Phillip Ollie - U.S. Army
1940 - 45

Mr. Phillip Ollie, who lives in Farmville, proudly served his country from September 1940 to December 1945. He was in the U.S. Army, 45th Infantry Division. He was wounded in Sicily in 1943 and received the Purple Heart. While in the hospital, he was reclassified and transferred to the U.S. Air Force.

In 1945, he was waiting to be sent to Japan, but the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima in August of 1945 and the war ended shortly thereafter.

After the war, Mr. Ollie continued his relationship with the Armed Services by working for the Department of Defense at Camp Pickett and Langley Air Force Base until he retired in 1972.