- I am the son of Thomas L Corey of the 630th tank Destroyer. My father, Edgar Waller and a couple of other men had the first reunion of these men and families of the 630th TD in Savannah ga in 1963. I was seven and had no idea of who all these people were related. They acted as if they were brothers, sisters and cousins. In fact, they were. The men bonded under the most adverse conditions our country had experienced, the wives, children and girlfriends became family through the letters of loved ones in the war. They became my family and treated me as such. They were, their children are, the finest group of people I have had the pleasure of knowing. Those men survived some of the most inhumane conditions one could imagine. I will always hold these men with the utmost respect and admiration because even enduring these terrible conditions, during these reunions, I never heard them complain about what they went thru but laughed and joked about the situations they encountered or the humor that was played on each other. They were glad to be home but the holes were there from the ones that didn’t return. The reunions were every three years then every two years and finally every year until there were no more which lasted over fifty plus years. Thank you Soldiers of the 630th TD, the families of these men and the incredible memories I am blessed to have. You are greatly missed.
