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Soldier US Army
Unit – Branch Immaterial - Warrant Officers, USA
Birth place – São Martinho, Madeira
Date of birth – 25/11/ 1914
Date of death – 22/11/1986
Father – Feliciano Gonçalves de Freitas
Mother – Maria da Conceicao Pereira de Oliveira
Arnaldo de Freitas poses with a BSA model K motorcycle
(photograph courtesy of Denise de Freitas, great niece)
Arnaldo Gonçalves de Freitas, a native of Madeira Island, was born in the town of São Martinho, Funchal on 25 November 1914. After joining his father, Feliciano, who was already living in the United States, Arnaldo entered military service, being recruited on 16 November 1942. He was never sent to combat, remaining in the USA where he served as a "Warrant Officer".
He married Elizabeth Fernandes, with whom he had a son (Arnold Gonzales, who fought in Vietnam) and a daughter. Arnaldo de Freitas also had a brother, named Joseph Gonçalves de Freitas, also enlisted in the US Army forces and fought from the Normandy landings until the final days of the Third Reich.
Arnaldo died on November 22, 1986.
António Fragoeiro and Denise de Freitas
Arnaldo de Freitas during a football match on the Island of Madeira
(photograph courtesy of Denise de Freitas, great niece )
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