{"id":12857,"date":"2017-11-06T12:51:11","date_gmt":"2017-11-06T19:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uchealth.org\/today\/?p=12857"},"modified":"2021-07-13T10:51:33","modified_gmt":"2021-07-13T16:51:33","slug":"fighting-freedom-50-years-apart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uchealth.org\/today\/fighting-freedom-50-years-apart\/","title":{"rendered":"Fighting for freedom 50 years apart"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>As the 19-year-old flew into enemy territory during World War II, he and his fellow members of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ww2-airborne.us\/units\/194\/194.html\">194<sup>th<\/sup> Glider Infantry Regiment<\/a> did not even have an engine to keep them aloft.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, they dodged German antiaircraft fire in gliders made of nothing more than canvas, wood and metal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnce we were turned loose, we landed as quickly as we could, as the gliders became the targets,\u201d said Jim Ingram, now 92, as he recalled one of his last missions of the war.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_12822\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12822\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12822 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/11\/06024105\/Honor-Fight_Jim-and-John_1200.webp\" alt=\"WWII Pfc. Jim Ingram, pushed by Sgt. John Darcy, gives the crowd a thumbs up as he gets ready to load the bus for the Honor Flight Northern Colorado trip on Sept. 17-18, 2017.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"832\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/11\/06024105\/Honor-Fight_Jim-and-John_1200.webp 1200w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/11\/06024105\/Honor-Fight_Jim-and-John_1200-300x208.webp 300w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/11\/06024105\/Honor-Fight_Jim-and-John_1200-1024x710.webp 1024w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/11\/06024105\/Honor-Fight_Jim-and-John_1200-768x532.webp 768w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/11\/06024105\/Honor-Fight_Jim-and-John_1200-150x104.webp 150w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/11\/06024105\/Honor-Fight_Jim-and-John_1200-200x139.webp 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12822\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">WWII Pfc. Jim Ingram, pushed by Sgt. John Darcy, gives the crowd a thumbs up as he gets ready to load the bus for the Honor Flight Northern Colorado trip on Sept. 17-18, 2017.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Ingram recently visited the World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C. as part of an Honor Flight for veterans.<\/p>\n<p>Accompanying Ingram was a fellow veteran, Ret. Army Sgt. John Darcy, an UCHealth emergency room nurse in Fort Collins. Because of Ingram\u2019s health issues, Darcy provided one-on-one medical support during the trip. Ingram said he would not have been able to make the trip without Darcy, and he couldn\u2019t have found a better travel companion than the former paratrooper.<br \/>\n<div class=\"su-callout-box col-xs-6 col-sm-6 right\" style=\"background-color:#dce4e7; color:#2e3b44;\">\n<p><strong>Veterans among us: saluting our service members<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>View all the stories:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uchealth.org\/today\/three-tours-iraq-silent-attacker\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Video: Three tours in Iraq and a silent attacker<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uchealth.org\/today\/veteran-gives-veteran-his-sight-back\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Veteran gives veteran his sight back<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uchealth.org\/today\/once-facing-just-10-days-to-live-air-force-veteran-is-back-on-his-bike\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Once facing just 10 days to live, Air Force veteran is back on his bike<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uchealth.org\/today\/the-power-of-listening\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The power of listening<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uchealth.org\/today\/keeping-up-the-fight-after-nearly-losing-a-leg\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Keeping up the fight after nearly losing a leg<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uchealth.org\/today\/employee-vet-test-making-uchealth-strong\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">UCHealth employees: saluting the veterans among us<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cWe bonded over our experiences, which were similar despite being 50 years apart,\u201d Darcy recalled. \u201cBeing terrified in combat is being terrified in combat, whether that\u2019s in 1945 or 2005. The feeling is the same and you can relate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Darcy served with the 82<sup>nd<\/sup> Airborne as a paratrooper from 1983-87 and spent time in Germany \u2014 walking many of the battlefields where Ingram also had fought. He again served in 1991, and then was part of the active and inactive reserves of the U.S. Army from 2001-06, serving in many different theaters of operations in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. In 2012, he joined UCHealth as a registered nurse in the emergency department and in interventional radiology, and he also is attending school to become a nurse practitioner.