MAURICE "SLEEPY" LINTON
- He loved to
fight, but was known to catch a minute of sleep at every opportunity,
and thus he acquired the nickname "Sleepy." Many men didn't know him as
Maurice at all. After the war, he got out of the Army, didn't
like the civilian life, and then in June 1948 went back into the 82nd
Airborne, He served a tour of duty in Korea, and then when the 101st
Airborne Division was reactivated, he served three years in the 325th
Engineer Bn. After a tour of Germany, he returned to Fort Bragg, NC.
|