Tillman, Joe D.

Staff Sergeant Tillman was wounded in action in France on Oct 31, 1944, according to information received by his wife, Mrs. Rosemary Tillman, 617 South Ethel street, Picher. He had been serving with the Seventh Army when he was wounded and had been overseas since Oct 1943, and served in the North African campaign and with the Fifth Army in Italy. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Tillman of Treece Kansas.

Staff Sergeant Tillman, husbnd of Rose Mary Tillman, 617 South Ethel street, Picher, is member of the Co. 'E' 143rd Infantry of the veteran 36th 'Texas' Division, has been awarded the Bronze Arrowhead to wear on his European Theatre of Operation ribbon. The Arrowhead had been awarded for participation in the Rivier Invasion when he made the D-Day amphibious assault. The 36th Infantry Division has seen action of two D-Days: Italy and Souther France. It breached the powerful Siegfried Line defenses at Wissembourg and completed 400 days of actual combat plunging through Germany and deep into Austria.