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_12859\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12859\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12859 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/11\/06041852\/Jim_memorial.webp\" alt=\"WWII Pfc. Jim Ingram, visits Washington, D.C. during an Honor Flight Northern Colorado trip on Sept. 17-18, 2017.\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/11\/06041852\/Jim_memorial.webp 450w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/11\/06041852\/Jim_memorial-225x300.webp 225w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/11\/06041852\/Jim_memorial-113x150.webp 113w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/11\/06041852\/Jim_memorial-200x267.webp 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12859\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">WWII Pfc. Jim Ingram, visits Washington, D.C. during an Honor Flight Northern Colorado trip on Sept. 17-18, 2017.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>During their visit to the monument, Ingram and Darcy admired the circular bronze and granite memorial that commemorates 16 million members of the Armed Forces who fought in World War II and 405,399 who made the ultimate sacrifice and lost their lives.<\/p>\n<p>The monument has 4,048 gold stars, one for every 10 Americans who died during the war.<\/p>\n<p>As Ingram and Darcy studied the memorial, they paused to take a photo in front of a panel etched with these words: \u201cHere we mark the price of freedom.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Ingram is part of the Greatest Generation, and though he doesn\u2019t speak in much detail about his time in the war, one only has to read history books about the battles he fought to know that Ingram knows first-hand the price of freedom.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_12829\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12829\" style=\"width: 209px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12829 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/11\/06024327\/Jim-Ingram-military-photo1200.webp\" alt=\"WWII military photo\" width=\"209\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/11\/06024327\/Jim-Ingram-military-photo1200.webp 697w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/11\/06024327\/Jim-Ingram-military-photo1200-209x300.webp 209w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/11\/06024327\/Jim-Ingram-military-photo1200-105x150.webp 105w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/11\/06024327\/Jim-Ingram-military-photo1200-200x287.webp 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 209px) 100vw, 209px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12829\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pfc. Jim Ingram at the start of WWII. Photo courtesy of Jim Ingram.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>During the December 1944 Battle of the Bulge, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ww2-airborne.us\/18corps\/17abn\/17_overview.html\">17<sup>th<\/sup> Airborne<\/a>, which the 194<sup>th<\/sup> was a part of, was called in as infantry to seize the town of Flamierge, Germany and to help other regiments push forward and eventually achieve their objectives. Heavy casualties were sustained, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ww2-airborne.us\/units\/194\/194.html\">one historic account<\/a> of the battle.<\/p>\n<p>Ingram was injured \u2014 hit by shrapnel in the shoulder \u2014 and received a Purple Heart in the war, but he survived. He knew many other young men who did not.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJim and I mostly talked about how it felt to be at these memorials,\u201d Darcy said.<\/p>\n<p>Darcy marveled at Ingram\u2019s courage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t imagine what it was like,\u201d Darcy elaborated. \u201cI was scared to jump out of an airplane and this guy was in a glider.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_12830\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12830\" style=\"width: 206px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12830\" src=\"https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/11\/06024339\/Jim-Ingram-Purple-Heart1200.