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The "mugshot" photos are scans of negatives that Special Forces Historians were given from the Association and they scanned them for us. Huge thanks to Ken Finlayson and Earl Moniz and their team for all the hard work.

This grouping of 2-2 has 17 total photos


Please note: There are most likely more photos of the men of 2-2 but at this time this is all that I have been given. I don't know if there are more negatives of 2-2 available or not.



PictureSept 1943
Jean Y. Bricker


Gorham, Kansas.
Also he was awarded the Bronze Star and Purple Heart

T/4,  Section 6, 3rd Platoon, 2nd Company, 2nd Regiment, Airborne.   
Specialty - Automatic Rifleman 
Wounded by an exploding mine,  May 1, 1944 Anzio (Borge Piave) Italy. 
Dismissed from Brooke General Hospital, San Antonio, TX. June 24, 1945. 
Reassigned to Ft. Leavenworth, KS.  Discharged Dec. 2, 1945.  

Submitted by daughter Doris Jean Vonheeder.




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Sam Byrne

Sergeant, 2-2
Robertson, WY
Born April 18, 1921
Died June 14, 1991
Sam’s wartime experiences are the subject of the book With the Black Devils by Mark J. Nelson.

Photo submitted by Mark Nelson


Ernest Chipchase
Unit: 2 Regiment (2 Company)
Rank: Sergeant
Number: M/35847
Date Of Death: 31st March 1944
Age: 23
From Androsson, Alberta
Gravesite: Beach Head War Cemetery,Anzio,Italy XVII.B.6
Additional Information: Canada
son of Thomas and Ellen Chipchase, Ardrossan,Alberta

KIA Italy
Picture

Irvine Philip Fox
2-2
KIA 05/28/44
Buried at Beach Head War Cemetery, Anzio, Italy

Photos submitted by Great Nephew Ken Farrow

Ken stumbled upon a box of his great aunts belongings in which he discovered the photos and V Mail

Grave photo taken by Eric Morgensen on FSSF Italy Tour 2010


Sandy Enos Basil Geldart
2-2

Photo submitted by granddaughter Melissa Cummings

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Albert (Bert) Hopkins


2-2
ToberMory, Ontario

Photos and info submitted by Bert's friend Jim Cosgrove.

Freddie J Johnson

2 Regiment (2 Company)
Radicosa,Italy Jan.1944
Posing with M1941 Johnson light machine gun
from Chivington, Colorado
Picture

Picture
Robert L Neal

2-2
Salina, Kansas

Thanks to Chuck Samuel for letting my take a picture of his picture.

George A Rainville

2 Regiment (2 Company)
Rank: Sergeant
Number: A/29576
Award: Silver Star
Place: Italy 1944
Additional Information: Canada
from Bonfield,Ontario

George was awarded the Silver Star for a gallantry in action for saving Jean Bricker (Kansas) on May 1st 1944 at Anzio.(Borge Piave) Bricker was wounded and he collapsed and George ran 80 yards to pick him up and put him on his shoulder and ran 800 yards with him to behind the lines for medical help. Gene Bricker lost a lung but survived. Jack Knight was also there and he said that the they looked like they had come right out of a butcher shop because of how badly they were covered with blood. George did not know until he returned to England.

Info & photos given to me by George's sister Rita Thomas.

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Jean Paul Sabourin

Corporal, 2-2
Montreal, Quebec
Born November 6, 1919
Killed in Action March 7, 1944 at Anzio, Italy
Buried at the Beach Head War Cemetery, Anzio
 
Photo submitted by Mark Nelson

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