toitoine66 Posted September 1, 2019 Share #1 Posted September 1, 2019 Hello everybody As mentioned in the title I 'm come from France. I m interssed by a lot of subject like WW1, WW2, 1st Vietnam war, the US vietnam war and also the french Algerian war.... I started the military collection at 10 yo, now I m 28 yo and I still collect the uniforms Also my great father was an american Soldier who came during the WW2: John Peter Sileikis he enlisted in 1942 at Chicago. I 'm also here to find more information about him. Hope to meet you again in this sweet forum and sorry by advance for my poor english A.S. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAW Posted September 1, 2019 Share #2 Posted September 1, 2019 Your English is fine! Don't worry about that at all. Welcome to the forum! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TexRdnec Posted September 1, 2019 Share #3 Posted September 1, 2019 howdy, welcome aboard And don't worry, your English is perfectly understandable and a hell of a lot better than my French! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aznation Posted September 1, 2019 Share #4 Posted September 1, 2019 Hello, and welcome to the forum. Glad to have you. Found a couple of things on John Peter Sileikis. Source: Fold3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aznation Posted September 1, 2019 Share #5 Posted September 1, 2019 Source: Fold3 WWII Draft Registration Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aznation Posted September 1, 2019 Share #6 Posted September 1, 2019 toitoine66 sent me some pictures of John P. Sileikis and his dog tag via PM and said he didn't mind me posting them for him, so here they are. Thank you so much for your relatives service! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RustyCanteen Posted September 1, 2019 Share #7 Posted September 1, 2019 Welcome aboard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikie Posted September 2, 2019 Share #8 Posted September 2, 2019 howdy, welcome aboard And don't worry, your English is perfectly understandable and a hell of a lot better than my French! And a lot better than more than a few America born folks. Welcome! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toitoine66 Posted September 2, 2019 Author Share #9 Posted September 2, 2019 Thanks you guys for your welcoming it's very apreciated. And thanks to Aznation for his work about my great father that was really sweet A.S. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Rooster Posted September 3, 2019 Share #10 Posted September 3, 2019 Welcome Frenchie... Here is where your Grandpa lived back in the day. Cannot say what floor. 417 E 62nd street, Chicago, Illinois. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Rooster Posted September 3, 2019 Share #11 Posted September 3, 2019 And here is where he worked. Now the Hilton Hotel. 725 South Wabash, Chicago Welcome aboard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toitoine66 Posted September 3, 2019 Author Share #12 Posted September 3, 2019 Holy cow... I never notice the Stevens Hotel was the bigest Hotel in the world in the 30's... wow thanks a lot for thoses informations... I will start a post about the war story of my grand ma and my grand pa in WWII France Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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