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I'm interested in finding out any information about this type of studio card. Size is 3 1/4" X 2 1/4". Printed on a stiff post card type paper. The writing on the back is done in fountain pen.

 

Wallace Kidder,1st Ranger Btn,, "C" Co.1st platoon, 2nd Section, he was 2nd Scout and friend of my father who was a rifleman in the same section.

 

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WALLACE KIDDER

ASN 39319228

Came from OREGON

KIA Nov 12 1943 in ITALY

Picture mentions the date of 25/11/43

 

Buried PLOT 1 Row 7 Grave 64

 

SICILY ROME AMERICAN CEMETERY

 

You may ask a picture of his grave to the ABMC

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http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~kidderfamilyhistory/

 

One of his family relative was an unfortunate member of the GREAT ESCAPE and was executed by the SS Naz(t)is after his recapture

 

 

World War II
1943
Private First Class Wallace Eugene Kidder - 1st Ranger Battalion - Killed in Action - Nov. 12, 1943 - at Venafro, Italy - age 21
Flight Officer Donald Leo Kidder - 391 Bomb Squadron - Killed training flight - Sept 22, 1943 - in Kansas - age 24
Ensign Joseph Dunbar Kidder - U.S. Navy - Killed Mid-Air Collision - Nov. 3, 1943 - in Florida while training - age 22
1944

Lieutenant Gordon Arthur Kidder - 156 Squadron Royal Canadian Air Force - Executed by SS Nazi - Mar. 29, 1944 - Hodonin, Moravia, Czech Republic
Private Neil Linden Kidder - 36th Infantry - Killed in Action - July 17, 1944 - in Belgium - age 21
1945
Private First Class Elden Bennett Kidder - Co. E., 23rd Marine Battalion - Killed in Action - Feb 28, 1945 - in Iwo Jima - age 26

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November

Rangers lost on this day

 

Allum, Albert M. 4Bn 4 Nov 43 Henselman, Chester H. 4Bn 04 Nov 43 Strange, Len A. 4Bn 04 Nov 43 Wallis, Vernon W. 4Bn 04 Nov 43 Bob L. Lowell 1Bn 10 Nov 43 Ford, Richard M. 3Bn 11 Nov 43 Card, Earl E. 4Bn 12 Nov 43 Kidder, Wallace E. 1Bn 12 Nov 43 Richard, Jude J. 4Bn 12 Nov 43 Trowbridge, Warfield E. 4Bn 13 Nov 43 Hofmeister, William 4Bn 16 Nov 43 Junior F. Miller 4 Bn 18 Nov 43 Bednarski, Isadore 1Bn 21 Nov 43 Tryon, William S. 1Bn 22 Nov 43 Willette, Mathew R. 1Bn 22 Nov 43 Canfield, William H.4Bn 25 Nov 43 McMahon, John J. Jr.1Bn 25 Nov 43 Clarke, William E. 1Bn 27 Nov 43 Davies. Robert C. 3Bn 30 Nov 43 Deckrow, Orville 3Bn 30 Nov 43 Donohue, Raymond P.1Bn 30 Nov 43 Foreshaw, Dwight 3Bn 30 Nov 43 Lemay, Normand R. 3Bn 30 Nov 43 Lonnes, Edward W. 1Bn 30 Nov 43 Williams, Ernest M. 3Bn 30 Nov 43

 

Wallace Eugene Kidder was inducted into the Army from Oregon, rank Private First Class, assigned to the 1st Ranger Battalion and killed in action 12 Nov. 1943. Wallace Kidder received a medal “Purple Heart” and is buried at Sicily-Rome American Cemetery, Italy Plot I Row 7 Grave 54. The cemetery covers 77 acres, has 7,861 American military war dead. Wallace E. Kidder gave the following information at enlistment, 9 Oct. 1942, service for the duration of the war, plus six months, education, 4 years of high school, occupation was forestry, he was married, height 5’8”, weight 129.

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Thanks all. Yes I did google his name. Born in Tillamook Wa. in 1922. His brother William was 2 years younger and served in the navy for 21 years and died in 2009. Williams son now lives in Carson City NV. I plan to get in touch with him and see if he is interested in a copy of the picture of the uncle he never knew.

 

 

What I am really interested in is information on the type of card itself. I would really like to know when and where the picture might have been taken.

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  • 2 months later...

I found out that Wallace had a son that was born shortly after Wallace was deployed to Africa. I have a lead in Carson City, Nev.

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