Long Ago Soldier

"Bud Wilkes resides in Savannah, Georgia ... As a staff sergeant in World War II, he served with the 102nd Infantry Division along the Roer River in Germany during 1944-1945, and in the advance of the division to Stendal, on the Elbe River. As a volunteer with a small band of soldiers of some renown, called Rogers Night Raiders, he made reconnaissance and combat missions across the Roer, and was awarded the Silver Star, the Bronze Star plus Oak Leaf Cluster, the Purple Heart, an honorary French Croix de Guerre and an honorary Russian Bravery Medal"--