Happy Veteran’s Day

In honor of the veterans, who have provided the freedoms I now enjoy:

My late father, Walter Leslie Marquardt, enlisted in the US Army on October 15th, 1940 and became an artillery director for the 8th Armored Division (The Thundering Herd), starting in England, and landing 1 mile behind the first invasion forces of the Battle of the Bulge, directing the heavy artillery over them ahead to provide cover as they moved across France, ending up in Germany in 1945.

He was immediately sent for flight training after the war ended in Europe, to proceed to the Pacific, but never went as the war ended with Japan before he finished.

He completed his flight training on his own after the war, and though a production engineer at Eaton (Cutler Hammer) until his death, was also a licensed pilot for fun.

That was my Dad…What a guy!