Nearly a year after Chuckie was killed in France in World War II, his older brother enlisted in the Army. The reason now is unknown but possibly out of a sense of duty to his country, honor the memory of his late brother – or both. Jack Wilson was 24 years old, married with a one year old daughter he left at home when he entered the Army on 3 April 1945.
Jack served somewhere in the Pacific. This picture of Chuckie’s brother was taken on the day he was discharged from the Army on 23 Sept 1945 just five months after entering service. The war had ended.
After the war Jack returned to his hometown Beaver, Pennsylvania where he worked as a salesman the rest of his life. He had two grandsons one of whom is the author of this blog. Jack died at the age of 71 years old never knowing the true story of his brother Chuckie’s Carpetbagger mission or the glory of his deeds now captured In Memoriam on Unforgotten Glory.
Unforgotten Glory 