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Pfc Harley D. Terrell was employed at Sanitary Laundry.

He enlisted in Akron, Ohio on 7 December 1942. He was sent overseas in July, 1944. He was killed by a shell fragment.

Statement from 'Bradley':
"At daybreak, Capt Straub called the six officers together to say that we would try to make our way back down the road and across the open field to the woods where the remainder of the
battalion had dug in. We passed the word to the men and started out of the trench as the Germans increased their firing and began attack through the woods. We moved 200 yards back toward the field. I was at the end of the trench near the bunkers, and as we headed out, a blast from an 88 caused a large limb to fall into the trench, cutting off about 15 of us from the others. An 88 shell shrieked in and exploded on a tree trunk over my head with a deafening blast. My runner, PFC Harley Terrell, and I crowded down to the bottom of the trench, our helmets touching. After the blast I said, "Let’s get out of here, Terrell." He did not move. I saw a jagged hole in the top of his steel helmet. I lifted it up and saw his face was bloody. There was a big hole in his forehead. I was too shocked to cry or speak, and my stomach cramped with nausea. My comrade and faithful runner of the past 48 hours lay dead beside me. I laid him out the best I could along with several other dead GI's, bloody and frozen in the trench."

Pfc Harley D. Terrell was first buried at Temporary American Military Cemetery St. Avold, France.