45th
            Infantry Division Shoulder PatchJohn A. PenichCrossed Flags

December 20, 1920 to April 11, 1988

John A. Penich

Company K, 3rd Battalion, 157th Infantry Regiment, 45th Infantry Division

1940

December 27: Enlists.

1941

Probably Spring: Deployed to the British West Indies,possibly to Bermuda, for 10 months to serve on guard duty.

3rd Battalion, 89th Infantry Regiment was deployed after June 1941. That unit is most consistent with John Penich's history.

Unknown
:

Transferred to the 45th Infantry Division.

A
ssigned as a combat infantryman to Company K, 3rd Battalion, 157h Infantry Regiment

1943

June: Tunisia to stage for the landings in Sicily.

July 9 to August 17: Sicily Campaign with Assault Landing (Scoglitti).

1944:

January 1 to 21: Naples-Foggia Campaign with Assault Landing (Salerno)

January 22 to May 24: Anzio Campaign

May 25 until about August 5: Rome-Arno Campaign:

August 15 until as late as September 14: Southern France Campaign with Assault Landing/

Sometime after August 5 and before September 14: John may may have been assessed to be no longer able to continue as a front line combat rifleman because of emotional health issues.

He may have been hospitalized then reassigned to the
984th Signal Service Company in Italy.

1945:

March 17: Leaves from probably Naples aboard the U.S.S. General Brooke with a diagnosis of "psychoneurosis, anxiety state".

He is listed as a corporal and a member of the Signal Corps. That was probably the 984th Signal Service Company. (Source: Passenger list on ancestry.com)

April 2: Arrives in the U.S.

He was at Camp Upton, New York, a convalescent and rehabilitation hospital.

June 7: Discharged from the 986th Signal Service Company at Camp Upton, New York.

Receives a lifetime pension, probably for an emotional health disability.

Rest of his life

John returned to his home in Pennsylvania.

John married Delores Farrier.

They had three children.

He worked as a coal miner.

He died in 1988.
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