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Message:: [QUOTE="Bakersgma, post: 156049, member: 59"]The name is Francisco Quinones (with ones of those squiggles (~) over the first n that designates the -nyuh sound. I checked Ancestry's Military records for that name during WWII and found that there were several possibilities, ranging in birth year from 1905 to the early 1920's. I disregarded any that had an enlistment date after Feb 1945 or were released prior to that month. The records that were easiest to find were all death records, though not "casualties" of the war. There were at least 5 men and all appear to have been born in Puerto Rico. Only 1 had an enlistment date prior to the start of the War (although that turned out to be enlistment in the Coast Guard "coastal defenses.") There was another who enlisted in 1943 and stayed in until retirement in 1963. Unfortunately, since there are no publicly available Census records after 1940, it would take quite a bit of time and digging to see whether any of them lived in New York City after the War. BTW, the local "group" of the American Legion is called a "Post" not a "lodge."  One "odd thing" - I don't understand why he wrote "Iwo Shima" since the name of the "famous" island of the War is Iwo Jima.[/QUOTE]