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Stanley Paul Kacaba born in Fairmont, West Virginia #1 in the group photo

Two excerpts from the company history that mentions Kacaba:
From about July 1943 -
"Several men with ability along teaching and instructing lines were chosen to be drilled, trained and educated militarily and in the policies that were to be pertinent to this company's progress, under the tutelage of our very observant officers.
The nucleus of our company by this time was proceeding quite smoothly the raw edges, reticence and backwardness that always attend embryo organizations had been for the most part worn off, reduced and discouraged; our officers had learned to know us and we them.  Our final members to be added to our original rank were T/Sgt Stanley P. Kacaba, who was to relieve M/Sgt Wayne M. McCabe, who had temporarily filled the spot of 1st Sgt. Camp Swift Texas' loss was our gain, as "Stanislaus" left the 303rd Anti-Tank to take his chances with the 841st."  So, was he always called "Stanislaus" by the other men?
From March 1944 - 
"From Orsfeld Tuesday, March 13th the depot moved on 27 miles - through Daun - to Utzerath. This area was a great improvement over the last one.  We camped on a green plain at the crossing of three roads, at the foot of a hill in every direction. The deep woods in the background, from which a number of deer were seen straying, was a challenge to the hunters. Parties went out every day, and Hazlewood and Kacaba, at least, came back with a deer.  As a matter of fact, the First Sergeant and "Booker T.", with or without hunting license, were the real sportsmen of the crowd; during the "season" both men shot three deer apiece."

Marshal Chastain from Otsego, West Virginia #149 in the group photo