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Casualty Info
Home Town Quaker Hill, CT
Last Address Quaker Hill, CT
Casualty Date Jul 09, 1972
Cause KIA-Killed in Action
Reason Misadventure
Location Binh Long (Vietnam)
Conflict Vietnam War
Location of Interment U.S. Military Academy West Point Post Cemetery (VLM) - West Point, New York
Wall/Plot Coordinates 01W 055/ Section 34, Row C, Site 114.
8th SPECIAL FORCES GROUP
Lineage
Constituted 5 July 1942 in the Army of the United States as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 1st Battalion, First Regiment, 1st Special Service Force, a combined Canadian-American organization. Activated 9 July 1942 at Fort William Henry Harrison, Montana. Disbanded 6 January 1945 in France. Reconstituted 15 April 1960 in the Regular Army; concurrently consolidated with Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Ranger Infantry Battalion (see Annex) and consolidated unit designated as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 8th Special Forces Group, 1st Special Forces. Activated 1 April 1963 at Fort Gulick, Canal Zone (organic elements concurrently constituted and activated).
ANNEX- Constituted 27 May 1942 in the Army of the United States Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Ranger Battalion. Activated 19 June 1942 at Carrickfergus, Northern Ireland. Redesignated 1 August 1943 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Ranger Infantry Battalion. Disbanded 15 August 1944 in the United States. Reconstituted 1 September 1948 in the Army of the United States Headquarters Company, 1st Infantry Battalion; concurrently, activated at Fort Gulick, Canal Zone. Inactivated 4 January 1950 at Fort Gulick, Canal Zone. Redesignated 24 November 1952 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Ranger Infantry Battalion and allotted to the Regular Army.
Campaigns
World War II
Northern France
Southern France
Rhineland
Ardennes
Central Europe
Aleutian Islands
New Guinea
Leyte (with arrowhead)
Luzon
Decorations
None
