#worldwariiveteran

[alfredsonger]

Part 3 - Albert Anastasia Escaped the Electric Chair to Die in a Barber Chair - Part 3

Albert Anastasia (born “Anastasio,” the masculine form of the Italian name) was a mobster who came out of the tough streets of Lower Manhattan to run one of the Five Families of La Cosa Nostra through the first half of the 20th century. Along the way, he built a reputation as one of the Mob’s most feared killers. Anastasia was reportedly a member of Murder Incorporated, the kill-for-hire crew that worked for Charlie “Lucky” Luciano and others in the years of Prohibition. Anastasia was, according to reports, one of the four men in 1931 who assassinated Giuseppe “Joe the Boss” Masseria, a powerful Mob boss, in the bloody gang rivalry known as the Castellammarese War. Anastasia was charged in three murders – in 1928, 1932 and 1933 – but in each case, witnesses either disappeared or refused to testify. Two other high-level Mob informants, both under police custody, died before their testimony helped bring Anastasia to trial, in 1941 and 1942. During World War II, Anastasia joined the U.S. Army. He also reportedly helped engineer the deal that eventually allowed Luciano, then ostensibly serving a life sentence for multiple prostitution-related convictions, to get out of prison (and go into exile in Italy) in exchange for keeping the New York City docks free of wartime Nazi infiltration. Anastasia worked for the Army training longshoremen on the East Coast. In 1943, he received U.S. citizenship for his military service, and he was honorably discharged from the Army in 1944. Eventually, Gambino moved against his sometime family boss. Anastasia was gunned down while he was sitting in a barber chair in Manhattan. Gambino assumed the family leadership, which would eventually become known as the Gambino crime family.

[baseballsisco]

Happy 100th Birthday to Hall of Famer Jack Roosevelt Robinson (January 31, 1919 - October 24, 1972) aka Jackie Robinson!!!! #BaseballHistory #HistoriaDelBeisbol #Baseball #Beisbol #BaseballSisco #Repost @historysisco (@get_repost) ・・・ On This Day in History January 31, 1919: World War II veteran, Civil Rights activist and Baseball Hall of Famer Jack Roosevelt “Jackie” Robinson (January 31, 1919 - October 24, 1972), who broke Baseball’s color barrier in 1947, was born in Cairo, Georgia. #JackRooseveltRobinson #JackieRobinson #NationalBaseballHallofFame #HallofFamer #CivilRights #CivilRightsHistory #WorldWarIIVeteran #WorldWarIIVet #BrooklynDodgers #OnThisDayinHistory #ThisDayinHistory #HistoryToday #TodayinHistory #History #Historia #Histoire #HistorySisco https://www.instagram.com/p/BtTv3Zvgc0v/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=884i21o7irqx

[gloriamoncada]

Twas great to see paw paw yesterday #worldwariiveteran He’s 95! https://www.instagram.com/p/CLlDFtDFlbTbxzVCoLmC1V5RQNOYMAJizifqu00/?igshid=3227tt7y867o

[historysisco]

On This Day in History January 31, 1919: World War II veteran, Civil Rights activist and Baseball Hall of Famer Jack Roosevelt “Jackie” Robinson (January 31, 1919 - October 24, 1972), who broke Baseball’s color barrier in 1947, was born in Cairo, Georgia. #JackRooseveltRobinson #JackieRobinson #NationalBaseballHallofFame #HallofFamer #CivilRights #CivilRightsHistory #WorldWarIIVeteran #WorldWarIIVet #BrooklynDodgers #BaseballHistory #HistoriaDelBeisbol #OnThisDayinHistory #ThisDayinHistory #HistoryToday #TodayinHistory #History #Historia #Histoire #HistorySisco #Repost @baseballhall (@get_repost) ・・・ Today marks what would have been Jackie Robinson’s 100th birthday. From rural Georgia, to the Pasadena gridiron, to Ebbets Field and beyond, Jackie left an indelible mark on the world. We remember him today and always. #JackieRobinson #JR100 https://www.instagram.com/p/BtTxJPPHuDN/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1k5yrvu8a4atl

[vethelp]

Tomorrow is the day! #VetBall2021 🕺🏼💃🏼🕺🏼💃🏼🕺🏼🎵🎼🎶🎺🎻 The day will go down in history 🌟#WorldWarIIVeterans #VeteranOwedBusinesses #VeteranHonorees Big shout out to our #sponsors For giving us the opportunity to make this happen. remember to go online vchcny.org and click on the auction 👈🏼 link. #JayDog #stewartshopsicecream #SaratogaNational #BSNBC #1NationalBankOfScotia #Bsnb #Trustco #sunmarkfcu #OnlineAuction #mixedbreedbrewing https://www.instagram.com/p/CV9RYhEAOmL/?utm_medium=tumblr

