Harry Cooper BROWN
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ARMY SERIAL NUMBER | O-1304010 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
AGE | 29 yo | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
DATE OF BIRTH | 1914 ALABAMA | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
STATE | Talladega ALABAMA | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
FAMILY |
Married A son | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
RANK | 1st Lieutenant | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
FONCTION | Infantry Tactics Instructor at Fort Benning GEORGIA | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
JOB before ENLISTEMENT |
Electrician | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
DATE of ENLISTEMENT | 25 february 1941 Fort Mc Clellan ALABAMA | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
COMPANY | Company B | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
REGIMENT | 18th Infantry Regiment | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
DIVISION | 1st Infantry Division "Big Red One" | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
DATE OF DEATH | 24 june 1944 |
Source : F Lavernhe | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
STATUS | KIA | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
PLACE OF DEATH | La Vacquerie (Caumont l'Eventé) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
CEMETERY | NORMANDY AMERICAN CEMETERY de Colleville | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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STORY | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
John BENNION & Michel QUILES (Président of the association Amitié Franco-Américaine - Men of D-Day)
It is quite possible that he died on that date. The few inhabitants who were present at the time at La Vacquerie, following an appeal to the population by the mayor in 2006, testified by reporting that a body had been seen naked on a stretcher, coming out of a barn at La Vionnière, which was used as an infirmary, and GI’s clothes were found on a pile of manure nearby. Specifically, the story of his disappearance follows a night patrol led by Lt. Smith SHUMWAY of the 1st ID, Big Red One 18th IR, Company B, in the No Man's Land Village of La Haie, south of La Vacquerie. n relative safety, they realized that Lt. Harry C. BROWN, dressed in peasant-style civilian clothes, was missing. The patrol left to find him, wounded, dead or alive, but they found themselves under the German Machine Gun fire again, and returned to their entrenchment dug in a field close to a farm in the village of La Haie. his trench had been repaired after the war and we found its exact location with a GPR in 2009. In fact the Lt. Harry C. BROWN, would have been wounded and captured in plain clothes thus believed to be a spy, tortured at La Vionnère, more or less tended to at La Vionnière, returned to La Vionnière, since a female inhabitant of the hamlet heard a man scream. That’s where he would have died and been buried naked around Le Clos Mesnil.
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Smith SHUMWAY with his grandson William BENNION MURDOCK, this tall, unseen gentleman following war wounds received on July 24, 1944, the departure day of the Breakthrough, following Operation Cobra. He jumped during the explosion of the tank which he was protecting between La Chapelle en Jugé and the German cemetery of Marigny. Smith was dcd in St Louis (MISSOURI) on March 24, 2011. Michel QUILES - Smith SHUMWAY - Hyppolyth VAUCLAIR | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1st INFANTRY DIVISION - THE RED ONE
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INFORMATION SOURCE | Mitch QUILES - John BENNION - Abmc.gov - Aad.archives.gov |
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PICTURE SOURCE | Frédéric LAVERNHE - Findagrave.com |
PROGRAMMER | Frédéric & Renaud |