better protection. We left France in the spring for the Pacific via the U. S. for six weeks invasion training, but the war in the Pacific ended and we were sent home on furloughs to wait for our dis­charges."
Mag, Raymond, lst/ Sgt., 29th M. R. & R. Sq., 84th Sv. Grp., 365th Ftr. Grp., West Hartford.
" I was a member of the first service
8 group to enter Germany in our sector after the advance troops did one wonderful job of batting it out against the enemy. As I look back over my experiences the thing I think about is how the war never meant anything to me until December 10, 1943, in England. That was near London and it was my first air raid, not to say my first taste of any kind of enemy action. We were out in the middle of this open field without even a slit trench to leap into. It gives a man an awful un­protected
feeling just standing there and taking it. You are so completely helpless. Why, we didn't have the anti- aircraft guns set up we had so recently arrived. It was the first time I saw men die. I saw others blown to pieces, that's worse than death. But after a lot of war the thought of men dying becomes old and uninterest ¬ ing."
Marcil, Rene L., Sgt., 1829th Ord. S. & M. ( Avn.), Sv. Comd., Waterbury.
" I did a lot of baking under fire and not once did the men ever complain of broken teeth from a bit of flak or shrapnel getting into the dough. Not even the time in Kent, England, when they were sending up flak right over my kitchen and I had to duck out of the shower almost under the oven."
Messina, Louis P., T/ 5, 472d Q. M. Truck Co. 10th Army, Bridgeport,
" There were about 300 snipers on Guam but I was lucky enough not to have seen them. I hauled supplies from the boats to the warehouses to be dis­tributed
to the other outfits. I once de­livered
water to the natives and saw how primitively they lived. They had one room grass huts and a whole family and their livestock lived in one room. Some of the natives told me that they were sorry to see thQ, Americans on the island. They said they were too strict with sanitation whereas the Japs didn't care how they lived."
Nolan, John F., Sgt., Co B., 323d Inf. 8lst Div., Bridgeport. .
" We were in a stationary position on Pelelieu on October 22, 1944, and the Japs started dropping knee- mortars in our platoon area. They killed two men in one position and hit another in a position about ten yards away from me. The aid man had also been hit so another sergeant and I went out to bring ' em in to the aid station. Only one shell came close and we made it in all right and got Bronze Stars for it."
Noonan, Paul E., T/ 5, 115th Cmbt, Engr., Torrington. " I was hit in the right hand but one of my buddies lost one of his legs. This happened near Schwartzbach, Germany, about April 20, 1945, while we were chop­ping
down a road block. There was a booby trap concealed in the logs and when the axe hit it, the thing went off with a pretty powerful explosion."
Passero, Bartholomew A., S/ Sgt., 30th Sq., 19th Bomb Grp. ( VH), 20th Air Force, Stamford.
" One night in August 1945 I received orders to get my crew and pull an engine change on our B- 29 and prepare it for a mission in the morning over Mito on Honshu. It looked almost impossible to make our deadline, but if those guys were willing to fly ' em over Japan we could certainly do our damnedest to give ' em a good ship to do it in. We pulled that engine change in record time — I got the Bronze Star for that — and had that baby roaring and ship- shape when the crew got out there in the early dawn."
Perry, Noel S., Pfc, Co. E., 322d Inf., 81st Div., Botsford.
" Palau in the Caroline Islands was supposed to be taken three days after we invaded. It sounded good on paper but it turned out to be a 37- day operation. After the island was secured I was put on a detail to bury dead Japs. I was riding on the back of a truck when it hit a bump and tossed me right onto a pile of dead Japs. They were dead about a week and full of maggots. When I picked myself up I found I had maggots all over un­clothes
and I took them off and tossed them on the pile with the dead Japs. I took off to my area for clean clothes and while I was gone a major from Graves Registration came along and spotted my clothes. He looked through them and found my dog tags and thinking that my clothes had been worn by one of the Japs
he assumed that I had been killed. My tags were taken to a cemetery and tacked to a cross of an unknown soldier. Records went through my company that showed I was dead, but someone who knew I was alive spotted my name and I was sent to the Graves Registration office to announce that I was alive and not buried in some­one's
grave."
Piazza, Frank P., T/ 5, Hq. Co., 321st Inf., 81st Div., Bridgeport.
" Pelelieu in the Palau Group became pretty boring with its jungle and coral after six months, so my buddies and I decided to lay in a little Christmas cheer in November 1944 for the holidays. We threw in some K- ration fruit bars, some concentrated yeast, all kinds of fruit juices, some sugar, dried figs, prunes and raisins, poured it into a Jerry can, named it ' Jungle Juice', and buried it in the ground after a few mosquitoes and gnats had drowned in it. We let it set too long, however, and it blew up. We were more successful with our next batch."
Riley, Robert R., T/ 5, Co. B., 1888th Avn. Engr. Bn., Greenwich.
" On the 3d of January 1945 we took off from Pierdoba in seven C- 47s to put in a north strip at a captured airfield at Myitkina, Burma, but when we landed on the southern strip we found our infantry still fighting the Japs at the northern end. By the end of the next day, however, Merrill's Marauders had cleaned ' em up and we were able to go to work."
Rizzuti, Louis F., T/ 5, 1462d Maint. Co., 563d Engr. Boat Maint. Bn., Water­bury.
" After all the shooting was over on the beachhead at Zamboanga, Mindanao, in the Philippines on the 10th of March 1945, we were settling down to K- rations and digging in when some natives from a nearby village came out to show their
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gratitude for the liberation with a few chickens. We pounced on them, thanked the natives and set to preparing chicken for dinner. I'm not much of a cook but that chicken sure tasted swell."
Romaniello, Domenick J., 1st/ Sgt., Hq. Btry., 31st Coast Artillery, Stamford.
" Every point I have for discharge was earned here in the States month by month and I have 60 points for service. That's a long time in the Army and I'm glad that it's coming to an end. I was in the Eastern Defense Command stationed at Fort Wright. We practiced firing with 155s at a target eight miles out in the ocean and won second prize for accuracy in the Eastern Defense Command."
Russo, Pasquale, T/ 4, Sv. Btry., 207th F. A. Bn., 9th Army, New Haven.
" My happiest day in the service was the day when they told me the damn war was over and I should pack up my radio equipment. After that there wasn't much work to do, just a few details, and the rest of the time was rest,"
Sabot, Victor, S/ Sgt., Sv. Co., 24th Tank Bn., 13th Armd. Div., Bridgeport.
" For me as mess sergeant it was a big relief to get those frozen chickens for the boys that day in February 1945 near Le Havre because it was the first we'd seen for a helluva long time, but it also meant a lot more work. We thawed them out, cleaned them and threw them in to cook, but when we pulled the chickens out we found that someone had neglected to clean one. Rather than have five men go without their chicken, we cut it up anyway and served it and sweated out the complaints. But we didn't get a single squawk- chick­en
was chicken if you liked it."
