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William F. Reynolds was a salesman for a furniture manufactuer in Asheville.

He enlisted at Fort Jackson, South Carolina on 21 February 1942. He was sent overseas in April 1943 and was one of the few who made four combat jumps: in Sicily, Italy, Normandy and the Netherlands.

The plan on 3 January for taking Fosse was for G and H Companies to bypass the town and take up positions on high ground to the southwest from which they could provide supporting fire while I Company attacked into the town from the north. All was going well until I Company emerged from a wood two hundred yards from Fosse's outskirts and got pinned down by small arms, machinegun and artillery fire. The commanding officer, Capt McPheeters was killed instantly as well as the only other officer Lt Degenhardt. In total the company suffered 13 casualties. They are remembered on a monument, situated on the north side of the town in a street called Sur le Meez.