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Personal info

Full name
BALDRY, Floyd M
Date of birth
16 September 1920
Age
24
Place of birth
Scobey, Daniels County, Montana
Hometown
Daniels County, Montana

Military service

Service number
20928695
Rank
Sergeant
Function
unknown
Unit
B Company,
1st Battalion,
505th Parachute Infantry Regiment,
82nd Airborne Division
Awards
Silver Star,
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
21 September 1944
Place of death
Mook, Holland

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
M 15 16

Immediate family

Members
John P. Baldry (father)
Lizzie Baldry (mother)
Harold Baldry (brother)
Emily Baldry (sister)
Ruth Baldry (sister)
Horace Baldry (brother)
Wesley Baldry (brother)
Dale Baldry (brother)
Loren Baldry (brother)
Douglas Baldry (brother)
Margaret E. Baldry (sister)
Myrna L. Baldry (wife)

More information

Sgt Floyd M. Baldry enlisted in Whitefish, Montana on 16 September 1940.
Private Baldry had been in the hardest fighting since D-Day. He was among the paratroopers who landed in Normandy before a beachhead was set up. He came safely through that engagement.
Later in the open assault on Aachen, Private Baldry again landed behind enemy lines. He finished the fight without harm. He was killed in Mook Centre and temporary buried at the American War Cemetery Molenhoek, the Netherlands on 21 September 1944,
A-2-39.

Source of information: Astrid van Erp, Peter Schouteten, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.findagrave.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record

Photo source: Peter Schouteten, www.findagrave.com - Roger Vick