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Personal info

Full name
BYERS, Oscar G
Date of birth
26 May 1923
Age
21
Place of birth
Grayson County, Kentucky
Hometown
Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky

Military service

Service number
35697203
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
13th Infantry Regiment,
8th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart with Oak Leaf Cluster

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
27 December 1944
Place of death
Hurtgen Forest, near Obermaulbach, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
L 1 3

Immediate family

Members
Earnest Byers (father)
Bertress (Wilson) Byers (mother)
Claude Byers (brother)
Bertha E. Byers (sister)
Sudie M. Byers (sister)
Violet E. Byers (sister)
Ramona Miller (half-sister)
Irsa Miller (half-sister)
Pearl Byers (wife)

More information

Pvt Oscar G. Byers enlisted in Louisville, Kentucky on 18 February 1943.

He was a member of a three-man reconnaissance patrol which was sent into the Hurtgen Forest, near Obermaulbach, Germany in December 1944. His unit attacked and took all the ground along the patrol route.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record,
www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / 1940 Census, www.newspapers.com - The Courier-Journal

Photo source: www.findagrave.com, Des Philippet, www.ancestry.com - Earlene Embry, www.newspapers.com - The Courier-Journal