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- Text: Ronsing'\Veteollle To 1536 YD Heroes The welcoming bands played "Hail, Hail, The Gang's All Here" as Boston roared a noisy greeting to veterans of the famed Yankee Division yesterday, but the home-coming troops knew it wasn't so-because they left
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- Text: , that war would stay away from our shores. Now veterans of the war's bitterest fighting and heroes proved by victory, they are 12,000 miles away and entertain less hope of an early return than on the day they boarded their troop trains for Louisiana
Diary kept by Earl L. Dennis grew up outside of Coopersville, Michigan. He was drafted into the Army in April, 1942, at the age of 29. He trained at Jefferson Barracks, Missouri, and was then stationed in Groton, Connecticut, where he became a cook for a fighter squadron 65th Fighter Squadron, 57th Fighter Group, 9th Army Air Force. He shipped out from New York and sailed around Africa to Egypt, where his unit supported the British 8th Army from the Second Battle of El Alamein through the conquest of Tunisia. They then went to Malta and supported the invasion of Sicily, and then went on to bases on Sicily. His diary covers his time in the service through the Sicilian campaign.
Both the scanned version of the diary and a transcription are provided, with an outline acting as a table of contents.
Both the scanned version of the diary and a transcription are provided, with an outline acting as a table of contents.
