LeRoy "Lee" Vickroy of McConnellsburg, Pennsylvania served in Company G of the 161st Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division as a sergeant and as a squad leader in a rifle squad. Vickroy served with the "Tropic Lightning" from 1943 until 1945 in the Pacific Theater of Operations as well as during the U.S. Occupation of Japan following V-J Day. Vickroy experienced intense combat on the island of Luzon.