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Personal info

Full name
GENTHNER, Carl R
Date of birth
17 August 1911
Age
33
Place of birth
Rochester, Monroe County, New York
Hometown
Rochester, Monroe County, New York

Military service

Service number
O1544092
Rank
First Lieutenant
Function
unknown
Unit
575th Ambulance Company,
341st Medical Group
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
17 December 1944
Place of death
The field next to the N62, near the crossroads "Five Points"
Baugnez, Belgium

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Henri-Chapelle
Plot Row Grave
C 13 3

Immediate family

Members
Henry Genthner (brother)
Thomas Genthner (brother)
William Genthner (brother)
Edwin Genthner (brother)
Helen Genthner (sister)
Mary Genthner (wife)
Thomas C. Genthner (son)

More information

Carl Genthner was an engineer.

He enlisted in Syracuse, New York, on 4 March 1941.

He was one of the victims of the Malmedy massacre when German SS soldiers of the 1st Panzer Division captured over 100 American soldiers at Baugnez Crossroads outside Malmedy, Belgium, on 17 December 1944 during the Battle of the Bulge. Under orders to take no prisoners, they placed them in an open field and then machine-gunned them. When the machine guns stopped, the SS went through the field where some victims were still alive and systematically finished them off with pistols at short range, leaving 84 soldiers dead when they had finished. Fortunately, when the machine guns first started shooting, a number of soldiers ran and some managed to escape and tell the story of how the Germans had treated the others who had not survived.

His name is mentioned on the monument on the opposite side of the road.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Raf Dyckmans, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov, http://www.in-honored-glory.info/

Photo source: www.wwiimemorial.com, Edwin L. Genthner, Peter Schouteten, www.newspapers.com - Democrat and Chronicle