World War II Honoree

Seymour Benjamin Cole

Branch of Service

U.S. Army

Hometown

Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania

Honored By

Pearl Thomas

He enlisted in the U.S. Army Signal Corps. He attended Signal Corps School in New York to be trained as an Instrument Technician and Signal Corps Operator, learning to repair all of the damaged parts of army tanks, planes, radios and other necessary instruments of war. He was with the European Theater of Operations in London. He then went on to be stationed in France and Belgium, where he learned to speak fluent French. After three years of serving in the war, he entered Delehanty Institute to continue his training in electronics.