Leo H. Brown
90th Infantry Division
359th Regiment
Company F.
Leo Joined the 90th Infantry at Camp Barkley,
Texas on April 7, 1942. He endured the training there, Louisiana, and the
desert of California before being shipped off to Ft. Dix, New Jersey.
He entered Normandy on D+1 after the Suzan B.
Anthony hit a mine and sank in the channel. He was seriously wounded on
July 4th and returned to combat at the Saar River area. He lost many good
friends and soldiers in that battle. He lost more friends and comrades in
the Berle area in January of 1945 as well as most of his hearing when a
shell exploded near him and blew out one of his eardrums.
Leo stayed with the war until the end and
finally returned home to a placid region of New Mexico where he grew up. He
returned to farming.
I have known Leo for 26 years as I married
his daughter. I have never met a man who was harder working, true to his
word, and an example of the type of individual who is a treasure to
humanity.
I have nothing but the highest regard for
this man of courage and honor!
Randal Jentzen (father of Leo's
grandchildren).