Watervliet Man Wins 13 Decorations in Normandy Recon Work
MILDA GOODWIN. Edent. Freak J. Dillon, a lieutenant in the Ninth Air Force, headed to Normandy after a brief leave home at 04 S Seventh Street, Watervliet. He earned 13 decorations including the Distinguished Flying Cross and Air Medal for reconnaissance over the French coast and above beachhead landings. He accounted for 25 Nazi staff cars and was commended twice by Maj. Geo. E. Quesada for bold reconnaissance missions under fire.
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Milda Goodwin
J. Dillon
Normandy
D-Day
Sevventh Street
WartervEet
Dillon
Osk
Geman Command
Maj. Geo. Ex Quesada
Coas
Quesada
Beterfinacio
Dacy
Air Corps
Terzs
England
Ninth Air Force
Mens
Pee
France
Frank J. Dillon
Seventh Street
Watervliet
Cherbourg
Ditton
Rita Clanty
Albany
Susanne
F. 2
Siena College
Souv Air Force
Joon
Watervliet Man Flew 51 Missions During War Efforts
Watervliet residents recount wartime service stories with George Hrakat and Lt Dillon. Hrakat, a B24 Liberator gunner, flew 51 missions over Europe including Anzio and Vienna targets, earning the Air Medal and Oak Leaf Clusters. Dillon undertook reconnaissance and directed air support over Normandy and Cherbourg retreats, predicting further combat before Germany's surrender. Personal notes mention family visits and furloughs, with local relatives serving in the infantry and Marines.
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George Hrakat
Kari Krakat
Watervliet
Europe
15Th Air Force
France
Germany
Austria
Romania
Bulgaria
Hungary
Thaly
Hig
Anzio
Cassino Monagiery
Bucharest
Pioesti
di] Fielis
Vienna
Test
Sofa
Wiener-Neiustadt
Marseille
Toulon
George
Watervliet High School
Chanute Field Technical School
Curtiss- Wright School
Edward
Camp Jackson
S. C
Watervliet Homes Hold Second Annual Outing For Children
More than 350 children from St Colman's and Fairview Homes enjoyed a day of events at the second annual field day outing hosted by Watervliet Knights of Columbus. St Colman's won most events, with Fairview taking the ball game 19 to 18. numerous races and obstacle contests followed, featuring many named participants from both homes and Fairview.
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St Cotnan’s
Fairview
Watervliet Haights of
Columbus St
Comman's
James Flee
Mahon
Counci
O'Hara
Donald Snyder
Beatpre and Company
Wilcox
Maagicians
Clarence
St. Colman's
Plaga
John Romeo
Accor
Gian
Frank Brows
Jack Brennan
St Colman's
Our Fairview
Anthony Gaglardy
Harold Tebo
St. Colman’s
George Stafford
John McGrath
Donald Daniels
Alfred Lederman
Edward Hunt
Donald Polaser
St Colman’s
Anthony Gaglisrdy
Sc Colman’s
George Bump
Frank Farina
Raymond Phero
Calman’s
Walter Austin
Edward Puller
Carolyn Poffah
Sally Ann Fuelmer
Sti. Calman
S. Kr
Grace, Caston
Fletier Johnson
Feirviery
Doris Monfort
St' Colman's
Carolyn Poffahl
Anna Lacette
Suzanne Buckley
Betty igRich
Grace Caston
St. Col
Ruth Harota
Shirley Curl
Leona Sitnes
Lois LaRich
Sir Colman
Lucille Jolly
Mary. Torostal
Charlotte Hattenback
Rose Torgsian
Frank Williams
Frances Mickle
Emmet Steins
Emmoatt Steins
Carl Reed
Fair View
Francis Hoban
William Diesing
William ‘Julien
Ronald Daniels
St.‘Colman’s
Edward LaPlante
William Biesing
Raymond Delorenzo
Robert LaCharme
Hans
Mary Bepe
Charlotte Halenback
St Colmars
Anna Mika
Mary Flannagan
Colman's
Rose Torosian
Lucile Jolly
Doris LaCrosse
Lois Deising
Nellie Gulli
Mary Torosian
Catherine Guoli
St. Colswan's
Rita Preska
Council
Frank Rey
Knights of Columbus Hail Grand Knight to Preside
Report on the field day will be read at the regular council meeting tomorrow evening in the K of C Hall. Grand Knight Joseph Halpin will preside with Jemnex Gilmore among the oldest knights present.
