103rd Cactus Division

SGT RICHARD ALLEN MORRISON

State of Residency before Joining : TX
Date of Enlistment: 06/20/43
Place of Entry into Service : Ft. San Houston, TX
Date of Entry to Active Service : 07/16/43
Service in Co E (Easy Co) 2nd Inf
Date of Departure to EUROPE: 10/06/44
Date of Arrival in Europe: 10/20/44
  Captured by German SS troops likely during BATTLE of SCHILLERSDORF, FRANCE.
Date of Departing Europe: 04/29/45
Date of Arriving back in US : 05/12/45
Date of Separation from Service: 11/22/45 @ Ft Logan, CO
Bronze Star : European Theater of Operations on or about 12/03/44
Battles & Campaigns : Rhineland, Central Europe
Decorations & Citations: European African Middle Eastern Service Metal
                                      World War II Victory Medal
                                      Good Conduct Medal
                                      American Service medal
  POW - Captured 1/22/45.  Sent to STALAG LUFT 12.
              Liberated 4/01/45.  Easter morning.  FRANKFORT-ON-MAIN
              (Ger. Frankfurt am Main), a city of Germany, in the Prussian province of
               Hesse-Nassau.
 
Married OCT 16th 1954 to MARY RUTH (Irwin) MORRISON         

Died : 03/08/97
 
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