Showing posts with label 755th Railway Shop Battalion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 755th Railway Shop Battalion. Show all posts

U.S., Headstone Applications for Military Veterans, 1861-1985 Railway Units Group 1

Railway Units Personnel List (Sorted by Unit, Then Last Name)

Unit Name Date Service Number
714th Railway Operating Battalion Frank, Sherman C. Sep 1944 35499189
714th Railway Operating Battalion Frank, Sherman C. Oct 1944 35499189
714th Railway Operating Battalion Gambill, Dolphus N. Sep 1944 35417629
714th Railway Operating Battalion Resoff, Wallace C. Dec 1944 399516
724th Railway Operating Battalion Poole, Walter L. Jul 1945 34888800
732nd Railway Operating Battalion Piker, Elmer G. Mar 1945 38233465
733rd Railway Operating Battalion Beavers, Clarence R. Apr 1944 35-894-739
733rd Railway Operating Battalion Ford, Preston W. Apr 1944 38-520-322
735th Railway Operating Battalion Frazier, John E. Aug 1945 35768924
743rd Railway Operating Battalion Bello, Kenneth Mar 1944 32-881-027
743rd Railway Operating Battalion Lukasiewicz, Thomas S. Jul 1945 36712687
764th Railway Shop Battalion Dillon, Roland O. Feb 1945 32857414
764th Railway Shop Battalion Doss, Martin A. May 1944 36764802
791st Railway Operating Battalion Alvarez, Miguel A. Aug 1943 39835580
791st Railway Operating Battalion Cook, Lewis W. May 1944 33157232
See the application cards for this group here

755th Railroad Shop Battalion ~ Rodwin

755th Railway Operating Battalion Headstone application: Lewis V. Stitt and Xavier F. Rolinski

Lewis V. Stitt


 

Xavier F. Rolinski

755th Railway Shop Battalion book, The Yardbirds: a soldier's letters to home dusing World War II by Lyn Johansen

Great book of you know someone who served in this unit ..

Yardbird is how Ed Johansen referred to himself in some of the letters he sent home to the family from boot camp in 1942. At the time the definition fit him: yardbird. n. Slang. An untrained military recruit. This is a book of letters and photos that Ed sent home to his family and fiance. As I read them, I was enchanted with the world that my dad described...a world at war, his hopes of making it as an officer in the Army, his description of the training he went through: "...a section of land we have to crawl over with land mines exploding all around us and machine guns firing over us," his worries about his younger brother who is serving in the Air Force and his life in the 755th Railway Battalion. Illustrated with his own photographs of the country and the men he served with in war-torn Europe.

Buy one here https://amzn.to/3oZ7nZr  





 

755th Railway Shop Battalion - Allan M. Stauber, Robert L. Freeman, John M. McGillis

755th Railway Shop Battalion Transportation Corps US Army Longmoor Camp 114 June Aug 1944
In Memory of: Allan M. Stauber Robert L. Freeman John M. McGillis Who died in service of their country.
Thanks Jasper! 
 
Jasper contacted the McGillis family and they shared these photos of John:



The editor of the Norfolk & Western Historical Society magazine, the Arrow magazine sent along the article they recently published on McGillis,  its so great to have these guys remembered for their service. 
You can join and subscribe here : https://www.nwhs.org/ 

Arrow Extract 2020 by Nancy on Scribd