was my job to take notes and write reports — but he thought it was another maneuver . I went out to look and saw the sky full of planes pulling gliders , and I knew . I couldn ’ t help but feel for them , that thousands of soldiers wouldn ’ t see another daylight when they dropped behind the German lines … It ’ s kind of difficult to talk about .”
In the wake of D-Day , Clouse ’ s unit was part of the occupational force first going into France then Germany as the war ended . He served a total of two years in the European Theater — including the French city of Verdun , where his father had participated in one of the longest battles of World
Clyde Clouse holds a photo of himself with a little girl he befriended while stationed in Stuttgart , Germany , at the end of World War II .
Photo by Janie Slaven
War I some 25 years earlier . While stationed at Stuttgart in Germany , he befriended a little girl who would come out of her house each day as the soldiers walked by .
“ She would run out with her little hand cupped out like that ,” Clouse recalled , demonstrating with an outstretched hand . “ I would put a candy bar , pack of chewing gum or something like that in her hand . She ’ d look up at me and smile real sweet then run back in .”
Clouse was honorably discharged on February 21 , 1946 , after four years and returned home to the Corbin area but soon found that jobs were scarce . With the help of the Veterans Administration
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