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Gambino, Elroy Reflections
Elroy Gambino's most memorable experience of World War 2 was when he won over 5,000 dollars playing blackjack [Annotator's Note: a playin
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Gambino, Elroy Return Home and Postwar
fter occupation in Japan, Elroy Gambino and his unit [Annotator's Note: Company K, 3rd Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division] we
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Gambino, Elroy War's End and Occupation
lroy Gambino and his unit [Annotator's Note: Company K, 3rd Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division] built camps, rested [Annotato
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Gangwere, Blanche "Blanche Gregory" Back to Germany
Blanche Gangwere went to Bad Neuenahr, Germany on the Danube River near Cologne.
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Gangwere, Blanche "Blanche Gregory" Early LIfe, Marriage, Loss and Red Cross
Blanche Marie (Gregory) Barnes Gangwere was born in 1918 in Kansas City, Missouri. She grew up near Northeast High School there.
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Gangwere, Blanche "Blanche Gregory" Joining the Red Cross and Going Overseas
Blanche Gangwere was 26 and over the minimum age of 24 when she joined the Red Cross [Annotator's Note: American Red Cross].
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Gangwere, Blanche "Blanche Gregory" Paris, Versailles and Flying a B-17 to England
Blanche Gangwere received a leave to go to Paris. She did not have to wear her uniform during that time.
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Gangwere, Blanche "Blanche Gregory" Red Cross Service in England
Blanche Gangwere would leave each morning in a Clubmobile [Annotator's Note: she was billeted with an English family in Kettering, England nea
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Gangwere, Blanche "Blanche Gregory" Red Cross Service in France
Blanche Gangwere was sent to France in February 1945. The Army had advanced far enough along that Red Cross girls could be sent over there.
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Gangwere, Blanche "Blanche Gregory" Red Cross Service in Germany
Blanche Gangwere and two other Red Cross girls served coffee and donuts to a tank group. The tankers offered to let the girls drive a tank.
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Gangwere, Blanche "Blanche Gregory" Reflections
Blanche Gangwere maintained contact with only one Red Cross girl she worked with during the war.
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Gangwere, Blanche "Blanche Gregory" The Glenn Miller Band and General Henri Giraud
Blanche Gangwere was sent to Passau, Germany where she was billeted in an old castle on a hill.