A special thanks go out to the residents of the ville that helped make the WWII Living History exhibition this past Saturday & Sunday a little more special by loaning some of their memorabilia to be displayed.
One of those generous folks was Phil Corsello pictured above holding a picture of himself when he served our country. Mr. Corsello was stationed a Hickham Air Base in Hawaii when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. He loaned the museum many original newspaper articles and pictures from that day. Mr. Corsello said he has been to many reunions and was back at Pearl Harbor at the big reunion a few years ago.
Charles Taylor loaned a certificate verifying that he was a member of the real 4th Armored Division plus other artifacts. That's his certificate pictured above.
John Sawyer from Highlandtown loaned the museum a disc called The 100 Greatest Military Photographs. That disc was dedicated to all the men and women of the military. It has pictures from the Civil War up through Viet Nam with a lot of them from WWII. Mr. Sawyer set it up to run continuously through the week-end's event. One of those pictures was from D-Day shown above.
Thanks to everyone that contributed. If I missed anyone please let us know. It was unintentional.
ole nib
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Setting the record straight - It was Charlene Walsh that loaned the Charles Taylor memorabilia. Taylor was in the 4th Armored in WWII.
There's two other donors I missed. Tim Ferguson loan two "smoke bombs" along with the wooden boxes they were packed in. The smoke bombs were used by the Air Corp to mark targets.
Bob Laughley generously loaned the Society his brother's WWII items that included an Italian flag that was replaced with Old Glory on a flag pole in Italy. There was also a large map of Italy back from those days. Laughley's brother made hand written notes on specific locations his unit had been. There was even one spot marked "Stole chickens". Apparently some of the guys in his unit was getting weary of C Rations and decided to have a home made meal. Guess what the main course was.
nib
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