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Captain William H. "Bill" Nation (1919 – 31 January 1945), was a Texan officer of the United States 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment (serial 0-1287569). ==Military career== He was billeted at Wollaton Park, Nottinghamshire, England in World War II and shot colour 8 mm cine footage of life there as well as in Nottingham〔http://www.bbc.co.uk/nottingham/content/articles/2005/12/22/nottingham_at_war_feature.shtml〕 and Derby.〔http://www.bbc.co.uk/derby/content/articles/2005/12/21/derby_1944_film_william_nation_feature.shtml〕 William jumped on D-Day in the same paratrooper group ("stick") as 508th Commander, Col. Roy E. Lindquist on 6 June 1944. Additionally, Nation also jumped during Operation Market Garden into the Netherlands on 17 September 1944. He was killed in action in 1945, when an 88 mm German shell hit the building he was in while setting up a forward command post during the Battle of the Bulge. He died in Lanzerath, Belgium.〔http://users.swing.be/salmriver/NationWilliamH508.htm〕 William Nation was awarded a Bronze Star with an oak leaf cluster and a Purple Heart. He is buried in Henri-Chapelle American Cemetery and Memorial in Belgium, at Plot D Row 10 Grave 49.〔http://www.508pir.org/taps/graves/n/nation.htm〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「William H. Nation」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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