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Title: Delbert R. Patience
Dates: 1942-1945
Collection Number: 00994
Quantity: 8 items
Abstract: Images of U.S. Navy Landing Craft Infantry Large 3 in landings in France and North Africa and a portrait of Delbert Patience.
Provenance: Delbert Patience donated a lifejacket to the Museum Division of the State Historical Society of North Dakota in October 1991. He loaned the photographs in this collection at that time to be copied.
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Biographical Sketch
From the Bismarck Tribune May 7, 1996
Delbert R. Patience, 75, rural Mandan, died May 4, 1996 in his home. Services will be held at 1 p.m. Wednesday at Christ the King Catholic Church, Mandan. Burial will be in the North Dakota Veterans Cemetery, rural Mandan, with military rites by Mandan Veterans of Foreign Wars and American Legion Posts.
Delbert was born May 22, 1920 at Shenandoah, Iowa, the son of Andrew and Talitha (Butler) Patience. He was raised in Iowa and graduated from high school and attended two years of college there. He farmed in Dexter and Shenandoah before entering the U.S. Navy on May 16, 1942. He and his friend, Tom Sykes, served in the Flotillas II amphibious forces during the largest invasion of Normandy and in North Africa, Sicily, Italy and Normandy during the years 1942-1944 with the Landing Craft Infantry. He was honorably discharged on Oct. 6, 1945 and married Margaret Hvorscik in Crown Point, Ind. on May 30, 1945. They moved to Mandan in 1954 where he was employed by Amoco until his retirement in 1974.
Del was known for his love of trees. He boarded horses and enjoyed his life as a hobby farmer. He was a member of Mandan American Legion and Elks.
Del will be missed by those who survive him, including his wife, Marge; two sons and one daughter-in-law, David and Coleer, Bismarck, and Joel’Doug’ and his friend Dale Bonn, Edmonds, Wash.; three daughters and sons-in-law, Delbeth and Richard McGladrey, Nanaimo, British Columbia, Marie and Mark Herdt, Moscow, Idaho, and Dawn Patience and Tim McCulley, Anchorage, Alaska; three grandchildren, Shelly Backlin and her husband Eric, Portland, Ore., Jeff Patience, Fargo, and Kayne McGladrey, Nanaimo, British Columbia; one great grandson, Jeffrey Backlin; two brothers and sisters-in-law, Marion and Bernita, and Glen and Marylin, all of Earlham, Iowa; and one brother-in-law, Joe Forrester, Sacramento, Calif.
Note from an interview Mark Halvorson, Museum Division, conducted with Mr. Patience
Patience enlisted in the United States Navy at DesMoines, Iowa in May 1942. He was trained at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station and was sent to the U.S. Navy Yard at Norfolk, Virginia for assignment.
Patience was assigned to Landing Craft Infantry – Large 3 (LCI-L 3), a craft of 150’ with a maximum speed of 21 knots. The vessel disembarked for Africa via Bermuda. Action in the African campaigns; Sicily; Anzio & Salerno, Italy; and Omaha Beach, Normandy coast of France.
Photographs Inventory
00994-00001 Soldiers boarding ship in North Africa 1942-1944
00994-00002 Landing in Sicily 1942-1944
00994-00003 Landing in France 1942-1944
00994-00004 Landing in France 1942-1944
00994-00005 Landing 1942-1944
00994-00006 Navy ship at a landing site 1942-1944
00994-00007 Delbert Patience ca. 1942
00994-00008 Ship tower 1942-1944
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