Rocky’s WWII Talk

Paul “Rocky” Rochford’s talk on the 17th Airborne Division’s Rhine jump, Operation Varsity, and the Rhur battles which followed.

At the April 19th meeting,
during Rocky’s talk, he told of a patrol he went on as the
‘tail-end Charlie” of his squad. In the ruins of a bombed
out city, they were patrolling a section of multi-story buildings
that had not been destroyed. Rocky noticed that all of the
windows were broken but one. He was contemplating throwing a rock
through the glass when he thought his mother would disapprove and
so he loped off and left the window intact. Imagine his surprise
when, years later, he came across this Bill Mauldin cartoon:

Then Pres. Denny Gardiner
presents Paul ” Brown Shoe” Rochford with a memento he
crafted, to demonstrate our regard for his service to C-48 and
the U.S.