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Sgt Mervil Mc Cuistion graduated from Nacogdoches High School. He was employed by Davidson Dental Laboratories.
He enlisted in Jacksonville, Florida on 24 September 1941.

Sgt Mc Cuistion was first wounded on 11 July 1944 in Saint-Lô and was awarded the Purple Heart Medal a first time. He returned to his company in September.

The mission of his company was to clear a section of the Hürtgen Forest south of a road leading into the town of Hürtgen. L Company departed from a point about two miles south of Hürtgen with the intention of clearing the area and then letting armored outfits take over. During the action that ensued Sgt Mc Cuistion was shocked by an exploding shell and started back to an aid station. Witnesses described that he was acting like he was out of his head and yelling that he could not stand it any longer and that he had to have something done. He started for the aid station but in the wrong way. Sgt Willey grabbed him and turned him around in the right direction. After he left that was the last that was seen of him.

Sgt Willey and other members of his unit believe that it is possible that he got off the road going back to the aid station and was killed by artillery fire or sniper fire of which there was plenty of around there and that his body was never bicked up.

Any further information about when and in which circumstances his remains were found and recovered, are not availalble at this time.
His brother, Pvt Robert V. Mc Cuistion, was killed in Saint-Lô on 5 July 1944 and is buried at the Normandy American Military Cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer, France.