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Home State
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Year of Birth 1922 |
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This Military Service Page was created/owned by
Sgt. S. Kimbrow
to remember
Cobb, Albert L., Jr., Pvt.
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Casualty Info
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Home Town Savannah |
Last Address Chatham County, Georgia.
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Casualty Date Jun 06, 1944 |
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Cause Hostile, Died |
Reason Multiple Fragmentation Wounds |
Location France |
Conflict WWII - European Theater of Operations/Normandy Campaign (1944) |
Location of Interment American Cemetery - Normandy, France |
Wall/Plot Coordinates lot E Row 5 Grave 8 |
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Last Known Activity
Pvt. Albert Cobb enlisted on 16 September 1940 for the Field Artillery, National Guard.
In the ETO, he served with the Regimental Headquarters Company (RHQ), 502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division.
He was wounded during the parachute jump beyond the beach at Normandy on D-Day during the invasion of France. According to news reports, he was aboard a hospital ship, being treated for his wounds, when the ship was straffed by an enemy aircraft and he was killed.
He was interred in the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial, Colleville-sur-Mer, Departement du Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France Plot: Plot E Row 5 Grave 8.
He has a family memorial amily memorial at Greenwich Cemetery, Savannah, Chatham County, Georgia, "In memory of our beloved son. . ."
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