Crisp County GaArchives Military Records.....WILLIAMS, SGT VAL April 1945
WWII - Letters U.S.RMY PARATROOPER
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CORDELE GIRL'S HUSBAND FREED FROM NAZI CAMP
 SGT VAL WILLIAMS,24, PAEATROOPER,HUSBAND OF THE FORMER MISS  LILAH PANNELL,OF
CORDELE,RECENTLY REACHED HIS HOME IN SEATTLE,WASHINGTON,AFTER SPENDING EIGHT MONTHS
IN NAZI PRISON CAMPS IN FRANCE AND GERMANY.HE WAS CAPTURED NEAR CHERBOURG,AFTER
LANDING BEHIND THE GERMAN LINES.
 IN HIGHLIGHTING HIS EXPERIENCES,SGT. WILLIAMS SAID ; ''WE COULD SEE FOOD BEING
GROWN ALL AROUND US,SEE CATTLE IN THE FIELDS, BUT THE MOST WE EVER GOT WAS ONE MEAL
A DAY -IF YOU COULD CALL IT A MEAL, AND AT FIRST WE GOT NOYHING TO EAT.AND THE
GERMAN PRISONERS GOT HAM FOR EASTER. WE HAD WATER ONLY ONCE A DAY. BY THE TIME THE
FIRST RED CROSS FOOD PARCELS CAME THROUGH, WE WERE SO WEAK WE COULD HARDLY GET OFF
THE FLOOR. IT WAS THE RED CROSS THAT REALLY KEPT THE FELLOWS GOING IN THOSE PRISON
CAMPS.
 SGT WILLIAMS WAS LIBERATED BY THE RUSSIANS IN LATE JANUARY AND REACHED BOSTON ON A
TROOP TRANSPORT EARLY IN APRIL.HE WILL HAVE TWO MONTHS AT HOME WITH HIS MOTHER AND
HIS WIFE.
 SGT WILLIAMS WEARS RIBBONS FOR PRESIDENTAL CITATION, THE COMBAT INFANTRY'S
BADGE,PARATROOPERS WINGS, GOOD CONDUCT MEDAL,AND A SPEARHEAD FOR THE NORMANDY
INVASION AND A BATTLE STAR ON HIS EUROPEAN THEATRE OF OPERATIONS RIBBON

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