Service Number: O-558376

Unit: 36th Tank Battalion, 8th Armored Division

Rank: Second Lieutenant U.S. Army

Entered Service From New York.

Purple Heart

Since 2nd Lt Arthur S Goldstein was missing in action and his date of death was listed as 3 April 1946 (11 months after the end of hostilities on VE Day, 8 May 1945) it had to be an FOD (Finding of Death) which made the date of the action when he went missing one year and one day earlier on 2 Apr 1945. An FOD in 1946 is too late to make the NARA WWII Casualty Lists so we can't find him there. He is not listed in the rosters of the HQ Company, Company A, B, C, D or the Service Company for the 36th Tank Battalion but shows up as KIA 3 Apr on a list styled "Company Unknown". With a very common name like Arthur Goldstein from New York it might as well be "John Smith" trying to find him anywhere else.

We do know that Headquarters command post for the 36th Tank Battalion on 2 April 1945 was located at Delbruck and by 4 April it had moved southwest to Dedinghausen.

From 8th-armored.org: "The 8th Armored Division on 2 April was attacking from the northeast and had reached a line running generally northeast-southwest through Erwitte (4135). The town of Erwitte, Eikeloh and Novdorf were vital to the enemy since they controlled routes to Lippstadt and to Bielefeld. Moreover, the 8th AD contacted the outposts of the 116th Panzer and began pushing them back and destroying them. Unable to hold back the pressure thus exerted by the 8th Armored Division, the 116th Panzer Division was forced to withdraw into Soest from which once again it planned to launch an attack."

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As of February 14, 2024, from his sister Carol's obituary:

"Arthur was declared MIA in the last days of WWII. His body was never recovered, but Carol and her siblings never gave up hope that his remains would be found."

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