Note: April 23, 1944 to May 14, 1944.

April 23
Had a raid around 4:15 A.M. fired 37 rds. Jerry done no damage.
Kay & Slug got married today.
(This is a reference to Kay Sellarole, who is George Sellarole Jr.’s sister, and Carl Padovano, whose nickname was Slugger.  Carl Padovano got the nick name when Kay asked her father, George Sellarole Sr., to come see Carl play in a baseball game when they were in Hackensack High School together. Carl did not have a good day hitting that game, but Kay kept saying how wonderful he had done. In response, her father,
George Sellarole Sr., finally said, “Yes, honey, he is a real slugger," and from that point till the day he past away, the immediate family and close friends would often refer to
Carl Padovano as ‘Slugger’.)

April 28
Had a raid starting at 10:30 P.M. ending at 11:45.  30+ planes came over, fired 158 rds.  We got credit for 2 planes and 1 probable.  8 planes K.O’ed.

April 30
Had raid starting at 10:45 P.M. ending at 11:30 P.M., 10+ planes came over. 6 knocked down.  We got credit for 2 planes fired 56 rds.
 
May 2
Had raid around 10:30 to 11:15 P.M.

May 3
Had raid around at 3:30 A.M. ended at 4:15, fired 3 rds.  bombs dropping all around the area.

May 7
Fired field artillery at 10:00 A.M. fired 35 rds. at an observation
  
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post.  Said place was hit & started 2 fires.

May 9
Had a raid around 11 P.M. Jerry was out of range most
of the time, we fired 6 rds.

May 13
Fired field artillery at 5 A. M. 25 rounds per gun rapid fire.  It looks as thow the push is on. I hope & pray to god it’s a success.
Over 300 of our bombers went over today.
At 5 A.M. every gun on the beachhead opened up & threw a barrage at Jerrys front & rear lines, ended at 5:15 A.M.  Flashes all over the sky from the fireing and a hell of a racket.

May 14
Had a raid at 4:30 A.M. 20 Jerry planes were coming back from a raid over Naples, they were out to sea but a few came in close to Anzio & we got one plane.

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