Hey Debby,
My name is Luis Barrera, JR. A few years ago, I discovered my grandfather's 2 diaries from WWII. Florentino B. Pena was in the 39th Combat Engineers like your father. I’ve started converting his long day by day account of the war into a large PDF book. I travel a lot with my current job, so I need hundreds of more pages to scan. However, I have managed to scan a few of the pages that mention names of the brave men that served along side him. Please get me into contact of any of the men’s families below if you have their information. I will continue to post more information as I come upon vacation during Thanksgiving and Christmas, while I work on scanning the whole dairy.
Here are the names as signed in my grandfather’s diary:
William W. Brown - McHenry
Lyle L. Upright - Lake Ariel, PA
Melvin Beckman - 420 East State, St. O'Fallon, Illnois
Crucy C. Nolen - Rt. 5, Box 293 Ada, OK
Donald F. Kinly - Iowa
Girard Girandir - 22 Vine Street Livermore Falls, Maine
Clifford Leslie Adams - 2145 Baily St. Dearborn, MI
Elizardo Vigil - N. Mexico
Alfred M. Stasinski - 87 Halstead Ave. Buffalo, NY
Joe Evans - Hamilton, MO
Jacob Poppaport - 340 Powell St. Brookly NY
Antonio D. Ruiz - 4118 San Fernando street San Antonio,TX
Inez Garza -
Henry A. Martinez - San Francisco, CA
Edwardo Soliz - New York, NY
Jose T. Gomez (88th Sig. Br SP) San Francisco
If any one that reads this post of the men mentioned above, please email me at:
luis.barrera@ge.com
Thanks,
Luis Barrera, Jr.