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Home Town Hendricks
Date of Passing May 10, 2009
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T/5 WILIAM BROWN AMBROSE SON OF JAMES BURR AND MABEL HAWTHORN BROWN AMBEROSE ENTERED THE SERVICE ON 19 JANUARY 1943 AND SERVED OVERSEAS WITH BATTERY A, 413TH ANTI-AIRCRAFT ARTILLERY GUN BATTALION(MOBILE) FROM 21 NOVEMBER 1943 UNTIL 4 DECEMBER 1945. T/5 AMBROSE WAS HONORABLY DISCHARGED ON 12 DECEMBER 1945AT FORT MEADE, MARYAND. WILLIAM ABROSE PASSED AWAY IN HENDRICKS, WV ON 10 MAY 2009 AND WAS LAID TO REST AT THE MCNEELY CEMETERY.
WWII - European Theater of Operations/Central Europe Campaign (1945)
From Month/Year
March / 1945
To Month/Year
May / 1945
Description (Central Europe Campaign 22 March to 11 May 1945) Following the Battle of the Bulge the Allies had pushed through to the Rhine. On 22 March 1945 they began their assault across the river, and by I April the Ruhr was encircled. Armored columns raced across Germany and into Austria and Czechoslovakia. On 25 April, the day American and Russian forces met on the Elbe, strategic bombing operations came to an end. Germany surrendered on 7 May 1945 and operations officially came to an end the following day, although sporadic actions continued on the European front until 11 May.