Crisp-Dooly County GaArchives Military Records.....SUMMERS, PFC GRADY W. June 1945 WWII U.S. ARMY PARATROOPERS ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: WYLIE SHEPPARD JR http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00030.html#0007303 June 16, 2011, 2:59 pm WW 11 VETS CRISP COUNTY THE 110TH GENERAL HOSPITAL AFTER JUMPING WITH THE FIRST AIRBORNE TROOPS TO LAND IN GERMANY, PFC GRADY W. SUMMERS,22, OF 401 E 9TH AVE CORDELE,GA.,WAS INJURED IN BOTH LEGS AND RECEIVED SLIGHT BURNS WHEN A JEEP HE WAS DRIVING HIT A MINE NEAR MUNSTER. FE IS NOW RECOVERING IN THIS UNITED STATES ARMY GENERAL HOSPITALIN ENGLAND WHERE HE HAS BRRN AWARDED THE PURPLE HEART. PFC SUMMERS WAS SENT TO AN AID STATION AND LATER TO AN EVACUATION HOSPITAL. AFTER A SHORT STAY HE WAS SENT TO ENGLAND BY PLANE ''HE HAS MADE A A VERY SATISFISFACTORY RESPONSE TO TREATMENT AT THIS HOSPITAL,'' SAID CAPTAIN CLAY H JOHNSON OF SHREVEPORT ,LA., HIS WARD SURGEON. ''HIS BURNS HAVE HEALED COMPLETELY AND HE SHOULD SOON BE ABLE TO RETURN TO DUTY.'' CRISP FARMER BEFORE ENTERING THE ARMY IN MAY 1941. PFC SUMMERS FARMED NEAR CORDELE. HIS WIFE MRS ALICE SUMMERS, MAKES HER HOMEAT THE 9TH AVE ADDRESS. HE HAS TWO BROTHERS IN THE ARMY. PVT JACK SUMMERS, IN THE INFANTRY AND PFC HAROLD SUMMERS, SOMEWHERE IN THE PACIFIC. PFC SUMMERS ATTENDED THE VIENNA HIGH SCHOOL IN VIENNA,GA. WHERE HE LIVED BEFOR COMING TO CORDELE. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/crisp/military/ww2/other/summers1348mt.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 1.7 Kb