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This Remembrance Profile was originally created by SGT Robert Briggs - Deceased
Contact Info
Last Address Plymouth
Date of Passing Mar 14, 2008
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Additional Information
Last Known Activity:
Easy Company 506th PIR, 101st Airborne Division
Other Comments:
Enlisted in August 1942. Discharged on 24 December 1945. Awarded the Bronze Star.
ASN: 11087989
MOS: 745
4 years of high school
General farmers
Single, without dependents
Enlisted at BOSTON MASSACHUSETTS, Infantry 26 Aug 42
Enlistment for the duration of the War or other emergency, plus six months, subject to the discretion of the President or otherwise according to law
Army of the United States - includes the following: Voluntary enlistments effective December 8, 1941 and thereafter; One year enlistments of National Guardsman whose State enlistment expires while in the Federal Service; Officers appointed in the Army of the United States under Army Regulations 605-10
WWII - European Theater of Operations/Rhineland Campaign (1944-45)/Operation Market Garden
From Month/Year
September / 1944
To Month/Year
September / 1944
Description "35,000 troops, 11,377 dead, wounded or missing, 6,450 captured. Objective was to secure series of bridges over main rivers of German occupied Netherlands. Strategic purpose was to allow allied crossing of the Rhine River. The last natural barrier
