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- Max M. Seeley was born March
8, 1918, at Storrs, Utah. He was reared in the rural
communities of Ballard and Bennett, Uintah County, Utah.
He attended Alterra High School. In his junior year, he
was voted the school’s most popular boy. His senior year he
served as Student Body President. He
attended BYU and graduated four years later. He earned two
athletic letters in varsity wrestling and a B.S. Degree in Geology.
Max Seeley enlisted in the Army Air Corps in June of 1942.
His aspirations to fly were dashed by his color blindness. He
trained at Ft Douglas, Sheppard Field; Miami Beach and Sioux Falls,
South Dakota. He was
later assigned to the ASTP program at Oklahoma University.
Max was transferred to the infantry, trained briefly at Camp
Howze, and finally sent to France and combat.
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On December 15th, 1944 while probing into the German
stronghold, an enemy sniper wounded the point man. Max and another
soldier rushed forward to assist. While carrying the injured man
back to a thicket, a German bullet struck the back of his head. He
died instantly. Soon the squad came under intense fire. Afraid of
being overrun, the squad hastily placed his body near a prominent
shrub and retreated, intending to return the next day. French from
the nearby town of Climbach moved his body to the town cemetery.
Following the war, his body was moved sixty miles to the Lorraine
American Cemetery at St. Avold, France where it remains, clothed in
the uniform of the U.S. Army, along with 10,480 others. He was 26
years old.
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