Malaria in the ETO
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Hi Rocky! My Dad was drafted 3/1941 into the 26th ID 181st IR in MA

and after war was declared, he was 5th army 6 Corps 206th MP Co. The "injections"

he got were while he was still in the States. He shipped out to North Africa

3/1943 and was in & around Rabat and Sidi Bel Abbes and then to Oran to

prepare for the Salerno invasion. All I could get out of my father about his

experience in N. Africa was that it was a terrible hot dirty place and he

didn't care for the inhabitants at all (to put it mildly) because they were always stealing

everything.

 

I'll have to chk out the pictures on your page. I think they filled in some of the areas

like the pontine marshes near anzio sometime in the 1930s, so there must've been dry areas.

For my Dad, I believe Anzio was THE worst. Salerno was bad, the breakout & advance

to Rome was certainly no picnic, and the bitter winter in the Vosges etc had to be terrible -

but I think Anzio was with my father all his life. I've got a picture of him in front of

"Anzio Annie" (I think all the fellows had one taken they must've hated that gun it killed

so many on the beachhead).

 

34th ID - the big red bull, right? In my Dad's kit box there were three division patches

besides his 6th patch. There was the 34th Id's, the 3rd IDs, and the 45th ID.

 

THANK YOU for your service, Rocky!

 

here's a photo of my Dad in Anzio (maybe Aprilia).

 

Mary Ann

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Malaria in the ETO - by Walt's Daughter - 08-05-2007, 03:15 PM
Malaria in the ETO - by pjo - 08-05-2007, 03:34 PM
Malaria in the ETO - by Mr.GSD - 08-05-2007, 05:12 PM
Malaria in the ETO - by Mr.GSD - 08-05-2007, 05:19 PM
Malaria in the ETO - by roque_riojas - 08-05-2007, 07:57 PM
Malaria in the ETO - by 206thmpco - 08-06-2007, 11:43 AM
Malaria in the ETO - by roque_riojas - 08-06-2007, 04:10 PM
Malaria in the ETO - by 206thmpco - 08-06-2007, 05:20 PM
Malaria in the ETO - by roque_riojas - 08-06-2007, 05:54 PM
Malaria in the ETO - by 206thmpco - 08-07-2007, 12:22 PM
Malaria in the ETO - by pjo - 08-07-2007, 02:29 PM
Malaria in the ETO - by Walt's Daughter - 08-07-2007, 03:17 PM
Malaria in the ETO - by roque_riojas - 08-07-2007, 04:14 PM
Malaria in the ETO - by 206thmpco - 08-07-2007, 05:08 PM
Malaria in the ETO - by Walt's Daughter - 08-07-2007, 06:35 PM
Malaria in the ETO - by 206thmpco - 08-08-2007, 01:11 PM
Malaria in the ETO - by roque_riojas - 08-08-2007, 03:32 PM
Malaria in the ETO - by moose - 08-08-2007, 04:42 PM
Malaria in the ETO - by Mr.GSD - 08-08-2007, 04:42 PM
Malaria in the ETO - by 206thmpco - 08-08-2007, 05:17 PM
Malaria in the ETO - by Cadetat6 - 08-10-2007, 06:41 PM
Malaria in the ETO - by Cadetat6 - 08-10-2007, 07:21 PM
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