Lattie tipton biography of rory gilmore

It is one of the least visited graveyards for American soldiers in Europe. I have visited several times and marveled at its haunting beauty. I have also wondered how many others make the pilgrimage all the way from the United States to the Rhone American Cemetery and Memorial in Draguignan in Provence. On a hot fall day recently, I enter the graveyard and I cannot spot a single wreath in memory of the 851 military dead, most of whom lost their lives during the liberation of Southern France in August 1944, following Operation Dragoon.

Cypresses and oleanders skirt the 12.5 acres of the graveyard where Americans were first buried on 19 August 1944.

My first stop is the grave of Pfc. Lattie Tipton, the close friend of the legendary Audie Murphy, WWII’s most decorated infantryman. Tipton served alongside Murphy in B Company of the 15th Infantry Regiment and was killed in a vineyard, which I have also visited several times, near St. Tropez - just a few hours after landin