Veterans · 05 August 2023
Page under construction, please come later. Don H. DILLON was born on the 1st of october 1922 at La Junta , Colorado. He entered in the US Army at Denver on the 28th of april 1943. He voluntered for paratroopers and was graduated on the 27 of september at Fort Benning Georgia. He was attached to the 517th parachute infantry regiment and departed to Europe on the 17th of may arriving in Italy on 31st. He was attached to 3rd platoon, D company, second battalion and took part to operation Dragoon...
Veterans · 18 July 2022
"A great officer loved by his men" ... It was a privilege to have him as one of the best supporter of our association for over 20 years. Dick SEITZ was born in Leavenworth, Kansas on Feb. 18, 1918, he grew up in that city and then attended Kansas State University where in 1939 as a junior he began dating his first wife, Bettie Jean MERRIL. That same year Dick, foreseeing WWII looming on the horizon, accepted a commission as a 2nd Lieutenant in the US Army. Once in the Army he went through the...
In Memoriam · 01 July 2022
2nd Lt Albert M ROBINSON, Junior was born in Bloomfield, Essex County, New Jersey in October the 25th 1920. The 1940 census list him as a 19 year old apprentice at "The General Electric". He volunteered paratroopers and was attached to the 517th parachute infantry regiment. The unit was formed in early 1943 and trained at Camp Toccoa, Georgia. The 517th saw heavy fighting in the Italian Campaign in June 1944, before being transferred near Rome (Italy) to take part to " Operation Dragoon " in...
Veterans · 02 January 2022
Né aux Arcs le 13 Avril 1921, il est le frère ainé de Joseph SOLDI. Ensembles ils seront recrutés par le commandant BLANC, et deviendrons des combattants volontaires de la résistance locale sous l'égide du mouvement COMBAT. Ils habitaient tous deux à la ferme familiale des Cognasses au Sud des Arcs, il prendra part avec son frère et le groupe local a des actions de sabotage des voies ferrées.
Veterans · 02 June 2021
Jacques OHANESSIAN et Honoré DAVID habitent le petit hameau des Nouradons au Nord des Arcs. Dans cette nuit du 14 au 15 août 1944 il dorment les fenêtres ouvertes comme souvent dans la chaleur des étés en Provence. Vers les 4 heures du matin, ils sont réveillés par le ronronnement sourd de moteurs d'avions. Le bruit s'amplifie quand ils s'aperçoivent que ces avions passent au dessus de leur tête. Grâce à notre ami Georges YVADIAN, alors jeune journaliste au journal Var Matin, leurs...
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