Savo, John P., T/ 4, Co. C, 543d Regt,, 3d Engr. Spec. Brigade, East Haven.
" The landing on Zamboanga in Min­danao
was the toughest thing I was in.
We hit the beach with the assault wave to help establish a beachhead with the infantry. The Japs had more than enough mortar fire and some of the LCMs in the wave were getting picked off. I was lying in a foxhole at night when I heard a shot and I reached for my carbine. I thought that Japs were in our area and I was waiting, ready to spot some and fire. I waited all night in firing position and the following morning I learned that one of the men in the hole next to me had fired the shot I heard at a monkey who was making too much noise in the trees."
Semedo, Antonio, T/ 5, Hq. Co., 1323d Engr. Regt., ( Sep.), Stratford.
" My 18 months in the ETO were spent in the supply or S- 4 section of a trucking outfit. I was never close to the front and my work was tame compared to the in­fantry.
The thing I remember the most was our trip from France to Manila which lasted 43 days. We left France in July ' 45 to take part in the invasion of Japan but when we got to Manila the war was over and we hung around three months waiting for transportation home. It was hard to take the thought of in­vading
Japan without a stop in the U. S. A. after being in the ETO so long. I just kept wondering if I'd ever see the U. S. again."
Simons, Bruce M., Pfc, A. W. Bn., 379th A. A. A., 9th Army, Danbury.
" The thing I remember the most was when a plane dived so close to our gun pit that if I had had a grenade I would have been able to hit him with it. When he dived to strafe us he saw our gun jam and he didn't fire at us. He flew to the other end of the field and dropped some bombs and on the way back we knocked him down. Below Ulzen, Germany, during April of 1945 it was funny to see all the Germans crossing the Rhine in order to
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escape being captured by the Russians. They begged us to take them prisoner, and we had more than we could handle."
Smith, William G., Pfc, Co. D., 323d Inf., 8lst Div., Bridgeport.
" Snipers fired at me on Palau while I was behind a rock with a machine gun. I opened up but I couldn't see them and fired wildly into the trees and brush. That's what I hated about the whole thing — you couldn't see who was firing at you and you never had a target you were sure of. I was 50 yards from a booby trap that went off killing 8 men and wounding 35. The Japs were tricky and if you let down for a minute you were a goner."
Stanish, Theodore P., Sgt., 30th Sq., 26th Ftr. Comd., 6th Air Force, Southing­ton.
" We were training Brazilian Air Force units on our field at Aguadulci, Panama, when one day in June 1944 a Brazilian pilot who took up a P- 40 for gunnery practice forgot to switch off his gun safety as he came down to land and when his wheels hit the ground he squeezed the trigger on the switch. He splattered .50 calibres up and down that runway, but not one man or plane was hit."
Tabor, Frank J., Pfc, Co. K, 117th Inf., 30th Div., Willimantic.
" Just before the breakthrough at St. Lo I saw the most inspiring sight of my life. Wave after wave, 3,000 in all, of our bombers soared over our heads. Their bombs blew St. Lo off the map just before we pushed off. About three fields away from us General McNear was killed when some of our own bombs fell close to him."
Tremalio, Anthony M., T/ 5, Hq. Co., 321st Inf. Regt., 8lst Inf. Div., Stratford.
" The native Filipinos were generous in their appreciation after we had landed on Leyte, and one of them gave me a wild
hen that I kept on a string as a pet hoping to get her to lay eggs for us. But after a couple of weeks when the food and especially the meat situation got tough, we were forced to bring out the axe. One guy plucked, another guy cleaned it and another stole some imitation butter and a loaf of bread from the mess, and then we all got in on the cooking in a GI mess kit. It wasn't the real McCoy, but we called it ' Southern Fried Chicken Sandwich.' "
Zuber, Paul E., Cpl., Con. Ad. ( Attchd.) 9th Army, North Haven.
" The stuff I had to do was not what anyone would call exciting but it had its interesting points. For instance it was our job to set up headquarters in old Nazi buildings or buildings formerly occupied by them. I was the first man to enter some of those old places and it was fascinating to find evidence all over the place of their hasty retreat. There'd be clothes scattered around the floors, meals on the tables half eaten, books lying open to unfinished chapters and razors on sinks with gobs of dried soapy whiskers still on their edges. About the only thing I didn't find half empty were liquor glasses." STATE AIDS AND BENEFITS
The laws of the State of Connecticut provide for many forms of aid, benefits and preferences for veterans, and for their next of kin in varying degrees. The following digest is designed to inform of the aids, benefits and preferences, and to designate the local or state agency charged with providing full information to veterans. There are thirty- four full- time and eight part- time Veterans Centers operating which serve 86 of the 169 cities and towns in the State. In some smaller towns the Town Clerks act as a " Veterans Center".
Tax Exemptions — File discharge with your Town Clerk; notify local assessors and collector.
Local Taxes — Any veteran is exempt from taxes on real or personal property up to $ 1,000 in valuation. Disabled veterans are exempt up to $ 3,000, according to disability ratings. This ex­emption
is in part valid for veterans' wives, and next of kin, as specified by the Statutes. See Local Tax Collector.
Local Business Taxes — ( Personal property) on stock, fixtures and equipment of new businesses established by veterans, for three years. See Local Tax Collector.
Old Age Assistance Taxes — Servicemen are exempt, during active service in armed forces, and veterans may secure refund if they paid while in active service. See Local Tax Collector.
State Unincorporated Business Taxes — On new businesses established by any veteran, good for three years. See Tax Commissioner, State Office Building, Hartford.
Free Business Licenses — Most licenses are free; renewals usually unnecessary for varying periods. See your Town Clerk.
Professional Licenses — Qualified veterans can be admitted to the practice of law or chiropractic without examination in most cases. Contact your county Bar Association, or the Board of Chiro­practic
Examiners, State Office Building, Hartford.
State Employment Preference — Veteran pas­sing
state civil service examination has five points added to score; ten, if he has a disability rating. Names placed on list of eligibles in the order of such augmented score.
The State's general policy on veteran's job preference, which has not the effect of law, was established by the 1945 General Assembly, with passage of the following:
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representa­tives:
" 1. That it shall be the policy of the State, acting through the Connecticut Veterans Reemploy­ment
and Advisory Commission, to encourage Connecticut employers to voluntarily set aside a minimum of 25 per cent of post- war jobs for veter­ans
of World War II.
" 2. That it shall be the policy of the State until July 1, 1950, to give preference to veterans of World War II in all State positions outside the classified service of the merit system act and in all positions involving contractual services and part time services and in all cases where compensation is paid by the State whether on a fee basis or otherwise.
" 3. That until July 1, 1950, it shall also be the policy of the State that appointing officers of the State, as defined by Sec. 2049 of the General Statutes, shall, other conditions being equal, give preference to veterans of World War II in filling State positions from registers of eligible candidates furnished by the State Personnel Department."
Educational Aids — With satisfactory cre­dentials,
a veteran can secure free a grammar school or high school diploma from the State Board of Education, State Office Building, Hartford.
