Jim Tankersley of Brookside Bluff Condominium Park north of Arcadia, Fla. looks at a magazine about Gen. Omar Bradley’s 9th Army during World War II. Sun photo by Don Moore
1st Sgt. Jim Tankersley, who lives in Brookside Bluff Condominium Park north of Arcadia, Fla. was in charge of ground communications for the 95th Infantry Division’s artillery battalion. He and a squad of 25 soldiers laid and maintained the phone cables connecting division headquarters with front line troops during some of the major battles in Europe in World War II.
