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​The following roster members died in divisional units during the War with Germany.
3rd Infantry Division, 5,634 dead, MTO & ETO
  • Bates, Stuart McCain, d. Alsace, France
  • Carlson, Robert Andrew, d. Alsace, France
  • Cox, Leslie, d. Caserta Province, Italy
  • Foss, Howard Edward, d. near Casino, Lazio Regiion, Italy
  • Hansen, Matthias George, d. near Anzio, Lazio Region, Italy
  • Hickman, Richard Donald, d. Lazio Region, Italy
  • Hoover, Everett Leroy, d. Rhineland Palatinate, Germany
  • Lembke, Orlan Palmer, d. Caserta Province, Italy
  • Orstad, Melvin T., d. Lorraine, France
  • Reinig, Walter Henry, d. near Anzio, Lazio Region, Italy
  • Reynolds, Elmer Dale, d. Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
  • Spark, Albert Johann, d. Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
  • Summers, Vernon Myron, d. near Rome in Lazio Region, Italy (751st Tank Bn.)
  • Vernon, Glenn Oren, d. Lorraine, France
  • Wilson, Joseph Francis, d. Alsace, France
  • Zentz, Ervin Emery (756th Tank Bn.)
4th Infantry Division, 4,907 dead, ETO
  • Browning, William Albert, d. Bavaria, Germany
  • Ellison, Melvin Isaac, d. North Rhineland-Westphalia, Germany
  • Hansen, Maurice Edward, d. Aisne, France
  • Jester, Myron Edgar, d. Belgium
  • Leonard, Stanley William, d. Rhineland Palatinate, Germany
  • Pratt, Leonard Earl, d. Normandy, France
29th Infantry Division, 4,824 dead, ETO
  • Busey, Robert William, d. near Bremen, Germany
  • Marshall, Warren B., wounded France, d. in hospital, England
  • Rihner, John Jerome, d. Brittany, France
  • Smith, Garland Forsythe, d. Normandy, France
1st Infantry Division, 4,635 dead, MTO & ETO
  • Baker, Everett Ernest, d. North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
  • Gilmore, Burrel Gilbert, d. North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
  • Guyett, Homer Max, d. North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
  • Hillman, Fred Albert, d. Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
  • Jensen, Carl Christian, d. Sicily, Italy
  • Madsen, Elmer Herman, d. North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
  • Miller, Melvin Max, d. North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
  • Morgan, Dale Leroy, d. North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
  • Rasmussen, Harley Norman, d. North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
  • Reifschneider, Donald Walter, d. Belgium
  • Stoelk, Leon Harley, d. Sicily, Italy  (753rd Tank Bn.)
  • Vanderhoof, George Duane, d. Sicily, Italy
9th Infantry Division, 4,550 dead, MTO & ETO
  • Bailey, Jack Carl, d. Normandy, France
  • Decker, Charles Earl, d. North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
  • Hemsted, John, d. North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
  • Huffman, Cecil, d. Tunisia
  • Tomes, Carlas, d. North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
  • Wells, Lester Earl, d. Normandy, France
45th Infantry Division, 4,160 dead, MTO & ETO
  • Buffington, Charles Rollin III, d. Virginia
  • Dixon, Gene Willard, d. Lazio Region, Italy
  • Dumler, Reuben P., d. in hospital, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany (POW)
  • Nelson, Leonard Peter, d. Bavaria, Germany
  • Pedersen, Silas Clyde, d. Lorraine, France (191st Tank Bn.)
  • Rethmeier, William F. "Jack", d. Lazio Region, Italy
  • Thoreen, William F. Jr., d. Anzio, Lazio Region, Italy
​90th Infantry Division, 3,951 dead, ETO
  • Aultz, Dorsey Everet, d. Normandy, France
  • Carley, Albert Boyd, d. Hesse, Germany (712th Tank Bn.)
