Name spelling errors can be found in any type of record research.

In this case, the 2 O s -- MOORTEL is probly the Dutch spelling of the name. It`s possible early family, Marriage, Birth, Death, & Census records could be found with the 2 O spelling.

His name on the Veterans Memorial, Geneva, NY is also spelled Van De Moortel

http://ontario.nygenweb.net/veteransmemorialgeneva.htm

Name spelling errors can be found in any type of record research.

In this case, the 2 O s -- MOORTEL is probly the Dutch spelling of the name. It`s possible early family, Marriage, Birth, Death, & Census records could be found with the 2 O spelling.

 

His name on the Veterans Memorial, Geneva, NY is also spelled Van De Moortel

 

http://ontario.nygenweb.net/veteransmemorialgeneva.htm

Thanks Larry,

I will ask my Uncle this question about the spelling, this is very interesting I had not thought of that possibility. You have me in awwww again, I haved learned so much in just a few days I dont know how to thank you!

Your incredible and with people like you on this site it makes me feel nothing is impossible.

Did you see my picture Larry? Do you know what and where this is? Alright I'll tell you Koln and its the Dome I was there last November and it was awesome

Thanks

Gregory

Gregory:

I can tell you it's our absolute pleasure to assist you. It's just what we do, and we do it with a smile.

I have a lot of great people under my wing, and I'm proud to call this home. As Mary Ann puts it, these are my "peeps". Larry's one of the special peeps, for he does a lot of research for us. I really appreciate that too since there are many times when I am up to my eyebrows in research and work on the web, etc., and Larry comes through for me.

Thank you Marion for the kind words. I just try do to whatever i can to assist YOU in making YOUR forum the BEST WWII forum on the web.

More onfo for Greg: the August 15, 1944 entry from:

The Official Chronology of the U.S. Navy in World War II - Chapter VI: 1944

15 August, Tue. --

Pacific

"USAAF B-24s (5th Air Force) attack Japanese convoy and sink army cargo ship Tosho Maru in Banda Sea, southwest of Soena Islands, 04°30'S, 125°26'E; auxiliary submarine chaser No.18 Nitto Maru rescues survivors.

RAAF Mitchells sink Japanese cargo vessel No.14 Sakura Maru off north coast of central Timor.

Other aircraft sink vessel Kono Maru off Halmahera Island.

Mediterranean

Allied troops (Major General Alexander M. Patch, USA) land on coast of Southern France between Toulon and Cannes in Operation DRAGOON, preceded by heavy naval gunfire and aircraft attack. The operation is under the command of Vice Admiral H. Kent Hewitt, Naval Commander Western Task Force and Commander Eighth Fleet. After the landings, naval gunfire engages German coast defense batteries and continues to support the troops ashore. Infantry landing craft LCI-592 is damaged by mortar fire off southern France; LCI-588 and LCI-590 are damaged by mines off RED Beach ALPHA; tank landing ship LST-282, damaged by glider bomb while approaching GREEN beach, is beached and abandoned, 43°25'N, 06°50'E; submarine chaser SC-1029 is damaged when landing craft ahead of ship explodes, 43°12'N, 06°41'E. U.S. freighter Tarleton Brown is damaged by bomb and near-miss during German air raid on Allied shipping off St. Raphael; there are no fatalities among the merchant crew, the passengers, or the 44-man Armed Guard.

Destroyer Somers (DD-381) sinks German ship Esebart and damages corvette Uj.6083 (ex-Italian corvette Capriolo). The latter is captured and then scuttled southwest of Isle Port Cros. "

The above list may be incomplete as it only lists only the larger landing craft & Liberty ships with major damage. There were many small landing craft damaged or destroyed by mines or enemy shells.

the website: Casualties: U.S. Navy and Coast Guard Vessels, Sunk or Damaged Beyond Repair during World War II, 7 December 1941-1 October 1945 has another vessel sunk 15 Aug:

Motor Mine sweepers (YMS)

USS YMS-24 sunk by a mine off St. Tropez, France, 15 August 1944.

yes, its been awhile but we never give up!

WWII Navy Muster Roll records just became available on Ancestry.com.

New information found on Gordon C. Van De Moortel

Gordon Charles Van De Moortel

Service Number 6092682

Enlisted 12 November 1943, at Rochester, NY.

Assigned to LST 141, 5 Feb 1944 from ATB Camp Bradford, NOB Norfolk, VA.

Date first recieved aboard LST 141, 16 Feb 1944.

19 July 1944, transfered to LST 4

15 August 1944, reported missing in action from LST 4, During Invasion of Southern France.

a google search for LST 4 shows the ship carrying parts of the 3rd Inf Division and was at Yellow Beach on 16 August.

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Yup, never say NEVER! Good stuff Lar!