Years ago Ted Wingstrom (Now Deceased) who was in B-Battery went back to Sicily and he could not even find the Area where we landed as things had changed so much.
I believe Ted was the oldest enlisted man in B-Battery at 33 yrs old.
Before the war he was a stunt Diver and swimmer in the Billy Rose Aquacade at the 1939 Worlds Fair.
I ask him once what he was doing in the army before he became a Paratrooper.
He told me he was a crew member on a Army Tug in New York Harbor.
-- this is taken from an email from Douglas Bailey to the webmaster of this site.
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