World War II Honoree

Oran Alva 'Butch' Atchison

Branch of Service

U.S. Army

Hometown

Pflugerville, Texas

Honored By

Pearl Thomas

In 1944 he was drafted at the age of 17 into the U.S. Army. He spoke German and was assigned to serve at a Prisoner of War camp in Northern France, guarding and looking after the German prisoners of war. General Patton later sent him on a special assignment to serve as a guard to the hotel room where Truman, Churchill and Stalin met and discussed Germany at the end of the war, which later referred to as the Potsdam Conference.