25 July 2022 Garand Picture of the Day

[Mark in Rochester]

USAAF Combat Control Team #1, the first CCT, prepares for the airborne invasion of Germany during Operation Varsity in March 1945, with a glider and jeep in the background




Norman Wilmeth
BIRTH 2 May 1918 Texas County, Oklahoma, USA
DEATH 7 Jul 2014 (aged 96) Lubbock, Lubbock County, Texas, USA

Col. Norman C. Wilmeth of Guymon, OK, US Army (Ret) passed away July 7, 2014, after a brief illness at Texas Tech University Medical Center in Lubbock, Texas. He was 96 years old.

Wilmeth was born May 2, 1918 south of Guymon, Oklahoma to Joseph Carroll Wilmeth and Lora Dixon Wilmeth. He graduated from Guymon High School and attended Panhandle State University before enlisting in the US Army in 1939. He served as an artillery officer before joining the US Army Air Corps Glider Pilot program. In WWII, he served with distinction as a Glider Pilot flying into Italy, France, Holland, and numerous other missions including the Normandy invasion. He was awarded the Medaille de la France Liberee in 1982 by the French government and is a founding sponsor of the National Museum of the US Army.



William Duane "Bud" Fasking, 95, of Benton, Kentucky, passed away at 12:28 am Monday, May 15, 2017 at Baptist Health in Paducah, Kentucky, with family at his side.
graduated from Lexington High School and soon after enlisted in the US Army Air Corps. Mr. Fasking proudly served his country from 1940-1945 as a glider pilot in all three major actions of the 9th Air Force in Europe during World War II: D-Day, Market Garden and Crossing the Rhine. After leaving military service, he owned and operated a Standard Oil Station and Body Shop in Lexington.





Leon Vernon Rounds Jr.

BIRTH 26 Feb 1923 Lawton, Comanche County, Oklahoma, USA
DEATH 10 Oct 2001 (aged 78) Lawton, Comanche County, Oklahoma, USA

Glider Pilor 437CG, 85th Sq.

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