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File Name	Q46243
Digital image order form	http://www.archives.alabama.gov/photo_order_form.pdf
Permission to publish form	http://www.archives.alabama.gov/referenc/private2.pdf
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
Email ADAH	Do you have information or questions about this image? Click here to email us: mailto:photos.archives@archives.alabama.gov and please include file name (located below image) or the hyperlink of the image.
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
Author	Alabama. State Council of Defense (1941-1946)
Collection or Series Title	Administrative files
Box Number	SG019896
Folder Number	17
Folder Title	Photographs, Alabama servicemen
Catalog Record	http://adahcat.archives.alabama.gov:81/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=8988
Repository	Alabama Dept. of Archives and History, 624 Washington Ave., Montgomery, AL 36130
Language	English
Rights	This material may be protected under U. S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S. Code) which governs the making of photocopies or reproductions of copyrighted materials. You may use the digitized material for private study, scholarship, or research. Though ADAH has physical ownership of the material in its collections, in some cases we may not own the copyright to the material. It is the patron's obligation to determine and satisfy copyright restrictions when publishing or otherwise distributing materials found in our collections.
Original Size	3.1 by 4.5 inches
Digital Format	600 dpi tiff
Uploaded batch	2011_09_scans_images
Date created	2012-02-03

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