  • Deitchler, Edgar Kay, d. Normandy, France
  • Hartwig, Harold William, d. Bavaria, Germany
  • Osler, Floyd Wayne, d. Luxembourg
  • Peterson, Harry Earl, d. Normandy, France
  • Putnam, Robert Edward, served as Putman, Robert E., d. Bavaria, Germany (post-hostilities)
  • Roach, Frederick Vincent, d. Normandy, France
  • Ronnfeldt, Roy Robert, served as Ronnefeldt, Roy R., d. Saarland, Germany
  • Vaughan, Orel E., d. Luxembourg
  • Welch, Harold Arthur, d. Lorraine, France
36th Infantry Division, 3,717 dead, MTO & ETO
  • Crook, Lyle William, d. Rhône-Alpes, France
  • Hiley, Dean Anderson, d. Lazio Region, Italy
  • Kennedy, Clair Eugene, d. Lorraine, France
  • Nielsen, Nis, d. Alsace, France
  • Tinkham, Darl Morgan, d. Lorraine, France
  • Viether, Earl Otto, d. Italy
83rd Infantry Division, 3,637 dead, ETO
  • Broman, Donald Norris, d. Normandy, France
  • Hopley, George Peter, d. Normandy, France
  • McCormick, Jack Albert, d. Hesse, Germany (POW)
  • Metheny, Hershel Alfred, d. North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
  • Simpson, Harold Elwood, d. Belgium
  • Viether, Earl Edward, d. Belgium
30th Infantry Division, 3,547 dead, ETO
  • Johnson, Raymond Earl, wounded North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany; d. Netherlands
  • Mendenhall, Stanley Filtodus, d. North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
  • Nielsen, Carl Edvan, d. North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany (743rd Tank Bn.)
  • Renteria, Martin, wounded Normandy, France; d. England
2nd Infantry Division, 3,512 dead, ETO
  • Brown, Cecil LeRoy, d. Belgium
  • Crockett, Oliver Eldon, d. Brittany, France
  • Moss, Herman Albert, d. Normandy, France
  • Powell, Oliver Preston Jr., d. Brittany, France
80th Infantry Division, 3,500 dead, ETO
  • Armstrong, Kenneth Burton, d. Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
  • Lee, Delbert Donald, d. Luxembourg  (610th Tank Destroyer Bn.)
  • Orr, Bertis Stanley, d. on German border, Luxembourg
  • Starner, Russel Leroy, d. on German border, Rhineland Palatinate, Germany
  • Vermuele, Lyle William, d. Belgium
  • Winslow, Fred Lute John, d. Luxembourg, on German border
34th Infantry Division, 3,408 dead, MTO
  • Baker, Donald Hugh, d. Northern Ireland
  • Ball, John Jesse "Jack", d. Tunisia
  • Bird, Frank Raymond, d. Algeria
  • Comley, George M. K., d. near Cassino, Lazio Region, Italy
  • Cozine, Thomas Verne, d. in hospital, Italy
  • Denison, Paul Marsh, d. Algeria
  • Doggett, Clair Quentin, d. near Cassino, Lazio Region, Italy
  • Findley, Everett Arthur, d. near Bone, Algeria
  • Glaze, Keith Franklin, d. Algeria
  • Good, John Herald, d. Lazio Region, Italy
  • Halbert, Dean Warren, d. Pomerania, Germany (POW)
  • Henderson, Robert William, d. Algeria
  • Johnson, Max Roy, d. Algeria
