Hayden's WW II eterans

Rehoboth Sons in the Thick of Fight on Two Hemispheres

World War II 1944

A Rehoboth mother, Mrs Eugene Hayden keeps a close eye on the war's progress

as two of her sons are there in the fighting.

Private James Hayden,, 23 year old son, is a member of the 5^th Army's 339^th

Regiment, kown as the Polar Bear Regiment from WW I action, fghting in waist deep snow

on the 400 mle Leningrad front in Russia. They now are on the Gothic Line in the

Itialian peaks as high as 3400 feet, near Futa Pass. The 339^th regiment landed in Italy last

March with the 85^th division.

Sergeant Robert Hayden, age 22, is a member of the U. S, Army Engineers,

Airbourn Troops, in the Pacific with General MacArthur's landing on the Island Leyte.

Abstract Wilmington Morning News, Tuesday, January 16, 1945.

By Harrison H 08/13/18 for Facebook page Growing Up in Rehoboth

and www.delmarhistory.blogspot.com