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Sunday in The Mohawk Valley
Historians Podcast today "39 Minutes"
...push the button, tape is running
From the Archives-Episode 305-Malta N.Y. town historian Paul Perreault has the story of a famous drawing of Andersonville Prison in Georgia done by a Union prisoner, Thomas O’Dea. Perreault also has an account of the Saratoga Battlefield and the story of a fighting chaplain in World War I, Reverend Francis Kelly.
Coming soon on Historians Podcast-January 28, 2022 Episode 407-New York State historian Devin Lander discusses plans for the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution
Amsterdam man survived bloody battles on Guadalcanal
By Bob Cudmore, Focus on History
Joseph A. Bucci was an Amsterdam man who fought heroically with the U.S. Marines in World War II.
Bucci was the son of Charles and Mary Bucci who lived at 12 Lark Street in the East End. Charles Bucci was a veteran of World War I. Joseph Bucci’s brother Anthony served in the Army Air Corps in World War II.
Born in 1913, Joseph Bucci graduated from St. Mary’s Institute and earned a degree in journalism at Notre Dame in 1933. He worked for John Hancock insurance and later was in sales for the Curtiss Candy Company.
Just over a month after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, Bucci enlisted as a private in the Marines.
By October 1942 he was fighting the Japanese on Guadalcanal Island in the Pacific and found himself and six others pinned down by Japanese artillery fire in the Battle of Matanikau River. The small band had missed orders to move from their foxholes to another position.
Through one long night and the next day the seven endured an artillery barrage and attack. The seven Marines were credited with killing 175 to 200 Japanese soldiers. Then Bucci and his comrades came under American artillery fire in a Marine counter attack. Ultimately the seven Marines were reunited with their unit.
Intense fighting on Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands lasted six months, from August 1942 to February 1943.
In November 1942 Bucci was wounded by three pieces of shrapnel. He contracted malaria and was shipped to a military hospital in San Diego, California.
Tomorrow, Monday, January 17, 2022- Story Behind the Story podcast is an audio version of Saturday’s column on World War II hero Joseph A. Bucci of Amsterdam. Monday Podcast "6 Minutes"
It was there that he learned he was to receive the Purple Heart and Silver Star for his actions on Guadalcanal. He was promoted to Sergeant.
Bucci was home on leave in July 1943 when the Recorder printed an account of his actions on Guadalcanal written by Marine private Eddie Lyon, who had interviewed Bucci at the San Diego hospital. Bucci and his parents went to the Recorder offices to get their first look at the news story and to have their picture taken.
In December 1943, Bucci was still at home, assigned to the Scotia Naval Depot on Route 5, today an industrial park. He had applied for Officer Candidate School.
That month Knights of Columbus Council 209 in Amsterdam honored Bucci at a dinner at the then Amsterdam Hotel on East Main Street and presented him with a special ring.
“When I was in the South Pacific, I dreamed of getting home,” Bucci told the Knights of Columbus. “Just at the present I wish I were down there again.”
He also said, “It is my fond wish and hope that this international mess will soon be over and that all of us can come back to the good old American way of life. However, I expect to be shoving off again soon and in whatever part of the world I am I will have this ring with me, a reminder of your thoughtfulness and I will be thoughtful for you.”
Bucci went to Officer Candidates School and became a second lieutenant. He was promoted to captain in the Marine Corps reserve.
He attended Albany Law School after the war and in 1948 became head of the new Montgomery County Probation Department. He and Louanne Wilkes of Albany married in 1953 and moved to California where Bucci worked in the Ventura County Probation Department.
In their later years Bucci and his wife moved to Virginia to be near one of their two sons. Bucci died in 2010 at age 96 at Lovingston Health Care Center in Arrington, Virginia. Inurnment was at Arlington National Cemetery.
Jerry Snyder HAL Interview
Mohawk Valley Weather, Sunday, January 16, 2022
...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 10 PM THIS
EVENING TO NOON EST MONDAY...
* WHAT...Mixed precipitation expected. Total snow accumulations of
2 to 6 inches and ice accumulations of up to a tenth of an inch.
Winds gusting as high as 50 mph in the Taconics.
* WHERE...Southern Litchfield County in northwestern Connecticut
and the Capital District, Mohawk Valley, Schoharie Valley,
Washington County, the Taconics, and Mid Hudson Valley in east
central New York.
* WHEN...From 10 PM this evening to noon EST Monday.
* IMPACTS...Plan on slippery road conditions. Gusty winds could
bring down tree branches resulting in power outages in the
Taconics.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...Snow will overspread the region from south
to north late this evening. The snow will turn to mixed
precipitation from south to north after midnight through early
Monday morning.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Slow down and use caution while traveling.
Mohawk Valley News, Sunday, January 16, 2022
Daily Gazette
PHOTOGRAPHER: ERICA MILLER
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Amsterdam Recorder
Focus on History: He did more than survive the night
By Bob Cudmore
By Bob Cudmore
https://www.recordernews.com/
Leader Herald
Johnstown Police find decomposing bodies, cremated remains at funeral home
by Jason Subik
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By Bob CudmoreSunday in The Mohawk Valley
Historians Podcast today "39 Minutes"
...push the button, tape is running
From the Archives-Episode 305-Malta N.Y. town historian Paul Perreault has the story of a famous drawing of Andersonville Prison in Georgia done by a Union prisoner, Thomas O’Dea. Perreault also has an account of the Saratoga Battlefield and the story of a fighting chaplain in World War I, Reverend Francis Kelly.
