Private Joe Horton of Florence, Alabama.
"A 19-year-old Florence, Ala., serviceman, Pvt. Joe Horton, who was wounded during the fierce fighting on Okinawa, is shown in his bunk aboard a U.S. hospital ship heading for a Marianas port. Pvt. Horton was a member of the Army's 77th Infantry Division, the 'Statue of Liberty'...
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Alabama Department of Archives and History
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| Online Access: | http://cdm17217.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/photo/id/18439 |
| Summary: | "A 19-year-old Florence, Ala., serviceman, Pvt. Joe Horton, who was wounded during the fierce fighting on Okinawa, is shown in his bunk aboard a U.S. hospital ship heading for a Marianas port. Pvt. Horton was a member of the Army's 77th Infantry Division, the 'Statue of Liberty' Division, which also served gallantly on Leyte in the Philippine Islands." |
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