Joseph C.
Fecske
1907-1983
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Scanned Photos - tct
began 02 15 2013
Joseph C. Fecske
1961
I believe this was taken at his home in
Garland, Arkansas - tct |
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Joseph C Fecske - Anna Mae Fescke Thornton - George J Feske
- Helen Feske
1961
possibly Garland Arkansas |
2 photos Joseph C Fecske
caption - 40th anniversary 1-3-63 taken by R Ayres Frailing Not
sure of this spelling - auditor |
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Anna Mae Feske Thornton - Robert A Thornton - Aunt Lola Arold Fecske
- Helen Feske
Garland Arkansas
1961 |
Front to back:
Joseph C Feczke-Charles J Fecske
unknown-Joseph C Fecske-unknown |
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Joseph C Fecske
Official 16 yr old card to be able to work
originated at school.
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Pfc Joseph C Fecske - Camp Wheeler - Macon GA - 1 front |
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Pfc Joseph C Fecske - Camp Wheeler - Macon GA -
2 |
Pfc Joseph C Fecske - Camp Wheeler - Macon GA -
3 |
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Pfc Joseph C Fecske and cop - Camp Wheeler - Macon GA -
4 front |
Pfc Joseph C Fecske - Camp Wheeler - Macon GA -
5 front |
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Pfc Joseph C Fecske - Camp Wheeler - Macon GA -
6 front |
Pfc Joseph C Fecske - Camp Wheeler - Macon GA -
7 |
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Pfc Joseph C Fecske - Camp Wheeler - Macon GA -
8 |
Postcard and envelope to home for mothers day
Joseph C Fecske
1941
Camp Wheeler, Macon, Georgia
fronts and backs |
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Letter Home March 1942 Joseph C Fecske San Francisco or Hawaii |
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Letter to Joseph C Fescke
from fellow GI
end of WWII
October 1945 |
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Letter to Joseph C Fecske
from wife of friend,
Elfriede Fengler
from Hamburg, Germany
25 June 1951
auf Deutsch - TCT |
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Joseph C Fecske
reunion in Honolulu
WWII |
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Joseph C Fecske
in field uniform
WWII
Location unknown |
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Joseph C Fecske
military 1 |
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Joseph C Fecske
military
(in center)
2 others unknown |
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U.S.
World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946
about
Joseph C Fecske
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U.S.
World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946
about
Joseph C Fecske
Name: |
Joseph
C
Fecske |
Birth Year: |
1907 |
Race: |
White, citizen (White) |
Nativity State or Country: |
Illinois |
State of Residence: |
Illinois |
County or City: |
Cook |
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Enlistment Date: |
1 Apr 1941 |
Enlistment State: |
Illinois |
Enlistment City: |
Chicago |
Branch: |
Branch Immaterial - Warrant Officers, USA |
Branch Code: |
Branch Immaterial - Warrant Officers, USA |
Grade: |
Private |
Grade Code: |
Private |
Component: |
Selectees (Enlisted Men) |
Source: |
Civil Life |
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Education: |
1 year of high school |
Civil Occupation: |
General industry clerks |
Marital Status: |
Single, without dependents |
Height: |
66 |
Weight: |
156 |
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Places
lived:
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lived
here in 1955 |
7849 S
Normal Ave,
Chicago, IL 60620 -
Historical
transaction data is not available for this home.
This is a multi family home. It is located at 7849 S Normal
Ave Chicago, Illinois.
photo 2013![](joseph25.jpg)
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Joseph C.
Fecske
1907-1983
Birth: |
Mar. 29, 1907
Chicago
Cook County
Illinois, USA |
Death: |
Feb., 1983
Garland County
Arkansas, USA |
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Interred 4 Feb. 1983.
(Plot information from Mary Ann, member #47427363.)
