After the fighting in North Africa, Bill Kerr’s hometown newspaper in Missouri carried a feature article announcing his award of the Distinguished Service Cross, the Silver Star and the Purple Heart with Oak Leaf Cluster. Here are some excerpts (in italics) of that news clipping. Following that is Bill’s personal story about an almost amusing instance of Field Artillery being used in an Air Defense role. “…Blond Billy Kerr, who went from the University of Missouri into the Army and now wears three ribbons on his khaki shirt…was decorated for extraordinary gallantry (in an action) February 15, 1943 at Sidi Bou Zid when Field Marshal Erwin Rommel staged his big tank smash...