Free instruction in secondary subjects ( high school courses) will be furnished by the State Board of Education if your town can't do it. See your local school officials.
Financial aid for college educations for children, 16 to 23, of servicemen killed in service. Consult the State Board of Education.
Aid for Needy Veterans — If you are being cared for under legal direction of the Veterans Home Commission, your children under 16, husband, wife or widowed mother can receive weekly finan­cial
assistance up to $ 10. for an adult and $ 6. for a child. Apply to the Commission, through the Veterans Home, Rocky Hill.
If you need temporary financial assistance because of a service disability, contact the Veterans Home Commission, Rocky Hill.
Soldiers, Sailors and Marines Fund — Many of the veterans' aid benefits set out above are pay­able
from the income produced by this fund which is to be augmented by a portion of the Connecticut tax on cigarettes until the principal of the fund reaches $ 15,000,000. Disbursements of these funds to carry out aid provisions to veterans, and certain relatives and next of kin of veterans pursuant to statute, are through the State Treasurer of the American Legion, State Office Building, Hartford.
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THE MUSTER OUT ROLL CALL
Names, rank and addresses of Connecticut men discharged during the period December 9 to 10, 1945, from the official Group Rosters, Fort Devens Separation Center, Mass.
ABBATE, Salvatore A., Pfc.
20 Deerfield Ave., Hartford ABRAHAM, Nick, T/ 4
71 Rose St., Danbury ABRAMCZYK, Stanley H., Pvt.
525 Farmington Ave., New Britain ABRAMS, Charles, T/ 4
612 Capitol Ave., Bridgeport ABRAMS, Douglas, T/ 5
1585 Summer St., Stamford ADOMAITIS, John E., Pvt.
Chestnut Tree Hill, Seymour ALFANO, James V., Pfc.
55 Whiting St., Hamden ALFANO, Patsy, Sgt.
201 Exeter St., Bridgeport ALLEN, Percy, Pfc.
33 Windham St., Hartford ANGELLO, Joseph, T/ 5 '
358 East St., New Haven ARIOLA, Frank, T/ 4
24 Green St., Waterbury ARNOLD, John B., T/ 5
21 Baldwin St., Devon ARPIN, Laurent L., T/ 3
181 High St., Baltic ARSENAULT, Leo J., T/ 5
27 Monticello St., Willimantic AUBRIE, Eucher J., Pfc.
428 Mill St., Waterbury BABIYAN, Andrew L., Pfc.
RFD 2, New Milford BABULA, John J., S/ Sgt.
Hawthorn St., Glenville BAGG, Robert P., T/ 4
7 South Crossways, Old Greenwich BAKER, Winfred P., S/ Sgt.
RFD 1, Putnam BAILEY, Warren A., Pvt.
88 Boston St., Guilford BALESTRINI, Angelo, T/ Sgt.
280 East Ave., East Norwalk BALL, Louis A., S/ Sgt.
28 Court St., West Haven BANASIEWICZ, Joseph, Pfc.
28 Forest St., Norwich BANKER, George A., Pfc.
Box 286- F, Lockwood Rd., Riverside BANKS, Bartram H., T/ Sgt.
1107 Wells Pl., Stratford BARNES, Anson A., Pfc.
462 Main St., Torrington BARNES, William G., Sgt.
69 Connecticut Ave., New Britain BARNWELL, Raymond G., Pfc.
85 Frank St., Bridgeport BAROCSI, John, Jr., Pvt.
29 Ridge Ave., Bridgeport BARONE, Lawrence T., Pvt.
104 Beech St., Waterbury BEAUREGARD, Leonard J., Pfc.
29 South Walnut St., Wauregan BEBEAU, Ernest L., T/ Sgt.
Cranska Village, Moosup BECK, Michael J., Cpl.
36 Southeast Drive, New Haven BECK, Walter J., Pfc.
Buckland St., Plantsville
BEDNARSKI, John F., S/ Sgt.
25 Wolcott St., Hartford BELOFF, Herman W., Pvt.
153 Bedford Ct., Stratford BENNI, Walter, S/ Sgt.
197 Putnam St.; New Haven BENSON, John J., T/ 5
183 Wethersfield Ave., Hartford BERGERON, Robert J., Pfc.
37 Steele Rd., Bristol BERMAN, Samuel H., T/ Sgt.
192 Standish St., Hartford BERNIER, Conrad M., Pfc.
84 North St., Danielson BIGGERSTAFF, Samuel A., Pfc
42 South St., Suffield BILLINGS, Stanley R., Pfc.
14 Summit St., Manchester BIMONTE, Ralph R., T/ 5
555 Garden St., Hartford BIS, Joseph J., Pfc.
Box 68, West Cheshire BONAFONTE, John J., S/ Sgt.
419 Main St., New Britain BONNIN, Adelard J., Sgt.
55 North Chestnut St., Wauregan BORAWSKI, Peter W., Sgt.
48 South Prospect St., Hartford BORONA, John J., S/ Sgt.
803 Jennings Rd., Fairfield BORRELLI, James, T/ 4
72 Red Mountain Ave., Torrington BRAYTON, William E., Pvt.
51 Collis St., New Haven BREWSTER, Robert B., Pfc.
Litchfield BRIGGS, George R., Sgt.
1 Linwood Ave., Colchester BRODA, Joseph A., S/ Sgt.
111 Hawthrone Ave., Derby BROWN, Edward C, T/ 4
102 Auburn St., New Haven BROWN, Harold W., Pfc.
Box 306, Pequabuck BROWN, Leonard F., S/ Sgt.
197 Montowese St., Branford BURBY, John L., Pfc.
1066 Noble Ave., Bridgeport BURKE, William J., Pvt.
84 Farmington Ave., Kensington BURNS, Thomas W., Pvt.
854 Capitol Ave., Hartford BURR, Freeman E., Pfc.
144 Pembroke St., Bridgeport BUSSE, Herbert E., Sgt.
106 Rockledge Drive, Bristol BUXTON, Winston H., S/ Sgt.
57 Hanover St., Waterbury BAYER, Arthur O., T/ 5
32 Fairview St., New Britain CADMAN, Richard N., Sgt.
189 Sigourney St., Hartford CAFAZZO, Angelo S., T/ 5
255 Tolland St., East Hartford CANTITO, Albert A., Sgt.
90 Ivy St., New Haven CARLSON, Vincent A., Cpl.
30 Sinclair St., Windsor CARNESKI, Frank W., S/ Sgt.
231 Pixlee Pl., Bridgeport CARROLL, Francis C, T/ 5
88 Rich Ave., East Port Chester CARROLL, James E., T/ 4
Sunny Valley, New Milford CARROLL, Walter J., Pfc.
35 West Clay St., Waterbury CASORIA, Simon, Jr., Cpl.
Bldg. 44, Y. M. V., Bridgeport CAVARNOS, Peter S., Pfc.
160 Golden St., Norwich CHAMBERLAIN, Lawrence C, Sgt.
Windham CHAMPAGNE, Wilfred J., Pfc.
