OPERATION HUSKY JULY 1943 / JULY 2013

[Walt's Daughter]

This was forwarded to me and I am sharing with all of you.

 

 

 

dear friends

 

remember the date, am typing this e-mail in the evening of 9 July 1943. To-morrow (to-day when you receive the message) it will be D-71 years of operation Husky, the invasion of Sicily. (D-Day 10 July 1943)

 

Amphibious landings took place at Licata (3rd Infantry Division and supporting units), Gela (1st Infantry Division and supporting units) and Scoglitti (45th Infantry Division and supporting units). Paratroopers of the 82nd Airborne Division were dropped behind the beaches at Gela from 226 C-47 and C-53 troop Carrier transport planes

 

Almost every day I think of this operation since I am working on a book about the temporary American GELA Cemetery, where over 1,200 young American men and women were buried between July 1943 and April 1947.Hope to finish this book this year.

 

I have all the names of these men and women, know almost all the dates they died, know the unit, plot and grave number at Gela and know where they are buried now

 

Perhaps you can help me, I am still looking for pictures of individual graves at the Gela Cemetery, perhaps you or family members may have these, who can help me, any information, pictures, documentatio, dogtags of those killed in Sicily are more than welcome

 

will keep you posted on this

 

greetings from overseas

 

Jan Bos

Nijmegen, Holland