Old Soldiers Never Die (Grandad’s WWII Awards)
Today is my Grandfathers birthday and I would like to share with you who he was:
Carmine Magnolia was a Corpral in the US Army Air Corps. stationed at headquarters (an all girls school) in High Wycombe, England, he was assigned to the motor pool. His job was to drive from air drome to airdrome selling war bonds. By wars end he had served for 2 years and 6 months. Carmine after the war, returned to his home in Brooklyn, NY and raised my mom, her two sisters and brother. In 1990 when i was born he and his wife Angelina helped my mom raise me. Carmine lived a long prosperous life, He died in January of 2011.
