Joseph M. Fisher scrapbook and photographs

Joseph Morton Fisher was born on February 15, 1922 in Summitville, Indiana to Arthur Conroy and Vanchie Dell Fisher. The Fisher family soon moved to Muncie, Indiana and Joseph graduated from Muncie Central High School in 1939. Fisher was inducted into the United States Army on December 23, 1942 and assigned him to the 607th Tank Destroyer Battalion four days later at Camp Hood, Texas. The 607th was training at Camp San Luis Obispo and in the Mojave Desert when Joseph and Mary Catherine Kabel (b. June 4, 1924 in Randolph County, Indiana) were married on April 11, 1943. The 607th was then moved to Camp Cooke in Santa Maria, California until the Battalion was called upon for overseas duty in March 1944.

Fisher and the 607th received further training in England in between April and June 1944 before going into battle on Utah Beach in Normandy on June 17, 1944. The 607th swiftly cut across France and Germany through 1944 and 1945, with Fisher serving much of his time as an anti-tank gun crewman. Fisher was promoted to Private First Class in December 1944, Corporal in May 1945 and Sergeant in June 1945. Fisher earned the American Theater Ribbon, the Good Conduct Ribbon, the Victory Medal, and the European Theater Ribbon with five major battle stars for service in Normandy, Northern France, the Ardennes, the Rhineland and Central Europe. Fisher also earned the Purple Heart for wounds received in action on April 21, 1945. Fisher finally returned home to Muncie on November 9, 1945 and was honorably discharged at Camp Atterbury, Indiana on December 2, 1945.