Kenneth T. Delaney
Delaney
Kenneth T.
NY
World War, 1939-1945
Army
Company C, 1st Battalion, 18th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division
Sergeant
England; Normandy, France; Belgium; Germany; Czechoslovakia
Unknown
Veteran
"I traded in my walking cane for an M-1 rifle and some hand grenades." (Interview)
"I wasn't really nervous," Kenneth Delaney writes of landing on Omaha Beach, "I was just seasick." As he got off his landing craft, loaded with grenades, maps, a rifle and Bangalore torpedoes (explosive devices for removing barbed wire and other obstacles), Delaney was shot in the foot. As he watched many of the medics being killed, he managed to drag himself to safety and eventually got help. Wounded again that winter, Delaney was released from the hospital just in time to fight in the Battle of the Bulge.
PFC Delaney, after discharge
January 1946
D-Day On the Beach
Kenneth Delaney, being awarded "Conspicuous Service" cross
1980
Three GIs, caption on front: "Kraut Ken Bob"
Two GIs, Delaney holding cigarette, caption on front: "Ken Batch"
PFC Delaney, after discharge
January 1946
Two GIs one with pipe, caption on front: "Bob Ken"
Seven GIs, caption on front: "Ken Bud Shirey Ken Syd Bob Kraut"
Seven GIs four standing, three kneeling, no caption
V-mail from Kenneth Delaney to Irene C. Delaney, 28 December. 1943.
V-mail to Irene C. Delaney, 28 December. 1943.
V-mail from Kenneth Delaney to Mr. and Mrs. Delaney, 31 January. 1944.
V-mail to Mr. and Mrs. Delaney, 31 January. 1944.
Letter dated "April 30" from Kenneth Delaney to "Mom and Dad"
To "Mom and Dad", dated "April 30"
Letter dated June 27, 1945, from Kenneth Delaney to "Mom and Dad"
To "Mom and Dad", June 27, 1945
Just a WAC, V-mail envelope and accompanying explanatory note by Kenneth Delaney.
Just a WAC, V-mail envelope and accompanying explanatory note by Kenneth Delaney.
'"D"-Day, memoir by Kenneth T. Delaney.
"D"-Day
Battle of the Bulge, memoir by Kenneth T. Delaney.
Battle of the Bulge
Photocopy of company "C" roster, March 31, 1945, from the collection Kenneth Delaney.
Company "C" roster, March 31, 1945
Photocopy of award for Conspicuous Service and letter from Owen Johnson accompanying award, September 19th, 1979.
Award for Conspicuous Service and letter from Owen Johnson accompanying award, September 19th, 1979.
Photocopy of enlistment records and certificate of Honorable Discharge, December 4, 1945.
Enlistment records and certificate of Honorable Discharge, December 4, 1945.
Leaving a hospital to fight in the Battle of the Bulge.
Last combat, in Czechoslovakia after the German surrender.
Veterans History Project, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
https://memory.loc.gov/diglib/vhp/story/loc.natlib.afc2001001.01930/
DLC-AFC
2023-06-02
loc.natlib.afc2001001.01930