Family links:
Parents:
Joseph
Fecske (1877 - 1954)
Anna
Labuda Fecske (1879 - 1953)
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Burial:
Assumption
Catholic Cemetery & Mausoleum
Glenwood
Cook County
Illinois, USA
Plot: Grave 1, Lot 18, Block 18, Section 8 |
Created by: Donald
Reindl
Record added: Mar 15, 2011
Find A Grave Memorial# 66979357 |
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=66979357 |
U.S. Social Security Death
Index
http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/SSDI/individual_record.asp?recid=326035155&lds=3®ion=-1®ionfriendly=&frompage=99
http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/ancestorsearchresults.asp?last_name=Fecske |
Joseph FECSKE |
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Birth Date: |
29 Mar 1907 |
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Death Date: |
Jan 1983 |
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Social Security Number: |
326-03-5155 |
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State or Territory Where Number
Was Issued: |
Illinois |
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Death Residence Localities |
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ZIP Code: |
71913 |
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Localities: |
Albert Pike, Garland, Arkansas |
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Central City, Garland, Arkansas |
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Hot Springs, Garland, Arkansas |
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Hot Springs National, Garland, Arkansas |
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Hot Springs National Park, Garland, Arkansas |
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Lake Hamilton, Garland, Arkansas |
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Mid America, Garland, Arkansas |
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Joe
Fecske
Illinois,
Cook County Birth Certificates, 1878-1922
https://www.familysearch.org/search/records#count=20&query=%2Bgivenname%3AJoseph~%20%2Bsurname%3AFeczke~%20%2Bany_year%3A1870-1960&offset=140
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birth:
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29 Mar 1907
—Pullman, Cook, Illinois
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residence:
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1907
—Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States
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parents:
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Joe Fecska,
Anna ...Abuda Fecske
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record title:
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Illinois,
Cook County Birth Certificates, 1878-1922
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name:
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Joe Fecske
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birth date:
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29 Mar 1907
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birthplace:
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Pullman,
Cook, Illinois
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gender:
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Male
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race:
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White
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father's name:
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Joe Fecska
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father's birthplace:
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Abanj J.
Megye, Bodva Vundegi, Hungary
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father's age:
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30y
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mother's name:
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Anna ...Abuda
Fecske
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mother's birthplace:
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Szepes
Megye, Zavada, Hungary
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mother's age:
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27y
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additional relatives:
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X
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digital folder number:
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4273068
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Illinois, Cook County Birth Certificates,
1878-1922 for Joe Fecske
https://www.familysearch.org/search/recordDetails/show?uri=https://api.familysearch.org/records/pal:/MM9.1.r/MZZH-JC4/p1
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Name:
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Joe Fecske
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Birth Date:
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29 Mar 1907
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Birthplace:
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Pullman, Cook, Illinois
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Gender:
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Male
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Race:
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White
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Father's Name:
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Joe Fecska
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Father's Birthplace:
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Abanj J. Megye, Bodva
Vundegi, Hungary
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Father's Age:
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30y
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Mother's Name:
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Anna ...Abuda Fecske
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Mother's Birthplace:
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Szepes Megye, Zavada,
Hungary
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Mother's Age:
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27y
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Christening Date:
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Christening Place:
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Paternal Grandfather:
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Paternal Grandmother:
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Maternal Grandfather:
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Maternal Grandmother:
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Additional Relatives:
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X
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Death Date:
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Death Age:
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Film Number:
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1288131
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Digital Folder Number:
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4273068
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Image Number:
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301
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Reference Number:
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4798
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Joseph C Fecske
Birth Registry
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Joseph
Fecske
United States
Census, 1930
https://www.familysearch.org/search/records#count=20&query=%2Bgivenname%3AJoseph~%20%2Bsurname%3AFeczke~%20%2Bany_year%3A1870-1960&offset=80
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birth:
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1907
—Illinois
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residence:
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1930
—Chicago (Districts 251-500), Cook, Illinois
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census:
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1930
—Chicago (Districts 251-500), Cook, Illinois
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parents:
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Joseph
Fecske, Anna Fecske
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record title:
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United
States Census, 1930
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name:
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Joseph
Fecske
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event:
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CENSUS
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event date:
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1930
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event place:
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Chicago
(Districts 251-500), Cook, Illinois
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gender:
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Male
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age:
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23
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marital status:
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Single
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race:
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White
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birthplace:
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Illinois
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estimated birth year:
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1907
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relationship to head of household:
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Son
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father's birthplace:
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Hungary
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mother's birthplace:
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Hungary
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enumeration district number:
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414
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family number:
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150
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sheet number and letter:
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15A
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line number:
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4
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nara publication:
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T626, roll
431
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digital folder number:
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4584232
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Information found by TCT 11 January 2013
U.S. World War II Navy Muster Rolls, 1938-1949
http://search.ancestry.com/Browse/print_u.aspx?dbid=1143&iid=32863_256026-00675&pid=53070097&autoprint=true&imageonly=true&client=SUI&version=gEj0MxS-zwg
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U.S. World War II Navy Muster Rolls, 1938-1949
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Joseph C. Fecske sailing on USS Wright from Hilo, Hawaii to
Pearl Harbor; October 24, 1942
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USS Wright (AV-1)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Wright_(AV-1)
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USS Wright (AV-1)
USS Wright (AZ-1/AV-1) was a one-of-a-kind
auxiliary ship in the United
States Navy, named for aviation pioneer Orville
Wright.
