Grave marker for Chappell S. Sims in Pleasant Plains
Cemetery, Danville (Twiggs and Wilkinson counties), Georgia.
Chappell enlisted in the Army at Noblesville, IN and
volunteered for parachutist duty.
On 22 October 1945, Pfc Sims was transferred from the
101st Airborne Division to Hq 2nd, 508th PIR.
He reenlisted in the Army on 13 November 1945 for a period
of 3 years and was immediately placed on TDY with the 6903rd Reinforcement
Battalion, Le Havre, France for a reenlistment furlough of 60 days. He
may well have made it home and back during that furlough period. |