Name:                                                  EDWIN ALLEN JOHNSON

            Known as:                                           “Bud”

Hometown per military records:                      Proctor

            Date of Birth:                                       January 24, 1922 at New Haven, CT

            Entered military service at:                  Rutland, VT

            Entered military service on:                 September 1942

            Rank:                                                   Second Lieutenant

            Commissioned:                                                November 1944 at Fort Benning, GA

            Army serial number:                            O-1327549

            Unit:                                                    10^th Mountain Division

                                                                        85^th Mountain Regiment

                                                                        1^st Battalion

                                                                        Company B

            Wounded In Action:                            February 20, 1945 at Mt. Gorgolesco, Italy

            Died of wounds:                                  May 27, 1945 at 12^th General Hospital, Leghorn,

                                                                        Italy

            Buried:                                                 Proctor Cemetery on November 08, 1949

            Medals:                                                            Purple Heart

            On local WWII monument?                 Roll Of Honor in Proctor Town Office

            Age:                                                     23

            Details of Death:                                  Chest wound at Mt. Belvedere at 03:00.

                                                                        Officially noted in his Individual Deceased

                                                                        Personnel File as “W. Perf. Thoraco-abdominal

rt.” {Perforating wound right

thoracic/abdomen.}

Note that he was for an unknown amount of time cared for at the 16^th Evacuation Hospital in Leghorn. Army records are in conflict regarding his exact date of death showing both May 26^th & 27^th, 1945. Since he was buried on May 28^th, it is reasonable to assume that the correct DoD was the 27^th.

See the newspaper clipping in which he wrote the story of his wounding and evacuation back to medical care. The newspaper is unidentified as is the publication date.