Sunday, December 13, 2009

September 22, 1944

September 22 left Bristol morning in convoy with all of our equipment. Spent night near Dorchester.

Vendola hit Carter as he was Sgt of guard.

NOTE: Jack Schultz, perhaps the youngest member, wrote many decades later that the 287th Signal Pigeon Co. was split up into 7-man sections with two jeeps, two combat mobile lofts and 40 pigeons. According to Jack's article, Feathered Warriors, Racing Pigeon Bulletin, November 3, 1997, pages 16-18,  his section included:

- Sgt. Emil Banek of Monroe, Michigan
- Cpl. Frank Hauck of Brooklyn, New York
- T/5 Graham Naylor of North Scituate, Rhode Island
- PFC Robert Kelley of California
- PFC Wayne Colwell of Yonkers, New York
- PFC Jules Goovert of Detroit, Michigan
- PFC Jack Schultz of Cincinnati, Ohio

Other sections were headed by Sgt. Jake Jacob of Buffalo, New York and Sgt. Adolph Patteeuw of Detroit, Michigan.

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