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One Step Further
This is Staff Sergeant
Herbert Jeffery Buffalo Boy who joined Company D of
the 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment at
the start, August 1942. Buffalo Boy was there until
the end with three months in Hospital wounded
October 1944 in Holland.
Buffalo Boy was a Machine
gunner for Company D, rising from Private to Staff
Sergeant by the end of World War II. He was in all
6 Campaigns for the 505th and jumped 4
times into combat.
Attached are the records for
Staff Sergeant Buffalo Boy. Included is where
Company D was day to day for Normandy, The Bulge and
Central Europe.
Here is a link to Herbert Buffalo Boy's Find A
Grave. The work done there is amazing.
Usually the story ends for many
of the men from WWII when they die. Not this time
though, because sometime between 1955 and 1957 a
Stolen Valor named Bill Cano (who was not in WWII)
subscribed to the Co E Poop Sheet created and run by
Don Lassen.
Cano at some point in the late
1940s changed his name to Buffalo Boy Canoe. Bill
Cano (Buffalo Boy Canoe) was a fraud for most of his
adult life. Cano must run across the
real soldier Herbert Buffalo Boy as he latched on to
not only by using a similar name but also saying he
was in Company D in WWII.
In May of 1958 letters were
sent out to Co E Poop Sheet members by the staff of
Cornelius Ryan along with a questionnaire about
their time in Normandy. One of the people was Bill
Cano.
Below is a link about what Cano
did to both Mr. Buffalo Boy and the WWII Military by
co-opting Herbert Buffalo Boy life and name. Cano
is without a doubt the worst of the WWII Stolen
Valor.
Worst Stolen Valor
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