Joe Willie Wilkins (January 7, 1921 March 28, 1981) was an American Memphis blues guitarist, singer and songwriter. Whilst he influenced contemporaries ...
Usdhud Jun 1979 - Jan 2002
Contract Specilist
United States Air Force Jun 1955 - Dec 1977
Aircraft Maintenance Supervisor
Education:
Mary Potter High School 1951 - 1955
University of Pheonix/University of Or
Skills:
Research Policy Analysis Public Speaking Social Media Strategic Planning Nonprofits International Relations Microsoft Office Editing Public Policy Project Management Politics
"I often thought of this poor soldier dead for FRANCE + FREEDOMS," Crespo later wrote in a handwritten letter to Carol Wilkins, dated April 13, 2013. "WILLIE WILKINS what a pretty name, as it sounds good for us French, for me anyway."As rain fell outside, Willie Wilkins was honored in a ceremony under Newark City Hall's soaring rotunda, where Mayor Cory Booker presented the Wilkinses with the dog tag on Wednesday, Victory in Europe Day. The ceremony was attended by Bertrand Lortholary, the Counsul General of France.Carol Wilkins plans to display the tag in a case on her father's dresser. Willie Wilkins has been in a rehabilitation facility and suffers from Alzheimer's Disease and other ailments. She expects him to return to their home soon.
Crespo, while digging beneath an olive tree at her home near the Mediterranean port city of Marseilles, uncovered a World War II-era dog tag belonging to one Willie Wilkins, who had accidentally dropped it nearly 69 years ago.mpletes a circle that began with a Newark natives service to our country in historys greatest war. We are honored by Willie Wilkins, and it is truly appropriate to help return these artifacts to him and to recognize him today, on the anniversary of the final defeat of Adolf Hitler, Booker said.
Sixty-nine years after losing his dog tag on the battlefields of southern France, Willie Wilkins reclaimed it Wednesday after a trans-Atlantic effort to return it to him. It started more than a decade ago in a French backyard and ended with a surprise ceremony in Newark City Hall.In August 1944, Willie Wilkins was an Army corporal fighting in the Allied invasion of southern France. Amid the horrors of battle, Wilkins's job was one of the grimmest. A quartermaster, Wilkins was responsible for removing and identifying the bodies of dead American servicemen and having them buriWillie Wilkins returned to Newark and worked on an assembly line. He was a happy man who doted on his only daughter, but his service as a quartermaster took a toll. He had a nervous breakdown and post-traumatic stress disorder and retired at age 44, his daughter said.