Coming soon on Historians Podcast-January 28, 2022 Episode 407-New York State historian Devin Lander discusses plans for the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution
Amsterdam man survived bloody battles on Guadalcanal
By Bob Cudmore, Focus on History
Joseph A. Bucci was an Amsterdam man who fought heroically with the U.S. Marines in World War II.
Bucci was the son of Charles and Mary Bucci who lived at 12 Lark Street in the East End. Charles Bucci was a veteran of World War I. Joseph Bucci’s brother Anthony served in the Army Air Corps in World War II.
Born in 1913, Joseph Bucci graduated from St. Mary’s Institute and earned a degree in journalism at Notre Dame in 1933. He worked for John Hancock insurance and later was in sales for the Curtiss Candy Company.
Just over a month after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, Bucci enlisted as a private in the Marines.
By October 1942 he was fighting the Japanese on Guadalcanal Island in the Pacific and found himself and six others pinned down by Japanese artillery fire in the Battle of Matanikau River. The small band had missed orders to move from their foxholes to another position.
Through one long night and the next day the seven endured an artillery barrage and attack. The seven Marines were credited with killing 175 to 200 Japanese soldiers. Then Bucci and his comrades came under American artillery fire in a Marine counter attack. Ultimately the seven Marines were reunited with their unit.
Intense fighting on Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands lasted six months, from August 1942 to February 1943.
In November 1942 Bucci was wounded by three pieces of shrapnel. He contracted malaria and was shipped to a military hospital in San Diego, California.
Tomorrow, Monday, January 17, 2022- Story Behind the Story podcast is an audio version of Saturday’s column on World War II hero Joseph A. Bucci of Amsterdam. Monday Podcast "6 Minutes"
It was there that he learned he was to receive the Purple Heart and Silver Star for his actions on Guadalcanal. He was promoted to Sergeant.
Bucci was home on leave in July 1943 when the Recorder printed an account of his actions on Guadalcanal written by Marine private Eddie Lyon, who had interviewed Bucci at the San Diego hospital. Bucci and his parents went to the Recorder offices to get their first look at the news story and to have their picture taken.
In December 1943, Bucci was still at home, assigned to the Scotia Naval Depot on Route 5, today an industrial park. He had applied for Officer Candidate School.
That month Knights of Columbus Council 209 in Amsterdam honored Bucci at a dinner at the then Amsterdam Hotel on East Main Street and presented him with a special ring.
“When I was in the South Pacific, I dreamed of getting home,” Bucci told the Knights of Columbus. “Just at the present I wish I were down there again.”
He also said, “It is my fond wish and hope that this international mess will soon be over and that all of us can come back to the good old American way of life. However, I expect to be shoving off again soon and in whatever part of the world I am I will have this ring with me, a reminder of your thoughtfulness and I will be thoughtful for you.”
Bucci went to Officer Candidates School and became a second lieutenant. He was promoted to captain in the Marine Corps reserve.
He attended Albany Law School after the war and in 1948 became head of the new Montgomery County Probation Department. He and Louanne Wilkes of Albany married in 1953 and moved to California where Bucci worked in the Ventura County Probation Department.
In their later years Bucci and his wife moved to Virginia to be near one of their two sons. Bucci died in 2010 at age 96 at Lovingston Health Care Center in Arrington, Virginia. Inurnment was at Arlington National Cemetery.
Jerry Snyder HAL Interview
Mohawk Valley Weather, Sunday, January 16, 2022
...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 10 PM THIS
EVENING TO NOON EST MONDAY...
* WHAT...Mixed precipitation expected. Total snow accumulations of
2 to 6 inches and ice accumulations of up to a tenth of an inch.
Winds gusting as high as 50 mph in the Taconics.
* WHERE...Southern Litchfield County in northwestern Connecticut
and the Capital District, Mohawk Valley, Schoharie Valley,
Washington County, the Taconics, and Mid Hudson Valley in east
central New York.
* WHEN...From 10 PM this evening to noon EST Monday.
* IMPACTS...Plan on slippery road conditions. Gusty winds could
bring down tree branches resulting in power outages in the
Taconics.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...Snow will overspread the region from south
to north late this evening. The snow will turn to mixed
precipitation from south to north after midnight through early
Monday morning.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Slow down and use caution while traveling.
Mohawk Valley News, Sunday, January 16, 2022
Daily Gazette
PHOTOGRAPHER: ERICA MILLER
Forgotten no longer: Army vet now has proper headstone thanks to community members
Since April 9, 2014, Howard Forgette has been lying in an unmarked grave. The U.S. Army veteran, who served in…
Edinburg woman greeted by car parade for 103rd birthday
Audrey “Norma” Porteus bundled up Saturday afternoon and stood on the porch of the Sacandaga Valley Arts Network in Northville to…
https://dailygazette.com/
Amsterdam Recorder
Focus on History: He did more than survive the night
By Bob Cudmore
By Bob Cudmore
https://www.recordernews.com/
Leader Herald
Johnstown Police find decomposing bodies, cremated remains at funeral home
by Jason Subik
https://www.leaderherald.com/