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The 504th
Parachute Infantry Regiment
Roster Headquarters Company (Partial) - 2nd Battalion
| LastName |
FirstName |
MI |
Tle |
Rank |
ASN No. |
Pltn |
Status |
Medals |
Comment |
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| Aderton |
Curry |
M |
|
Pvt |
17044260 |
|
|
BS |
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| Alazraki |
Isaac |
|
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|
|
|
|
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| Askeland |
Ole |
A |
|
|
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|
|
|
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| Bagby |
Walter |
A |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Barber |
William |
E |
|
Pvt |
32920536 |
|
DOW |
PH |
Germany |
| Barlow |
Woodrow |
W |
|
T/4 |
38178074 |
|
|
CIB |
|
| Barnes |
Robert |
E |
|
Cpl |
35282177 |
|
KIA |
PH |
Sicily |
| Barron |
William |
G |
|
1/Lt |
0-1702994 |
|
|
BS |
|
| Barry |
Raymond |
W |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Bartow |
Richard |
O |
|
T/5 |
18102886 |
|
KIA |
PH |
Sicily |
| Basil |
Donald |
E |
|
Cpl |
|
|
|
|
|
| Bednar |
Louis |
|
|
Cpl |
|
|
POW |
|
Anzio |
| Blitch |
Melvin |
S |
Jr |
LTC |
|
|
|
|
Hq 3 |
| Bloomfield |
Abraham |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
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| Bohlken |
Oliver |
J |
|
Cpl |
17043134 |
|
KIA |
PH |
Belgium |
| Boward |
Harry |
L |
|
Pfc |
|
|
|
|
|
| Bresnahan |
Earl |
V |
|
|
|
|
|
|
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| Brooks |
Phillip |
C |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Brooks |
Wiley |
B |
|
T/Sgt |
34024469 |
|
KIA |
BS(OLC) PH |
No Korea |
| Brown |
Ernest |
H |
|
1/Lt |
|
|
|
|
[Co D] |
| Brown |
John |
T |
|
|
|
|
|
|
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| Bucek |
Roy |
A |
|
|
16003006 |
|
|
PH |
|
| Buck |
Michael |
J |
|
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|
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| Burdett |
Jesse |
B |
|
|
38090329 |
|
|
|
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| Burns |
Earl |
G |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Burton |
Edward |
J |
|
Pfc |
|
|
|
|
|
| Callen |
Harmon |
C |
Jr |
CWO |
20423034 |
|
|
BS |
|
| Calzone |
Frank |
M |
|
M/Sgt |
32564490 |
|
|
|
|
| Carlino |
Diego |
L |
|
|
12061411 |
|
|
|
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| Cellar |
Robert |
J |
|
Capt |
0-1283723 |
|
|
BS(OLC) |
|
| Chapman |
Herbert |
T |
|
|
|
|
|
|
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| Chechel |
Abraham |
|
|
|
32331530 |
|
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|
|
| Chippewa |
Clifton |
M |
|
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|
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| Clevenger |
Charles |
A |
|
Pfc |
20365277 |
|
KIA |
PH |
Sicily |
| Clifford |
Mahlon |
B |
|
Pvt |
32343203 |
|
|
|
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| Colville |
William |
|
Jr |
Maj |
|
XO |
|
|
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| Conley |
Edward |
D |
|
|
|
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|
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| Conroy |
John |
J |
|
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| Considine |
Thomas |
C |
|
|
12057054 |
|
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|
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| Coppola |
Augustine |
V |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Cornelius |
Marshall |
|
Jr |
Pfc |
13157854 |
|
KIA |
PH |
Holland |
| Crane |
Newton |
L |
|
T/5 |
19071083 |
|
KIA |
PH |
Sicily |
| Crocker |
Charles |
F |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Crowder |
