Service Number O-550218
Unit 262nd Infantry Regiment, 66th Infantry Division
Rank Second Lieutenant U.S. Army
Entered Service From South Carolina.
*** Soldier's Medal, Bronze Star, Purple Heart with Oak Leaf Cluster ***
The Belgium troopship Leopoldville while transporting over 2,000 soldiers of the 66th Infantry Division across the English Channel was torpedoed & sunk on Christmas Eve 1944. There were 763 soldiers killed & the bodies of 493 were never found. It is one of the terrible ironies of the disaster that 2/Lt. McArthur survived the sinking only to be killed later on Feb. 20, 1945 during the fighting in France.
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Entered the service from South Carolina
Unit 262nd Infantry Regiment, 66th Infantry Division
Rank Second Lieutenant U.S. Army
Entered Service From South Carolina.
*** Soldier's Medal, Bronze Star, Purple Heart with Oak Leaf Cluster ***
The Belgium troopship Leopoldville while transporting over 2,000 soldiers of the 66th Infantry Division across the English Channel was torpedoed & sunk on Christmas Eve 1944. There were 763 soldiers killed & the bodies of 493 were never found. It is one of the terrible ironies of the disaster that 2/Lt. McArthur survived the sinking only to be killed later on Feb. 20, 1945 during the fighting in France.
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Entered the service from South Carolina
Service Number O-550218
Unit 262nd Infantry Regiment, 66th Infantry Division
Rank Second Lieutenant U.S. Army
Entered Service From South Carolina.
*** Soldier's Medal, Bronze Star, Purple Heart with Oak Leaf Cluster ***
The Belgium troopship Leopoldville while transporting over 2,000 soldiers of the 66th Infantry Division across the English Channel was torpedoed & sunk on Christmas Eve 1944. There were 763 soldiers killed & the bodies of 493 were never found. It is one of the terrible ironies of the disaster that 2/Lt. McArthur survived the sinking only to be killed later on Feb. 20, 1945 during the fighting in France.
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Entered the service from South Carolina
Unit 262nd Infantry Regiment, 66th Infantry Division
Rank Second Lieutenant U.S. Army
Entered Service From South Carolina.
*** Soldier's Medal, Bronze Star, Purple Heart with Oak Leaf Cluster ***
The Belgium troopship Leopoldville while transporting over 2,000 soldiers of the 66th Infantry Division across the English Channel was torpedoed & sunk on Christmas Eve 1944. There were 763 soldiers killed & the bodies of 493 were never found. It is one of the terrible ironies of the disaster that 2/Lt. McArthur survived the sinking only to be killed later on Feb. 20, 1945 during the fighting in France.
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Entered the service from South Carolina
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2LT 262 INFANTRY 66 DIVISION SOUTH CAROLINA
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