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Note: Burial site: Grave 372, Section X
He died on the el station at 74th Street and Broadway on the 7 line of the IRT at 7:25 am.
according to honorable discharge papers was a coach cleaner in civilian life at time of induction. His permanent mailing address was 21-11 23rd Road, Astoria, Queens. Inducted on April 21, 1942 at Fort Jay, N.Y. At time of induction his home was 20-48 31 Street, LIC, NY. (I assume this is where he lived with my mom after they were married and that permanent mailing address was where she lived with her mother during the war.)
He served in Algeria, French Morocco, Central Europe, Naples, Foggia, Normandy, Northern France, Rhineland and Sicily. He received the European African Middle Eastern Service Medal with Arrowhead, a good conduct medal, a Croix de Guerre with Palm (decision number 758 Prov. Government Republic of France, May 25, 1945).
According to military records he completed three years of high school.
His military specialty was Machine Gun NCO.
He departed for overseas on August 6, 1942 and returned to USofA on August 25, 1945.
He became a naturalized citizen at age 28, on June 3, 1943 in Canastel, Algeria, certificate no. OM-1740.
As part of naturalization his name was changed from Tsalapatanis to Tanis.
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