Posted on 11/01/2007 12:36:41 PM PDT by Racehorse
Brig. Gen. David “Tex” Hill was decorated for his role in holding off a Japanese invasion of China in the early 1940s. Many remember him as a “fearless warrior.”
Hill died last month at the age of 92. On Friday, those who knew him or his important role in history will pay tribute.
The ceremony begins at 1:30 p.m in the Memorial Courtyard of the National Museum of the Pacific War in Fredericksburg. It will include a bagpiper, military color guard, remarks from longtime friends and a fly-over of airplanes similar to those Hill flew.
As part of the tribute, the “India, Burma, China” exhibit at the museum will be named after Hill. Only a few of the museum’s exhibits are named for World War II heroes.
Mazie Sale Hill, Tex Hill’s wife of nearly 65 years, said her late husband knew about the exhibit tribute before his death and felt honored and grateful for it. She plans to attend the tribute with daughters Shannon Hill Schaupp and Lola Hill Skinner.
“It is especially meaningful,” Sale Hill said. “He loved the Chinese people and fought for them. After the war, he did a good deal of consulting work and traveled to China and the Far East. They were his friends.”
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RIP to another hero.
I visited the National Museum of the Pacific War last October with my 2 boys. It is an excellent museum and a must see if you are ever in south-central Texas.
.BG John C.L. Scribner Texas Military Forces Museum
Please find a way to contribute to our history.
There is no greater example of courage and sacrifice than that of Chennault’s Flying Tigers.
I pray that they are never forgotten.
“Tex” Hill was a great man and one of my boyhood heroes. Wish I could be in Fredricksburg today to pay tribute to him.
I have visited it a couple of times as well. Great museum, and no PC versions of the war.
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