Flydanna is a bandanna, cut into 6 panels and sewn into a head wrap, with a tail and ties at the nape of the neck. It is designed to sit securely on the head using the attached ties, allowing one size to fit all.
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Interview with Joseph J. Menditto, WWII veteran. CCSU Veterans History Project Tube. Duration : 104.67 Mins.
Interview with Joseph J. Menditto of New Britain, CT conducted by Eileen Hurst. Menditto was drafted into the US Army in 1942 and was sent to Camp Gruber in Oklahoma for basic training. There he had military intelligence training, learning how to operate observation posts for the front lines. His battalion shipped out in October of 1943 for North Africa in a convoy of 105 ships. The large number of ships helped to defer the possibility of being torpedoed by German submarines. Menditto's company remained in North Africa for 4 months before sailing to Italy to back up forces there. There Menditto, fought in the Battle of Monte Cassino, and witnessed a friend from New Britain sustain injuries that led to the amputation of both his legs. Menditto describes the procedure followed by the radio man, in particular the procedures they followed during the Battle for Santa Maria Infante. Menditto also describes his experiences in Angio, Italy, where it was his unit's job to cut off the use of the road to the German soldiers who were using it to receive supplies. It was also at this time that the US soldiers ran low on supplies and became desperate for food at times. He describes the hard conditions that the soldiers were met with. It was in Mount Capello, Italy, that Meditto was injured not once but twice. After healing in a hospital in Rome, he was sent back to the front in Bologna, which was attacked just before the end of the war was announced. After volunteering to help return ...
Tags: CCSU, VHP, WWII, WW2, veteran, interview, oral history
