Fireman First Class Milton T Ward, Virginia, Service Number 6597597, United States Naval Reserve, was serving aboard the destroyer escort, USS Rich, from June 5th through the 8th 1944 during the Normandy Invasion. The Rich was tasked with screening heavier units as they supplied gunfire support for the troops landing on the Utah beaches to the northwest of the Carentan Estuary. She was sunk on June 8, 1944, shorting after striking a mine. Of her crew, 27 were killed, 73 wounded, and 62 missing. Although it is not specified on Ancestry.com, Ward and his fellow seamen killed and wounded would have been awarded Purple Hearts.
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Fireman First Class Milton T Ward, Virginia, Service Number 6597597, United States Naval Reserve, was serving aboard the destroyer escort, USS Rich, from June 5th through the 8th 1944 during the Normandy Invasion. The Rich was tasked with screening heavier units as they supplied gunfire support for the troops landing on the Utah beaches to the northwest of the Carentan Estuary. She was sunk on June 8, 1944, shorting after striking a mine. Of her crew, 27 were killed, 73 wounded, and 62 missing. Although it is not specified on Ancestry.com, Ward and his fellow seamen killed and wounded would have been awarded Purple Hearts.
Read more at wrecksite: https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?16014
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