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Personal info

Full name
LE MAY, Robert J "Buck"
Date of birth
1913
Age
unknown
Place of birth
Wisconsin
Hometown
Kimberly, Outagamie County, Wisconsin

Military service

Service number
36239073
Rank
Technician Fifth Grade
Function
unknown
Unit
B Company,
326th Airborne Engineer Battalion,
101st Airborne Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
18 September 1944
Place of death
Oisterwijk, The Netherlands

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
L 9 11

Immediate family

Members
Norman Le May (father)
Lena (Wulgaard) Le May (mother)
Alvina L. Le May (sister)
Norma Le May (sister)
Earl Le May (brother)
Delores L. Le May (sister)
Angela (VanDyke) Le May (wife)
Katharine Le May (daughter)

More information

T/5 Robert J. Le May enlisted on 27 March 1942.

Aboard of a Glider, loaded with jeeps and while approaching the landingzone, enemy ground fire shot off the left wing and it crashed in the vicinity of Oisterwijk, The Netherlands.

The crew was initially buried on the cemetery of St. Petrus Banden in Oisterwijk.

Source of information: Astrid van Erp, Mary Lamers, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.fold3.com, Oisterwijk-marketgarden.com, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / Family Tree / 1930 Census

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Des Philippet, Mary Lamers