. . Al DeFazio Al DeFazio was drafted into the US Army in February 1943 where he served with the 36th Infantry Division. He fought in Africa and Italy as an infantryman and was wounded in combat, earning himself a Bronze Star before leaving the Army in 1946. missing
. . Jack Damaska Jack Damaska is originally from Beaver Falls, PA. As a professional baseball player, Jack credits the Cardinals with getting him into military service. He was asked if he wanted to go in the reserves. He went with the combat engineers and was stationed for six months
. . Bob Daley Bob Daley was sixteen years old when he learned that his brother had been taken prisoner by the Japanese on the Bataan Peninsula. Too young to enlist, Bob falsified his birth certificate and joined the Marines. At seventeen, he landed with the 4th Marine Division on Saipan.
. . Fran Culotta served as a combat infantry officer with the Army’s 36th Division in Italy during WWII. missing video/audio 6 decades later, French say ‘merci’: Four local veterans receive Legion of Honor for service during World War II WWII vets share war memories Francis Culotta, age
. . Albert Crawford On December 7, 1941, 17-year-old Al Crawford asked his father if he could join the Navy. His father’s response was swift: “One less mouth to feed.” Those five words launched Al’s long military career. In WWII, Al served on the USS Swivel (ARS-36), which saw duty
. . Lee Corfield When Lee Corfield graduated from high school in 1967, the Vietnam War was heating up and the military needed young men. So Lee wondered when the draft would catch up to him. It was a matter of time before we was ordered into the Army or
