KIA WWII
133rd Infantry Regiment
34th Division
The unit moved from Rome into the mountains north of the city. It was there where [Millard] Kelley lost his best friend, James Cicchillo when the Germans dropped bombs on a mountainside and part of it caved in on Cicchillo’s platoon. Kelley and others dug the men out of the rubble with their hands. “They brought in some mules to take them out. We laid them across the mules and even they must have felt our grief…they stood real still and moved real slow,” he said. “It was about too hard for me to take. It seemed like God died that night. Cicchillo was from Youngstown, Ohio. I wondered if anyone in that town even knew what a wonderful boy they lost.”- Cherokee Phoenix
Contributor: Hudson Louie (49842853) • [email protected]
133rd Infantry Regiment
34th Division
The unit moved from Rome into the mountains north of the city. It was there where [Millard] Kelley lost his best friend, James Cicchillo when the Germans dropped bombs on a mountainside and part of it caved in on Cicchillo’s platoon. Kelley and others dug the men out of the rubble with their hands. “They brought in some mules to take them out. We laid them across the mules and even they must have felt our grief…they stood real still and moved real slow,” he said. “It was about too hard for me to take. It seemed like God died that night. Cicchillo was from Youngstown, Ohio. I wondered if anyone in that town even knew what a wonderful boy they lost.”- Cherokee Phoenix
Contributor: Hudson Louie (49842853) • [email protected]
KIA WWII
133rd Infantry Regiment
34th Division
The unit moved from Rome into the mountains north of the city. It was there where [Millard] Kelley lost his best friend, James Cicchillo when the Germans dropped bombs on a mountainside and part of it caved in on Cicchillo’s platoon. Kelley and others dug the men out of the rubble with their hands. “They brought in some mules to take them out. We laid them across the mules and even they must have felt our grief…they stood real still and moved real slow,” he said. “It was about too hard for me to take. It seemed like God died that night. Cicchillo was from Youngstown, Ohio. I wondered if anyone in that town even knew what a wonderful boy they lost.”- Cherokee Phoenix
Contributor: Hudson Louie (49842853) • [email protected]
133rd Infantry Regiment
34th Division
The unit moved from Rome into the mountains north of the city. It was there where [Millard] Kelley lost his best friend, James Cicchillo when the Germans dropped bombs on a mountainside and part of it caved in on Cicchillo’s platoon. Kelley and others dug the men out of the rubble with their hands. “They brought in some mules to take them out. We laid them across the mules and even they must have felt our grief…they stood real still and moved real slow,” he said. “It was about too hard for me to take. It seemed like God died that night. Cicchillo was from Youngstown, Ohio. I wondered if anyone in that town even knew what a wonderful boy they lost.”- Cherokee Phoenix
Contributor: Hudson Louie (49842853) • [email protected]
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