Henry |
H |
|
|
35581586 |
|
|
|
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| Curlett |
John |
M |
|
|
20235727 |
|
|
|
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| Curry |
James |
F |
Jr |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Czetto |
Paul |
F |
|
|
32207056 |
|
|
|
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| Dallas |
Bertram |
J |
|
Maj |
|
|
|
SS BS |
|
| Danielson |
Daniel |
W |
|
|
|
|
|
SS |
|
| Davis |
Franklin |
O |
|
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|
|
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| Davis |
Ola |
L |
|
Sgt |
15090648 |
|
|
BS |
|
| Deckman |
William |
F |
|
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|
|
|
|
|
| Dempsey |
Flavius |
J |
|
|
20423512 |
|
|
|
|
| Devore |
Russell |
W |
|
Pvt |
33065600 |
|
KIA |
PH |
Sicily |
| Dickinson |
Louis |
H |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Dickmeyer |
John |
T |
|
S/Sgt |
|
PF |
|
|
|
| Donnelly |
Ross |
I |
|
1/Lt |
0-1286256 |
|
|
BS |
S-4 |
| Downing |
Henry |
E |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Drummond |
Jack |
F |
Sr |
Sgt |
|
|
|
CIB PH |
|
| Drummond |
William |
H |
|
S/Sgt |
|
|
|
|
|
| Dubey |
Francis |
G |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Duckett |
James |
C |
|
Pvt |
|
|
|
CIB |
|
| Dugan |
Michael |
M |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Durham |
John |
C |
|
Pfc |
17043443 |
|
KIA |
PH |
Sicily |
| Elliott |
John |
R |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Ellzey |
George |
B |
|
Cpl |
0420218 |
|
KIA |
PH |
Belgium |
| Fahnle |
Emmet |
W |
|
Pvt |
39017172 |
|
|
|
|
| Farrell |
William |
E |
|
Capt |
|
|
|
|
|
| Fennell |
Harold |
W |
|
Cpl |
|
|
|
|
|
| Fifield |
Robert |
L |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Fillion |
Adrian |
J |
|
T/5 |
1407666 |
|
KIA |
PH |
|
| Flanery |
Ralph |
W |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Flournoy |
Richard |
F |
|
Pfc |
|
|
|
|
|
| Forrest |
Willard |
C |
|
M/Sgt |
|
|
|
|
|
| Gagnon |
Leo |
E |
|
Pfc |
20139651 |
|
DOW |
PH |
Anzio |
| Garrison |
Marison |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Garrison |
Chester |
A |
|
2/Lt |
0-1305569 |
|
|
BS |
|
| Gee |
Clarence |
A |
|
S/Sgt |
|
|
|
|
|
| Gibson |
Paul |
T |
|
Pfc |
|
|
|
|
|
| Giguere |
Donald |
G |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Goodnight |
Lawrence |
D |
|
Pfc |
|
|
|
|
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| Grassia |
John |
M |
|
|
|
|
|
|
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| Gray |
Raymond |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
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| Guba |
John |
G |
|
Cpl |
32045012 |
|
KIA |
PH |
Sicily |
| Guess |
Leo |
N |
|
Pfc |
|
|
|
CIB PH |
|
| Gullick |
Loye |
E |
|
T/4 |
|
|
|
|
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| Gwozdz |
Eddy |
|
|
|
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|
|
|
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| Gymory |
Joseph |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Hadden |
Glen |
L |
|
Pfc |
39679849 |
|
|
|
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| Hager |
George |
W |
|
|
|
|
|
|
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| Hancock |
Arthur |
L |
|
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|
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| Harper |
Clarence |
W |
|
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|
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| Haugh |
Paul |
J |
|
Pvt |
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| Healey |
John |
H |
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|
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| Heer |
Arthur |