![](Uss_wright_av1_guantanamo_apr_1927.jpg)
World
War II, 1941
Wright departed Pearl Harbor on 20 November, bound for
Wake
Island, arrived at that advanced base on the 28th, and
landed Comdr. "Spiv" Winfield
S. Cunningham, who took command of the naval activities on
the vulnerable isle, Major James " Jimmy" Patrick
Sinnot Deveraux, USMC and Lt. Col Walter L.J. Bayler, USMC.
Other passengers who went ashore from the seaplane tender
included asphalt technicians, other construction workers, and
other Marine Corps officers. The ship also delivered 63,000
gallons of gasoline to Wake's storage tanks before setting
course for Midway. There, she delivered a cargo that included
ammunition and disembarked passengers that included men
reporting for duty at the NAS and with other Marine Corps ground
units. Then, with military and civilian passengers embarked, Wright
departed Midway on 4 December and headed for Pearl Harbor. While
en route, she received the electrifying news that the Japanese
had attacked Pearl Harbor on the morning of 7 December. Word of
the attack arrived shortly after 0800 that day, and Wright
cleared for action and manned her battle stations. Fortunately
for her, she never crossed the path of the Japanese striking
force. After reaching Pearl Harbor the day after the Japanese
attack, Wright got underway on 19 December to
transport 126 Marines of the 4th Defense Battalion, with their
gear, to Midway. She returned to Pearl Harbor on the day after
Christmas with 205 civilians embarked.
Wright then underwent voyage repairs, loaded stores
and cargo, embarked passengers, and set sail for the South Seas.
Departing Pearl Harbor on 2 April, Wright touched at Tutuila,
Samoa; the Fiji
Islands; Espiritu
Santo, in the New
Hebrides — where she debarked men of VP-72
— and Nouméa,
New
Caledonia, before she reached Sydney,
Australia, on 26 April. After visiting Melbourne
and Fremantle,
Wright headed for the Hawaiian Islands, retracing her
course, and reached Pearl Harbor on 16 June. For the next five
and one-half months, Wright shuttled military passengers,
arms, gasoline, and other equipment to Midway and other defense
bases of the Hawaiian
Sea Frontier. Leaving Oahu
on 1 December, Wright headed for the South Pacific
carrying, as passengers, the officers and men of Marine
Scout Bomber Squadron 233 (VMSB 233) and VMSB-234,
along with other passengers and logistic support cargo.
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U.S.
World War II Navy Muster Rolls, 1938-1949
about
J C Fecske
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U.S.
World War II Navy Muster Rolls, 1938-1949
about
J C Fecske
Name: |
J
C Fecske |
Ship, Station or Activity: |
Wharton |
Ship Number or Designation: |
115-45 |
Muster Date: |
21 May 1945 |
Source
Citation: National Archives at College Park; College
Park, Maryland, United States; Muster Rolls of U.S. Navy
Ships, Stations, and Other Naval Activities, 01/01/1939 -
01/01/1949; Record Group: 24, Records of the Bureau of
Naval Personnel, 1798 - 2007; Series ARC ID: 594996;
Series MLR Number: A1 135.
Source Information:
Ancestry.com. U.S. World War II Navy Muster Rolls,
1938-1949 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com
Operations Inc, 2011.
Original data:
Muster Rolls of U.S. Navy Ships, Stations, and Other
Naval Activities, 01/01/1939-01/01/1949; A-1 Entry 135,
10230 rolls, ARC ID: 594996.
Records of the Bureau of Naval Personnel, Record Group Number
24. National Archives at College Park, College Park, MD.
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USS Wharton (AP-7)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Wharton_(AP-7)
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USS Wharton (AP-7)
USS Wharton (AP-7) was a troop
transport and hospital
ship in the service of the United
States Navy during World
War II. Originally built for the Munson
Steamship Line as the cargo
liner SS Southern Cross in 1921, she was
acquired by the Navy as World War II approached and, once the
United States became a combatant, she served as a troop
transport and hospital ship in the Pacific
Theatre. At war's end, she returned Stateside proudly with three
battle
stars.
