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Still Getting Together for the 42nd Time After the End of WWII
Comments: The bond remains even after 42 years.
Contributor: Thomas B. Materazzo (ID# 584)
Date: 1987 / 09 / 26
Where: Atlantic City, NJ
Who: Tom Materazzo, organizer, 2nd from right, standing. |
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Thomas Materazzo at the World War II Mass. Memories Road Show
Comments: Thomas Materazzo holding a photo of himself (Image# 28.22.1.jpg) at the World War II Mass. Memories Road Show at the Veronica B. Smith Senior Center on September 7, 2007.
Contributor: Thomas B. Materazzo (ID# 584)
Date: 2007 / 09 / 7
Where: Brighton Veronica B. Smith Senior Center
Who: Thomas Materazzo |
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Depth Charge Gang on U.S.S. Buckley DE51
Comments: Depth Charge Gang on U.S.S. Buckley DE51 at time of sinking German sub U-66 on May 6, 1944, near Cape Verde Islands.
My husband, Joseph Aucoin, is on the far right in the second row.
Contributor: Louise Aucoin (ID# 575)
Date: 1944 / 05 / 06
Where: Atlantic Ocean U.S.S. Buckley
Who: Back row: Davis, Edwin, Wolf, Dugan, Snyder, Brut. Middle row: Bremeric, Forster, Driscoll, Shadrick, Aucoin. Front row: Casale, VanVliet. |
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U-66 Crew Taking a Swim at Sea
Comments: This photo was given to Joseph Aucoin by one of the German crew (Vinzenz Nosch) who had been captured in 1944. This sub was sunk by the U.S.S. Buckley, DE51.
Contributor: Louise Aucoin (ID# 575)
Date: 1944 / /
Where: Atlantic Ocean
Who: |
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Gardner Sailor Crewman of U.S. Destroyer Escort Which Sank German Sub in the Atlantic
Comments: This article describes the sinking of a German sub that happened on May 6, 1944. The article appeared in the Gardner News.
Contributor: Louise Aucoin (ID# 575)
Date: 1945 / 06 / 07
Where: Gardner
Who: Joseph Aucoin |
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Crew of the U-66 German Sub That was Sunk By the U.S.S. Buckley DE51
Comments: Crew of the U-66 German sub that was sunk by the U.S.S. Buckley DE51 in 1944, off the Cape Verde Islands. The crew of the Buckley rescued the German survivors of the sub and took this photo when the POWs were transferred to the U.S.S. Block Island. Several of the German survivors met with the Buckley crew at a German reunion in Frankfort, Germany in September, 1987.
Contributor: Louise Aucoin (ID# 575)
Date: 1944 / /
Where: At Sea U.S.S. Block Island
Who: 1st row 2nd from left is Vinzenz Nosch, who donated photo. |
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Louise Aucoin at the World War II Mass. Memories Road Show
Comments: Louise Aucoin holding a photo of her husband and his fellow Navy crewmates (Image# 28.3.1.jpg) at the World War II Mass. Memories Road Show at the Veronica B. Smith Senior Center on September 7, 2007.
Contributor: Louise Aucoin (ID# 575)
Date: 2007 / 09 / 7
Where: Brighton Veronica B. Smith Senior Center
Who: Louise Aucoin |
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John F. Sullivan WWII US Navy Armed Guard Convoy to Murmansk
Comments: This photo includes my father-in-law, John F. Sullivan, a disabled WWII veteran, who was born in South Boston, MA, and raised in Quincy, MA. He joined the U.S. Navy in 1941 as a teenager just a few months before Pearl Harbor was attacked. He served for the duration in the Navy. After WWII, John lived in Quincy, MA, until his passing in January 2007.
John F. Sullivan was assigned to the U.S. Navy Armed Guard as gunners, onboard merchant ships loaded with gasoline, weapons and ammunition, ships which sailed in huge convoys from the East Coast of the U.S. to Murmansk, Russia. These convoys were devastated often by Nazi U-Boat attacks and by Luftwaffe attacks. The U.S. Naval Armed Guard suffered very heavy casualties.
John F. Sullivan in this photo is shown posing with his shipmates next to one of their gun mounts during a lull in the action. This photo was taken onboard ship in 1944 in the Mediterranean where his ship assisted in the "soft-underbelly" invasions of Italy.
John F. Sullivan is the sailor on the extreme left, front row.
John was seriously wounded, but he served for the duration. After WWII, he continued to serve as a patrolman, then a lieutenant in the Metropolitan District Commission Police Force (now the MA State Police).
Contributor: Ronald Adams (ID# 433)
Date: 1944 / /
Where: Mediterranean Sea Mediterranean Sea
Who: John F. Sullivan (front row, left) |
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Staff, volunteers and contributors at the World War II Mass. Memories Road Show
Comments: Staff, volunteers and contributors at the World War II Mass. Memories Road Show at the Veronica B. Smith Senior Center on September 7, 2007.
Contributor: Massachusetts Studies Project (ID# 540)
Date: 2007 / 09 / 07
Where: Brighton Veronica B. Smith Senior Center
Who: |
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