Sergeant Brown Early Paratroop Hero From Texas
Sergeant Brown, a 1941 Amarillo High School graduate and West Texas State College attendee, trained at Fort Benning Camp Blanding and Camp McCall before becoming among the first paratroopers to hit Normandy.
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Sergeant Brown
Normandy Beach
Fort Benning
Camp Blanding
Pla
Camp McCall
N. C
Amarillo High School
West Texas State College
Canyon
Local service men note citizenships and promotions in Amarillo area
Pvt Billy Wilson receives final U S citizenship papers in New Orleans while in the service since May after evacuee roots in Scotland. Teodoro Flores reports from New Guinea with a tank destroyer unit. Harvey Latson Jr rises from first lieutenant to captain at Roanoke Rapids N C. Willie Prince to graduate Marfa Army Air Base with wings and second lieutenant rank. Walter Word and Clifton Edmondson promoted to sergeants with Air Service Command in England. Cpl William Ward and Cpl Clifton Edmondson connections noted with Amarillo High School and local employment histories.
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Billy Wilson
John Wilson
Troon
Scotland
New Orleans
Wilson
S. Jack Fischer
Washington
Amarillo
D. C
Amarillo High School
New Guinea
Pvt
Teodoro
Flores
Arthur Street
Amado
Mariana Flores
Roanoke Rapids
N. C
Amarillo College
United States Military Academy
West Point
N. Y
Latson
Cpl
William O. Latson
Marines
San Diego
Willie G. Prince
W. G. Prince
North West
Tenth Avenue
Marfa Army Air Base
Marfa
Tex
Army Air Forces
Prince
Hays
Kan
Santa Ana
Cal
Merced
International Harvester
Norma Jean Prince
Douglas Prince
Norfolk
Lauderdale
Fla
Morrow-Thomas Wholesale House
Clifton £. Edmondson
Air Service Command
England
Sergeant Word
Thomas J. Gill
View Street
Texas Tech
War Department
Ward
Army Air Force Training Command
Sioux Falls
Edmondson
Lydah Benson
North Jackson Street
Wilma Jean Edmondson
Monroe Street
Sergeant Edmondson
Plains Creamery
Soldier Gill Destroys German Tank With Grenade
Sergeant Thomas J. Gill of the 26th Division from Amarillo hurled a hand grenade into a German heavy tank as it closed on his patrol near an Italian road. The tank halted and exploded, its crew killed, in a bold act that halted the threat. Private Charles Gear from Magellan sent word from the Marianas noting the island campaign.
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Veterans of Foreign Wars
Sei
Thomas J. Gill
26Th Division
Amarillo
Gill
Texas
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R. A. Brown
Polk Street
U. S. Army
France
Brown
Heinz MJ White Pickling
Puro Binema
van Buren
KRAFT
Wieners
LVN
al Ly
Butay Products, Inc
Huntington Park Calif
Great West
A.B. Golden
Agare Rkay i 230
Folger
Aspara
Colorado
California
Rhubareb
Heinz White
Rams Co
Armour's Star
Burden's
Snoi A
Hington, LB
Arkansas Elbertas
LOS Cucumbers
Pinkney
N. Fillmore
Franks Pinkney
U. S
The
Santa Fe
Fort Sill
Camp Planche
Harvey H. Latson, Jr
H. H. Latson
Sunset Street
Captain Latson
Hugh J. Knerr
Europe
Walter D. Word, Jr
Charles Gear
Magellan
Marianas
Ajo
Ariz
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