With Memorial Day this coming Monday, I wanted to post about some of my family that served. I only know the identity of one of the three Army buddies shown here above, but all three were in the Fourth (IVY) Division, 12th Infantry Regiment, and it was most likely taken in either 1943 or 1944. … Continue reading Friday’s Faces From the Past – World War Two
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(Almost) Wordless Wednesday – Two French Women, 1945
This lovely photograph of two French women was either taken or given to James Doran, of Harrison, New Jersey, in 1945. At that time during World War Two he was serving as a Military Policeman, after being severely wounded in the Normandy D-Day invasion in June of 1944, while serving with the 4th Infantry Division. … Continue reading (Almost) Wordless Wednesday – Two French Women, 1945
Those Places Thursday – Readington Township, New Jersey – 1944
Today I'm posting a series of photographs taken in Readington Township, New Jersey, along Mountain Road in Whitehouse Station, on March 5, 1944. This first one shows Stephen Mirota, age nine, raising his hand in a wave to the photographer. In front is his brother, Victor, and a friend, and all three look to be … Continue reading Those Places Thursday – Readington Township, New Jersey – 1944