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Honorary
Dovorians - Roll of Honour
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 Corporal Charles
W. Vulyak was a gunner with the 127th ("Screaming
Eagle") AAA battalion
(Mobile), Battery "B".
He is third from the left in the group photograph of his
gun
crew.
The  picture was taken in early 1944 at a motor pool near Los
Angeles.
Corporal Vulyak and the battalion arrived at Liverpool
on the converted British Cunard Passenger Liner the HMT
Scythia, and then proceeded directly to Camp Blackshawmoor (Staffordshire) on 15th July 1944. On 3rd
August 1944, the battalion set up their gun positions
between St Margaret's and Dover. Their main camp was at
Camp Swingate Down. The 127th
was the first US Gun Battalion to be positioned between
St Margaret's and Dover, alongside the Royal Regiment of
Artillery, to protect Dover and London from the enemy
"Buzz Bombs".
After they fulfilled their duties on the cliffs of
Dover, the battalion crossed the Channel and arrived in
France (Omaha Beach) on 27th September 1944. Corporal Vulyak was wounded in
Germany in October or November, and spent a long time in
England in hospital before returning to the USA i n April
1945.
His
wife, the former Rose Ann Senffner, enlisted in the Woman's Army Corps in late 1944,
and served in the USA as a nurse until February 1946,
just after
 her marriage.
She is second from left in the photograph, shovelling
snow at Fort Des Moines, Iowa WAC camp. The picture was taken
around February 1945, before she went as a nurse to an
Army Air Force base in Mississippi. There she treated
wounded GIs.
with thanks to Charles W. Vulyak, Jr |
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HMS Pens
First Row: Lt Visee Standley, Lt
Jorissen, Lt Alexander, Lt Com Hamilton Smith, Capt
Adams, Lt Ward, Lt Larive, Lt Truckle, Lt Forster, and
"Sailor" the dog
Second Row: SW Dogger, Lt Tegelberg, SLt Mastright, SLt
Knottenbelt, SLt Hollick, SLt Everett, SLt Lake, SLt
Risdon, Lt Liddell, SLt Bradley, SLt Bradford (two names
missing)
Third Row: Lt Brunning, Lt Bommezyn, SLt Murrey, Lt
Gardner, Mid Genel, SLt Grassam, SLt Hurrell, SLt
Drummond, SLt McFarlane, SLt Van Rossem, SLt Innes, Lt
Dempster
picture courtesy Richard Stanley |
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