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Black and white photo of a group of soldiers in military uniforms and helmets, with one soldier handing an item to another, surrounded by others, outdoors in a rocky area.

Mail Call! Original Signal Corps caption “SC 191957 - The mail gets through - even to the fighting fronts. Here, Cpl. Albert Franczaki, [New] Kensington, Pa., passes it out to GIs in an old barn in France. 27 July, 1944.” Near St. Lo, France. 4th Infantry Division. Photographer: Franklin.

Albert “Franczaki” was actually Albert Joseph Franczak of New Kensington, Pennsylvania. He was born 26 April 1914 in Ware, Massachusetts, but by October 1940, when he registered for the draft, he was living with his mother at 720 West 7th Street, New Kensington, Pennsylvania, and working for Alcoa - the Aluminum Company of America…and possibly knew my grandfather, Dudley H. “Dud” Anderson who was a manager at Alcoa. Albert Franczak lived less than a mile from my Dad’s house.