World War II Honoree

Joseph C. Fitzsimmons

Branch of Service

U.S. Army

Hometown

Latham, New York

Honored By

RMCS M.J. Lynett, USN (Ret)

Relationship

Fellow Veteran

Volunteered for the U.S. Army in 1942 and became a Technical Sergeant, flight engineer and crew chief on C-47s during World War II, carrying paratroops and towing glider infantry in Europe with the 437th Airborne Troop Carrier Command. He was awarded the Air Medal with four Oak leaf clusters for participation in airborne invasions in Normandy on D-Day, southern France, Holland, the Rhine River crossing and for re-supply by dropping para-packs to the surrounded 101st Airborne Division during the Battle of the Bulge. He was discharged in September 1945.