Grant, George Shell, MAJ

Fallen

Photo In Uniform

Service Details

Last Rank
Major

Last Service Branch
Infantry

Last Primary MOS
1542-Infantry Unit Commander

Last MOS Group
Infantry (Officer)

Primary Unit
1944-1944, 1542, RHHC, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment (PIR) 101st Airborne Division

Service Years
1940 - 1944

Last Photo

Personal Details

Home State

Arkansas

Year of Birth
1915

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Casualty Info

Home Town Fayetteville/Prairie	Last Address Not Specified

Casualty Date Jun 06, 1944
Cause Hostile, Died	Reason Gun, Small Arms Fire
Location France	Conflict WWII - European Theater of Operations/Normandy Campaign (1944)/Operation Overlord/D-Day Beach Landings - Operation Neptune
Location of Interment American Cemetery - Normandy, France	Wall/Plot Coordinates Not Specified

Official Badges

Unofficial Badges

Military Associations and Other Affiliations


	1944, World War II Fallen [Verified]
	1944, D-Day Fallen

Ribbon Bar

Unit Assignments/ Advancement Schools


	1944-1944, 1542, RHHC, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment (PIR) 101st Airborne Division

Combat and Non-Combat Operations


	1944-1944 WWII - European Theater of Operations/Normandy Campaign (1944)/Operation Overlord/D-Day Beach Landings - Operation Neptune

Colleges Attended



	1934-1937, Ouachita Baptist University

Additional Information

Last Known Activity
Major Grant had been a high school Math and coaching at Piggott High School and Fordyce High School, and ROTC instructor in military science and tactics at Kansas City High School prior to his service. His father was a professor and president of Quichita College, Arkadelphia, Arkansas.

He had joined the paratroop unit in August 1942. with training at Tocca, Georgia, Fort Benning, Georgia, and Camp Mackall, North Carolina.

He served with Hq. Company, 3rd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Infantry Division. He was assigned as executive officer to Lt. Col. Robert L. Wolverton the 3rd Battalion Commander.

He was killed while in his parachute harness east of St. Come du Mont in DZ-D.

He was initially interred in Blosville Cemetery, France.

He left a wife and two children at his passing.

Comments/Citation
Links:

"Died in France: Paratrooper Killed During Invasion," Northwest Arkansas Times, 28 June 1944, Page 1.

http://www.ww2-airborne.us/units/506/506.html

http://www.airborneinnormandy.com/

http://triggertimeforum.yuku.com/topic/12480/3rd-Bn-506th-Prcht-Inf-101st-Abn-Div-wwwairborneinnormand#.V1cJ39d1Ot8

http://www.ww2-airborne.us/units/506/506.html
http://www.ww2-airborne.us/units/506/506_honor_off.html

http://brothersinarms.wikia.com/wiki/101st_Airborne_Division