All Present And Accounted For
is the report as this unidentified group stand in formation at
Wollaton
(Photo courtesy Tony Rogers) |
 Wollaton "Tent City" residents
are all unidentified
Norman Deere [r] stands with unidentified trooper that may
be Edward Maresco |
 John
G. McCall
Hq Hq, at Wollaton, 1944
 Gordon Johnson
poses for the folks back home. The photo was printed in
Evansville, IN where they probably didn't have statuary like this.
(Courtesy O.B. Hill collection)
 FIRE
!!!
Joseph Laky [r] adjusts the sight while his brother prepares to drop
a round of HE Light into the tube. Joe's brother was a member of the
Army Air Corps and visited Joe while he was stationed in Nottingham.
Joe was KIA in Holland on October 1, 1944 during an enemy artillery
barrage. (Courtesy Irv Shanley) |
 Limore
(?) and Gizzi
We are unsure of the first name but the other is Marino J. Gizzi
whose name appears on the Purple Heart list. He was wounded Jul 4,
1944 on Hill 95 and may have been evacuated out of the 508th.
 John
McCall and Unknown Soldier
Whether John was visiting a fellow 508er or had been hospitalized
himself is unknown.
(Courtesy Mary Ann McCall)
Tom Elmore, Del Seeback & George Menter
in Wollaton's Tent City
(Courtesy Giegold Family)
 Socks,
Champs and Myself"
was Bill Blithe's notation on this poorly exposed photo.
Presumed to all be in Hq Hq Co, the nicknamed duo are not further
identified.
Note the "FF2" stenciled on the tent which may have been a "street
address". |
Cheezit! The Cops!
this group of MP's from both the 507th and 508th are all unidentified.
(Courtesy O.B. Hill collection)
Smylie Smiles
MSgt James B. Smylie [at far right] and friends in the Communications
Platoon have a refreshment.
Pete Chandler [center] and "Andy, one of my boys" [left],
who is likely Ed Anderson.
Smylie wrote on the back that they were in the "Donut Dugout" in Nottingham.
(Photo courtesy Janet Smylie Hart) |
 Cpl John McHugh and Pfc Peter P.
Pietrzak
hanging out in Nottingham Square, July 22, 1944
(Courtesy O.B. Hill collection)
Band High Jinks
Five unidentified band members clown for the camera
(courtesy of Nico Jongeneel) |
|
 Barkston Heath
about 25 miles east of Nottingham, was the field where Hq 3rd staged a
practice jump on 6-7 April 1944.
Takeoff was 2337 hrs and the
sticks jumped at 0237 hrs, 3 miles north of Flawborough, less than 5
miles away. [Little did they know that the timing would prepare
them for Normandy]
The men set up a defensive area until the exercise ended at 0930 hrs.
They walked 12 miles and then entrucked..
By 1730 that evening they had returned to Wollaton. |