10 Carver Ave., Norwich CHAPRON, Alfred J., Pfc.
Dividend Rd., Rocky Hill CHRISTENSEN, Clarence E., Cpl.
2559 Albany Ave., West Hartford CIARLO, Romeo N., 1st/ Sgt.
1030 North Main St., Waterbury CIFARELLI, Adolph J., S/ Sgt.
44 Foxon St., New Haven CIMINO, James V., Pvt.
266 Walnut St., Waterbury CLARK, Charles E., Pfc.
78 Washington St., New London CLEM, David B., T/ 4
135 Madison St., Hartford CLOCK, Andrew F., T/ 4
436 Davis St., Oakville COHEN, Albert, S/ Sgt.
Box 6, Gilman COLLETTI, Frank J., T/ 3
5 Nonatuck St., Thompsonville COLLI, Francis K., Cpl.
54 North Main St., Windsor Locks CONTI, Francis J., S/ Sgt,
75 Avondale Rd., Manchester CORRENTI, Claude R., Sgt.
198 Calhoun Ave., Bridgeport COSTANZO, Ralph P., Pvt.
451 Brooks St., Bridgeport CREAN, Donald J., Cpl.
193 Quinnipiac St., Wallingford CREDIT, Lionel J., Sgt.
55 Railroad St., Putnam CROCE, Dominic T., Pvt.
Fairfax St., Waterbury CROMWELL, James F., Sgt.
Box 36, Hawleyville CUCCARO, Frank P., T/ 4
1127 Brooklawn Ave., Fairfield CZACHOROWSKI, John P., Sgt.
222 Beechwood Ave., Torrington DAGLIERE, William G., Pfc.
188 Franklin St., New Haven DALOIA, Donato, Pfc.
44 Pearl Lake Rd., Waterbury DALY, Edwin C, Pfc.
142 Larrabee St., East Hartford DALY, Robert T., Pvt.
1701 Tolland Turnpike, East Hartford D'AMATO, Dominick P., T/ 5
56 Willow St., Bridgeport DARVEAU, George F., T/ 4
32 Anderson Ave., Woodmont DAVIS, John W., Pfc.
1926 Broad St., Hartford DAVIS, Raymond H., Pfc.
181 Main St., Willimantic DeARINZO, Vincent M., Pvt.
Greenwood Ave., Springdale DEAUVILLE, John A., Cpl.
27 McKinley Ave., Norwich DellaROCCO, Ralph J., Pvt.
305 Madison Ave., Bridgeport
DELPH, William C, T/ 5
64 Whalley Ave., New Haven DeLUCIA, Ralph L., T/ 4
18 Beecher Pl., New Haven DeMAIO, Anthony J., Sgt.
96 New Park Ave., Hartford DEMATTIA, Andrew D., S/ Sgt.
155 Woodrow Ave., Southport DEMERSKI, Bennie E., Pfc.
150 Sixth St., Bristol D'ELIA, Ralph S., Pvt.
44 Dunham St., Norwich DePIZZOL, John, T/ 4
49 Park St., Meriden DEVLIN, James B., S/ Sgt.
31 Grove St., Windsor Locks DiMAGGIO, Angelo C, T/ 5
44 Orchard St., New London DONNELLY, Raymond W., S/ Sgt.
6 Rock Ridge Drive, South Norwalk DONOVAL, William G., T/ 4
81 Thomas St., West Haven DOUCETTE, Jean P., T/ 5
26 Silver St., New Britain DOWELL, Nathaniel, S/ Sgt.
68 Chestnut St., Hartford DRAGONE, John B., Pfc.
27 Main St., New Haven DRESCHER, Alfred, Jr., T/ 5
144 Willow St., Waterbury DRISCOLL, William J., S/ Sgt.
231 Farmington Ave., Bristol DUBE, Robert L., T/ 5
392 Windsor Ave., Wilson DUBORD, Henry J., T/ 4
112 View St., New Haven DUFF, Horton A., Sgt.
Silver Mine Ave., Norwalk DUGGAN, John J., Jr., S/ Sgt.
789 Orange St., New Haven DULLARD, William F., 1st/ Sgt.
24 Fuller St., Naugatuck DUMAS, Dolor J., T/ 5
RFD 1, Killingly DUMAS, William R., Pfc.
Main St., South Coventry DUNCAN, Randall S., T/ 5
181 Beardsley St., Bridgeport DUPONT, Alvin J., Pfc.
74 West St., New London DZEKIEWICZ, Michael J., T/ Sgt.
40 Wilmont St., Wethersfield DZIURA, Frank J., Cpl.
28 Booth Rd., Thompsonville EDGERTON, Harry F., Pvt.
RFD 1, Mystic EHRITZ, Louis J., Jr., Pfc.
25 Hurlburt St., New Britain ELY, Robert C, Pfc.
Hilton St., Noroton Heights ENGLE, Gene, Pfc.
New Preston ENSTROM, Karl E., Pfc.
37 Rosette St., New Haven EUREKA, Ernest L., Pvt.
45 Barbara St., Waterbury FABIANI, August, Pvt.
109 Griggs St., Waterbury FABRIGATORE, Frank, Pfc.
1768 Whalley Ave., Woodbridge FAULKNER, Charles E., Pfc.
756 Bloomfield Ave., Bloomfield FERRARA, William J., Pfc.
29 Wardwell St., Stamford FERRIGNO, Sylvio, Pfc.
22 Mill River St., New Haven FILL, Michael, Cpl.
East Plymouth St., Terryville FISKE, Walter S., Pfc.
163 Ward St., Naugatuck FLAHERTY, Bernard M., S/ Sgt.
19 Beaumont St., East Hartford FLANNERY, Edward R., Pfc.
457 Beechwood Ave., Bridgeport FORBES, Philip J., Jr., T/ 5
RFD 4, Box 52- A, Danbury FORTE, Robert V., Pvt.
20 Tesiny Ave., Bridgeport FRANCAVILLA, John J., Cpl.
4 Harriet St., Norwalk FRANCO, Francis J., T/ Sgt.
187 Campfield Ave., Hartford GAGO, Americo L., Pvt.
RFD 3, Steinman Ave., Middlebury GAILUNAS, Stanley J., Pfc.
75 Ivy St., Branford GALLANT, Ernest A., T/ 5
431 William St., Bridgeport GARAY, John G., Pvt.
104 Woodbridge St., Manchester GARBELLINI, Andrew J., T/ 4
152 Tremont St., New Britain GARNEAU, Conrad R., T/ 5
155 Ashley St., Hartford GARVEY, Hugh R., T/ 4
44 Center St., Meriden GASPARRINI, Joseph W., Pfc.
61 Locust St., Greenwich GATES, Clifford H., Pvt.
243 Pond St., New Britain GAZDIK, Andrew, Pfc.
38 White St., Bridgeport GELLIS, Meyer, Pfc.
291 Pleasant View Ave., Bridgeport GERSH, Merle R., Pvt.
31 Center Ave., Norwalk GESSAY, Charles M., Cpl.
148 North School St., Manchester GESSECK, Edward W., S/ Sgt.
Cherry St. Ext., Naugatuck GIANSANTI, Wherrv T., Pfc.
