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Monfrey H. Wilson |
| World War, 1939-1945
Army
Company A, 1st Battalion, 26th Infantry Regiment
Algeria, French Moroccan Tunisia; Sicily; Normandy, France; Northern France; Rhineland; Aachen, Germany
Sergeant
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In his memoir of his service in World War II Wilson Monfrey writes, "I was born
fighting, for I had eight brother and six sisters." Monfrey grew up in West Virginia and
Akron, Ohio, worked for the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Depression, and was
drafted in March 1941 at the age of 24. Assigned to the Army's First Infantry, nicknamed
the Big Red One, he saw action in North Africa (where he narrowly avoided capture) and
Sicily. On June 6, 1944, he was on the beach in Normandy for the D-Day Invasion.
Wounded and psychologically shaken by a shell that hit his foxhole in the Hurtgen
Forest, Monfrey pushed on. He was sent back to the States only after learning that both
his parents had died back home and a brother was missing in action.
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