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Stanley Maxwell Casson

603rd Engineer Camouflage Bn : HQ & Service Co

Military occupational specialty: 154

ASN#32876323

Born 1923 in MA, Died 1994

Artist

County of residence at enlistment: Bronx County, NY
Other residence(s): Bluff City, TN (Bahnhof Flag)
United States Army, European Theatre of Operations
Occupation before the war: photographers
Source: Photo of Headquarters Company at Montcuit, in Nussenbaum scrapbook;  Bahnhof Flag signature; Unit Shipment 10143-B, 23d HQ, from le Havre 23 June 1945; photo from Nussenbaum Collection, GALP Archive

Stanley was born August 24, 1923 in Boston, Massachusetts.

By the time of the 1930 census, the family was living in New York City. When he filled out his draft card in June, 1942, he was working for a company called Lazarnick, Inc., which was a photography-related business of some sort.

When he enlisted, in March 1943, he stated that he had four years of high school and was a photographer.

On October 11, 1954 he married Gale Lane in Alexandria, Virginia. At the time his profession was advertising and hers was public relations.  

He died on April 30, 1994.

Sources:

1942 draft card

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1943 enlistment record

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1954 marriage record

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Veterans Death Record

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