World War II Honoree

William Henry Harrison Morris, Jr.

Branch of Service

U.S. Army

Hometown

Ocean Grove, New Jersey

Honored By

Pearl Thomas

As Major General, he served as commanding general of the II Armored Corps and was sent to Italy as a Ground Force Observer for the Salerno landings in 1943. He returned to the U.S. and became commanding general of the XVIII Corps. He then led the 10th Armored Division in the European Theater of Operations on the Western Front, where they played a vital role in the relief of Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge. Following this, he was assigned to command VI Corps in the US Seventh Army in the U.S. Sixth Army Group, which drove from the Rhine to Italy in the spring of 1945.