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S/Sgt Paul A. Gregg was a bartender.

He enlisted in Chicago, Illinois on 25 April 1941 and was sent overseas in September, 1943.

He was officially declared dead one year and one day after he was reported missing in action. At that time his unit was fighting in the vicinity of Fouhren, Luxembourg in support of E Company.

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced on 29 May 2025 that Staff Sgt. Paul A. Gregg was accounted for.

On 16 December 1944, German forces launched a massive assault against Allied positions in the Ardennes forest. German units quickly cut off Company E and its supporting elements - which included Gregg and his Company H - from the rest of the 2nd Battalion. Gregg was reported missing in action as of 18 December 1944 near Fourhen, Luxembourg. Few details of his loss were known, especially since the 109th Infantry Regiment was still engaged in fierce combat. The following day, the regiment had to fall back several miles to a more strategic defensive location. Hundreds of 109th Infantry soldiers had been killed, wounded, or captured during the bitter three days of fighting, and the Battle of the Bulge would continue for three more weeks before American troops reestablished the front line back along the Germany-Luxembourg border. Gregg's remains were not accounted for during post-war search and recovery efforts.

In 2021, a DPAA historian completed a study of unresolved combat losses from the Battle of the Bulge in Fouhren, Luxembourg, and recommended one set of unidentified remains, which had been recovered from an isolated field grave in the area in April 1945, be disinterred for scientific comparison to Gregg. In 2024, the Department of Defense and American Battle Monuments Commission exhumed the remains from Henri-Chapelle American Cemetery and transferred them to the DPAA laboratory for forensic analysis. Based on the laboratory analysis and total circumstantial evidence, the remains were found to be those of Gregg.

Funeral arrangements are pending (information added January 2026).