82nd Airborne paratrooper to be buried in Pennsylvania
Pfc. Willard “Bud” Jenkins will be given a hero’s burial in his hometown this month, a little more than 74 years after he was killed in Europe.Jenkins, of Scranton, Pennsylvania, will be buried Wednesday, according to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency.He was accounted for on July 3, decades after he was killed during the famed Waal River Crossing during Operation Market Garden.Jenkins, who served with the 82nd Airborne Division, was declared […]