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Nolds
Jemnex Gilmore
Maz
K. of C. Hail
Joseph Halpin
Laurel Lodge
Steet
Nobie Grand Collins BE
van Varst
Vitaary
Watervliet Men Injured in Mishap Near Warrensburg
Teo Watervliet men Dalvica Nad¢eau and Mau rice Nadéau, both of 22M Nineteenth Street, were injured Friday night when their car collided with a fruit truck four miles north of Warrensburg. The truck, owned by Ryan Fruit Co of Saranac Lake and operated by Lech Harvey, caught fire but was extinguished with sand. Dr. FH Huntington treated the Watervliet men and they were taken to Glens Falls Hospital. The car was badly damaged and baskets of fruit were crushed in the wreck.
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Teo Watervliet
Dalvica Nad¢eau
Maurice
Bors
Nineteenth Street
Bor
Reac
Warrensburg
Ryan Fruit &Co
Saranse Lake
Lech, Harvey
Harvey
FH. Buntington
Warrenaburg
Watervliet
Glens Falls Hospital
W. C. Carboy
Chestertown Patrol
Watervliet A O H Dine Marks Fourth Anniversary
Watervliet A O H Dine to mark the division's fourth anniversary with a corned beef and cabbage supper in its newly renovated rooms. Joseph Lamb, president since inception, honored. Patrick J. Ryan and John J. Purcell attended, with the women's auxiliary participating. Also notes a liquor license suspension for Joseph Baniszewski and other local appointments. Loretta I. Storen dies at 48, survived by siblings. funeral at St Patrick's Church. Edward J. Riley dies after brief illness. services at Parker Brothers Funeral Home and St Patrick's Church with burial in St Patrick's Cemetery.
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O. H
Watervliet
Watervlie
Joseph Lamb
Patrick J. Ryan
Troy
John J. Purcell
Schenectady
Richard J. Stterlock
Loretta I. Storen
Fourth Avenue
Glen Lake
St. Patrick's Church
The
Rosary Society
James A. Storen
John W Storet
Gertrude O Storen
William J. Chase
New York
Si Patricks Church
St Patrick's Cemetery
Edward J. Riley
James and
Mary Tyrell Riley
Troy Hospital
Waterviles
Broadway
St. Patrick’s Church
James ¥. Riley
Sweden to Celebrate Germany's Downfall
The people of Sweden flood Stockholm with orders for portraits of Churchill Stalin and Roosevelt as Britain broadcasts the Allied victory, according to the Sockholm Tidningen quoted by U S government monitors.
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Sweden
Germany
New York
Stewarks Manufacturing Company
Stockholm
Churchill
Joseph Stalin
Franklin D. Roosevelt
British Radio
U.S
Church Calendar Highlights Weekly Services and Activities
Unity Center holds regular Wednesday service at 8 pm on God Gave Man Dominion with no Tuesday class. First Church of Christ Scientist offers daily reading hours 10 am to 5 pm except Sundays and holidays. Sixth Avenue Baptist presents Thursday prayer meeting led by Mr Hamilton. Church of the Ascension lists Holy Communion Thursday and Victory service Friday. St John’s Episcopal notes Eucharist schedule and parish sewing for Red Cross and related aid. East Side Evangelistic Mission schedules weekly prayer with song and testimony. Our Saviour’s Evangelical Lutheran announces board and council meeting at church parlors. St Barnabas reports Mass times Thursday and Friday. Community Gospel Chapel notes Wednesday meeting and Red Cross sewing Thursday. Third Presbyterian lists Wednesday prayer and Thursday sewing for Red Cross.
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Unity Center
Chorch of Christ, Scientist
Sixth Avenue
Baptist
Lk Hamilton
Church of the Ascénaton
Boy Scout
East Side Evangelistic Mission
Our Saviour's Evangelical Lutheran Today
Obituary notices for Ned Martin and local deaths
Funeral services were held for Ned Martin of 164 Bixth Avenue North and others including Mrs Alden Miller of 21 Second Avenue, John Landsborough of Waterford, Mrs Emma Kerber of Utica, Thomas Edwards of Port Henry, and Walter McClure. Interments took place at Oakwood and St Peter's Cemeteries, with multiple relatives and local clergy in attendance across several towns. The notices list survivors, service details, and burial locations.
Funeral Rites Mark End for Mrs Fontaine and Tessier
At St Marys Cemetery and St Jean de Baptiste, funeral services were held for Mrs Hermine Fontaine with high mass and organ music led by Rev Francis X yard win. Interment followed at St Jean Cemetery. Napoleon Tessier of South Shaftsbury died Friday at home aged 54. He was born January 17 1874 and worked at local shops. Miss Elias De Freest funeral held in Troy with burial in Blooming Grove Cemetery.
