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Casualty Info
Home Town Snyder
Last Address Box 237 Snyder, Texas
Casualty Date Aug 16, 1944
Cause KIA-Killed in Action
Reason Unknown, Not Reported
Location France
Conflict World War II
Location of Interment Snyder Cemetery - Snyder, Texas
WWII - European Theater of Operations/Southern France Campaign (1944)
From Month/Year
August / 1944
To Month/Year
September / 1944
Description (Southern France Campaign 15 August to 14 September 1944) While the Germans were retreating in Italy in the summer of 1944, the Allies diverted some of their strength in the theater to the invasion of Southern France. After preliminary bombardment, a combined seaborne-airborne force landed on the French Riviera on 15 August. Marseilles having been taken, Sevmth Army advanced up the Rhone Valley and by mid-September was in touch with Allied forces that had entered France from the north.