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Biography
James Thomas Stanton, was born in Manhattan, New York city, March 18th, 1922. His father, Anthony "Tony" W. Stanton, was a business manager on Wall Street, who barely managed to keep his job during the depression era of 1924-1940. His mother was a stay at home mom, who looked after Stanton and his 3 other sisters and 4 other "Mad Dog" brothers. One helped pay the bills by regularly doing paper routes early in the morning. Tragedy struck Stanton's family when his oldest Brother, Stanley, died in a horrible car accident. In 1942, after the Attack on Pearl Harbor, Stanton left behind his home and enlisted in the US Military in 1942, he was then assigned to an experimental combat unit formed called the 82nd Airborne "All Americans", due to the company having at least 1 enlisted man from all States. Stanton's first jump was in Sicily, in 1943 as part of Operation Husky. After the successful jump, he then partook in Operation Avalanche, the Airborne's invasion of mainland Italy, where he assisted in the destruction of several AA Guns and key Battery guns along the coast. Later, as part of Operation Overlord, Stanton dropped behind enemy lines at Omaha beach to make his way to the beaches and assist 1st Infantry division troops. He then jumped in Montgomery's failed attempt at ending the war by Christmas, by participating in "Market Garden" which earned Stanton a scar when a Waffen-SS soldier charged him with a Bayonet. He then got the chance to earn the US Distinguished Service cross as part of Varsity, where he put himself at great risk, by rescuing a squad of US soldiers, by eliminating a King Tiger in the vicinity of the drop zone, earning him the distinguished service cross. After the war, he was sent to Berlin on a guarding mission, when a zombie outbreak happened, of course, he survived. But barely, shaken by the incident, Stanton requested that he be discharged and sent back home after the incident. He then decided to marry his long time girlfriend since public school, Victoria Edgecomb in 1948. A year later, in 1949, Victoria gave birth to their only child, Esther Stanton, who later had a child of her own named Marie. Stanton happily lived with Victoria until the end of his life, in 2008, dying of old age.