I remember him getting very passionate about the airborne guys getting extra pay and he said “I went through all the same training they did except for the jump.” He said he wished he could have jumped out of the glider!
The father-in-law I would have had was in the U.S. Army, and was killed during the Battle of the Bulge. One of my uncles (father’s side) was in an Army petroleum supply unit that landed in Normandy after the D-Day landings. My other uncle (mother’s brother) was in a railroad supply unit and was supposedly in the China - Burma - India theater. I tried getting his military records for verification, but was told they were among those destroyed in the fire at the personnel records unit.