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Miscellaneous Photos and
Memorabilia Images- Page 141

Mess Tent for the Battery

Standing L/R: Pfc Arthur O. Griffith, Pfc David P. Houman, S/Sgt Robert E. Quinn. Kneeling
L/R: Pvt Frank Pollaro, T/4 John Durso and Pfc William F. Kraft during a field exercise.

Photos taken by Corporal James V. Short, Service Battery, 862d Field Artillery Battalion while at
Camp Van Dorn MS. continue.

Soldiers of the 862d FA Bn on a field exercise. Those in the photo are not identified

Soldiers of the 862 FA Bn take a break while on a field exercise. Those in the photo are not identified.

Soldiers of the 862d FA Bn during a lull in the field exercise- March 1944.
Those in the photo are not identified.

Soldiers of Service Battery, 862d FA Bn, patiently awaiting for their next delicious meal.

L/R: T/Sgt Dalton L. Kindig and S/Sgt Arnold
Heller.

Corporal James V. Short wearing a borrow uniform-the fit is
somewhat questionable.

L/R:S/Sgt Arnold Heller, T/5 Joseph L. DiSipio, Pfc William Rouse, T/Sgt Dalton L. Kindig, Corporal James V. Short
and Sgt George Kostibnik. November 1943

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On 9 August 2017 I attended the interment of Colonel Raymond Restani, (Captain, A Company, 254th Infantry
Regiment in WWII) in Arlington National Cemetery. He was given a full military honor funeral with two platoons of
soldiers, flag bearers, a band, a horse drawn Caisson and a riderless stallion with boots placed in the stirrups
backwards. At the interment site, after the Chaplain presented the last rites a squad of Infantrymen gave Colonel
Restani three rifle salutes and then a bugler played Taps. All in all it was very impressive and well earned by this
long time soldier and our comrade. I am including three photos of the ceremony at his resting place.

Captain Raymond Restani when he was the Commanding Officer of A Company, 254th Infantry Regiment-1945

Military honor guard prepares to fold the flag from Colonel Restani's coffin to present to his
wife and family.

Colonel Frederick C Clinton (PFC, D Company 254th Infantry Regiment) places a memorial
rose on the coffin of Colonel Restani.

Colonel Clinton renders a last salute to Colonel Restani to honor his long service to our
country and his time as our comrade in World War II.

C Company, 263d Engineer Combat Battalion at Camp Van Dorn, Miss, 18 November 1944. Photo provided by
Noreen Fertig. A couple of those in the photo are from A Company 263d Engineer Combat Battalion.
Top Row(L-R): Pfc Robert R. Walters, Pfc Anthony Baratta, Pfc Alfred H Busse, Sgt Raymond J. Lauchlen (I think
this is who the soldier is- No other soldier in the unit with a similiar name), T/5 Anthony Kaboski (NBD 21 May 45),
T/5 Aubry W. Albright ( A/263), T/5 Thomas E. Gross, T/5 Robert D Alton, Pfc Jesse L Knowles Jr (A;263d- KIA 3
April 1945), S/Sgt Mark C. Callahan, S/Sgt Albert P. Cavallaro.
Bottom Row (L-R) S/Sgt Joseph F. Welsh, Pfc Raymond L. Brooks, T/5 Ruggles (There were two Ruggles in C
Company- this one is either Frederick or Justin), T/5 Nicolo D'Angelo, T/5 Ralph Dunlap, T;4 Vincent Bellino, T5 Levi
Geisler Jr and Pfc Peter Scanlon, In the middle row center behind Dunlap and Bellino is Pfc John H. Leiby.