284 Wethersfield Ave., Hartford GIESING, Timothy T., Pfc.
220 Mitchell St., Groton GIRAITIS, Joseph J., Pfc.
395 North Main St., Manchester GITLIN, Milton, T/ 5
16 Bretton Rd., West Hartford GIUNTA, Anthony P., Pfc.
90 Franklin St., Saugatuck GLEESON, Paul L., Pfc.
145 Spring St., Torrington GOIAS, John P., Pfc.
5 Potter St., Danielson GOMBAR, Howard M., S/ Sgt.
25 Orchard St., Bridgeport GONDOLA, Joseph A., Sgt.
209 Pine St., Bridgeport GONTARSKY, Morris, T/ Sgt,
215 Camp Ave., c/ o Fagan, Newington GORAISKI, Henry E., Sgt.
Box 376, Avon GRAVINO, Angelo C, Pfc.
225 South Fulton St., New Haven GRAVLICH, Howard C, Pvt.
111 Cherry St., New Britain GRAZIANI, Joseph, Sgt.
184 Spruce St., Bridgeport GREENEY, James J., T/ 4
8 Washington Ct., Stamford GRESKO, Joseph P., Cpl.
50 Dover St., Bridgeport GRIECO, Angelo A., Pfc.
102 Beecher St., Southington GRIFFITH, Malcolm F., Sgt.
84 Vance St., New Britain
GROMAK, Stanley N., T/ 4
37 Woodbridge St., Hartford GRYNIUK, Walter, T/ 5
46 Bridge St., Waterbury GUDELSKI, Boleslaus T., S/ Sgt.
1020 Orange St., Meriden GUNDERSON, Walter J., S/ Sgt.
10 Chichester Pl., Danbury HAIGHT, Dayton H., T/ 4
RFD 2, Box 30, Torrington HALL, Milton E., Pfc.
Box 83- A, Sterling HALLER, Richard E., T/ 5
Box 76, Stepney HALM, Emerica L., T/ 5
833 Newfield Ave., Elmwood HAMILTON, Edward R., S/ Sgt.
15 Porter Brook Ave., East Hartford HAMMERMAN, William F., Pvt.
144 Chester Ave., Waterbury HARCHARIK, John E., T/ 3
160 Pixlee Pl., Bridgeport HARRINGTON, Chester H., Sgt.
RFD 1, Mansfield HASKINS, Samuel, Cpl.
41 Chestnut St., Hartford HAUG, Louis W., S/ Sgt.
413 Bruce Ave., Stratford HAUG, William C, Sgt.
94 Hickory St., Bridgeport HECKEL, Edwin L., Pfc.
18 Leonard St., Stamford HEICK, John S., Pvt.
75 Roosevelt St., Hartford HEREL, Alex, T/ 5
146 Henry St., Stamford HILL, Stewart K., T/ 4
60 Laurel Hill, Norwich HILLEY, Robert M., 1st/ Sgt.
75 Chestnut St., Ivoryton HOERIG, Joseph F., Sgt.
504 New Park Ave., West Hartford HOLLOWAY, Robert J., Sgt,
44 Pratt St., Fairfield HOPPER, Paul A., Cpl.
RFD 1, Box 30- A, Old Lyme HORNEY, Edward E., T/ 5
142 Winthrop St., Torrington HUMPHRIES, Elmore T., 1st/ Sgt.
12 Lilly St., Manchester HUNT, Frederick H., Pfc.
10 Ridge Pl., Stamford HRYB, Walter, Pvt.
34 Maple St., New Haven HYDE, Philip W., Pfc.
42 Fairview St., Devon IADONE, Louis, Pfc.
167 Winthrop Ave., New Haven INTELISANO, Thomas H., T/ 4
140 Austin St., Bridgeport IODICE, Joseph P., T/ 4
17 School St., Fairfield IOVANNA, Armando, T/ 5
63 Taylor St., Stamford ITKIN, Jacob D., Cpl.
498 Main St., Middletown JACOBS, Raymond, Sgt.
44 St. Charles St., West Hartford JACOBSON, Saul P., Pvt.
152 Minor St., New Haven JACOVINO, Anthony S., Sgt.
629 Birdseye St., Stratford JACKSON, Carlton I., Sgt.
110 West Main St., Stamford JAKIELO, Henry J., Cpl.
171 Crown St., Meriden JARMIE, Eugene H., T/ Sgt.
339 Foxon Rd., East Haven JARVIS, Sidney D., Pfc.
54 Whitmore St., Hartford JEDZINIAK, Leon A., T/ 4
129 Putnam St., New Britain JENSEN, Edgar F., Cpl.
72 Howard Ave., New Haven JOHNSON, Albert R., T/ 5
127 Otis St., Hartford JOHNSON, George R., Pfc.
73 Treadwell St., Hamden JOHNSON, Robert W., T/ Sgt.
380 Woodstock Ave., Stratford JOHNSTON, Thomas J., S/ Sgt.
Cliff Ave. and Tokeneke Rd., Darien KABATNIZCK, Herbert, T/ 3
62 Church St., Middletown KACZYNSKI, Stanley J., Pfc.
430 Middletown Ave., New Haven KAIKO, Charles W., T/ 3
Box 19, Pachaug KEEKER, John J., T/ 4
West Cheshire KEENAN, James G., Pfc.
Box 25, Old Lyme KELLEHER, John L., T/ 5
225 Union Ave., Bridgeport KELLY, Daniel R., Sgt.
20 Newfield Ave., Hartford KELLY, Joseph M., T/ 5
27 Gilbert St., New Britain KELLY, Thomas F., Pvt.
190 Lamberton St., New Haven KENNY, John E., S/ Sgt,
1391 Main St., Bridgeport KERR, Robert T., Pfc.
794 Chestnut Hill Rd., Glastonbury KIERTZ, Stanley J., Cpl.
Dewey Ave., Meriden KIKOSICKI, Stanley, T/ 5
Pent Rd., Branford Hills, Branford KINSLER, David A., T/ 5
24 Hebron St., Hartford KIVLIN, Kenneth J., T/ 3
188 West Town St., Norwich KLOTER, Ernest B., Sgt.
14 West St., Rockville KNAPP, Irving D., Pfc.
67 Rowan St., Danbury KNIGHT, William L., Cpl.
261 Day St., New Haven KOKOSZKA, Anthony E., Pfc.
RFD, Box 9, Rockfall KONDASEWICZ, Walter S., Cpl.
