Lt. John R. Fox was a member of the all-black
366th Infantry Regiment
of the United States Army during World War
II. In December, 1944, he was the forward observer for an artillery unit
in Italy when his position was over run by German infantry. He called
down fire on his own position in order to stop the German advance, and
turned the tide of the battle.
After over 40 years, with full honors in a ceremony at Ft.
Devens, MA, his widow received his posthumously awarded
Distinguished Service Cross.
This is a speech given by my father in 1992. He had the original typed into a neighbor's word processor and printed double-spaced with a Courier font. The disk file was subsequently misplaced. A year later, I had a copy scanned and run through OCR (Optical Character Recognition) software to create an ASCII text file. I then used WordPerfect for Windows to reformat the document. (I also used a spell checker and a grammatical analyzer.)
I have recently acquired a scanner for my PC. My father loaned me a copy of the yearbook for the 366th that was created in 1941. I managed to locate photographs of a dozen of the people mentioned in the speech, and have added digital images to the WordPerfect version of the speech.
-=DAH=- 26-Mar-95
Last update: 1998-10-20
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