Captain GROVER TILLMAN NETHERTON

Captain GROVER TILLMAN NETHERTON, Armored Force. Brother of BEN EDGAR NETHERTON, Lieutenant WALTER DONALDSON NETHERTON KIA, Private First Class ORVILLE ANDREW NETHERTON and Captain GROVER TILLMAN NETHERTON. Husband of Ruth Yearwood Netherton, 3302 West College St., Shreveport, Louisiana, and father of Diane Jeanne Netherton, was born December 21, 1919, to Mr. and Mrs. Grover T. Netherton of Shreveport, Louisiana. He attended Queensborough grade school and Fair Park High School and Louisiana State University, where he was commissioned a Lieutenant in the R.O.T.C. Entering active service June 10, 1942, at the age of 22. He served at Fort Knox, Kentucky, he took the Armored Force Orientation Course there and went to Camp Polk as maintenance officer and later as Captain, Tank Company Commander, going to Camp Ibis, California, for desert maneuvers in this capacity. From Camp Cooke, California, he embarked October 1, 1944, for the European Theater of Operations (ETO) where he served in England, France, and Belgium. He was in combat in Belgium and in the German Counteroffensive in the Ardennes Forest in which he was wounded in combat December 30, 1944. Captain Netherton has the European African Middle Eastern Theater of Operations Ribbon with one bronze Campaign Star for the Ardennes and the Purple Heart Medal (PHM). He was granted his honorable discharge (CDD) on June 21, 1945, at camp Shelby. 

 

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1- THE FIGHTING MEN OF LOUISIANA – LOUISIANA HISTORICAL INSTITUTE – 1946