E |
|
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|
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| Hellard |
Paul |
D |
|
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|
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| Henderson |
Gordon |
R |
|
Pvt |
|
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|
|
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| Henderson |
Hugh |
A |
|
2/Lt |
O1283953 |
|
KIA |
PH |
Sicily |
| Henley |
John |
W |
|
|
|
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|
|
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| Hillman |
William |
V |
|
|
|
|
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|
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| Hinshaw |
Raymond |
E |
|
Pvt |
18107767 |
|
KIA |
PH |
Italy |
| Home |
Harold |
A |
|
|
|
|
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|
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| Howell |
William |
B |
|
|
|
|
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|
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| Hunt |
Robert |
M |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| James |
Clarence |
E |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| James |
Roy |
L |
|
1/Lt |
0-1314020 |
|
|
BS |
|
| Jessee |
Ralph |
R |
|
|
|
|
|
PH |
|
| Johnson |
Robert |
N |
|
Capt |
O-405479 |
|
KIA |
PH |
Italy |
| Jones |
Wallace |
R |
|
Pvt |
11091187 |
|
KIA |
PH |
Belgium |
| Jusek |
Joseph |
J |
|
Sgt |
35023015 |
|
|
DSC |
|
| Kirkland |
William |
F |
|
T/5 |
|
|
|
|
|
| Klamut |
Casmir |
A |
|
Pfc |
35291611 |
|
DOW |
PH |
Belgium |
| Kline |
Edmund |
H |
|
1/Lt |
0-1030263 |
|
|
BS |
|
| Knight |
George |
E |
Jr |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Kobak |
Henry |
J |
|
Pfc |
31007789 |
|
KIA |
PH |
Sicily |
| Kopstein |
Joseph |
|
|
Pfc |
13053985 |
|
KIA |
PH |
Sicily |
| LaFoya |
Jacob |
J |
|
|
39150278 |
|
|
|
|
| Landy |
Lester |
|
|
|
32108212 |
|
|
|
|
| Le Marble |
Raymond |
R |
|
Pvt |
36337736 |
|
|
|
|
| Lee |
Henry |
C |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Leroux |
Maynard |
J |
|
T/Sgt |
32582646 |
|
|
|
|
| Levitt |
Earl |
N |
|
|
36205875 |
|
|
|
|
| Leyland |
Jack |
M |
|
Pvt |
15101169 |
|
KIA |
PH |
Anzio |
| Liles |
Otho |
|
|
Pvt |
7004790 |
|
KIA |
PH |
Italy |
| Lisica |
Krsevan |
|
|
|
32533649 |
|
|
|
|
| Locke |
Francis |
W |
|
S/Sgt |
20221121 |
|
WIA |
BS PH |
|
| Lynch |
Joseph |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Magee |
John |
J |
|
S/Sgt |
20286056 |
|
|
BS |
|
| Mahrenholz |
Jack |
M |
|
Sgt |
|
|
|
|
|
| Manley |
James |
J |
|
|
|
|
|
|
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| Marcotte |
Conrad |
P |
|
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|
|
|
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| Marek |
William |
A |
|
|
|
|
|
PH |
|
| Marshall |
William |
|
|
Sgt |
33469719 |
|
|
CIB PH |
|
| McDonald |
James |
B |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| McNally |
Robert |
E |
|
|
|
|
|
|
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| McRae |
Robert |
H |
|
Pfc |
|
|
|
|
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| Mellos |
Athanassios |
|
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|
|
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| Mikulik |
Willie |
E |
|
|
|
|
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|
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| Miller |
Roger |
S |
|
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|
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| Monk |
Ariel |
B |
|
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|
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|
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| Montana |