  • Johnston, Stanford Samuel, d. Algeria
  • Kidwell, Harold Eldin, d. Tunisia
  • Knight, DeVere Hiram, d. near Cassino, Lazio Region, Italy
  • Koenemann, Howard Oscar, d. near Cassino, Lazio Region, Italy
  • Landon, Arnold Dale, d. Anzio, Lazio Region, Italy
  • Lang, Richard Waddell, d. near Cassino, Lazio Region, Italy
  • Mardesen, Ray Wells, d. near Cassino, Lazio Region, Italy
  • Martin, Clarence Reuben, d. Tunisia
  • Maxwell, Dean Good, d. Algeria
  • McCormick, Dale Thomas, d. Tunisia
  • Miller, Wesley Robert, d. Tunisia
  • Moore, Loyd Harry, d. Tunisia
  • Morrow, Lynn Adolph, d. Lazio Region, Italy
  • O'Connnell, John Francis, d. Tuscany Region, Italy
  • Overgaard, Andrew Bager, d. near Cassino, Lazio Region, Italy
  • Penewit, Gordon R., d. NE Algeria
  • Petty, John Clarence Jr., d. Tunisia
  • Phinney, Russell Dayton Jr., d. Tunisia
  • Shrimpton, Wayne Ralph, d. near Cassino, Lazio Region, Italy
  • Snyder, Charles William, d. Tunisia
  • Stacey, Louis Clarence Jr., d. near Naples, Campania Region, Italy
  • Steele, Mack Denson, d. NE Algeria
  • Stinn, Richard Theodore, d. Tunisia, training accident
  • Stone, Warren Floyd, d. near Cassino in Molise Region, Italy
  • Storm. Clarence Lamont, d. Tunisia
  • Thomas, Kenneth Harold, d. NE Algeria
  • Thompson, Robert O'Neal, d. Brandenberg, Germany (POW)
  • Thorne, Chester Arthur, d. Tunisia
  • Troth, Russell Edwin, d. near Cassino, Lazio Region, Italy
  • Waage, Paul Allen, d Tunisia
  • Wiseman, Russell Forest, d. Tunisia
35th Infantry Division, 2,997 dead, ETO
  • Baylor, Charles William, d. Normandy, France
  • Kadac, Victor Otto Jr., d. Normandy, France
  • Kuehn, Russell Dale, d. Lorraine, France
  • Lovelady, Lyle Everett, d. Normandy, France
  • Pearce, Lawrence Gilbert, d. Normandy, France
  • Schickner, Donald, d. Normandy, France
  • Young, Robert Edson
79th Infantry Division, 2,964 dead, ETO
  • Holshuh, Charles Lewis, d. Lorraine, France
  • Johnson, Melvin Wallace, d. Alsace, France
  • Lynch, Archie Dale, d. Lorraine, France
  • Points, Leslie Ronald, d. Lorraine, France
  • Snyder, Kenneth Harvey, d. Lorraine, France
28th Infantry Division, 2,873 dead, ETO
  • Caywood, John Sloan, d. Alsace, France
  • Evans, Charles Harold, d. North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
8th Infantry Division, 2,852 dead, ETO
  • Ash, Lawrence Edward, d. Hürtgenwald, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
  • Kreger, Louis Elwin, d. Brittany, France
  • Rohrberg, Robert George, d. North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
  • Thompson, Albert Bernard, d. Brittany, France
  • Wright, Bruce Ware, d. Brittany, France
​5th Infantry Division, 2,684 dead, ETO
  • Haberberger, Leonard Joseph, d. Saarland, Germany
  • Larson, Darwin Norville, d. Rhineland Palatinate, Germany  (737th Tank Bn.)
