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the Army couldn’t even get food or medical supplies would like to be remembered
to us, but we took over the dam before the Japs blew for, the 94-year-old smiled and
it up. said, “That I could help them army
old people.”
“After the dam was secured, we went back to a rest
area. An officer drove up in a jeep and told us that the LLOYD’S MEDALS AND RIBBONS:
war was over. We didn’t believe him at first. Since I
was single, I was sent to Tokyo as part of the Army of
Occupation. Our squad was sent to a small village to Honorable Discharge Lapel Button
guard a school building filled with bombs, 24 hours
a day. I came down with malaria and was sent back Combat Infantry Badge
to Tokyo, then home to the states in December 1946. Bronze Star (Directed a downed U.S.
I was discharged at Ft. Sam Houston in Texas on
February 6, 1946.” pilot safely back to American lines)

“I headed back to Winnsboro, but I had three first Army Good Conduct Medal
cousins in Lubbock and went to visit them. I ran into
a guy from Levelland who helped me get a job at a Asiatic Pacific Campaign Medal w/2 Bronze Stars
service station there. A guy who worked across the WWII Victory Medal w/4 Overseas Service Bars
street at Simon Garret Lumber said he noticed that I
was a hard worker and asked me to come work for Army of Occupation – Japan
him. I worked there 25 years. I met Susie Mae Fite in
Levelland, and we married in November 1946. We Philippine Republic Presidential Unit Citation
had one son, Glen, but Susie died in November 1995.
I married Elwanna McHam in 1997. She had two girls,
but she died in February 2017.” These days, Lloyd Lloyd went on the 2015 Texas South Plains Honor Flight to
“likes to work at the senior citizen center in Levelland Washington, D.C.
and deliver meals to shut-ins. When asked what he

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Alberto Florez-Garcia, PT, DPT
(806) 712-7878 | 4214 98th St, Lubbock, TX 79423 Catalina Clavijo, PT, DPT, OCS

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