174 Sheldon St., Hartford KOPY, Michael, Cpl.
41 Olive St., New Britain KOST, William R., Pfc.
1964 Boston Ave., Bridgeport KOT, Stanley A., Pfc.
23 Union St., Thompsonville KUMM, Wesley G., Pfc.
48 Franklin St., New Britain KUNOFSKY, Irving I., Pfc.
445 North Main St., Waterbury KUSENKO, Wally J., T/ 5
123 Wooster St., Hartford KUSZA, Joseph J., S/ Sgt.
855 North Colony Rd., Meriden KUTIA, Michael, T/ 5
Avery St. Ext., Norwich LaCROIX, Robert K., Pfc.
3166 Main St., Bridgeport LADEN, Harold J., Sgt.
50 Nash St., New Haven LAMBERT, Robert R., Sgt.
184 Eastern Pkwy, Devon LANE, Edward F., T/ 5
15 Valley Rd., Cos Cob
LANGIAIS, Raymond J., Pfc.
Box 146- A, West Cheshire LASKY, Edward F., Pfc.
31 Shapley St., New London LATHAM, George T., Pfc.
1060 Stratford Ave., Bridgeport LAUDANNA, Clemente, T/ Sgt.
3661 Main St., Bridgeport LAVIGNE, Norman E., Pfc.
130 South Main St., South Norwalk LEE, Fred W., Pfc.
23 High St., Pine Grove, Niantic LEE, William G., Pvt.
611 North Main St., Norwich LENNOX, William S., Sgt.
44 Oak Ave. Milford LEONE, Joseph, Pfc.
42 Wallace St., New Britain LEPO, Joseph B., T/ 4
35 West Porter St., Waterbury LEWIS, Edward E., T/ 4
Cornwall Bridge, Warren LEWIS, Stanley B., Pvt.
RFD 1, Higganum LIBERATORE, John J., S/ Sgt.
60 Carlisle St., Stamford LIPPIELLO, Louis V., Cpl.
Mechanicsville LIPSKY, Victor, Cpl.
Box 34, South Coventry LITTLE, Stuart W., Sgt,
1144 Prospect Ave., Hartford LONGO, Thomas F., Pfc.
11 Whitney St., East Hartford LORENCE, Edward F., Pfc.
90 Ives St., Willimantic LOVISONE, Joseph S., Pfc.
Box 193, Elm St., North Haven LUCAS, William J., S/ Sgt.
437 Midland St., Bridgeport LUCKNER, Harold L., Pfc.
c/ o W. Luckner, RFD 2, Stepney LUKASIEWICZ, Alphonse J., Pfc.
70 Concord St., Bristol MAG, Raymond, 1st/ Sgt.
15 Ardmore Rd., West Hartford MAHONEY, David J., T/ 5
12 Pleasant St., Thompsonville MALENA, Oronzo A., T/ 5
51 Edgewood St., Hartford MALONEY, Francis P., T/ 4
140 South Orange St., New Haven MARCIL, Rene L., Sgt.
72 Lounsbury Ave., Waterbury MARELLA, Anthony N., T/ Sgt.
464 Catherine St., Bridgeport MARION, George W., T/ 5
24 Neanda St., New Britain MARK, Irving, Sgt.
178 Poplar St., Bridgeport MARKIE, Ned R., T/ 5
461 North Main St., Bristol MARKSTEIN, Frank J., T/ 5
596 Zion St., Hartford MARKWICA, Joseph, Pvt.
22 Ingraham St., Bristol MARLOWE, Cecil F., Pvt.
765 Woodward Ave., New Haven MARSHALL, Paul L., S/ Sgt.
42 Chapman St., Putnam MARTIN, John W., T/ 5
RFD 1, South Kent MARTINELLI, Joseph J., Sgt.
791 Lindley St., Bridgeport MASTRIANNI, Anthony, Cpl.
10 Henry St., South Norwalk MASTROLANNI, Paul A., T/ 3
236 Garden Drive, Bridgeport MAXWELL, Elton H., Pfc.
Box 291, Norwalk McALLISTER, Edward A., Cpl.
121 Oxford Drive, East Hartford McCANN, Francis H., T/ Sgt.
576 Main St., Middletown McDOWELL, James H., Jr., T/ 5
28 Lilly St., Manchester McKENNA, John, T/ 5
93 Spring St., Hartford McMAHON, James F., S/ Sgt.
107 Henry St., Hartford MEMCIK, Andrew J., Pfc.
43 Whiting Ave., Torrington MERCURE, Henry J., T/ 5
19 Rockwell Ave., New Britain MESSINA, Louis P., T/ 5
680 Kings Highway, Bridgeport MICELI, Rosario T., Sgt.
20 Jefferson Ave., New London MICHALOWSKI, Stanley W., T/ 4
349 Oak St., New Britain MICHAUD, Joseph F., Pfc.
59 Whitney Rd., Manchester MIERZEJEWSKI, Mitchell J., Pfc.
433 Hallett St., Bridgeport MIGLIARO, Bernard J., Pfc.
186 Easton Ave., Waterbury MIKOS, John P., Pfc.
16 Taylor St., Danbury MILLER, Roderick W., T/ 5
90 William St., Bridgeport MILLO, Vincent V., T/ 5
27 Salem St., Bridgeport MITCHELL, Edmund W., T/ 5
11 First St., Bristol MOLOCKO, Paul, Pvt.
33 Knapps Highway, Fairfield MONROE, Robert E., T/ 4
Dunn Ave., Stamford MONTAGNA, John J., Pfc.
24 Fairview Ave., Oakville MONTHEI, Alvin T., T/ 3
RFD 1, Box 51, Rockfall MONTI, Charles N., Pvt.
230 Washington St., Waterbury MORAN, Patrick W., Sgt.
64 Cornhill St., Bridgeport MORAWSKY, John, Pfc.
RFD 3, Box 37, Stafford Springs MORGAN, Edward F., T/ 5
23 Atlantic St., Stamford MORIN, Alfred V., Sgt.
4 Starr St., New London MORRA, Louis E., Sgt.
510 Hudson St., Hartford MORRISON, Donald W., Cpl.
Old Norwalk Rd., New Canaan MORTE, Mario M., Pvt.
20 Tesiny Ave., Bridgeport MURAWSKI, Edward, Pfc.
91 Belden St., New Britain MURRAY, Francis T., Pfc.
5 Merriam Ave., Bloomfield MUZER, Frederick, T/ 5
Wood's District, Madison MYRICK, Norman F., Pfc.
79 Summerfield Ave., Bridgeport NASH, George D., T/ 5
Norfolk NELSON, Oliver K., T/ 5
142 Howe St., New Haven NEUKIRCH, John C, T/ 4
Horton Ave., Cheshire NEVILLE, Robert A., Pfc.
767 North Colony Rd., Meriden NOLAN, John F., Sgt,
1393 Stratford Ave., Bridgeport
NOONAN, Paul E., T/ 5
42 Clarence St., Torrington NORWOOD, Howard, Pfc.
418 Main St., East Haven NAPPI, Peter P., Pfc.
280 Caroline St., Derby NORMAND, Harry A., Sgt.
174 Frost Rd., Waterbury NOSSES, Russell A., Pfc.
268 Cherry St., New Britain NUTLAND, Robert W., S/ Sgt.
73 Davis Ave., Rock ville O'CONNELL, Harold F., T/ 3
145 Oneco St., Norwich O'DONOGHUE, Richard N., Pvt.
48 ( Hen Pl., Bridgeport OSBORN, Herbert E., Pfc.