  • Wilcken, Ono Ain, d. Eure-et-Loir Department, France
88th Infantry Division, 2,606 dead, MTO
  • Anderson, William Riley, d. Lazio Region, Italy
  • Madden, Jerry Agnew, d. near Cassino, Lazio Region, Italy
  • Wood, Edgar George
101st Airborne Division, 2,155 dead, ETO
  • Boye, Harold C., d. Netherlands
  • Brazzle, Delbert Sherman, d. Belgium (troop carrier shot down)
  • Fulk, Paul Hoyt, d. Normandy, France
  • Walling, Garrett Alma, d. Belgium
3rd Armored Division, 2,147 dead, ETO
  • Block, Ernest August Sylvester "Sam", d. Normandy, France
  • Dodson, Harry John, d. North Rhine-Westphallia, Germany
  • Hansen, Lawrence George, d. Belgium
  • Johnson, Myron Paul Edward, d Belgium (former POW)
  • Kelley, Parle Pratt, d. Belgium
  • Lucksinger, Stanley Dean, d. Belgium
  • McKeown, Carroll L., d. Belgium
  • Moore, Walter Lee, d. North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
  • Punteney, Charles Edward, served as Puntney, Charles E., d. Rhineland Palatinate, Germany
  • Taylor, Leon Francis Hough, d. Belgium
26th Infantry Division, 2,136 dead, ETO
  • Curtis, Alton B., d. Lorraine, France
  • Hull, Edwin George, d. Lorraine, France
  • McLoud, James Fredrick, served as Long, Fred O., d. Luxembourg
  • Montgomery, Eugene, d. Hesse, Germany
  • Williams, Jerry Jerome, d. Lorraine, France
82nd Airborne Division, 1,992 dead, MTO & ETO
  • Barnett, Walter McMillan Jr., d. Sicily, Italy
  • Davis, Willard Henry, d. Netherlands
  • Patton, John A., d.  North Rhine-Westphalia,Germany
  • Pedersen, Oscar Holst, served as Holst, Oscar, d. Normandy, France
  • Plagge, Harold W., d. Normandy, France (746th Tank Bn.)
85th Infantry, 1775 dead, MTO
  • no entries at this time.
78th Infantry Division, 1,634 dead, ETO
  • Frost, Darrell Finley, d. Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
91st Infantry Division, 1,581 dead, MTO
  • Shaffer, Leo Allison, d. Emilia-Romagna Region, Italy
84th Infantry, 1468 dead, ETO
  • no entries at this time.
1st Armored Division, 1,467 dead, MTO
  • Deffenbaugh, Lyle Joseph, d. Lazio Region, Italy
  • Hildebrand, Gilbert Dean, d. Emilia-Romagna Region, Italy
  • Moore, Walter Arthur, d. Emilia-Romagna Region, Italy
  • Ratigan, Michael Dennis Jr., d. Tunisia
  • Williams, Dale Withers Jr., d. Tunisia
17th Airborne Division, 1,394 dead, ETO
  • Burch, Robert Joseph, d. Rhineland, Westphalia, Germany
  • Muller, Harland Max, d. Belgium
  • Wilson, Boyd Merrill, d. Saxony, Germany (POW)
​95th Infantry Division, 1,387 dead, ETO
  • Anderson, Leon Edward, d. Lorraine, France
  • Kirkland, Morris Alvin, d. Lorraine, France
​4th Armored, 1366 dead, ETO
  • no entries at this time.
87th Infantry Division, 1,316 dead, ETO
  • Ash, Mickiel Daniel, d. Lorraine, France
  • Braden, Clyde Edward, d. Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
  • Frahm, Leonard Carl, d. Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
  • Hansen, Robert Victor, d. Belgium
​44th Infantry Division, 1,215 dead, ETO
  • Paulsen, Laverne Nels, d. Lorraine, France
2nd Armored Division, 1,196 dead, MTO & ETO
  • Carter, Meredith Merlene, d. Belgium
  • Heilig, Kenneth Otto, d. Normandy, France
  • Johnson, Frank Allen, d. NW of Paris, France
  • Lutz, William Leroy, d. North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
  • Paulsen, Laverne Henry, d. Normandy, France
  • Platt, Donald Aris, d. North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
94th Infantry Division, 1,172 dead, ETO
  • Barrett, Henry Joseph Jr., d. Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
  • Bjorn, Paul Bartlett, d. Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
99th Infantry Division, 1,168 dead, ETO
  • Frazier, Arthur Thompson, d. Hesse, Germany (786th Tank Bn.)
  • Lowman, George Arthur, d. Rhineland Palatinate, Germany
  • Miller, Raymond Detlef Jr.
