William Hulon BLUE
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1942 N.C. State University Raleigh NORTH CAROLINA Source : Angela Short Hudson | |||||||
NUMBER OF SERVICE | O-141573 | ||||||
AGE | 23 yo | ||||||
DATE OF BIRTH | 11 June 1921 Carthage, Moore County, North Carolina | ||||||
ENLISTMENT STATE | NORTH CAROLINA | ||||||
FAMILY |
Spouse : Eiizabeth Anne A Son Parents : Louis Henry & Novella Lewis Short BLUE | ||||||
RANK | Lieutenant Junior Grade | ||||||
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JOB BEFORE ENLISTEMENT | Student | ||||||
DATE of ENLISTEMENT | 1942 | ||||||
COMPANY | Company | ||||||
ARMY | United States Naval Reserve | ||||||
DATE OF DEATH | 24 August 1944 |
Source : F Lavernhe | |||||
STATUS | KIA | ||||||
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CEMETERY TEMPORARY |
CEMTERY TEMPORARY of Saint James N°3578 | ||||||
CEMETERY | BRITTANY AMERICAN CEMETERY of St James (Montjoie St Martin) | ||||||
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STORY | |||||||
The Carthage, N.C., native enlisted in the Navy, where he became a lieutenant and was on active duty two months after his graduation. He spent five months at the naval training school at Harvard University followed by the naval training school at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He married Elizabeth Anne Maloney of Springfield, Mass., and they had a son. By February 1944, he had landed overseas and, that summer, was part of the U.S. forces’ movement southwest of out Normandy into Brittany. His job was to eliminate German radar dispersed along the French coast used in tracking English aircraft. As he was driving his Jeep on one of those missions, he hit a German mine and died in August. |
Source : Angela Short Hudson | ||||||
Lt. j.g. William Blue ’42 was a highly decorated student at NC State before landing in Europe in 1944 to take out German radar located along the French coast. Source : Mydigitalpublication.com |
SOURCE INFORMATION & SOURCE PHOTO | Abmc.gov - Findagrave.com - Mydigitalpublication.com |
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PROGRAMMER | Henri, Garrett, Clive, Frédéric & Renaud |