Eggert, Walter, PFC

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Last Rank
Private First Class
Last Service Branch
Infantry
Last Primary MOS
745-Rifleman
Last MOS Group
Infantry
Primary Unit
1942-1945, 745, E Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment (PIR)
Previously Held MOS
AAF 748-Airplane Mechanic-Gunner
Service Years
1942 - 1945
Infantry
Private First Class
One Service Stripe
Five Overseas Service Bars

 Official Badges 

101st Airborne Division Belgian Fourragere Netherlands Orange Lanyard Honorably Discharged WW II

Meritorious Unit Commendation French Fourragere


 Unofficial Badges 

Airborne




 Additional Information
What are you doing now:

Easy Co. 506 P.I.R. 101st Airborne
   
Other Comments:


WIA on December 28, 1944

MOS: 745
ASN: 36614595
   

WWII - European Theater of Operations/Rhineland Campaign (1944-45)/Operation Market Garden
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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
   
My Participation in This Battle or Operation
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Last Updated:
Mar 16, 2020
   
Personal Memories
   
My Photos From This Battle or Operation
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  • Joint, Edward, PFC, (1942-1945)
  • Knapp, William, 1LT, (1942-1946)
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