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Machine Gun Sass
A WWII Paratrooper in the Pacific
Young Charlie
5,6 Grandparents, 30 Charlie's father, 1 Uncle Claude, 22 Charlie
President Franklin Roosevelt, card player
1941 High School yearbook
December 7,8 1941
More than Pearl Harbor
Training
Boot Camp
63rd Division
Blood and Fire
A taste of mud
1945, 63rd fighting in Europe
Airborne
Low Tower
Training parachute jump
High Tower
Airborne certificate
Airborne graduate
Paratrooper boots
New Guinea to Luzon
Dobodura Aussie artist
Unloading LST's at Leyte
Swing's thieves?
Japanese paratroopers
Bureaun Airfields, Dec 6,7 1944
Leyte mud
Preparing for Tagaytay Ridge, Luzon
Basic trooper kit, add 50+ pounds
Yank magazine photo
Manila
Tagaytay Ridge, Luzon
Paranaque
Civilians fleeing Manila
Urban fighting
Exhausted US soldiers
Manila destroyed
Civilians paid dearly
Captain John Ringler
Carl Mydans, Photographer in Manila
Sergeant Jim Wilson
KIA 13 Feb 1945
Los Banos Rescue
Bob Wheeler
9 year old internee
Amtraks ready
Los Banos Prison
Elie Wiesel
Buchenwald Concentration Camp
Internees arriving Mamatid
Burning barracks
New Bilibid Prison today
Real food
Mamatid beach
DUKW off embankment
Malepunyo Mountains
US soldiers on Luzon
Malepunyo supply trail
General Swing
General Eichelberger
Hill 2380,
Late April 1945
A20 Havoc
Biscuit bomber
Chappie Walker
Chaplain/Ambulance driver
Aparri Jump
23 June 1945
511PIR links with 37th Infantry
26 June 1945
Larson (KIA)
Galiano
Emilio Ibasco
Japan
Bushido was strong
Atomic bomb Hiroshima
6 August 1945
Suicide boats
C54 into Atsugi Airfield
Baka suicide aircraft
In or out
Surrender flyover
250 fighters, then bombers
Homecoming
Service record January 1946
3 April 1948
Medals
Smith Corona typewriters
Albert Adler
Marion with a stray
Cruising
Reunions
Los Banos Internee letter
Gustavo Ingles, Freshman
Philippine Military Academy
Commander guerrilla forces at Los Banos
Jerry Davis, Winds Aloft editor for many years
Leo Kocher, a gem
Parachute silk sweat bandana
Museum donation
Winds Aloft
issue 49 page 118
Charlie and C-47
Kozo returning flag
Ichinoseki Fire Department
John Fulton filming Los Banos rescue
History Channel episode
Monument at Fort Campbell, KY
Old Age
Jim and Pat Wilsons House
Chuck and Mary Clement
Still smiling at 90
Wedding vowels
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