In memory of my father
 

My father, Edward H. Nuckolls, served in the U.S. Army from April 1941 ( drafted ) - December 1944 with Co. A, 172nd Infantry Regiment ( "Put the Vermonters Ahead" ), First Battalion, 43rd Infantry Division. He fought on Guadalcanal, Rendova, New Georgia, and was a Sgt. in a heavy weapons platoon ( 60 mm. mortars and .30 caliber machine guns ). He worked on Pickwick Dam in Tennessee ( TVA ) in the 1930s and was a water plant operator at the Millington Naval Air Station from 1944 - 1976. He suffered during his entire life from diseases and memories from the War, and never complained.

He died on St. Patrick's Day 1986.

Pop...you are my hero !! I love you very much !!

Lawrence

I loving Memory of my uncle Roy B. Bass. He lied about his age when he was 16 so he could join the war. Served in Framingham, England from 1943-1944 as a top turret gunner on B17s. Was shot down over Germany on a daylight bombing raid on Berlin. He was flying in Pistol Packin Mama when they took a direct hit on the top turret. The plane broke in half and plummetted from the sky. With hydraulic fluid in his eyes he managed to find his chute and his toolbox and threw himself clear of the craft. He then pushed his arms through the straps and hugged the chute while he pulled the chord. He made a decent landing under the circumstances and the farmer whose field he landed in turned him over to the Germans. He spent the last year of the war marching from one end of Germany to the other with a broken back. Broken by a rifle butt slamed into his back by a soldier. He never complained. After the war and his liberation from the camp he separated from service for less than a year, then rejoined and continued through Korea and Viet Nam. He finally retired in 1976.
He passed last year just two months after finally receiving the Distinguished Flying Cross. He was my personal hero through out my whole life and I didn't know about his WWII service until just 13 years ago when he finally told me. Not a day went by that I didn't tell him how special he was to me.
God Bless you Uncle Roy! I will always love you.

The greatest generation. Just said goodbye to another one last week.

They were too good for us.

Salute , Dad !

I understand your sentiment due to my recent loss.

Here's to our dad's. I miss mine a lot too! :(

They were the greatest generation and it's a shame they don't make them that way anymore. It's no wonder they won the war with hearts, minds and such fortitude!

Good thoughts to all of them who've moved on. It's amazing how you miss them the more they are gone. I still remember the the looks I'd get once an awhile when I was out of line.

I think I will call my Dad's brother my Uncle Lee (x-Navy WWII) and just hearing his voice settles me down.

I sure miss my father who served in the 69th INF Div in Europe .

God bless all the Dads that aren't with us any more and bless us that still have them. And remember our Dads like Phone Calls and Fathers Day Cards too just like Mom gets :a:

Update - My Uncle Lee died too now they are all gone. Boy I'm depressed and like I said now that they are gone you sure do miss them. Such is life -