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Personal info

Full name
DWYER, William O'Brien Jr
Date of birth
30 March 1917
Age
27
Place of birth
Pittsfield, Berkshire County, Massachusetts
Hometown
Berkshire County, Massachusetts

Military service

Service number
O-1292851
Rank
First Lieutenant
Function
unknown
Unit
E Company,
2nd Battalion,
502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment,
101st Airborne Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
3 January 1945
Place of death
Longchamps, Belgium

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Plot Row Grave
B 9 49

Immediate family

Members
William O. Dwyer (father)
Grace (Nelligan) Dwyer (mother)
John J. Dwyer (brother)
Virginia Dwyer (sister)
Marguerite T. (Kelly) Dwyer (wife)

More information

1st Lt William O. Dwyer Jr. graduated from Pittsfield High School and attended Queens University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. He was a welder for the Pittsfield Works.

He enlisted in Springfield, Massachusetts on 14 March 1941.

Lt Dwyer was first buried at the Temporary American Military Cemetery of Grand Failly, France.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Terry Hirsch, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / 1940 Census / Kelly Tree Good, http://www.ww2-airborne.us, WWII Draft Card
Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Luxembourg American Cemetery, The Berkshire Evening Eagle 23 January 1945