Posted by Destroked 450 on June 06, 2017 at 07:58:26 from (173.242.142.14):
In Reply to: D-Day posted by Nicholaus Sowder on June 06, 2017 at 05:40:01:
My dad was part of Patton's 4th Armored, Normandy was already secured when he landed, but he talked a lot about fighting in the hedgerows, liberating Paris and their charge to Bastogne.
He was wounded badly at the Rhine and if it hadn't been for his buddy demanding they not leave him for dead my family wouldn't be here today, sadly those wounds caused him problems later and he passed away in 1976 at 54 years of age.
His buddy's wife sent mom a letter some years ago saying he had also passed.
Dad named me after his commanding officer, Major John S Wood.
Their battles in war and life are over, may they rest in piece as we march on through life for them.
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