Born: December 30, 1921
Staff Sergeant, United States Army Service# 39920830 G CO, 2ND BATTALION, 38TH INFANTRY REGIMENT,
2ND INFANTRY DIVISION “INDIAN HEAD” Date of Enlistment: September 20, 1943
Home or Place of Enlistment: Boise, Idaho Died: February 20, 1945 Killed in Action while conducting combat operations against
Nazi Germany Forces during World War II. |
This Regiment possesses the finest military qualifications. In August 1944, it was charged with the taking of Brest and by skillful maneuvers and despite severe losses, succeeded in breaking down, one by one, the resistances protecting the city. In spite of the strenuous return fire of the enemy, it seized the peninsula of Daoulas, the support of Plougastel, and plunged into Brest next, driving from it a strong force that defended itself by fighting street by street, house by house.
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