Staff Sergeant Roland O. Boatright was a soldier of Company A, 180th Infantry Regiment, 45th Infantry Division, participating in the invasion of southern Sicily (operation Husky). D-Day was 10 July 1943. S/Sgt Boatright was killed on 10 July 1943. He was first buried in the small 180th Regimental cemetery # 1. Two weeks later his remains were exhumed and reburied in the temporary American Cemetery GELA in plot-grave D-48-568. Date of burial was 4 August 1943.
After the war his remains were repatriated and buried in a cemetery in the United States.
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Above information provided by:
Jan Bos
Nijmegen, Holland
Staff Sergeant Roland O. Boatright was a soldier of Company A, 180th Infantry Regiment, 45th Infantry Division, participating in the invasion of southern Sicily (operation Husky). D-Day was 10 July 1943. S/Sgt Boatright was killed on 10 July 1943. He was first buried in the small 180th Regimental cemetery # 1. Two weeks later his remains were exhumed and reburied in the temporary American Cemetery GELA in plot-grave D-48-568. Date of burial was 4 August 1943.
After the war his remains were repatriated and buried in a cemetery in the United States.
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Above information provided by:
Jan Bos
Nijmegen, Holland
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S.SGT. 180 INF.
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