Person:Robert Bouchard (1)

Written by Robert Bouchard, published in Oscar Burton Robbins book, pg 212: "Received all my schooling in Huerfano and Custer counties, Colorado and Atoka, Oklahoma. At age 17 gave up school to drive a truck, continuing until age 21. In 1944 began driving a bus for Rio Grande Trailways; later joined the U. S. Army, had 17 weeks training at Camp Fannin, Texas. " From there was sent to front lines in Europe, joining the 35th Division 137th Infantry in Metz, France, serving as Rifleman up to Rhine river in Germany, where I was captured by German S.S. troups and spent one month in concentration camp at Linburg, Germany, during which time I lost 60 pounds. "Was liberated by U.S. Tank Corps, 6th Division. Spent three months in hospitals in France and England. After release from the Army in 1946 I returned home, have again begun driving a bus."

Military records show he enlisted 18 Jul 1944.

1. ↑ Email from Shawn Woolsey, descendant, rec'd January 2008.

   died in "the early nineties"

2.   Robbins, Oscar Burton. History of the Jackson family of Hempstead, Long Island, N.Y., Ohio and Indiana: descendants of Robert and Agnes Washburn Jackson. (Loveland, Colo.: Robbins, 1951)
   212.
3. ↑ ^3.0 3.1 [1], in Ancestry.com. Public Member Trees: (Note: not considered a reliable primary source).