Re: Old Hickory, US 30th Infantry Division
Hello Slipdigit, It's a great thing your doing for Old Hickory. When you get a chance let Old Hickory know my Father was in the 120th Infantry 30th Division (Old Hickory). I posted on my new member forum a Christmas Greeting from 1943 from Camp Atterbury, Indiana. The 120th Infantry autograph the inside covers with there Home State. My Dad kept a record on everyone & wrote next to there names if they were O.K.,sick,shell shock,Prisoner,wounded & killed. I have his photo album from the war & mostly every picture has the names of the soldiers written on the back. It is sad seeing a smiling soldier in a picture & looking up his name from the Christmas Greeting 1943 & find out he was either wounded or killed. My Dad was 20yrs old when he went in the Army & survived 5 Major Battles & Campaigns.
1) Normandy
2) Northern France
3) Rhineland
4) Ardennes-Alsace
5) Central Europe
He was discharged 10/16/1945 at 23 yrs old. It is just amazing what these men did during WWII. I just wished I knew then (when I was 20yrs old) what I know now!
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