Dixon Wilford Noland �Rippy�

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Wilford Noland �Rippy� Dixon is honored on the following 1 monument(s) in our database:

Waal River Crossing Memorial - 82nd Airborne Division

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:

Grave:

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.