Work has been continuing about the same. Get back to camp after 4 or 5 days work moving ammo, dump 0444 to 0420. Turn in 4 ton truck around Sept 1st and drive no. 15 for few days, then draw new 2 1/2 ton no. 6.
For a brief time we drive what is commonly called the "deuce and a half." [courtesy: daveswebshop.com]
Monday, September 4, 1944
Joe Louis visits our camp and eats with us (one meal). Schuster gets trip to Rome. From now on we are busy hauling to Florence.
Heavyweight boxing champion, Joe "The Brown Bomber" Louis, signs autographs for troops while joining them for a meal during World War Two. [courtesy: www.hlswilliwaw.com]
Sunday, September 17, 1944
Move 30 miles up [north] on route 67 near Pisa, 40 miles north of Florence.
Monday, September 25, 1944
Our company wins 5th Army plaque today. Parade and get citation for work done last February [Battle of Monte Cassino].
Officers issuing our company citation during a field ceremony, September 25, 1944.
Rich Wellman and me (right) holding the 5th Army plaque awarded to our company during the citation ceremony, September 25, 1944.
Wednesday, September 27, 1944
Turn in our 2 1/2 ton trucks to 3605 Q.M. and draw their 4 ton'ers. I go with group to Pisa. See the famous leaning tower. Fall rains are setting in. Have had several wet days during last couple weeks.
A snapshot I took of the Leaning Tower (to the right).
Article about me from the Fergus Falls Daily Journal.
Another neighbor from my home town of Hewitt, Minnesota, who saw action in Italy, taken from the Fergus Falls Daily Journal.
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