Henry |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Moran |
George |
M |
|
Pvt |
12159029 |
|
DOW |
PH |
Anzio |
| Morgan |
Charles |
E |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Morgan |
Lankford |
C |
|
Pfc |
|
|
|
|
|
| Morley |
James |
H |
Jr |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Morrow |
Delmer |
G |
|
T/4 |
33147950 |
|
KIA |
PH |
Sicily |
| Myers |
Raymond |
E |
|
Pfc |
17031976 |
|
KIA |
PH |
Holland |
| Nemeth |
Steve |
|
|
Pfc |
|
|
|
BS |
|
| Nicoll |
Kenneth |
S |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Nicolson |
Malcolm |
A |
|
|
|
|
|
|
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| Norieko |
Charles |
|
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|
|
|
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| Norman |
Herbert |
H |
|
Capt |
0-451650 |
D/E |
KIA |
SS BS,PH |
Ardennes |
| Northrop |
Charles |
W |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Nota |
Nelson |
V |
|
T/5 |
|
|
|
|
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| Ozanich |
Antone |
|
|
S/Sgt |
|
|
|
|
|
| Page |
Otis |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Pannell |
Paul |
H |
|
Sgt |
|
|
|
CIB PH |
|
| Paradis |
Richard |
J |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Parks |
Laurel |
M |
|
S/Sgt |
11029780 |
|
DOW |
PH |
Anzio |
| Patnaude |
Norman |
J |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Pennell |
Harrell |
J |
|
|
|
|
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|
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| Phillips |
Drew |
E |
|
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|
|
|
|
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| Pilachowski |
Leon |
J |
|
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| Pilchta |
Peter |
|
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|
|
|
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| Pollitt |
John |
W |
|
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|
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| Poney |
Rojer |
J |
|
|
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|
|
|
|
| Porter |
Ernest |
R |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Prideaux |
Howard |
E |
|
Cpl |
|
|
|
|
|
| Quezada |
Alberto |
C |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Rabb |
John |
W |
|
|
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|
|
|
|
| Ramirez |
Pedro |
A |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Ramsey |
Lauren |
W |
|
1/Lt |
0-1309965 |
|
|
BS |
|
| Reed |
Conley |
B |
|
Pfc |
|
|
|
|
|
| Reynolds |
Paul |
R |
|
Pvt |
17151333 |
|
KIA |
PH |
Ardennes |
| Richardson |
Robert |
T |
|
Pvt |
13121416 |
|
KIA |
PH |
Anzio |
| Rigo |
Louis |
P |
|
M/Sgt |
|
|
|
|
|
| Rittgers |
Kenneth |
S |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Roberts |
James |
H |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Sapp |
James |
T |
|
Cpl |
14128880 |
|
|
|
|
| Savidge |
Charles |
T |
|
S/Sgt |
13048932 |
|
KODY |
|
France |
| Schwark |
Clarence |
W |
|
Pvt |
36611870 |
|
KIA |
PH |
Sicily |
| Scott |
Robert |
W |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Sebulski |
Victor |
D |
|
|
35053196 |
|
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|
|
| Seitz |
Edwin |
L |
|
|
35505666 |
|
|
|
|
| Shagdai |
Marion |
C |
|
S/Sgt |
33690098 |
|
|
SS BS |
Medic |
| Shantz |
Robert |
H |
|
Pfc |
|
|
|
|
|
| Sheffield |
Wilbert |
D |
|
Pfc |
20421849 |
|
KIA |
PH |
Sicily |
| Simko |
Frank |
L |
|
Pfc |
35319740 |
|
|
|
|
| Skelton |
Walter |
T |
|
Pfc |
20423183 |
|
|
|
|
| Smith |
Joe |
T |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Smith |
John |
F |
|
S/Sgt |
34128111 |
|
|
BS |
|
| Snow |
Jesse |
H.S. |
|
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|
