Killed aboard the SS Leopoldville. On Christmas Eve 1944, the Belgium troopship Leopoldville, left the pier at Southampton, England, with over 2,000 American soldiers assigned to the 66th Infantry Division and crossed the English Channel to France. Just 5 1/2 miles from its destination, Cherbourg, the Leopoldville was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-486. There were 763 American soldiers killed, and the bodies of 493 were never recovered from the Channel's frigid 48 degree waters.
He is also memorialized at the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial, FAG#56641701, and in Harrisburg, PA, his hometown, FAG#173251341
Killed aboard the SS Leopoldville. On Christmas Eve 1944, the Belgium troopship Leopoldville, left the pier at Southampton, England, with over 2,000 American soldiers assigned to the 66th Infantry Division and crossed the English Channel to France. Just 5 1/2 miles from its destination, Cherbourg, the Leopoldville was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-486. There were 763 American soldiers killed, and the bodies of 493 were never recovered from the Channel's frigid 48 degree waters.
He is also memorialized at the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial, FAG#56641701, and in Harrisburg, PA, his hometown, FAG#173251341
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