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FUCHS, William G - Date of
birth
7 April 1913 -
Age
31 - Place of
birth
Boomville, Warrick County, Indiana -
Hometown
Warrick County, Indiana
Personal info
Military service
- Service
number
35485804 -
Rank
Private First Class -
Function
unknown -
Unit
I Company,
3rd Battalion,
378th Infantry Regiment,
95th Infantry Division
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Awards
Silver Star,
Bronze Star,
Purple Heart
Death
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Status
Missing in Action - Date of
death
18 November 1944 - Place of
death
Pont du Sauvage
Longeville-lès-Metz, France
Grave
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Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine - Tablets of the Missing
Immediate family
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Members
Charles Fuchs (father)
Lillie Fuchs (mother)
Nelda (Bracher) Fuchs (wife)
More information
Pfc William G. Fuchs attended high school for two years and was a retail manager.He enlisted in Evansville, Indiana on 24 July 1942.
On the order of General Kittel, On the morning of 18 November 1944, the Pont du Sauvage was blown up at the moment men of I Company began to cross it. Fifteen men were killed.
For his action that day, Pfc Fuchs was awarded the Silver Star Medal posthumously. The citation cited: When his platoon was ordered across the Moselle River bridge, over which enemy troops were fleeing, and seiza a bridgehead on the east bank, Pfc Fuchs started across in spite of machine gun and 20 mm fire. Four of his comrades reached the German-held bank but before they could find the demolition wires, the Germans set off prepared charges detroying the bridge and Pfc Fuchs was killed instantly.
Together with the other killed members of his unit, he is remembered on a plaque at the bridge.
He is also remembered at Maple Grove Cemetery in Boonville, Warrick County, Indiana.
Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Raf Dyckmans, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / 1930/1940 Census, http://mathieu.gitzhofer.free.fr/irongb.php
Photo source: Evansville Press - 23 June 1945, https://www.uswarmemorials.org/html/monument_details.php?SiteID=1167&MemID=1526, www.findagrave.com - Frogman