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Donald Seger was a machine operator.

He volunteered for the Army of the United States in Detroit, Michigan on 3 November 1942.

He had been in action for just two weeks when he volunteered for a mission which called for silencing a German machine gun nest on a hill near Dausfeld.

A fellow soldier of I Company witnessed that both Pfc Donald L. Seger and Pfc Ervin F. Bupp sought refuse in a shell crater and were killed by small arms fire. After the battle a search to find the remains of missing soldiers was undertaken but those two men were not found.

His parents were informed by the government in 1951 that it had abandoned the search for his body.

On 24 March 1969 a ordnance disposal team was cleaning the area of ammunition left behind during the battle of February and March 1945 to prepare the area to build a new highway, when the remains of both soldiers were found in a shallow crater.

Kenneth Evans was notified of the discovery of his stepson´s body in July 1969. His body, uncovered accidentally by diggers , was identified by its dogtags and a dental bridge.

Donald Seger is buried at the Woodland Cemetery, Jackson, Jackson County in Michigan.

His name is permanently inscribed on the Tablets of the Missing at Henri-Chapelle. A rosette is placed next to his nmae to mark that his remains have been recovered.