 Johnnie Sutphinsubmitted December 2006 My father was 1st Sergeant Johnnie Sutphin. He was assigned to Company C, 35th Training Battalion at Camp Croft on April 4, 1941. He had been in the "regular Army" since 1935. Sgt. Sutphin stayed with the 35th Training Battalion until he received orders for the European theater and left Spartanburg on June 6th 1944. From there, he was assigned to the 26th Infantry Regiment of the 1st Infantry Division. He participated in liberating the first sizable German city of Aachan in October 1944. He then spent the majority of November in the Hurtgen Forest. On November 29th, he was taken as a POW in an attack on the German village of Merode. He remained a POW ... being forced marched between three different camps ... until liberated by the Russians on April 22, 1945. After the war, Sgt. Sutphin returned to Camp Croft, then was assigned to the ROTC faculty at Wofford College. Except for a year during the Korean war, he pulled the remainder of his 30 years of service at Wofford College where he retired as a Master Sergeant in 1965. --- Phil Sutphin, son of Sgt.
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 In the "mess hall" photo (which appears to be a holiday celebration since ladies are present), my father (and mother) are seated at the center table in front of the pot-belly stove.  In the group photo, my father is the 1st Sergeant on the left kneeling by the officer in the chair.  |