Jake's Page
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Jake Dalton right after Jump
School...he had to show off those paratrooper wings!
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This is a picture of Jake when
he was stationed at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, December 1943.
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This picture is from a publication called “With the 17th in The Ardennes” and is showing some of the Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 513th Parachute Infantry Regiment. The man in the middle looking backwards is Mark Leverson, the S-3 (Operations) Sargeant. (He was killed in action while hanging in a tree on our Rhine jump). First on the right is Kurt Gabel, a scout and interrogator in Jake's section. He wrote the book “The Making of a Paratrooper”. Second on the right is Jake. Third with the bandolier, is Otto Hager (Jake usually used Otto as part of an Observation Post team.) The rest of the people shown are from his section or from the Communications Platoon. |
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This is the cover of the first
printing of “Thunder From Heaven”.
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This is a page from “With
the 17th in The Ardennes” showing where they fought in the
Bulge.
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This is a page from “With
the 17th in The Ardennes” showing where they fought in Germany.
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Jake on furlough on the French
Riviera in July, 1945.
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Memorial Day ceremony, 2000.
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Jake on Memorial Day, 2001.
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