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Title
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Yonkers Remembers
Description
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Photographs, documents, oral history interviews, and awards preserving the legacy of veterans.
Creator
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Yonkers Public Library
Source
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Frank Sullo, Liborio Giordano, City of Yonkers Department of Veterans Services, J. Gayle Gaymon, Carmen Mollica, Robert Abate, Joseph La Rocco, Melvin Goldstein, Frank Fortuna, James Mullarkey, Andrea Molina, Armando "Chick" Galella, Reverend James Blakely, Stanford Bernstein, Alex Strohmayer
Publisher
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Yonkers Public Library
Date
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12/8/2017
Contributor
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City of Yonkers Department of Veterans Services,
Rights
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Yonkers Public Library
Format
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JPEG/TIFF files, MP3
Still Image
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Original Format
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Photograph
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Title
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Frank Fortuna
Description
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Frank Fortuna piloted a landing craft to Gold Beach on D-Day June 6, 1944.
Creator
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Yonkers Public Library
Source
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Frank Fortuna
Publisher
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Yonkers Public Library
Date
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4/1/2019
Format
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JPEG
Identifier
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2019.027.002
Subject
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D-Day, 1944
World War Two
D-Day
Frank Fortuna
World War Two
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Dublin Core
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Title
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Yonkers Remembers
Description
An account of the resource
Photographs, documents, oral history interviews, and awards preserving the legacy of veterans.
Creator
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Yonkers Public Library
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Frank Sullo, Liborio Giordano, City of Yonkers Department of Veterans Services, J. Gayle Gaymon, Carmen Mollica, Robert Abate, Joseph La Rocco, Melvin Goldstein, Frank Fortuna, James Mullarkey, Andrea Molina, Armando "Chick" Galella, Reverend James Blakely, Stanford Bernstein, Alex Strohmayer
Publisher
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Yonkers Public Library
Date
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12/8/2017
Contributor
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City of Yonkers Department of Veterans Services,
Rights
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Yonkers Public Library
Format
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JPEG/TIFF files, MP3
Oral History
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Interviewer
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Michael Walsh
Interviewee
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Frank Fortuna
Location
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Grinton I. Will Library
Duration
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38:36
Time Summary
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00:22-Being born in Italy.
00:40-Emigrating to the U,S. when he was four.
00:49-Living in Yonkers for his whole life.
1:53-Remembering Pearl Harbor.
3:25-Drafted and enlisted in the Navy.
5:46-Reports for duty aboard the LST-264.
6:20-Engine problems with the LST-264.
7:42-Trained as a deckhand and a small boat coxswain.
9:36-Training in England before D-day.
11:20-Celebrates St.Patrick's Day in Derry, Ireland.
13:52-D-Day.
15:00-LST-264 responsible for bringing British troops to Gold beach.
16:03-Use of DUKWs.
17:40-General Erwin Rommel.
18:37-His landing craft hitting an obstacle at Gold Beach.
20:00-Landing craft getting stuck on the beach.
21:26-Taken back to LST-264.
21:45-Making around 100 trips between England and Omaha Beach.
23:05-Brings Patton's staff and vehicles to France.
24:14-LST-264 goes up the Seine River.
24:41-Cherbourg, France.
25:00-Le Harve, France.
25:44-German prisoners of POWs brought to Southampton, England in the LST-264.
26:05-American POWS brought back to the U.S. in LST-264.
27:40-B-25 hits Empire State Building.
29:37-Discharged from the Navy on December 7, 1945.
32:00-French destroyer engages German positions at Gold Beach.
32:56-Low visibility on D-Day.
33:58-Insignias on planes changed before D-Day.
33:54-Frank went to school as a mechanic using money from the G.I. Bill.
34:20-Works in construction as a shop steward.
34:40-Retires at 67.
35:13-Works for General Motors.
35:40-Place on School Street owned by Dutch Schultz.
37:13-Married and has children.
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Title
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Interview with Frank Fortuna
Description
An account of the resource
Frank describes piloted a landing craft to Gold Beach on D-Day and other operations during the Invasion of Normandy during World War Two.
Creator
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Yonkers Public Library
Source
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Frank Fortuna
Publisher
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Yonkers Public Library
Date
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4/1/2019
Format
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MP3
Identifier
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2019.027.001
Frank Fortuna
Normandy Invasion
World War Two