Thank you Veterans !
My Mom and Dad were both Marine Corps Officers
My Father in Law Medic, Airborne, Paraglider, POW, Purple Heart
Military Service Notes from Gordia Levi Mitchell Inducted into US Army 11 March 1942 Camp Boureagurd, La Transferred to 82nd Divison (AA) March 15, 1942 Camp Livingston, La Assigned to 307th Medical BN, Company B 16 March 1942 Camp Clayborne, La Transferred to 101st A/B Division 16 August 1942 Camp Clayborne, La Assigned to 326 A/B Medical Company 16 August 1942 Camp Clayborne, La
Left Fort Bragg 28th August 1943 for Camp Shanks, N.Y. Boarded British Ship, SAMARIA, September 4th , 1943, Pier 90, N.Y. City Sailed 5 September, 1943 09:30 by Statue of Liberty Docked Liverpool England, 15th September 1943 Moved to Hungerford, England 30 October 1943
Landed France “D-Day” 6 June 1944 Utah Beach
Wounded June 10 1944 Hiesville, France
Arrived 93rd General Hospital June 1944 Great Malvern England
Made airborne landing 17th Sept. 1944 Zon, Holland Moved to Nymigen, Holland 28th Sept 1944
Continous contact with enemy until 28 November 1944 Moved to Reims France, 29 November 1944 Went into combat 17, December 1944, Bastogne, Belgium
Captured 19 December 1944 Bastogne Belguim Arrived Prison Camp 1st January, 1945 Muhlburg, Germany
Liberated by Russian Army 23 April, 1945, Muhlburg, Germany
Contacted Americans 69th Divison 25 April, 1945 Torgau, Germany Arrived Reims, France 15 May, 1945 , by plane Arrived 21 May, 1945, Camp Lucky Strike, France Arrived London, England 4th June, 1945
Arrived Glagow, Scotland 23 June, 1945 Sailed on Queen Elizabeth June 24, 1945 Arrived New York Pier 90 June 29, 1945
DISCHARGED SEPT. 24, 1945
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