- REPORTED FOR DUTY ON
12/3/42 FROM ELKORN, WISCONSIN.
- TOOK BASIC TRAINING
AT CAMP CLAIBORNE, LOUISIANA.
- ASSIGNED TO 103RD
INFANTRY DIVISION, 409TH REGIMENT, D COMPANY,
- 81MM MORTAR PLATOON.
- PARTICIPATED IN 3RD
ARMY, LOUISIANA MANEUVERS
IN FALL OF 1943.
- TRANSFERRED TO CAMP HOWZE,
TEXAS AS CADRE IN NOVEMBER 1943.
- ARRIVED IN MARSEILLES,
FRANCE IN OCTOBER 1944. FOUGHT THROUGH
- THE 7TH ARMY VOSGES
MOUNTAIN CAMPAIGN.
- KILLED IN ACTION BY
SNIPER FIRE NEAR DAMBACH-LA-VILLE ON 12/1/44.
- ETERNALLY HONORED AT
EPINAL AMERICAN CEMETERY IN FRANCE.
- BELOVED HUSBAND AND
FATHER
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