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My father and mother lived on their separate family farms in Orschot - near Eindhoven. In WW2, in Sept.1944 the men of the 101st Airborne liberated them. The rest of Holland was liberated in May 1945. Both of my parents (aged 16 &17 at the end of the war) always remarked at how wonderful the Americans were to them and their families. The men of the 101st became inspirational that my father decided that he wanted to emigrate to the US. They first moved to Canada but then moved to the US - always the goal. We arrived from Canada in 1963 through Detroit. I now live in WA State. Regrettably, my family never had the opportunity to have a conversation with anyone from the 101st. It never came up while I was growing up and, unfortunately our family never got the opportunity to personally thank them for their valiant efforts of liberation. I would like to take a brief moment and correct that and thank at least one living veteran while they still have sun on their face. Thanks for reading this.

I was with the Hawks May 68. (Sgt. D Hawk 1-4). I got wounded on patrol in the A Shau. I was the FO. Anybody around that remembers that FUBAR?

Just looking for Info on my father, Vincent Gazzara, who may have participated in this operation.

Served with the Abu 1/327th, Above the Rest, was attached to HHC, went to train the cadets at West Point in 1980 (combat support deployment), we were stationed at Camp Natural Bridge, deployed to Vieques in 1981 at Camp Garcia (Real Life Threat). The navy were using that island as target practice, the “cowboys” on that island did not want us there and we had a few run ins. Was stationed there 80 thru 83, 11B primary, 91B combat medic secondary and had OJT 96B Military Intell (was in charge of the armory) S-2 for the last 100 days before I ETS’d, anyone there? Worked in PAC, kinda knew everyone. My nickname was “Ranger Jack Meehan” lol, contact me!!