181 Ashmun St., New Haven OVSEYCHIK, George Y., T/ 5
1295 Blue Hills Ave., Bloomfield PAGE, Harold L., Cpl.
56 Smith St., Bridgeport PAMBIANCHI, Tarquinio T., T/ 5
Box 110- A, Ridgefield PAPPALARDO, Joseph S., Cpl.
1809 Broad St., Hartford PAPPAS, Gus N., T/ 5
1968 Park Ave., Bridgeport PARK, Charles K., S/ Sgt.
150 High St., Middletown PARRINO, Michael, T/ 5
229 Blatchley Ave., New Haven PASSERO, Bartholomew A., S/ Sgt.
27 Cherry St., Stamford PAVIA, Nick J., Pfc.
46 Linen Ave., Bridgeport PEDEVILLANO, Tony R., T/ 4
110 Beaver St., Ansonia PELLETIER, Cyril J., Pfc.
149 Retreat Ave., Hartford PEPIN, Wilfred J., Pfc.
5 North A St., Taftville PERAKOS, Peter G., Jr., T/ 5
482 Lincoln Rd., New Britain PERRY, Noel S., Pfc.
Box 32, Botsford PERSCHY, Emil, Pfc.
Loomis Ave., Plainville PESKA, William J., Pfc.
54 Wells St., Hartford PIAZZA, Frank P., T/ 5
2379 Main St., Bridgeport PIETROFESA, Joseph, T/ 4
19 Woodlawn St., Thompsonville PJORA, Stephen A., Pfc.
25 Wessels Ave., Bridgeport PLOURDE, Philip W., S/ Sgt,
108 Dixie Ave., Waterbury PLUCAS, Edward P., Sgt.
73 Woodland St., New Britain POHLEY, Robert G., Pfc.
401 Compo Rd., Westport PRIGATANO, John R., Pfc.
52 Hickory St., Meriden PRZECIOSKI, Frank, Pfc.
29 Pacific St., Stamford QUINT, Howard J., Sgt.
193 Burnside Ave., East Hartford RACHEL, Charles, T/ 5
South Elm St., Windsor Locks RAGO, Nicholas F., Jr., Pfc.
70 Harwich St., Hartford RANKIN, Robert W., Cpl.
Mile Hill Rd., Rockville REID, Leonard C, T/ 4 Burrows St., Mystic REPKO, Donald M., Pfc.
65 Seymour St., Bridgeport REYNOLDS, John R., Cpl.
77 Hazel St., New Haven RIBERIO, John K., S/ Sgt.
138 Winter St., New Britain RICH, Alphonse, 1st/ Sgt.
83 Wallace St., Stamford RICHARD, Lorenzo J., T/ 4
386 Sigourney St., Hartford RICKEY, Roland J., Cpl.
31 Morin Ave., Danielson RIGGINS, Eugene W., T/ 4
476 North Main St., Waterbury RINALDI, Michael, T/ 5
52 Canal St., Waterbury RIZZUTI, Louis F., T/ 5
240 South Leonard St., Waterbury ROBINSON, Wallace H., S/ Sgt.
371 Nichols St., Bridgeport ROBINSON, William A., Sgt.
714 Orchard St., New Haven ROGALSKI, Frank J., S/ Sgt.
31 East Meadow St., Stamford ROGERS, Howard N., Pvt.
4 Summer St., Norwalk ROMAN, Joseph J., S/ Sgt.
Rt, 1, Box 21, Torrington ROMA NIELLO, Domenick J., 1st/ Sgt.
180 West Ave., Stamford ROMANO, Lee J., T/ 5
306 Berkshire Ave., Bridgeport ROMANOWSKI, John S., Pfc.
79 Lafayette St., Hartford ROSA, William D., Pvt.
75 St. George Ave., Stamford ROSEN, Harold A., M/ Sgt.
240 Enfield St., Hartford ROSS, Charles F., Cpl.
75 View St., East Port Chester ROTHWELL, Thomas W., Pvt.
12 Bolles St., Putnam ROUTSIS, George, Cpl.
465 Main St., Middletown ROWE, Lawrence, Jr., Cpl.
4 Green St., Stamford RUSSELL, Ligore, Pfc.
Wassuc Rd., South Glastonbury RUSSO, Anthony S., Pfc.
162 Woodland Ave., Bloomfield RUSSO, Pasquale, T/ 4
168 Sheffield Ave., New Haven RUSSOLILLO, Michael A., T/ 5
97 Sylvan Ave., Waterbury RYAN, Warren R., Pfc.
Bradley Highlands, Woodbridge RYDER, John B., Cpl.
77 Windsor St., Thompsonville SABOL, Victor, S/ Sgt.
359 Bostwick Ave., Bridgeport SALMON, Joseph B., M/ Sgt.
109 Main St., Westport SAMAL, Nicholas M., Pfc.
31 Maplewood Ave., Torrington SAMS, Carroll F., T/ 4
79 Blakeslee Circle, Waterbury SANDERSON, Thomas C, T/ 5
78 Williams St., Thomaston SANTACROCE, Alphonse A., Pfc.
52 Shelton Ave., New Haven SANTONE, Michael D., Pfc.
26 Railroad Hill St., Waterbury SAVO, John P., T/ 4
89 Harrington Ave., East Haven SAWARDA, Edward J., T/ 5
100 Willow St., Meriden SCHETTINO, Louis, Jr., Pfc.
259 Orchard St., New Haven SCHMEILER, Robert, Cpl.
32 Moshier St., Greenwich
SCHNAUTZ, William W., T/ Sgt
9 Orchard Pl., Cos Cob SCHRODER, John A., T/ 5
RFD 4, Danbury SCHULTZ, Frank C, Pvt.
483 Brewer St., East Hartford SCHWARTZ, Nathan, Pfc.
982 Maplewood Ave., Bridgeport SCINTO, Frank P., S/ Sgt.
1372 Pembroke St., Bridgeport SCOTT, Wilton B., Sgt.
23 Elizabeth St., South Norwalk SEDGWICK, Leo V., Sgt.
112 Madison St., Jewett City SENESE, Leo, T/ Sgt,
42 Lewis St., Torrington SHAPIRO, Samuel, T/ 4
12 Fairview St., Waterbury SHEA, Raymond P., Jr., T/ 3
New Canaan Ave., Norwalk SHEEHAN, Edward F., T/ Sgt.
Andover SHEFLOTT, James L., Pfc.
