Crisp-Sumter County GaArchives News.....MAJOR FLETCHER ,HUSBAND CORDELE GIRL, PROMOTED 1944
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CORDELE DISPATCH 1944
A U.S. TROOP CARRIER BASE EUROPEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS--THE PROMOTION OF 
LEONARD C. FLETCHER, FROM MAJOR TO LT. COLONEL, WAS ANNOUNCED RECENTLY BY THE 
COMMANDING GENERAL OF THE FIRST ALLIED AIRBORNE ARMY , LT. GENERAL LEWIS H. 
BRERETON. COLONEL FLETCHER IS THE SON OF MR. AND MRS. MILTON H. FLETCHER OF 
1109 ELM AVE.., AMERICUS, GA. AND HIS WIFE , THE FORMER MISS IRENE ALEN OF 
CORDELE, NOW RESIDES AT THE HOME OF HIS PARENTS.
THE COLONEL IS THE FIRST PILOT OF A PARATROOP-HAULING C-47 AND IN COMMAND OF A 
TROOP CARRIER UNIT OF THE U.S. TROOP CARRIER FORCES, STATIONED IN THE EUROPEAN 
THEATRE OF OPERATIONS. COL. FLETCHER, A VETERAN PILOT WITH 24 MONTHS OVERSEAS 
DUTY, PARTICIPATED IN THE INITIAL INVASIONS OF NORMANDY, BELGIUM AND HOLLAND 
SINCE ARRIVING IN THIS THEATER, AND BEFORE THEN, THE EGYPTIAN-LYBIAN, 
TUNISIAN, SICILIAN,AND ITALIAN CAMPAIGNS.
THIS TROOP CARRIER UNIT WAS ONE OF THE VERY FIRST TO LEAVE THE STATES IN 
NOVEMBER OF '42. THE COL AT THAT TIME WAS FIRST PILOT AND OPERATIONS OFFICER 
WITH THE RANK OF FIRST LIEUTENANT. IN AUGUST OF '34. HE WAS MADE SQUADRON 
COMMANDER AND SINCE THAT TIME HIS SQUADRON HAS BEEN DECORATED WITH THE 
DISTINGUISHED UNIT CITATION FOR OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE OF DUTY AGAINEST THE 
ENEMY ON THE 5,6,AND 7 OF JUNE 1944. ON THESE DATES, COLONEL FLETCHER WAS 
PILOT  OF THE LEAD PLANE OF HIS SQUADRON FOR WHICH HE WAS ALSO DECORATED WITH 
THE AIR MEDAL, ALONG WITH OTHER MEMBERS OF THE SQUADRON WHO PARTICIPATED IN 
THE INITIAL INVASION OF NORMANDY.        '

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