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Simmons, Harold B., Pfc.
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Home Town Parsons
Date of Passing Oct 31, 1986
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PFC HAROLD B SIMMONS ENLISTED IN THE A.A.F. SOON AFTER GRADUATING FROM HIGH SCHOOL ON 19 JULY 1941. HE WAS ASSIGNED AS A COOK WITH HEADQUARTERS SQUADRON OF THE 12TH A.A.F. PFC SIMMONS ARRIVED OVERSEAS ON 11 SEPTEMBER 1942 AND WAS THERE THROUGH SEVERAL CAMPAIGNS OF NORTH AFRICA AND ITALY AND AT SOME POINT REACHED THE RANK OF S/SGT . A CUMBERLAND TIMES NEWSPAPER ARTICLE FROM 1944 STATED THAT S/SGT HAROLD B. SIMMONS RECEIVED THE SOLDIERS MEDAL AFTER HE ENTERED A BURNING BUILDING TO RESCUE AN ITALIAN LABORER. PFC SIMMONS RETURNED HOME AND WAS DISCHARGED ON 27 JUNE 1945 AND RETURNED HOME TO WEST VIRGINIA. THE SOCIAL SECURITY DEATH INDEX LISTS HIS DEATH AS OCTOBER 1986.
WWII - European Theater of Operations/Po Valley Campaign (1945)
From Month/Year
April / 1945
To Month/Year
May / 1945
Description (Po Valley Campaign 5 April-8 May 1945) The effectiveness of interdiction in northern Italy was shown by the success of the final Allied drive in that area in April 1945. With communications shattered, the Germans were unable to move enough materiel to make a stand after being driven from their defensive positions south of the Po. Allied forces crossed the river on 25 April; and on 4 May, at the Italian end of the Brenner Pass, Fifth Army met the Seventh, which had driven into Germany and turned southward into Austria. With the joining of these forces the war in Italy was over.
