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Personal info

Full name
DWYER, Thomas Joseph
Date of birth
12 May 1919
Age
25
Place of birth
Brooklyn, Kings County, New York City, New York
Hometown
Brooklyn, Kings County, New York City, New York

Military service

Service number
32194057
Rank
Corporal
Function
unknown
Unit
HQ Battery,
66th Armored Field Artillery Battalion,
4th Armored Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
1 September 1944
Place of death
East of Vignot, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Epinal
Plot Row Grave
A 33 43

Immediate family

Members
Thomas J. Dwyer (father)
Mary A. Dwyer (mother)
Doris Dwyer (sister)
Joan Dwyer (sister)

More information

Cpl Thomas J. Dwyer graduated from Bishop Laughlin High School in 1937 and from St John's University in 1941.

He enlisted at Camp Upton, Yaphank, New York on 16 January 1942.

He was initially buried at the Temporary American Military Cemetery of, Chelons Sur Marne, France.

Source of information: André Koch, Terry Hirsch, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov – WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com, - 1920/1930/1940 Census, Headstone and Interment Record, http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ www.cgsc.cdmhost.com, AAR 66th Field Artillery Battalion, May 1944 thru April 1945, WWII Draft Card, The Tablet - 4 November 1944, The Brooklyn Daily Eagle - 25 January 1942
Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Dwight "Andy" Anderson