Hello, my name is Larry and i`m from Kalamazoo, Mi. First, a heartfelt thank you to all the vets on this board and everywhere.
My father, Stanley Duzal, Pfc 706th MPEG Det, passed away last august, I`ve been piecing together the story of his wwll service. He never talked about the war when i was growing up and it was only in the last year that he would talk about bits and peices that he could remember. I`ve managed to trace most of his movements from North Africa where he was a supply train guard in 1943, then moved to Italy assigned to the 706th MP POW Escort Guard det. in early `44. He was in the Naples - Cassino area with the 36thID & at times with the 3rdID. (his unit was not attached to any division) He moved to Anzio with the 36thID for the breakout from the beachhead in the spring. His unit the got assigned to the 8th Naval Beach battalion for the invasion of southern France. Dad said he sailed from Italy in a LCM with engineers supporting the 36thID. From my research i believe must have been the 540th Engineers. He landed at St Raphel in the the second or third wave of the assault troops of the 141st Reg. He helped secure the beach area from sniper fire and assisted evacuating the wounded back to hospital ships. By noon on the 15th he was handling POWs coming back from the front.
I havent found much information yet on his movements from there to Germany with the 7th army but i know he was around Bretzenheim, Germany at the end of the war.
I want to thank Marion for this awesome website where i have found a lot of info on my research. i figured you would like to hear about a GI who did a job that had to be done and that i am sure proud of.
Thank You
Larry