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Personal info

Full name
GOODMAN, George W
Date of birth
1923
Age
unknown
Place of birth
Pennsylvania
Hometown
Roselle, Union County, New Jersey

Military service

Service number
14077337
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
B Company,
1st Battalion,
324th Infantry Regiment,
44th Infantry Division
Awards
Distinguished Service Cross,
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
17 November 1944
Place of death
Avricourt, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Epinal
Plot Row Grave
A 27 4

Immediate family

Members
Urner E. Goodman (father)
Louise Goodman (mother)
Theodore Goodman (brother)
Ann Goodman (sister)

More information

Pfc George W. Goodman attended college for one year before he joined the U.S. Army Reserve in Daytona Beach, Florida on 21 October 1942.

He was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross posthumously. The citation cited: for extraordinary heroism in connection with military operations against an armed enemy while serving with B Company, 324th Infantry Regiment, 44th Infantry Division, in action against enemy forces near Embermenil, France, on 14 November 1944. As he advanced across open terrain toward an enemy-held woods, Pfc Goodman, acting scout for his squad, was hit in the leg by a sniper's bullet. He immediately returned the fire either killing or wounding the enemy sniper. During this action a hostile machine gun located on the edge of the woods opened fire on his squad. With complete disregard for his own safety, Pfc Goodman gallantly charged the enemy machine gun nest, firing his rifle as he limped into the hail of enemy fire.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / 1940 Census, www.findagrave.com - Russ Pickett
Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Andy, www.wwiimemorial.com - Bernard L. Kapell