Boggs, John Lee “Johnny”, born 06-08-1919, in Elliott County, Kentucky, USA, 
the son of Henderson Sherman Boggs, Senior (1877-1920) and his wife Susan, born Mosley Boggs (1881-1962). 
They were wed shortly before he left for the war. John’s twin brother: Henderson Sherman Boggs, Junior also served in the United States Army during World War II. and remarried to Mary Louise Brien) .
John’s father died the next year (1920) and his mother remarried. The family moved to Johnson City, Washington County, Tennessee, 
the place John called home. He was working for the Miller Brother’s Lumber Company 
here when he enlisted in the United States Army 
on 22-09-1942 at Camp Forrest in Tullahoma, Tennessee. 
Johhny completed Basic Training at Camp Forrest and then volunteer for Airborne (Paratrooper) Duty. 
John was dispatched to Camp Toccoa, Georgia, 
where he would be assigned to Company I, 3rd Battalion “Currahee” of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment. 
under command of General Lieutenant Robert Sink “Five Oh Sink” 
This is where they earned their nickname: Currahees, after the camp’s Currahee Mountain. 
Paratroopers in training ran from Camp Toccoa up Currahee Mountain and back with the shout “three miles up, three miles down!”. The Cherokee word, translates to “Stand Alone” which became the unit’s motto. Members of the unit wear the spade symbol on their helmets and the Screaming Eagle patch 
(indicating membership in the 101st Airborne Division) on the left sleeve. Its first commanding officer was Colonel Robert F. Sink, and the 506th was sometimes referred to as the “Five-Oh-Sink”. On 10-06-1943, the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment officially became part of the 101st Airborne Division, commanded by Major General William Cary “Bill” Lee, 
the “father of the United States Army Airborne”…
Death and burial ground of Boggs, John Lee “Johnny”.
His friend private Dixon Walker died of wounds on 06-01-1945, aged 20, and was buried in Charnley Church Vault, near Tellin, Belgium.
“Johnny” Boggs, John Lee, died on 15-06-1944, in battle in Calvados, France, at the age of 24, and was buried in Colleville-sur-Mer, Calvados, Section C Row 21 and Grave 27. France. .
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