Owen M. "Tony" Manville

PFC Owen "Tony" Manville


Pfc. Tony Manville from LaValle, was killed in action on March 22, 1944. Pfc. Manville was a member of the First Calvary Division,  one of the most famous and most decorated combat divisions of the United States Army.


He entered active duty in May, 1942 and trained stateside in Southern California until deployment to the South Pacific in June of 1943. The division arrived in Queensland, Austrailia for further training before shipping off to New Guinea where they staged for the Admiralty Islands Campaign which was scheduled to commence in February, 1944. 

Cpl Edmund J. Greenwood

Cpl. Edmund J. Greenwood from LaValle was killed in action on June 16, 1944 while taking part in the invasion of German occupied territory in France, 10 days following D-Day. Cpl. Greenwood was a member of the 82nd Airborne Division and entered service on March 24, 1942. He left his job at Kingery and Doering garage in LaValle and ended up in Camp Clairbourne, Louisina were the 82nd Infanrty Division was redesignated the 82nd Airborne Division, the Army's first airborne division. The Division was under the command of Major General Omar Bradley. In April 1943, the paratroopers to North Africa to participate in the invasion of Italy. The Division's first two combat operations were parachute assaults into Sicily on July 9 and Salerno on September 13. The 82nd then moved to the United Kingdom in November 1943 to prepare for