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Home Town Hambleton
Date of Passing Feb 03, 2002
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PRIVATE FIRST CLASS STANFORD ULYSSES PHILLIPS WAS A TRUCK DRIVER BEFORE ENTERING THE SERVICE ON 23 NOVEMBER 1942. HE SERVED IN EUROPE WITH THE 60TH MILITARY POLICE COMPANY FROM 2 AUGUST 1943 TO 1 NOVEMBER 1945. PFC PHILLIPS WAS HONORABLY DISCHARGED ON 15 NOVEMBER 1945 AT FORT MEADE MARYLAND.
Stanford Ulysses Phillips, 84, of 93 Poplar St., died at 4:45 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 3, 2002, at his home. He had been in declining health for the past 20 years and death was attributed to complications from Parkinson's disease.
Mr. Phillips was born Nov. 30, 1917, in Hambleton, a son of the late Jacob Eli and Cora May Phillips.
On March 28, 1942, he married Tina Day Phillips, who survives in Elkins.
Also surviving are a brother, Truman Lee Phillips and wife, Vonda, Parsons; two nieces and four nephews.
He was preceded in death by two brothers, Lloyd Eldon Phillips and Elmer Phillips.
Mr. Phillips attended the schools of Tucker County. He was a veteran of World War II and served in the U.S. Army 60th Military Police Company in Naples, Foggia, Rome, Anzio, Rhineland, Southern France and North Africa. He was employed by Elkins Builders Supply for 25 years prior to his retirement on Dec. 31, 1982. He was a member of H.W. Daniels Post 29 American Legion, Tygart Valley Post 3647 Veterans of Foreign Wars and the IOOF Lodge No. 265 of Montrose.
He was a member of Woodford Memorial United Methodist Church.
Funeral Arrangements: Friends may call at Tomblyn Funeral Home in Elkins today from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Funeral services will be in the funeral home chapel Wednesday at 11 a.m. with the Rev. Paul Breeden, Pastor Charlie Hornick and Evangelist Gary L. Kendall Sr. officiating. Interment will follow in Mountain State Memorial Gardens near Gilman, where full military rites will be accorded at the grave site by members of H.W. Daniels Post 29 American Legion and Tygart Valley Post 3647 Veterans of Foreign Wars. Memorial contributions may be made to Parkinson's Disease Foundation, 710 West 168th St., New York, N.Y. 10032-9982.
WWII - European Theater of Operations/Rome-Arno Campaign (1944)
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September / 1944
Description (Rome-Arno Campaign 22 January to 9 September 1944) U.S. 5th Army advanced 150 miles to the Arno River. The unsuccessful attempt to break the Gustav Line on 22 January was followed by another unsuccessful effort in March when the infantry failed to push through after bombers had endeavored to open the line at Monte Cassino. Allied air power then began a vigorous campaign against railroads, highways, and shipping that supported German forces in Italy. With supply lines strangled, the Germans could not repulse the new drive launched by the Allies in May. German resistance crumbled. By 4 June 1944 the Allies had taken Rome. But the advance ground to a halt against a new defensive line the enemy established along the Arno River.
