Hi,

I am looking for information on my uncle, Patrick Grimes. His service number is 32526329. He dies on 26-July-1944 and is buried in the Normandy American Cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer, France. If anyone has information on how and where he died, It would be great.

Thanks, Jacinta

Any info as to battle records for June - August 1944 would be helpful. Looking for info regarding my uncle, Warren Lodge Parker, who was wounded in action and paralyzed.

My father served in the 119th Infantry somerewhere in Germany during Sept. toNovember 23, 1944 when he died from wounds recieved in action. This happened in Friealdenhoven , Germany in a school building on November 21, 1944. He died in a field hospital somewhere in Holland on 11-23-44. I would so like to locate anyone who might have been with himduring this time, perhaps even a nurse at the field hospital. He was buried at Margarten until 1948 at which time my grandmother had him brought back to a family cemetary in north Alabama. He volunteered for service at Scottsboro Al. in April 44, did basic training at Camp Wheeler Ga. I was seven years old at this time.
I now belong to AWON, American World War II Orphans Network. There were 183,000of us and until recent years we felt so different and suffered alone. Now we are asking many questions and are being heard. If anyone has any information I would be so grateful. My email is pdpalmer@tds.net In Their Memory Pvt. Adger Melvin Daniel Phoebe Danile Palmer, only child

Hello all.

This is my first post here. We (a group of 5 interested people) are looking for the first American soldier who was killed in action in Holland. We know that 4 solders were killed that day. We also know that the first soldier was KIA near our village Noorbeek.

Untill a few years ago people thought that Leonard P. Hoffman was the first man who was killed in action in Holland but he was killed just a few hunderd meters before the border so he was killed in Belgium (nearby Voeren). Are there any people who can help us? Perhaps with rosters or reports from that day.

We are also making plans to ercet a monument on that spot. We know the exact location. We also know were the German was who killed the American.

Please help us.

Regards,

Frank Gubbels