James P. Hennessey
Jim was born November 24, 1925 in Bayonne, NJ. His father died in 1930, leaving his mother to raise him, his three brothers, and six sisters. He attended local schools, received his high school diploma, and entered the Army in March 1944. He had IRTC (Infantry...What the Heck Kind of Password Is That?
I was a member of a small night patrol out on reconnaissance in the Ardennes in Belgium. After a brief skirmish with a German machine gun outpost, we headed back towards our lines. On the way back, we were challenged by an American machine gun outpost. In the...Solemn Remembrance: Vet Returns to Pay Respects to Former Lieutenant
Kneeling beside Henry Compton’s grave at Casco Township’s McDowell Cemetery one recent afternoon, Jim Hennessey of Bayonne, N.J., had a flash of insight. “It’s ironic,” he said, nodding to the beautiful fall foliage. “The trees were just like this in the Ardennes” at the start of what would become the brutal Battle of the Bulge in late 1944.