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Mayfield served in the [[United States Army]] in the European theater of operations in [[World War II]] and participated, at the age of twenty, in the Battle of the Bulge in Belgium in December 1944 – January 1945.<ref name=obit>Obituary of Smokey Mayfield, ''Lubbock Avalanche-Journal,' ' September 14, 2008.</ref>
Mayfield served in the [[United States Army]] in the European theater of operations in [[World War II]] and participated, at the age of twenty, in the Battle of the Bulge in Belgium in December 1944 – January 1945.<ref name=obit>Obituary of Smokey Mayfield, ''Lubbock Avalanche-Journal,' ' September 14, 2008.</ref>
==A family of musicians==
==A family of musicians==
The Mayfields possessed a strong musical background. All played musical instruments, beginning with the [[mandolin]]. Mayfield and two brothers, Thomas Edd Mayfield (1927-1958) and [[Herbert Mayfield]] (1920–2008), went on the Bluegrass circuit and opened in Amarillo and Lubbock for Tennessee Ernie Ford and the Maddox Brothers and Rose as the '''Green Valley Boys, named for their ranch. Edd Mayfield left the family band and played the [[guitar]] with a thumbpick for a decade with [[Bill Monroe]], considered the "father of Bluegrass." While he was on tour with Monroe, Edd Mayfield died of leukemia in Bluefield, [[West Virginia]].<ref name=hcrs>Joe Carr and Allan Munde, The Mayfield Boys," ''Hansford County Reporter-Statesman,'' undated.</ref>
The Mayfields possessed a strong musical background. All played musical instruments, beginning with the [[mandolin]]. Mayfield and two brothers, Thomas Edd Mayfield (1927-1958) and [[Herbert Mayfield]] (1920–2008), went on the Bluegrass circuit and opened in Amarillo and Lubbock for Tennessee Ernie Ford and the Maddox Brothers and Rose as the '''Green Valley Boys, named for their ranch. Edd Mayfield left the family band and played the [[guitar]] with a thumbpick for a decade with [[Bill Monroe]], considered the "father of Bluegrass." While he was on tour with Monroe, Edd Mayfield died of leukemia in Bluefield, [[West Virginia]].<ref name=hcrs>Joe Carr and Allan Munde, The Mayfield Boys," ''Hansford County Reporter-Statesman,'' undated.</ref>