7th Armored Division, 1,138 dead, ETO
  • Gregg, William Arnold, served as Gregg, Barney W., d. Netherlands
  • Rauterkus, Robert Richard, d. Belgium
  • Scully, John Edward, d. Hesse, Gemany
104th Infantry Division, 1,119 dead, ETO
  • Braden, William Court, d. North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
102nd Infantry Division, 1,088 dead, ETO
  • Henderson, Max O., d. Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
  • Hill, Jack William, d. North Rhine, Westphalia, Germany
  • Imrie, Don Harold, d. North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
​100th Infantry Division, 997 dead, ETO
  • Pagh, Amos Christian, d. Lorraine, France
  • Wright, Arlos Edward, d. Baden-Württemberg, Germany
6th Armored Division, 993 dead, ETO
  • Vanderpool, Clifford S., d. Belgium
  • Wooten, Harry Thomas, d. Luxembourg
63rd Infantry Division, 980 dead, ETO
  • ​Cutler, Donald Lee, d. Baden-Württemberg, Germany
10th Mountain Division, 955 dead, MTO
  • Erickson, Gordon Dale, d. Aquila Region, Italy
  • Lewis, Harold Joseph, d. Emilia-Romagna Region, Italy
​75th Infantry, 932 dead, ETO
  • no entries at this time.
70th Infantry Division, 874 dead, ETO
  • Lindsey, William Larkin, d. Saarland, Germany
  • Rold, John Angus "Jack", d. Lorraine, France
103rd Infantry, 834 dead, ETO
  • no entries at this time.
66th Infantry Division, 800 dead, ETO
  • Svenningsen, Elmer Lawrence, d. on SS Leopoldville off Cherbourg, Normandy, France
  • Swanson, Charles Edward Jr., d. on SS Leopoldville off Cherbourg, Normandy, France
  • Welbourn, Eldred Orville, d. on SS Leopoldville off Cherbourg, Normandy, France
10th Armored Division, 784 dead, ETO
  • Kitson, Donald Edgar, d. Baden-Württemberg, Germany
9th Armored Division, 728 dead, ETO
  • Bish, Homer "Jack", d. Belgium
  • Herrill, George Walter, d. Hesse, Germany
  • Johnson, Casper Simon, d. Belgium
  • Wright, David Frederick, d. North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
12th Armored, 732 dead, ETO
  • no entries at this time.
5th Armored Division, 716 dead, ETO
  • ​Smith, Norman Franklin, d. Maine, France
​106th Infantry Division, 693 dead, ETO
  • Plummer, Kenneth Frank, d. Belgium
42nd Infantry, 655 dead, ETO
  • no entries at this time.
92nd Infantry Division, 624 dead, MTO
  • Kyhnn, George Russell, d. Tuscany Region, Italy
  • Taylor, John Will, d. Caserta Province, Italy (executed)
​14th Armored Division, 566 dead, ETO
  • Drake, Eldon C., d. Alsace, France
  • Lawson, Herschal Vernon, d. Camp Chaffee, AR
11th Armored Division, 524 dead, ETO
  • Campbell, Bennie Clinton "Ben", d. Camp Polk, LA
  • Sanderson, Albert James "Beebee", d. Rhineland Palatinate, Germany
76th Infantry Division, 523 dead, ETO
  • Nelson, Leonard Mortensen, d. Rhineland Palatinate, Germany
​​8th Armored, 469 dead, ETO
  • no entries at this time.
31st Infantry, 415 dead, Japan
  • no entries at this time.
69th Infantry, 384 dead, ETO
  • no entries at this time.
89th Infantry Division, 325 dead, ETO
  • Vickroy, John Marvin, d. Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
71st Infantry, 279 dead, ETO
  • no entries at this time.
65th Infantry, 260 dead, ETO
  • no entries at this time.
13th Armored, 253 dead, ETO
  • no entries at this time
97th Infantry, 215 dead, ETO
  • no entries at this time.
86th Infantry Division, 161 dead, ETO
  • Macalister, Bruce Richard, d. Bavaria, Germany
  • Madsen, Earl Harvey, d. Nevada
20th Armored, 59 dead, ETO
  • no entries at this time.
93rd Infantry, 17 dead, Japan
  • no entries at this time.
16th Armored, 5 dead, ETO
  • no entries at this time.