World War II Honoree

Simon Frank Rakauskas, Jr.

Branch of Service

U.S. Army

Hometown

Chicago, Illinois

Honored By

Gail A. Rakauskas

Relationship

Daughter

808th Field Artillery Battalion, Anti-Aircraft Artillery. Enlisted 7/27/1943 and served to 2/1/1946. 1943: Camp Edwards, Massachusetts, Battery B, 511th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Battalion. 1944: Camp Pickett, Virginia; Camp Butner, North Carolina; and last stop before overseas, Camp Shanks, New York. Took RMS Queen Elizabeth to Gourock, Scotland. SERVED IN Southampton, England; Omaha Beach AND Grand Camp, France; Belgium, Germany, BACK to France AND England AND THEN headed home to New York. SERVED 3 years.