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Father Connell
Knights of Cottbus
Troy Blus
John Tyrrell
James ‘al Inn Eon
Bon George Farley
Alexander Taggart
St. Joseph's Cemetery
KE. S Tabor
Miss Neeson
Catherine Neeson
Fonda Funeral Home
River Street
St. Patrick's Church
Kenneth M. Doyle
James J McGrath
Catherine Reardon
St Agnes’ Cemetery
Cohoes
Doyte
Mr. Britt
John C. Britt
Champlain Street
A.G. Boivin
St Bernard's Church
Rex William B. Brennan
Mary Coyte
M. Loretta Hayden
Bernard
Ash
Joseph Burkhart
Leo
James Britt
Finley
Philip A. Finley
F. A. Mancini
Fourth Street
St. Joseph's Church
Edmund J. Burns
Julia I. Walsh
David 5. Hotaling
Wiliam J. Duby
Robert Lutley
Thomas Fennelly
Thomas L
Govern
Robert Dufresne
Father Burns
St Mary's Cemetery
Inie
Gramme
Fontaine
Hermine Fonteine
C. J. Cote
Second Street
St. Jean ‘de Baptiste
Francis X- Yard
John Schnurr
Eva Balthazard Sane
Pie Jean
Pater Asker
William Klein
Joan
Frickes
Charles Powis
Leo HB. Roberts
St Jean's
Charles Gendrom
Napoleon Teaser
Napoleon Tessier
Leander
Eleanor ‘Tessier
South Shaftsbury
Mr. Tessier
South Shaftebury
Emilee Perrauly
Hagle Square
A.gs Payne
Fifth Avenue
Morgan
Post
Third Presbyterian Church of
Troy
Blooming Grove’ Cemetery
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Third Avenue
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Pfc
Donald F. O'Hare
Marines
South Pacific
Donald L. Pryor
Peter
H. Pryor
Camp Wheeler
George Krakat
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Third St
Second Ave
Corinth
Mtempar Bete
Joseph Baniszewski
Twenty-Sixth Street
New York State Liquor Authority
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Pigrin’s Holiness Church
Minis
St Barnabas
Community Gospel Chapel
Picwwantital
Red Cross
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Ned
Martin
Bixth Avenue
North
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Grace “Methodist Church
North Adams
Mass
George Hamm
Ersest Beatty
Emerson Bonesteet
Carl Spall
Ereeting Minkler
Gordon ‘Lewis
Mims
Alden & Miller
Alden E. Miller
Fortx
Second Avenue
Chatham
Louis
Eleanor Cramer
Lobdell
Jing B.lobdell
Mia
Letia Gonselin
Trey
Earl- St Mille
Ailgen
S. Miller
Quanser
Louis Lobdell
Chatansa
Ave
Mary Margaret
Rosemary Miller
Edwin Miller
George Troup
Marilyn Stter
Seth N. Genung
Firs
Lansinghurs
Oakwood Cemetery
John XII
Landsborough
John X. Landsborough
Waterford
L. E. Gurley
Firs Presbyterian Church
Exempt Firemen's Association
Knickerbocker Steamer Co
Elen Canfield Landsborough
Frances
Harold Irwin
Margaret Darby
Fanwood
N.J
Robert Landsborough
George M. Darby
Westport
Conn
T. Lewis Darby
Maplewood
N. J
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Berths Miller
Seth XII
Kerber
Emma
Stary O'Rourke
Harry Bonacker
Rensselaer
St Agnes Church
Utica
St. Agnes Cemetery
Edwards
Thomas Francis Edwards
Charles Fitegareth
Water
Vliet
St Patrick's Cauret
Port Henry
McClure
Walter J. Afe Clure J
Burns
St. Peter's Church
Peter F. Sheeran
W. Leo McCarthy
Frank Wy. Purcell
Frank F. Myers
Herbert J. Chapman
Willard M. McClure
St Peter's Cemetery
Edward A McManus
Mrr. Getty
William Getty
Shushan
Arthur C. Wright
Coils
Mr. Getty
Mary McClellan Hospital
Cambridge
Mary Getty
Lawrence Getty
East Hebron
iIntermant
Hazel van Denburgh Tabor
Edward S. Tabor
Leonard Hospital
Pennsylvania
Trmity Episcopal Church
SG Seventh Avenue
Clark Add. Blake
River’ Street
C.‘V. King
D. D
Trinity Episcopal Church
Ciate
Vermont
Bumex
New Leeve Union
Front End
River Ste
Sandzy
Res Bing
Rutland
Burlingtom
Hie
Helen
Washington Park Funeral Home, Inc
McGuise
Crea
Treas
Casetater
Alwaya
Empire Monument Co
Cemetery Avenue
Menonds
Mensnds Bridge
Troy Flyers, Inc
Robert H. Reno
Army
Navy