Photo of Fred Walter Vallis, U.S. Army. Hometown: Lincoln, Nebraska. Activity during WWII: Inducted on January 26, 1943. Served with Battery B, 546th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion. European Theatre Operation: Arrived Omaha Beachhead on July 14, 1944. Section Chief. Campaigns: Normandy, Northern France, Rhineland, Central Europe. Awarded the Bronze Star for meritorious service. Honorably discharged on December 5, 1945.
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*** 18th & 19th century Middlesex and Buckinghamshire England family roots. Surnames include, VALLIS, TAYLOR, PALMER, CUTLER, PICKERING, HEDGES and SCRIVEN. Known 1800's Middlesex roots are specific to Poplar/Millwall. Buckinghamshire connections include the areas of Winslow, Swanbourne, Stewkley, Wing and Leighton Buzzard.
*** U.S. family roots include ROSS and ROMAINE families from New York who went westward to settle in Kansas and Missouri.
***German Russian family roots include BOHL, KAHLER, HUCK, SPREIER, SCHULDEIS, SCHULTHEIS, FEUERSTEIN,GAS, JAEGER, EIKMEIER surnames. Our family immigrated from Russia; some family members came to the U.S., settling in the midwest. Other family members immigrated to Argentina.