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Personal info

Full name
MOYER, Robert S
Date of birth
14 August 1914
Age
30
Place of birth
Poland, Mahoning County, Ohio
Hometown
Milford, Montgomery County, Ohio

Military service

Service number
O-358690
Rank
Captain
Function
Company Commander
Unit
HQ & HQ Company,
1st Battalion,
423rd Infantry Regiment,
106th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
5 April 1945
Place of death
Nuremberg, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
K 42 17

Immediate family

Members
Samuel N. Moyer (father)
Lilly H. Moyer (mother)
Donald M. Moyer (brother)
James Moyer (brother)
Elizabeth D. (Davidson) Moyer (wife)
Ann E. Moyer (daughter)

More information

Capt Robert S. Moyer attended Ohio State University and worked as a traffic engineer with the State Highway Department before he enlisted in June 1942. He was sent overseas in October 1944.
He was a prisoner of Oflag XII-A in the vicinity of Nuremberg, Germany.
During an air raid on the Nuremberg railroad yard on 5 April 1945, performed by the U.S. Army Airforce, a column of American prisoners, all of them officers, was hit with 29 men killed.

Source of information: Leo Minne, Kathy McDermott, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com - 1920/1930/1940 Census / Headstone and Interment Record / WWII Prisoners of War, http://www.indianamilitary.org/106ID/SoThinkMenu/106thSTART.htm

Photo source: www.findagrave.com, The Dayton Herald - 7 June 1945