10 Cliff St., New London SHEPA, James J., Pfc.
67 Hood Ter., West Haven SHILINGA, Alex P., Pfc.
14 Connerton St., New Britain SIEGEL, Warren F., Sgt.
36 Burr St., Middletown SIMMONS, J. J., Cpl.
564 Addison Rd., Glastonbury SIMONS, Bruce M., Pfc.
27 Library Pl., Danbury SKIPP, Philip J., Cpl.
5 Berrian Pl., East Port Chester SLESH, Joseph F., T/ 4
233 Cove Rd., Stamford SMIGIEL, Joseph A., T/ 4
17 LaSalle St., New Britain SMITH, Frank H., Pvt.
300 Mitchell St., Groton SMITH, Joseph J., S/ Sgt.
RFD 7, Box 47, Norwich SMITH, Louis C, T/ Sgt.
Derby Neck Rd., Derby SMITH, Thomas W., Pvt.
35 Fair St., New Haven SMITH, William G., Pfc.
135 Columbia St., Bridgeport SNOW, Harold J., Cpl
151 Plymouth St., New Haven SOKOL, Stephen, Sgt,
O'Neil's Court, Ansonia SONDERGAARD, James F., Pfc.
265 Roselle St., Bridgeport SPENCER, Jesse W., Pvt.
63 Front St., Middletown SPERLING, Nelson S., T/ 5
34 Bennett Ct., Stratford SPRAGG, Benjamin F., T/ 5
649 First Ave., West Haven STABACK, Joseph J., Pvt.
72 Twiss St., Meriden STANISH, Theodore P., Sgt.
3 Carter Lane, Southington STANNARD, Harold R., Pfc.
213 1/ 2 Franklin Ave., Hartford STOCKMAN, Edward, Pvt.
26 Lipton Pl., Torrington STUART, Leslie M., T/ 3
RFD 5, Danbury STUDWELL, Leander S., Pfc.
28 Greenwich Ave., Greenwich SULLO, Michael M., Pfc.
12 Alton St., New Haven SVETLIK, John M., T/ 3 Route 10, Fairfield SWIRSKY, Robert, T/ 4
591 Hawley Ave., Bridgeport TABOR, Frank J., Pfc.
516 North St., Willimantic TAGATAC, Elpidio P., Pfc.
76 Green St., Bridgeport TAGGARD, Newton F., Sgt,
39 Woodland St., Manchester TALAVINSKAS, Joseph E., Cpl.
136 Spring St., Torrington TALBOT, William J., T/ 5
67 South Prospect St., Torrington TALBOT, William P., Pfc.
58 Dwight St., New Britain TAMMANY, Francis J., M/ Sgt,
40 Hickory St., Waterbury TAPLEY, Merle P., T/ Sgt.
South Windsor TAVELLA, Philip R., Sgt,
90 Huntington Rd., Bridgeport THOMAS, David I., T/ 5
234 Ashmun St., New Haven THOMPSON, Augus H., Pfc.
Storrs
THOMPSON, Stanley J., Pfc.
Box 393, New Milford THORNER, Walter C, T/ Sgt.
616 Garden St., Hartford TOKARCZYK, Henry J., Pfc,
64 French Ave., East Haven TONES, Raymond, T/ 5
37 Maplewood Ave., Bridgeport TORRE, James M., T/ 5
710 Grand Ave., New Haven TORTORICI, Paul L., Pfc.
26 Bond St., Waterbury TOTH, John J., Jr., T/ Sgt.
122 Orland St., Bridgeport TREMALIO, Anthony M., T/ 5
78 Stagg St., Stratford TREMBLAY, John C, Pfc.
39 1/ 2 North St., Danbury TUTTLE, Kenneth M., S/ Sgt,
291 Buckingham St., Hartford VASHALIFSKI, John, Pvt.
RFD 2, East Hampton VAUGHAN, Seraph W., Cpl.
RFD, Cornwall Bridge VERRILLO, John, Pfc.
Apt. 208- 82, Court D, Y. M. V., Bridgeport VICENZI, Julio, Pfc.
59 Central Ave., Waterbury VonDIETSCH, Joseph F., Pvt.
102 Dawson Ave., West Haven VOSTINAK, Milan J., S/ Sgt,
Mansfield Center WALLACE, Frank R., Sgt.
30 Stone St., Danbury WARNOCK, Edward W., Pfc.
Corner Elton St. & Essex Pl., New Britain WASCO, Andrew, Pfc.
172 Lock wood Ave., Stamford WEBER, Albert F., Pfc.
Great Plain, Danbury WEINSTEIN, Henrv, Pfc.
RFD 2, Sharon WEISS, John, Jr., Cpl.
81 Lyness St., Manchester WELLES, Arthur H., S/ Sgt,
27 Chapman St., East Hartford WERNER, Rupert R., Jr., Pfc.
Saunders Ave., Bridgeport WHALEY, Leo J., Cpl.
216 Remington St., Bridgeport WHITE, Aaron, Pfc.
19 Green St., Bridgeport WILLIAMS, Thomas N., Sgt.
23 Sherman St., Stamford
WILLIAMS, Walter L., T/ 3
30 Church St., Stafford Springs WTLSON, Leonard D., T/ 4
38 North Main St., Rocky Hill WTLSON, Robert J., Pfc.
109 Main St., Oakville WOJCULEWICZ, Walter S., Pfc.
15 Governor St., New Britain WOJNA, Joseph L., T/ Sgt.
170 Walnut St., New Haven WOOD, Harry W., Pvt.
Gen. Del., North Grosvenordale WOOD, Peter D., S/ Sgt.
600 Putnam St., Bridgeport WOODWARD, Francis H., Cpl.
89 Chestnut St., Hartford WOODWORTH, Walter G., T/ 5
65 Broad St., Wethersfield WORRALL, David B., Cpl.
164 Prospect St., Plantsville WRIGHT, Alvin G., Cpl.
326 South Main St., New Britain WUBBENHORST, Martin H., T/ 5
131 East Elm St., Greenwich YUNKER, Harold S., Pfc.
102 Woodside Village, Stamford ZANNINO, Tony L., Pfc.
107 Lockwood Ave., Stamford ZUBER, Paul E., Cpl.
Quinnipiac Ave., North Haven ZUK, Joseph S., T/ 5
236 Main St., Bridgeport ZWOLINSKY, Albin A., Pfc.
51 Prsopect St., Naugatuck
CONNECTICUT VETERANS COMMEMORATIVE BOOKLET
Vol. IX Dec. 10, 1945 No. 2
CARLETON B. CLYMA, Editor
This booklet is published by the State of Connecticut through the Office of the Governor, as an addition to the souvenirs and memorabilia of Connecticut men who served with the United States Army in World War II. The courtesies and assist­ance
of public relations personnel at the Ports and Separation Centers are herewith acknowledged.
Copies of this booklet are provided for the men whose names appear on the Muster Out Roll Call, herein. A copy is on file for reference purposes at each of the 200 public libraries in the State.
Reproduction of material from this booklet is permissible only on written authorization.
The personal experience stories were reported by George E. Allis, Morris R. Gelblum and Hugh W. McCoy. The cover illustration of the U. S. S. General Richard­son
is from the Acme News pictures.