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    1. [INMONROE] Wilma Wood Recipient of Golden Lion Award
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    3. Bloomington (Monroe County, Indiana) Herald-Times, January 2, 2015, p. E4. NOTE: The item below was abstracted from the original by Randi Richardson. The original was accompanied by one large photograph. Wilma Burcham came to Bloomington after completing high school. She went to work at RCA in the "secret room" where employees believed they were making parts for ammunition and bombs to be used during WWII. In July 1946, after the war was over, she met Robert "Bob" Wood whom she married just three months later. Bob was a military veteran who served with the 106th Infantry Division in the Battle of the Bulge and was former POW. When Bob tried to share some of his military experience with Wilma, she cried, and he never spoke of it again. In 2000, their daughter Carol (Wood) Faulkner of Martinsville, tracked down Bob's POW "bunkmate," Russ Lang. The next year Bob and Russ met for the first time since returning from the war and, Bob and Wilma became lifetime members of the 106th Division Association. In 2015, Wilma was given the Golden Lion Award for her continued service to the 106th Infantry Division. She is one of very few women who have received it.

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