 after him for what he did. I won't share the whole piece with you, but it just says that on the morning of August 24th, 1944, the Inquirer ran an article about a hometown hero. The dateline was vague, somewhere in France, but the story was detailed. Army medic Waverly B. Woodson, Jr., a 20-year-old Philadelphia native and Lincoln University pre-med student, had landed in D-Day's first wave.