David entered the army in May 1942. He said goodbye to the folks at home and Aldea and I saw him off at the Town Hall. We all expected that he would return for a visit upon completion of his basic training. However , that was not to be. We never saw him again. He was given intense training in jungle fighting in Texas, the swamps of Louisiana and then California. He was attached to the 172nd Infantry Division and shipped overseas in October of 1942.
During his nearly three years of active service David did all he could to stop the folks from worrying. He made it a point to write once each week if it was at all possible. Sometimes this must have been extremely difficult. Never in any of his letters did he ever write one word of complaint. His letters were always cheerful, and he tried to make them as reassuring as he could.
David was in the Pacific theater of the war for twenty-eight months. The 172nd Division was a veteran outfit and was assigned an important part in the invasion of the Philippines. It was there, in Luzon, that David was killed in action on January 19, 1945.
excerpt from page 83 of "Pepin Family History", Arthur Pepin, Sr., brother of David Albert Pepin.
During his nearly three years of active service David did all he could to stop the folks from worrying. He made it a point to write once each week if it was at all possible. Sometimes this must have been extremely difficult. Never in any of his letters did he ever write one word of complaint. His letters were always cheerful, and he tried to make them as reassuring as he could.
David was in the Pacific theater of the war for twenty-eight months. The 172nd Division was a veteran outfit and was assigned an important part in the invasion of the Philippines. It was there, in Luzon, that David was killed in action on January 19, 1945.
excerpt from page 83 of "Pepin Family History", Arthur Pepin, Sr., brother of David Albert Pepin.
David entered the army in May 1942. He said goodbye to the folks at home and Aldea and I saw him off at the Town Hall. We all expected that he would return for a visit upon completion of his basic training. However , that was not to be. We never saw him again. He was given intense training in jungle fighting in Texas, the swamps of Louisiana and then California. He was attached to the 172nd Infantry Division and shipped overseas in October of 1942.
During his nearly three years of active service David did all he could to stop the folks from worrying. He made it a point to write once each week if it was at all possible. Sometimes this must have been extremely difficult. Never in any of his letters did he ever write one word of complaint. His letters were always cheerful, and he tried to make them as reassuring as he could.
David was in the Pacific theater of the war for twenty-eight months. The 172nd Division was a veteran outfit and was assigned an important part in the invasion of the Philippines. It was there, in Luzon, that David was killed in action on January 19, 1945.
excerpt from page 83 of "Pepin Family History", Arthur Pepin, Sr., brother of David Albert Pepin.
During his nearly three years of active service David did all he could to stop the folks from worrying. He made it a point to write once each week if it was at all possible. Sometimes this must have been extremely difficult. Never in any of his letters did he ever write one word of complaint. His letters were always cheerful, and he tried to make them as reassuring as he could.
David was in the Pacific theater of the war for twenty-eight months. The 172nd Division was a veteran outfit and was assigned an important part in the invasion of the Philippines. It was there, in Luzon, that David was killed in action on January 19, 1945.
excerpt from page 83 of "Pepin Family History", Arthur Pepin, Sr., brother of David Albert Pepin.