SS Southern Cross operated in the South American trade
from 1921 until acquired by the Navy from the Maritime
Commission on 8 November 1939. Two days later, the ship was
renamed Wharton and designated AP-7. She was converted to
a troop transport by the Todd
Shipbuilding Corp., in the Robbins Drydock in Erie Basin at Brooklyn,
New York. The transport was commissioned at the New
York Navy Yard on 7 December 1940, Capt. Ernest L.
Vanderkloot in command.
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World
War II Pacific Theatre operations
Wharton departed Brooklyn
on 7 January 1941, bound for Guantanamo
Bay, Cuba, where she conducted shakedown
before proceeding on through the Panama
Canal to her home port, Mare
Island, California.
Assigned to the Naval
Transportation Service, Wharton transported service
personnel and their families, as well as cargo, on triangular
runs from San
Francisco, San
Diego, and Pearl
Harbor.
She also made one trip to Midway
Island.
Supporting
the Okinawa invasion
Wharton next participated in the operations against Okinawa,
arriving offshore on 19 May. The transport soon disembarked
2,118 troops (including 30 Army nurses)
in LCM's sent from shore, as Wharton ordinarily carried
no landing craft of her own.
Several times, the ship went to general
quarters and was screened by smoke, but she emerged from the
campaign unscathed by kamikazes
that had taken such a dreadful toll from American ships.
On 22 May, the transport departed for the Caroline
Islands, with 273 troops and 29 casualties embarked, and
arrived at Ulithi on the 28th.
Wharton took part in no further combat operations and
returned home — via Seeadler Harbor, Guadalcanal, Espiritu
Santo, Nouméa, and Suva — to San Francisco on 25 June.
The ship remained there until 3 August, when she moved to
Seattle, Washington, before returning to Pearl Harbor.
End-of-War
activities
Hostilities had then ended, but the gigantic job of returning
troops from the far-flung bases and islands nonetheless
remained.
Wharton conducted three voyages to the western Pacific
— calling at Eniwetok, Guam, Saipan, Samar, Tacloban,
and Puerto
Princessa through the end of 1945 to pick up Army, Navy, and
Marine Corps veterans and return them to the United States in
"Operation
Magic Carpet".
Wharton made one more trip under "Magic Carpet" to
Yokosuka, Japan, in February 1946.
Name: |
USS Wharton |
Namesake: |
Franklin
Wharton |
Laid down: |
8 October 1918 |
Launched: |
20 July 1919 |
Completed: |
24 September 1921 |
Acquired: |
8 November 1939 |
Commissioned: |
7 December 1940 |
Decommissioned: |
26 March 1947 |
Struck: |
4 April 1947 |
Honors and
awards: |
3 battle
stars (World War II) |
Fate: |
Sold for scrapping, 21 March 1952 |
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Type: |
Troop
transport |
Displacement: |
12,250 long tons (12,447 t) light
21,900 long tons (22,251 t) full |
Length: |
636 ft 2 in (193.90 m) |
Beam: |
72 ft (22 m) |
Draft: |
31 ft 3 in (9.53 m) |
Propulsion: |
Steam
turbine |
Speed: |
16.6 knots
(30.7 km/h; 19.1 mph) |
Complement: |
666 officers and enlisted |
Armament: |
• 4 × single 5"/38
caliber guns
• 8 × .50 cal. machine
guns |
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Franklin Wharton (July 23, 1767 – September 1, 1818)
was the third Commandant
of the United
States Marine Corps.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_Wharton |
U.S.,
Department of Veterans Affairs BIRLS Death File, 1850-2010
about
Joseph Fecske
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U.S.,
Department of Veterans Affairs BIRLS Death File, 1850-2010
about
Joseph Fecske
Name: |
Joseph
Fecske |
Gender: |
Male |
Birth Date: |
29 Mar 1907 |
Death Date: |
30 Jan 1983 |
SSN: |
326035155 |
Branch 1: |
ARMY |
Enlistment Date 1: |
1 Apr 1941 |
Release Date 1: |
24 Jun 1945 |
Source Information:
Ancestry.com. U.S., Department of Veterans Affairs BIRLS
Death File, 1850-2010 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA:
Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.
Original data: Beneficiary Identification Records Locator
Subsystem (BIRLS) Death File. Washington, D.C.: U.S.
Department of Veterans Affairs.
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Information found by TCT 28 December 2012
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Information found by TCT 16 February 2012
1930 Federal Census United States
Worked as Cost? Clerk - Gas & Oil
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