Name:
Wilford Noland “Rippy” Dixon
Rank:
Technician 5th Grade
Serial Number:
37244203
Unit:
504th Parachute Infantry Regiment
Date of Death:
1944-09-20
State:
Missouri
Cemetery:
Netherlands American Cemetery, Margraten, Netherlands
Plot:
Plot
Row:
8
Grave:
5
Decoration:
Purple Heart with 2 Oak Leaf Clusters
Comments:
Wilford Noland “Rippy” Dixon was born on October 4, 1921, in Tebbetts, Callaway County, Missouri. He was the son of Leonard Dolcy Dixon and Hattie Lee Nolan Williams.
Wilford served in Company H, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division, as a Technician 5th Grade during World War II. He was Killed in action on September 20, 1944, during Operation Market Garden while participating in the Waal River crossing, the heroic crossing that liberated Nijmegen, The Netherlands. He was one of the 49 paratroopers killed during the assault on German positions on the opposite bank. T/5 Dixon is now buried in the Netherlands American Cemetery, Margraten, Netherlands.