World War II Honoree

Roy A. Wallace, Jr.

Branch of Service

U.S. Army

Hometown

Christian County, Kentucky

Honored By

G. Holcomb

Joined the U.S. Army Specialized Training Program while attending the University of Kentucky in 1942. Continued his engineering training at Texas A&M before being transferred to Camp Campbell, Kentucky where he served with a reconnaissance platoon of the 56th Armored Infantry Battalion, 12th Armored Division. In autumn 1944, the Division was sent to the European theater of Operations and attached to the seventh army. His unit entered combat on December 5th with an attack on the Maginot Line. The unit then engaged the Germans in January at the Rhine bridgehead in Herrlisheim. He also fought in battles of the Colmer Pocket and crossings of the Rhine and Danube Rivers. On April 27, 1945, his unit was involved in the liberation of the Landesberg Concentration Camps. He was awarded two Bronze Stars. After V-E Day, he was assigned duty in Paris where he managed the officers club. Honorably discharged in 1946.