103rd Cactus Division

Allan S Kraft 

HOMETOWN OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY. 
JOINED SERVICE FROM ASTP. 
INITIALLY TRAINED IN ANTI-AIRCRAFT AT FT. EUSTIS, VA.  HAD SOME INFANTRY TRAINING IN NORTH CAROLINA.  APPLIED AND ACCEPTED INTO THE AIR FORCE.  WAS STATIONED IN MIAMI, FLORIDA FOR SEVERAL MONTHS.  WHEN THE ARMY DECIDED THEY NEEDED MORE INFANTRY, HE WAS SENT TO CAMP HOWZE AND JOINED D-COMPANY MACHINE GUNNERS.  WAS ASSIGNED TO MOTOR POOL BEFORE DEPLOYMENT.  CARRIED AMMO FOR 2ND PLATOON THROUGHOUT ETO. 

GOOD CONDUCT

BRONZE STAR

AMERICAN THEATRE

ETO VICTORY
Kraft at Camp Davis
Chow Line in Austria
George Hart sitting
Feb. 1945
Kraft at Fritzen, Austria