Thanks for sharing.
Watching those fine gentlemen age is heartbreaking. My granddad served with the 146th Signal Corps in the 6th Armored Division and he passed away three years ago this past October. The Greatest Generation is leaving us far too soon.
He didn't tell many stories but one he did stemmed from when he went to Fort Sill after signing up. He wanted to be a tank driver and was running the training course when he saw a puddle. The young farm boy he was, he thought for sure the tank would have no problem with that puddle. After getting the tank stuck, he (or possibly his superiors) decided tank driving wasn't for him.
He's listed in the pages
here, which were lifted from a 1945 booklet the signal co. published. We never found him in the pictures, but he's listed among the 20 men who were awarded the silver star (which we knew about) and his at-that-time home address is listed as well.
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