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Cpl Gordon E. Simmons was employed at the Wilson Packing Company before he enlisted in April 1943. He had been overseas since August 1944.

He was a passenger in a glider along with another soldier and the two pilots and a jeep with radio equipment. While the glider still with a speed of over 100 kilometres per hour was decreased the pilot killed by an anti-aircraft machine-gun fire and grenade made an airplane every 20 cm loop holes in a hole. One of the bullets hit the Co-pilot in the hip leaving him paralyzed. Another bullet pierced the seat of the jeep and shattered Gordon's arm. His comrade tells: "I wanted that he stayed because we had to warn the hospital as soon as possible. Gordon gave me a map and compass and said in just that now I was the boss. He also said to me that he had no pain. I had connected his arm and a sling created. He wanted no morphine syringe from his first aid package. Later I realized that he was probably in shock and that it is not penetrated to him how badly injured he was. " Gordon had the wounded taken to safety in a ditch in anticipation of the hospital soldiers. Gordon was hit in his upper arm, but later it was discovered that the bullet had pierced his chest.