George L. Potter Jnr.
Photo from the Hood River High School 1943 yearbook.
“Just after returning from Normandy Dad had taken a motorcycle without “permission” from someone in Swindon to return to Aldbourne, and crashed breaking his leg. He ended up in a hospital. So when the company moved to the airfield for the Market Garden jump he broke the cast off his leg and made his way to the company just in time to make the jump, but was not on the jump roster. And the late Sept Easy Co. roster did not have his name in Holland with the Company as well, stating he was still in the Hospital.
Easy Company, 506th, 2nd Platoon Photo – Daniel Potter
Dad’s story was that a few days after the jump he was wounded, and was not with the company at the time of the first Holland roster. I was never really sure I believed this story until I met Lies Staal. She was a young girl when Easy Co. made it’s way through Eindhoven. She had an autograph book that she had Americans sign as they made their way past her house on 18 Sept. 1944 and in her book is my fathers signature.
I believe he was most likely wounded in the same battle in which Bill Miller was Killed.”
Daniel Potter
The Copied page from Lies Staal’s wartime autograph book – Daniel Potter.
