Below you will see a famous picture. It is a picture if Gen. Eisenhower addressing the paratroopers just before they launched the D-day invasion. If you look just to the left of the the soldier Ike is talking to you will see a young man with dark hair and a set of ears that stick out a little bit.
That man is Ralph "Bud" Thomas.
Who is Bud Thomas you might ask? Why he just happens to be my father in-law. Four days in the hedgerows and a bullet wound. Recovered in England then Operation Market Garden in Holland and a chest full of shrapnel from an 88MM artillery shell and his time in the war was done.
