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Personal info

Full name
MCQUEEN, Berton Jay
Date of birth
2 December 1923
Age
20
Place of birth
Jackson, Breathitt County, Kentucky
Hometown
Jackson, Breathitt County, Kentucky

Military service

Service number
35800045
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
D Company,
1st Battalion,
141st Infantry Regiment,
36th Infantry Division
Awards
Bronze Star,
Purple Heart with 2 Oak Leaf Clusters

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
23 November 1944
Place of death
Ban-sur-Meurthe-Clefcy, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Epinal
Tablets of the Missing
* This soldier has been accounted for. A rosette has been placed next to his name.

Immediate family

Members
John W. McQueen (father)
Nancy J. (McFarland) McQueen (mother)
Luther McQueen (brother)
Cynthia E. McQueen (sister)
William E. Hatfield (half-brother)
Melverna Hatfield (half-sister)

More information

Pfc Berton J. McQueen worked on a farm before he enlisted in Cincinnati, Ohio on 20 April 1943.

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that Pf. Berton J. McQueen was accounted for on 9 July 2021.

On 22 November, 1st Battalion was engaged in a battle with enemy troops in Clefcy. McQueen's company moved into the town to support the battle, but was pursued by German infantry. He was mortally wounded by German artillery shrapnel and taken to an aid station where he died on 23 November 1944 after 1st Battalion had been forced to abandon Clefcy. German troops withdrew from the area several days later, but McQueen's body was not found.

A rosette is placed next to the name on the Tablets of the Missing to mark that the person now rests in a known gravesite.

He was given his final resting place at the Wind Cave Cemetery in Jackson, Kentucky.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / Footprints, www.findagrave.com – Usafdo / ShaneO

Photo source: www.findagrave.com – Misty / Usafdo / Dan Smith / Andy / Genevieve Griffith Palm / Charging Forward, www.ancestry.com - Tizrose