Andrew Pompey KIA at Anzio; Brother Durando KIA in France

The Pompeys lived at 2123 Pittston Avenue.

Thomas "Tommy" Coyne Is Killed in Brittany - August 1944

Staff Sergeant Thomas "Tommy" Coyne was killed in Brittany in August 1944.

Coyne, who was born in 1917, was the son of Martin and Bridget Loretta Walsh Coyne, 2810 Pittston Avenue. A member of the 644th Tank Battalion, he was killed in action in Brittany, France on August 19, 1944. He was awarded the Silver Star and Purple Heart. Coyne is buried in the Brittany American Cemetery in Montjoie Saint Martin, France.

Marshall Diskin at Home and Abroad

From Somewhere in England, where he has been serving with a unit of the U.S. Army Signal Corps for the past several months, Pvt. Marshall Diskin, son of Mr. and Mrs. P. J. Diskin of 2700 Birney Avenue, Minooka, forwarded these four interesting pictures.

Diskin and Sgt. McGuire of Boston viewing ruins of a large building, the target of a Nazi bomb before the RAF gained the upper hand; American boys unloading a light piece of army mobile equipment from a huge plane; Minooka soldier enjoying a little party with a group of his soldier companions (photo taken on visit to Ireland); Diskin chatting with a female bartender in a London pub.