[orbemnews]

WWII veteran who raised money for pandemic relief gets second COVID-19 vaccine shot BRIAN: IT IS TIME NOW FOR TONIGHT’S A OR STORY OR VIDEO FROM THE DAY THAT STANDS OUT. DANIELLE: A WORLD WAR TWO VETERAN WE PROFILED LAST YEAR IS NOW FULLY VACCINATED AGAINST THE CORONAVIRUS. 99-YEAR-OLD BOB KELSALL WAS ABLE TO GET VACCINATED AT THE LEBANON V.A. BRIAN: WE PROFILED BOB LAST YEAR AS HE WALKED LAPS AROUND HIS DRIVEWAY TO RAISE MONEY FOR THOSE IMPACTED BY THE PANDEMIC. BOB SAYS HE NEEDED TO GET VACCINATED SO HE COULD World War II veteran who raised money for pandemic relief gets second COVID-19 vaccine shot WGAL News 8 coronavirus coverage Updated: 6:32 PM EST Feb 25, 2021 A Susquehanna Valley World War II veteran who raised money for pandemic relief is now fully vaccinated against the coronavirus.Bob Kelsall, 99, was able to get the shots at the Lebanon VA Medical Center.WGAL profiled Kelsall last year as he walked laps around his driveway to raise money for people affected by the pandemic.Kelsall said he needed to get the COVID-19 vaccine so he could stay healthy and walk more laps this spring. A Susquehanna Valley World War II veteran who raised money for pandemic relief is now fully vaccinated against the coronavirus. Bob Kelsall, 99, was able to get the shots at the Lebanon VA Medical Center. WGAL profiled Kelsall last year as he walked laps around his driveway to raise money for people affected by the pandemic. Kelsall said he needed to get the COVID-19 vaccine so he could stay healthy and walk more laps this spring. Source link Orbem News #bobkelsall #Coronavirusvaccine #COVID-19vaccine #Covid19 #fundraiser #LebanonVAMedicalCenter #manwalkslapsindriveway #Money #Pandemic #raised #relief #shot #Vaccine #veteran #WorldWarIIveteran #WWII

[instapicsil1]

Governor Charlie Baker laughs with World War II veteran Sidney Walton, 99, and his son Paul at the State House. Massachusetts was the Sidney Walton's second stop on a nationwide “No Regrets” tour to visit every governor in the country before making his last stop at the White House on Feb. 11, 2019, his 100th birthday. (Keith Bedford/Globe Staff) #veteran #WorldWarIIVeteran https://ift.tt/2jhZEow

[alfredsonger]

Part 2 - Albert Anastasia Escaped the Electric Chair to Die in a Barber Chair - Part 2

Albert Anastasia (born “Anastasio,” the masculine form of the Italian name) was a mobster who came out of the tough streets of Lower Manhattan to run one of the Five Families of La Cosa Nostra through the first half of the 20th century. Along the way, he built a reputation as one of the Mob’s most feared killers. Anastasia was reportedly a member of Murder Incorporated, the kill-for-hire crew that worked for Charlie “Lucky” Luciano and others in the years of Prohibition. Anastasia was, according to reports, one of the four men in 1931 who assassinated Giuseppe “Joe the Boss” Masseria, a powerful Mob boss, in the bloody gang rivalry known as the Castellammarese War. Anastasia was charged in three murders – in 1928, 1932 and 1933 – but in each case, witnesses either disappeared or refused to testify. Two other high-level Mob informants, both under police custody, died before their testimony helped bring Anastasia to trial, in 1941 and 1942. During World War II, Anastasia joined the U.S. Army. He also reportedly helped engineer the deal that eventually allowed Luciano, then ostensibly serving a life sentence for multiple prostitution-related convictions, to get out of prison (and go into exile in Italy) in exchange for keeping the New York City docks free of wartime Nazi infiltration. Anastasia worked for the Army training longshoremen on the East Coast. In 1943, he received U.S. citizenship for his military service, and he was honorably discharged from the Army in 1944. Eventually, Gambino moved against his sometime family boss. Anastasia was gunned down while he was sitting in a barber chair in Manhattan. Gambino assumed the family leadership, which would eventually become known as the Gambino crime family.

