Staff Sergeant Leonard Ozley of Birmingham, Alabama.
File Name
Q46243
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Item Title
Staff Sergeant Leonard Ozley of Birmingham , Alabama .
Description
"'We had been in combat two months in France when they let half of us go back for a rest and for the first entertainment we had had since before D-Day . It was a USO show with only four in the cast , but don't think it didn't mean everything to us. The only trouble was, the MC had to cut the show short and announce that we were to be sent back to the front lines immediately ; but it was something to remember. ' S/Sgt . Leonard Ozley , Northington General Hospital patient , a Birmingham boy , wears the Purple Heart with an Oak Leaf Cluster . He was first wounded August 7 when a German machine gun sprayed his right arm . Making a rapid recovery , he was sent back to the front lines and was hit by a mortar shell December 16 . At this time his skull was fractured and his right eye was put out . He was flown from France to a hospital in England and later sailed home by hospital ship . After a few months stay at William Beaumont General Hospital in El Paso , Texas , he was sent to Northington in Tuscaloosa . Ozley served with the 90th Infantry Division 10 months in the ETO . While spearheading for Patton , his battalion was isolated behind the enemy lines for two days until reinforcements were sent up . Their action made possible the capture of thousands of Nazis , along with their equipment , at Falaise Gap . Ozley , who is having his head shaved tomorrow , will have a plate put in his head soon. "
Date
1945 circa
Time Period
1940-1949
Photographer
Northington PRO , Tuscaloosa , Alabama .
Subject
Ozley, Leonard Soldiers--Alabama World War, 1939-1945--Military personnel World War, 1939-1945--Veterans
Type
Still image
Format
Photographs Studio portraits
Collection Creator
Alabama. State Council of Defense (1941-1946)
Collection Title
Administrative files
Location
SG019896
Folder Number
17
Folder Title
Photographs, Alabama servicemen
Catalog Record
http://archives-alabama-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/01ALABAMA:default_scope:01ALABAMA_ALMA216299160002743
Repository
Alabama Department of Archives and History, 624 Washington Avenue, Montgomery, Alabama 36130
Language
English
Rights
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Original Size
3.1 by 4.5 inches
Digital Format
600 PPI TIFF
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