My father (Ernest Clifton Shelton) is not a Gentry, my mother is, but I am so proud of him and wanted to share. He served in WWll as an engineer after working in the CCC for a few years. He was in England for two years, then joined the Normandy invasion on D-4. He marched through Paris and on to Liege, Belgium where he joined Patton's third army. He took pictures the entire length of his service and we have a wonderful pictorial documentation of the European phase of the war from protecting England, the Normandy invasion, marching through Germany and even a picture of Patton telling the men that the war was over. I have managed to document the date and place of that because it was the one time that Patton did not wear his pearl handled pistols according to Pattons own diary. The last picture my father took was on the ship looking over the men's heads as they looked toward the Statue of Liberty, it still makes me cry. On this day in 1944 my Granny Shelton was praying that my Dad, another son General, a prisoner of Bataan, and another son Louis, in the Pacific on a ship, would all be home for Thanksgiving. They made it. Thanks for letting me share. Debra Lisenbee daughter of Alice Gentry Shelton, daughter of George Franklin Gentry, son of John William Gentry, son of William Gentry who died in the Civil War (also stepson of Bate Barry a great war hero of Texas) grandson of Raleigh (Rolly) of Mason County Texas.