Bill “Pawnee” Fischer Fought from Normandy to Frankfurt

After graduating from BHS in 1941, Bill “Pawnee” Fischer entered Rankin Trade School in St. Louis to become a machinist. From there he worked in the Curtis-Wright airplane plant in the tool and dye department for about five months before being drafted in the summer of 1943.

He spent five months at the armored training center in Ft. Knox, Ky where the Sherman M4 tank would become his machine of focus.  He said, “We marched five to ten miles each morning and trained with tanks all afternoon.”