James South

James South was born on October 7, 1919, in northeast Texas where his family were sharecroppers. He joined the Army in 1940. In 1944, South deployed to Normandy seven days after D-Day, the beginning of the Allied invasion of France. He landed in Normandy between June 6 and August 21, 1944. The invasion was known as the "beginning of the end" of World War II. The allies liberated the French city of Caen from Nazi occupation on July 19, and they liberated Paris on August 25, eventually crossing the Rhine Rive in March, which led to the surrender of Germany and the end of the war in Europe on May 7, 1945.

South receive many letters from his girlfriend Sophie the four years he was gone. They married after the war and were married for 55 years. South says his father taught him that "money wasn't the goal in life- it was happiness."