Name: Blackard, John I.
Year of Birth: 1921
Current Residence: London, AR
County: Johnson County
War Time Duty (MOS): Artillery Mechanic
Branch of Service: US Army
Theater of Operation: Europe
Division: Unknown at present
Regiment: 671st Field Artillery Battalion, Battery C
Major Engagements: Rhineland, Ardennes, Central Europe, Northern France, Normandy

Biography: If you ask Mr. Blackard what a 'Long Tom' is he can tell you. Mr. Blackard was an Army Artillery Mechanic and saw how the war unfolded from behind a canon. He also tells of some frightening bombardments, scrapes, and close calls, and of some horrors seen in Nazi concentration camps.