Robert S. Daniels, 62, a longtime city worker, died
Wednesday at Lakeside Veterans Administration Hospital.
Mr. Daniels, of Rogers Park, was employed for 19 years by the Streets
and Sanitation Department as a sanitation truck driver.
He was a life member of VFW Post 138, as well as a past first district
commander. He was also a life member of the military Order of the Purple
Heart.
Survivors include his wife, Dorothy; two daughters, Cynthia Schaefers
and Gloria Rowan; a son, Terence; a foster daughter, Mary Gianfortune;
three sisters, Aileene White, Betty Brown and Lizette O'Neal, and two
brothers, William and Jack.
A memorial mass will be offered at 7 p.m. Tuesday at St. Timothy's
Church, 6326 N. Washtenaw.
(Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago, IL, 21 Jun 1986, Page
47 - courtesy of Tedd Cocker)
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Robert S. "Bob" Daniels suffered a badly broken leg when
he came down through a tree during the D-Day jump into Normandy.
Although the leg was initially set and splinted 11
days later by a German doctor. Liberated by the Allied forces
after Cherbourg was taken, Bob's leg was re-broken and set in an
American field hospital. In his own words, "After a couple of
weeks they sent me by plane across the Atlantic to Long Island where I
stayed seven days in a hospital. Then I was transferred to McCloskey
General Hospital in Temple [TX}".
That flight took place on 20 July 1944 from Prestwick,
Scotland arriving the following day at La Guardia Field, New York City.
The aircraft, tail number 42-107469 was a C-54, aka Douglas Skymaster.
Following the war the aircraft was sold to the South African Air Force.
In 1997 it was sold to the Dutch Dakota Association,
Netherlands but was disassembled in 1999. |
