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Arthur F. Gorham
Arthur Fulbrook Gorham (January 11, 1915, Brooklyn, New York – July 12, 1943, Sicily, Italy) was a U.S. Army officer and Paratrooper. Gorham was the first commander of the 1st Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 82nd Airborne Division. He led them from their inception to Operation Husky, the 1943 allied invasion of Sicily.
==Early Life and Family==
Gorham was born in Brooklyn, New York to James Allison Gorham, Sr. (September 13, 1890 – February 9, 1972) and Louise Fox Gorham (April 1885 – July 4, 1966).〔James Gorham, Sr. registered for the WWI draft as a 27-year-old with two children. Recently uncovered information reveals he also registered for the draft at the outbreak of WWII at the age of 52. By that time, Arthur was a lieutenant stationed at the Presidio.〕 His older brother was James Allison Gorham, Jr. (November 26, 1911 – May 15, 2005). Gorham's parents were second generation Americans and were both of Scottish descent. The Gorhams moved from Brooklyn to Bellevue, Ohio in July 1917. James, Sr. owned a successful dry goods business.
While awaiting transportation from Governors Island in New York to his first assignment after graduating from West Point, Gorham renewed a previous acquaintance with Corrine “Colonel” Bennett (later Clarke) (October 21, 1917 – October 20, 2001). They had met for the first time a few years earlier at an Army football game. Bennett was then a senior at the University of Wichita where she was president of the Pi Beta Phi Sorority (then called the Sorosis Sorority), captain of the rifle team and had held titles in both golf and tennis.〔"Miss Corinne Bennett to Wed Lieut. A.F. Gorham this Summer," Undated and unknown news clipping from the Gorham Family archives.〕 The two were married on June 21, 1939 in Wichita, Kansas.〔"Young Socialites Wed at Charming Ceremony: Brilliant Assemblage of Wedding Guests Throng St. James Church at Impressive Military Rites," The Wichita Beacon, June 22, 1939, page 15.〕 The couple had one child, Bruce Bennett Gorham Clarke (born January 26, 1943 at Ft. Benning, GA). Clarke followed in his father's footsteps graduating from West Point, serving in an airborne unit, fighting in Vietnam at Khe Sanh and commanding at every level from a platoon to a brigade.〔Clarke took the last name of his mother's second husband, Edwin R. Clarke (April 23, 1913 – July 7, 1996).〕〔Colonel Clarke's website can be found at http://www.brucebgclarke.com〕
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