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Don Pelletier


Rockford, Illinois, USA
About

Frank Pelletier, the principal in this cultural American history presentation was my uncle. I am a retired logistics executive trained to research and write history in college. I have taught U.S. Railroad History at the college level and have written and presented U.S. railroad and Chicago area railroad history at various forums including library programs and historical societies. My father was a Chicago & Northwestern railroad engineer so I have been around the railroad milieu all my life. Whats' more, I like railroads and railroading! My family left me their saved World War II collections of letters, photos, maps, newspaper articles, poems and drawings from which this book was constructed. These original source assets would be lost and forgotten if I did not make the effort to write this book. There is also the potential that other families whose forebears served in the 713th and 770th Railway Operating Battalions may find their ancestors on these pages in lists or photos.

Books by Don Pelletier