|
|
|
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| Stenoien |
Ralph |
|
|
Pvt |
|
|
|
POW |
Anzio |
| Stevens |
Russell |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Stevenson |
Clinton |
G |
|
S/Sgt |
14036004 |
|
KIA |
PH |
Sicily |
| Stivers |
James |
F |
|
S/Sgt |
36430333 |
|
|
|
|
| Stoneham |
Hartwell |
G |
Jr |
|
13117832 |
|
|
|
|
| Stough |
Clarence |
A |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Stribley |
Rexford |
C |
|
1/lt |
0-453678 |
|
|
BS |
|
| Stychek |
George |
C |
|
|
12058209 |
|
|
|
|
| Sullivan |
William |
T |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Sutor |
George |
R |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Sweet |
William |
J |
Jr |
|
|
|
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|
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| Tassinari |
Albano |
|
|
Sgt |
|
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| Thomas |
Robert |
L |
|
|
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|
|
| Toenningsmeyer |
Wayne |
W |
|
Pvt |
37602107 |
|
KIA |
PH |
Italy |
| Trevena |
John |
W |
|
|
12050347 |
|
|
|
|
| Tripodi |
Rocco |
F |
|
Cpl |
32143620 |
|
|
BS PH |
|
| Tuthill |
Louis |
H |
|
Pfc |
31276938 |
|
|
SS |
|
| Tway |
Alvin |
E |
|
1/Sgt |
36152077 |
|
KIA |
PH |
Anzio |
| Van Alstine |
Oakley |
D |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Vandergrift |
Marvin |
M |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Visnesky |
Louis |
A |
|
Pvt |
13011477 |
|
KIA |
PH |
Anzio |
| Wallace |
Walter |
M |
|
Pfc |
20423190 |
|
DOW |
PH |
Anzio |
| Walters |
Frederick |
|
Jr |
S/Sgt |
12050602 |
|
|
BS |
|
| Warner |
Andrew |
J |
|
S/Sgt |
6942291 |
|
|
BS |
|
| Warren |
Charles |
L |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Watson |
William |
L |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Weeks |
Bennie |
M |
|
S/Sgt |
20362266 |
|
|
BS |
|
| Wellems |
Edward |
H |
|
LTC |
0-24484 |
CO |
|
SS BS2(OLC) |
2nd Btn |
| Wells |
Revere |
C |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Wensil |
Harry |
A |
|
Pvt |
14149069 |
|
KIA |
PH |
Italy |
| Williams |
Charles |
N |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Williams |
Richard |
E |
|
Pvt |
13095744 |
|
|
BS |
|
| Willis |
Alton |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Wilson |
Harry |
E |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Wright |
Richard |
C |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Yamski |
Stanley |
J |
Jr |
Pvt |
35369576 |
|
KIA |
PH |
Anzio |
| Yanchuk |
James |
J |
|
Pvt |
32187594 |
|
KIA |
PH |
Venetigo Sicily |
| Yarborough |
William |
P |
|
LTC |
O-20362 |
CO |
|
SS |
CO Sicily |
| Yentis |
Robert |
L |
|
|
35718272 |
|
|
|
|
| Yotka |
Edward |
J |
|
|
12151612 |
|
|
|
|
| Young |
Marcus |
M |
|
|
18085948 |
|
|
|
|
| Zofay |
Charles |
T |
|
T/Sgt |
12050980 |
|
|
SS |
|
| Zweeres |
Harold |
C |
|
Pfc |
31041030 |
|
|
CIB |
[Co D] |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
DOW |
PH |
|
|
|
|
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| LEGEND |
|
BS - Bronze Star |
KODY - Killed on Duty |
PLTN - Platoon |
|
CAPT - Captain |
LT COL - Lieutenant Colonel |
POW - Prisoner of War |
|
COL - Colonel |
1/LT - First Lieutenant |
SGT - Sergeant |
|
DODY - Died on Duty |
2/LT- Second Lieutenant |
S/SGT - Staff Sergeant |
|
DOI - Died of Injuries |
MAJ - Major |
1/SGT - First Sergeant |
|
DOW - Died of Wounds |
MIA - Missing in Action |
SS - Silver Star |
|
DSC - Distinguished Service Cross |
MOH - Medal of Honor |
T/SGT - Technician Sergeant |
|
JWO - Junior Warrant Officer |
PFC - Private First Class |
T/4 - Technician 4th Class |
|
KIA - Killed in Action |
PH - Purple Heart |
T/5 - Technician 5th Class |
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