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<blockquote data-quote="John Robertson" data-source="post: 33728" data-attributes="member: 1"><p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>SURNAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Dixon </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>FORENAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Virgil Sherman</em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>UNIT</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>6 Ranger Bn (Company C) </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>RANK</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Private First Class </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>NUMBER</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>38079621 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>AWARD</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Bronze Star </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>PLACE</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Philippines 1945 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>ADDITIONAL INFORMATION</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>resided Oklahoma</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>born 08.05.1915, Hector, Arkansas, USA</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>father Thomas Henderson Dixon (1887-1973)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>mother Mary Jane (nee White) Dixon (1891-1987)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>grammar school education</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>civil occupation farm hand</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>single without dependents upon enlistment</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>16.10.1940 draft card Checotah, Oklahoma</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>12.02.1942 entered service Fort Sill, Oklahoma</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>13.10.1945 discharged</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>wife Theda Nellie (nee Dornan) Dixon (1926-2021)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>1 son (Randy) & 2 daughters (Jane & Kathleen)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>died 23.09.1999 (Aged 84) Claremore, Oklahoma, USA</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Greenlawn Cemetery, Checotah, Oklahoma, USA</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em><a href="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/v-dixon-grave.39366/" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/39/39366-f86f57756c6823a241808bc90237be65.jpg?1698157274" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 300px; height: 300px" /></a></em></p></blockquote><p></p>
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