I contacted Mr. Al Panebianco in regards to my grandfather and he wrote that I might contact you. Here is what I sent to Al.
My grandfather Linwood M. Johnson served in the U.S. Army during World War II. I believe he trained at Fort Pickett in VA, he later served in Africa, Anzio and later Europe in the VI Corps with a Signal battalion. I would like to find out as much as I can about his service to our country, I know from photos that he attained the rank of Sergeant. I never spoke to him about his service and now I wish I had, he died in 2002 and when my grandmother moved from her home two years ago we cleaned out what was their home and I found quite an assortment of photos, postcards, maps and charts. What is surprising was the photos of German officers and German troops on skis apparently in the Alps. They are marked on the back as being "Forbidden" and "Propaganda", I don't have a clue how he came across them.
If you have any information or where I can obtain information I would be grateful.
Thank you,
Geoff Littlefield
P.S. I have an Ike coat, hat and trousers that belonged to him. I believe his social security or service number is located in the hat.
Later email:
I think I deciphered that he may have belonged to the VI Corps 57th Signal Battalion possibly a repair company as I have pictures of him climbing telephone poles and the other information was photographed on a truck. I believe he also had a typewriter which was photographed as well.
This is from Colin. I apologize for not uploading these sooner.
Marion,
After some consideration I have decide to send the photos to you to decide how you want to use them. You will see what each refers to as I have taken close-ups of the citations.
No1: The plinth memorial to the US Third Infantry is sited in a park in Licata.
No2. The pyramid is an Italian/US memorial sited near Castelluccio.
No3. The large wall plaque is at the site of the battle of Ponte Drillo (Drillo Bridge) near Gela.
No4. This is a memorial to the crew of a C47 that crashed at this site and raised by the owner of what is now a five star hotel. A part of the aircraft sit atop the memorial.
This weekend I found yet another great WWII movie I'd never heard of before....Decision Before Dawn, made in 1951. It was nominated for an Acadamy award that year for Best Picture. I'm just going to say I really enjoyed it and leave it at that..don't want to spoil the plot!
Any one with true facts? My recollatiion is that they were issued about 4-5 bottles per
mounth. Seems to be the way I remembered it. Our Platoon Ldr (Lt.) usually kept one bottle and the rest went to the guys in the platoon. Usually a few drinks for each of us. Did they stop this "officers liquor allottment? If so, when? It sort of reminds me of the cigarettes we had in each K or C ration, along with a carton of cigarettes each week when possible. I still wownder who paid for the cartons. Maybe it was taken out of our pay. Along with the few candy bars brought up. Cant recall as we rarely drew pay.
All but $ 20.00 per month was in a allotment home and well more money than needed
by far, which we rarely collected "over the table" monthly. Most of this "over the table"
money was also sent home if/when we were paid. Come on Roque, think back a few
years. O.K., maybe 60 years or so. Wondering just how long this "officers liquor
ration" was in effect after WW 2 or is it still going on?
