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Home Town Ruddle
Date of Passing Sep 07, 1981
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TECHNICIAN FIFTH GRADE STELMON R. EYE ENLISTED IN THE ARMY SHORTLY AFTER HIGH SCHOOL. HE SERVED AS A CHAUFFEUR IN EUROPE WITH THE 121ST QUARTERMASTER CAR COMPANY FROM 9 JUNE 1944 TO 13 JULY 1945. ON 2 AUGUST 1945 T/5 EYE WAS HONORABLY DISCHARGED AT FORT MEADE MARYLAND. STELMON EYE PASSED AWAY IN BELLEVILLE MICHIGAN ON 7 SEPTEMBER 1981.
WWII - European Theater of Operations/Southern France Campaign (1944)
From Month/Year
August / 1944
To Month/Year
September / 1944
Description (Southern France Campaign 15 August to 14 September 1944) While the Germans were retreating in Italy in the summer of 1944, the Allies diverted some of their strength in the theater to the invasion of Southern France. After preliminary bombardment, a combined seaborne-airborne force landed on the French Riviera on 15 August. Marseilles having been taken, Sevmth Army advanced up the Rhone Valley and by mid-September was in touch with Allied forces that had entered France from the north.