WILLIAM "BILLY" M. BAIRD
Big
thank you to Bob Baird to have agreed to answer
my very numerous questions on her dad and to have sent me all these photos! For
his kindness and its availability!
<= William "Billy" Mac Baird in 1943
William "Billy" Mac Baird 1957
=>
Her son Bob is on these shoulders.
William Mac Baird was born on November 3rd, 1920 to
It joined the Custom Army in 1942. It was incorporated in the
Company F and then in the Company of HQ of the 2nd Battalion of 506th PIR of
the 101st Airborne. It belonged to the medical team.
It was involved with the Toccoa Camp in
Betty June Wilson worked with the Company of the telephone. It was
an operator.
“One day it y have a permission and my father with comrades are
left for
My dad and his friends were there also. I guess that it thought
that my mom was pretty and began with enguager the
conversation. “
In August 1943, they married.
During this same month, the 101st was sent in
William Baird accomplished two jumps of combat: it jumped on
“It was wounded in
It was returned to the civil life on September 28, 1945. It left
the army with the rank of Technician 4th Grade.
War, Willaim brought back two spoils of
war:
A pair of German binocular of Zeiss
mark and Luger with its holster.
William Baird and Betty Wilson had a son, Bob Baird who was born
in 1956.
Unfortunately, William Baird will not see her son growing. It will
die of an attack on October 25, 1958.
My dad has just
lands on a haystack. In
This photograph
is in the book of Mark Bando “Currahee”.
Sector of
gathering in
My dad is on
left, in the medium with the “glasses” on the helmet.
A town of tent -
Before the Day-J.
My dad is on
left.
My dad is all in
top on the left.
It is with the
team which jumped on
My dad and other
doctor in
They taste
alcohol of the secret cellar of Hitler.
They carry
German officer's caps.
My dad is the
second on the right.
My dad in a jeep with a
cap and a German tee-shirt