World War II Honoree

Stafford Parker Nelson

Branch of Service

U.S. Army

Hometown

Richmond, Kentucky

Honored By

G. Hawkins

Relationship

Cousin

551st Engineer Heavy Pontoon Battalion. Enlisted April 1, 1943. He landed in France 4 days after D-Day. His assisted in building a Pontoon Bridge over the Rhine River in Maastricht, The Netherlands. He was on the last truck to leave Bastogne, Belgium, as the Germans mounted an attack. His unit was en-route to Berlin, then re-routed to liberate a concentration camp full of starving prisoners and to provide them with food.