[alfredsonger]

Part 1 - Albert Anastasia Escaped the Electric Chair to Die in a Barber Chair

Albert Anastasia (born “Anastasio,” the masculine form of the Italian name) was a mobster who came out of the tough streets of Lower Manhattan to run one of the Five Families of La Cosa Nostra through the first half of the 20th century. Along the way, he built a reputation as one of the Mob’s most feared killers. Anastasia was reportedly a member of Murder Incorporated, the kill-for-hire crew that worked for Charlie “Lucky” Luciano and others in the years of Prohibition. Anastasia was, according to reports, one of the four men in 1931 who assassinated Giuseppe “Joe the Boss” Masseria, a powerful Mob boss, in the bloody gang rivalry known as the Castellammarese War. Anastasia was charged in three murders – in 1928, 1932 and 1933 – but in each case, witnesses either disappeared or refused to testify. Two other high-level Mob informants, both under police custody, died before their testimony helped bring Anastasia to trial, in 1941 and 1942. During World War II, Anastasia joined the U.S. Army. He also reportedly helped engineer the deal that eventually allowed Luciano, then ostensibly serving a life sentence for multiple prostitution-related convictions, to get out of prison (and go into exile in Italy) in exchange for keeping the New York City docks free of wartime Nazi infiltration. Anastasia worked for the Army training longshoremen on the East Coast. In 1943, he received U.S. citizenship for his military service, and he was honorably discharged from the Army in 1944. Eventually, Gambino moved against his sometime family boss. Anastasia was gunned down while he was sitting in a barber chair in Manhattan. Gambino assumed the family leadership, which would eventually become known as the Gambino crime family.

[vethelp]

Make your #calendars #MilitaryBall #WorldWarIIVeterans #ourheroes https://www.instagram.com/p/CUX2vv7A1lp/?utm_medium=tumblr

[orbemnews]

Mass. community celebrates WWII veteran's 100th birthday with car parade SHAUN: CELEBRATING A MAN’S 100TH BIRTHDAY IN BILLERICA. A PARADE WAS HELD FOR ALBERT ST. GEORGE TODAY. HE IS A WWII ARMY VETERAN AND FOUGHT IN SEVERAL MAJOR BATTLES IN EUROP Massachusetts community celebrates WWII veteran’s 100th birthday with car parade Updated: 10:39 AM EST Feb 21, 2021 A Massachusetts community came together to celebrate a World War II veteran’s 100th birthday.A car parade was held for Albert St. George in Billerica on Saturday.St. George fought in several major European battles while serving in the U.S. Army during World War II.He sat under a tent as people drove by in their cars, which were decorated with balloons and handmade signs, and honked their horns. BILLERICA, Mass. — A Massachusetts community came together to celebrate a World War II veteran’s 100th birthday. A car parade was held for Albert St. George in Billerica on Saturday. St. George fought in several major European battles while serving in the U.S. Army during World War II. He sat under a tent as people drove by in their cars, which were decorated with balloons and handmade signs, and honked their horns. Source link Orbem News #100th #100thbirthday #AlbertSt.George #Billerica #birthday #Boston #car #Celebrates #community #mass #Massachusetts #parade #veterans #WCVB #WorldWarIIveteran #WWII

[orbemnews]

Mass. community celebrates WWII veteran's 100th birthday with car parade SHAUN: CELEBRATING A MAN’S 100TH BIRTHDAY IN BILLERICA. A PARADE WAS HELD FOR ALBERT ST. GEORGE TODAY. HE IS A WWII ARMY VETERAN AND FOUGHT IN SEVERAL MAJOR BATTLES IN EUROP Massachusetts community celebrates WWII veteran’s 100th birthday with car parade Updated: 10:39 AM EST Feb 21, 2021 A Massachusetts community came together to celebrate a World War II veteran’s 100th birthday.A car parade was held for Albert St. George in Billerica on Saturday.St. George fought in several major European battles while serving in the U.S. Army during World War II.He sat under a tent as people drove by in their cars, which were decorated with balloons and handmade signs, and honked their horns. BILLERICA, Mass. — A Massachusetts community came together to celebrate a World War II veteran’s 100th birthday. A car parade was held for Albert St. George in Billerica on Saturday. St. George fought in several major European battles while serving in the U.S. Army during World War II. He sat under a tent as people drove by in their cars, which were decorated with balloons and handmade signs, and honked their horns. Source link Orbem News #100th #100thbirthday #AlbertSt.George #Billerica #birthday #Boston #car #Celebrates #community #mass #Massachusetts #parade #veterans #WCVB #WorldWarIIveteran #WWII