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Personal info

Full name
SHEEHAN, Walter Bernard
Date of birth
20 August 1922
Age
22
Place of birth
Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri
Hometown
Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri

Military service

Service number
37235321
Rank
Staff Sergeant
Function
unknown
Unit
60th Armored Infantry Battalion,
9th Armored Division
Awards
Silver Star

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
29 December 1944
Place of death
In the vicinity of Bastogne, Belgium

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Plot Row Grave
E 16 33

Immediate family

Members
Walter E. Sheehan (father)
Anna L. (Cunningham) Sheehan (mother)
Mary V. Sheehan (sister)
Francis J. Sheehan (brother)
Lawrence E. Sheehan (brother)
Vincent P. Sheehan (brother)

More information

S/Sgt Walter B. Sheehan graduated from Rockhurst High School and attended Rockhurst College.

He was awarded the Silver Star Medal posthumously for gallantry for actions on 13 and 29 December 1944. When Sheehan's scouting patrol was fired upon by the enemy, concealed in a machine-gun nest, he defied enemy fire and annihilated the nest with hand grenades. On 29 December 1944 his outfit was suffering heavy casualties from an enemy machine-gun nest. He assaulted the gun and was wounded fatally.

Source of information: André Koch, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / 1920/1930/1940 Census / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men 1940-1947, www.newspapers.com - The Kansas City Star - 9 December 1945, After Action Report 60th Armored Infantry Battalion

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Luxembourg American Cemetery, www.newspapers.com - The Kansas City Star - 9 December 1945