World War II Honoree

Eads Graham Hardaway

Branch of Service

U.S. Army

Hometown

St Louis, Missouri

Honored By

Don Kilburg, Jr.

Relationship

Friend

A 1937 graduate of West Point Military Academy, he was initially assigned to Manila in the Philippine Islands in 1940, but was sent to Europe in the build up to D-Day, arriving in France a few days after June 6 as a Lieutenant Colonel and commander of the 2nd Battalion, 120th Infantry Regiment in the town of Mortain and sent the 30th Division to defend Hill 314. In the back and forth with the retreating Germans, he was taken prisoner on August 5, 1944. He was evacuated to a Prisoner of War camp in Poland, where he was finally liberated at the end of the war. He remained in service after WWII.