Private First Class Joseph C Haney
Joseph C Haney was born September 2, 1912 in Dakota, Minnesota. He was raised in Madison, Wisconsin and Richard Center, Wisconsin by his maternal grand mother and his step-grand father, Ike and Lydia Sharp. Ike was a stone mason.
Joseph Haney was working and had a family when he was drafted. Joseph was in advertising and marketing for Twentieth Century Fox Studios in southeastern Wisconsin. Joseph married Vera Wolferman in early 1940. Vera was an accountant and concert violinist. The family was a boy, Richard.
Although he is already 31
years old and
is father,
Joseph was
hired in
February 1944. Before that, the
men, father before Pearl
Harbor was not drafted. Then, in
October 1943, this classification
was removed. He
was sent
to Fort Sheridan in Illinois near Chicago to be incorporated.
Then he
was sent to Camp Blanding in
Florida.
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He was incorporated in
an advanced Intelligence Reconnaissance unit. So
he followed 17
weeks of training harder, more rigorous than for
conventional infantry. After this training, Joseph was hoping to stay in the United States and serve as an instructor. Unfortunately, after a leave when hecould go home and see his wife and son, Joseph was sent to Europe.
Arriving in England, Joseph was volunteered for the airborne troops. He
joined the 17th Airborne Division, stationed at Camp Chiseldon, near
Swindon and Marlborough. He joined B Company, 193th GIR, he was Private
First Class.
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At the end of the campaigns of the Ardennes and Rhineland that followed, the
193rd GIR 194th GIR and had lost many men. The two regiments were merged to
form more than one, the 194th GIR. Pfc Joseph Haney joined Company K.
March 24, 1945, after intensive training, the 17th Airborne Division took
part in the assault on the Rhine near Wesel.
The 194th GIR is the last unit to land that day. It is 10:30, the gliders are beginning to descend to their LZ. Unfortunately, some find themselves directly in the path of a German Flak. This is the case that carrying Pfc Joseph Haney who ended up crashing in a field.
The Private First Class Joseph Haney rests today
American cemetery of Magraten, Holland,
Plot D, Row 15, Grave 9.
His son will always be questions: “When Daddy coming home?”