A TRIBUTE TO PRIVATE VINCENT CAVALLO

by V. G. Gallagher

Overview

The story of an American Soldier killed at 19 in Burma in WW II. After years of research the author, who was also Private Cavallo's first cousin, wrote a gripping narrative. Nothing was known by the Cavallo family at the time. But, the author immersed himself in history to tell his cousin's true story for him. The story does not glorify war but reports war's reality for those who faced the enemy and dangers of the Burmese jungle at close quarters.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940161405406
Publisher:	Vincent Gallagher
Publication date:	08/16/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

The author is an 85-year-old New Yorker endowed with a marvelous memory inherited from his father John Aloysius Gallagher, fortified with a lifetime of records and pictures to keep his memory refreshed. Although lacking a formal college degree, he graduated from William Cullen Bryant High School in Astoria, New York City, in 1950 and went on to one semester of college before entering active army service as a National Guard soldier during the Korean War. His formal education was sporadic and as a veteran he took advantage of the G. I. Bill and went on to attend, but never completed, college. As his career advanced, requiring him to relocate as he grew, the Gallagher’s lived in New York, Chicago, Cincinnati and Pennsylvania. Since his childhood the author has been an avid reader of fact over fiction, which he always found to be much more interesting. He and his wife are library advocates and are familiar faces in libraries in both Pennsylvania and Florida.