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"206\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/11\/06024339\/Jim-Ingram-Purple-Heart1200.webp 687w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/11\/06024339\/Jim-Ingram-Purple-Heart1200-206x300.webp 206w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/11\/06024339\/Jim-Ingram-Purple-Heart1200-103x150.webp 103w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/11\/06024339\/Jim-Ingram-Purple-Heart1200-200x291.webp 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 206px) 100vw, 206px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12830\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">WWII Pfc. Jim Ingram received the Purple Heart after being injured during the 1944 WWII Battle of the Bulge.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Only recently having returned to his unit after his injury, Pfc. Ingram loaded into a Waco military glider with 12 other men and sat right behind the pilot. Barely concealed and dodging enemy fire, Ingram and fellow members of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ww2-airborne.us\/units\/194\/194.html\">194<sup>th<\/sup> Glider Infantry Regiment<\/a> set out to land behind enemy lines to seize the Issel Canal for safe crossing for the rest of their division.<\/p>\n<p>The engineless gliders were towed into the air by military transport planes \u2013 usually one glider per plane, but in the case of this early-1945 airborne assault on the Rhine, called <a href=\"https:\/\/armyhistory.org\/operation-varsity-the-last-airborne-deployment-of-world-war-ii\/\">Operation Varsity<\/a>, each plane towed two gliders. Once over their target, the gliders were released and landed amid German artillery units. They were quickly abandoned by the crews.<\/p>\n<p>During Operation Varsity, which turned out to be the last full-scale airborne operation of World War II, the 194<sup>th<\/sup> accomplished their mission within a few weeks, including the destruction of 42 artillery pieces and 10 tanks as well as the capture of 1,000 German prisoners.<\/p>\n<p>Ingram remained in the region until <a href=\"https:\/\/www.history.com\/this-day-in-history\/victory-in-europe\">Victory in Europe Day, May 8, 1945<\/a>, then in January 1946, he returned to his Wyoming hometown. He went on to study at the Colorado State University veterinary school and graduated in 1952. After a few years practicing, he became a professor at CSU, starting its veterinary neurology department. He retired in 1995.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_12824\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12824\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12824 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/11\/06024123\/Honor-Flight_Jim-and-grandson-National-Anthem_1200.webp\" alt=\"WWII Pfc. Jim Ingram and his grandson listen to the National Anthem during the Honor Flight Northern Colorado send-off celebration on Sept. 17, 2017 at Embassy Suites in Loveland.\" width=\"300\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/11\/06024123\/Honor-Flight_Jim-and-grandson-National-Anthem_1200.webp 1200w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/11\/06024123\/Honor-Flight_Jim-and-grandson-National-Anthem_1200-300x219.webp 300w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/11\/06024123\/Honor-Flight_Jim-and-grandson-National-Anthem_1200-1024x747.webp 1024w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/11\/06024123\/Honor-Flight_Jim-and-grandson-National-Anthem_1200-768x560.webp 768w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/11\/06024123\/Honor-Flight_Jim-and-grandson-National-Anthem_1200-150x109.webp 150w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/11\/06024123\/Honor-Flight_Jim-and-grandson-National-Anthem_1200-200x146.webp 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12824\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">WWII Pfc. Jim Ingram and his grandson listen to the National Anthem during the Honor Flight Northern Colorado send-off celebration on Sept. 17, 2017 at Embassy Suites in Loveland.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Ingram\u2019s recent trip to Washington, D.C. was part of Honor Flight Northern Colorado trip with more than 100 veterans, including nine from WWII.<\/p>\n<p>Honor Flight Northern Colorado is a local branch of the Honor Flight network, which provides free visits to war memorials for veterans as an appreciation for their unselfish service to their country. The flights have always focused on WWII veterans but in northern Colorado have extended to terminally ill and Purple Heart recipients from any conflict, Korean War vets and more recently, Vietnam vets.<\/p>\n<p>It was Darcy\u2019s second time as a medical guardian on the Honor Flight, and he plans to save up his money to do it again. Although the trips are free for honorees, the guardians pay their own way to volunteer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019d walk through fire for these guys,\u201d Darcy said of the Honor Flight veterans. \u201cThe things they\u2019ve done; the stuff they saw \u2014 we don\u2019t do enough for them.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the 19-year-old flew into enemy territory during World War II, he and his fellow members of the 194th Glider Infantry Regiment did not even have an engine to keep them aloft. 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