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1st Lt William Worrall worked at Fort Knox, Kentucky before he enlisted in Portland, Oregon on 31 May 1942. He graduated from from officers' school in Februar 1943. His first assignment was as tank instructor at Camp Campbell. He then was sent to North Africa in May 1943 and also took part in the Sicilian.

The Chaplain o fhis unit, W.F. Overhulser, wrote to his mother the following: "I had only been with this regiment a short while before Lt Worrall was killed, but in that time I had struck up quite a friendship with your son. I thought a great deal of him because he was one of the first officers I became acquainted with after I joined the regiment. He was equally well liked by everyone that knew him. His loss was a very real loss to our regiment. At the time of his death we were in a little town of Friealdenhoven (sic), Germany. It is between the German border and the Roer river in the vicinity north of Aachen. We were advancing toward the Roer in the fance of very heavy artillery fire. It was during this advance that Bill was killed. On the morning of November 27, I had quite a visit with him. He was in fine spirits and we laughed and joked as we usually did when we met. I was shocked when I heard that night he was missing. A patrol had gone out and he did not come back with them. The next day another patrol went out and found his body. He had been instantly killed with an artillery shell which had landed near his foxhole."