Mount Ephraim Servicemen who participated in D-Day
To mark the anniversary of D-Day, I wish to remember 3 servicemen from Mount Ephraim who took part in this momentous occasion. Sergeant Joseph Kelly was the radio operator aboard a C-47 aircraft that transported paratroopers into France in the early morning of June 6. "It was the greatest show on earth and I am certainly glad to say I was on it. We dropped our troops and supplies right on the bullseye amid all the flak that was being thrown at us." Kelly, a 1942 Audubon High School alumni, lived at 722 Gaskill Avenue. He enlisted in the Army after graduation and was sent to radio school in Chicago. Kelly was assigned to a troop carrier unit at Maxton, NC., where he was stationed for several months before heading to England in early 1943. Corporal William H. Munro Jr. was a paratrooper who saw 37 days of action in France. He injured his knee upon landing deep into enemy territory on D-Day. His regiment was scattered as were dropped in the wrong ...