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FRAZIER, Billy "William" - Date of
birth
10 June 1924 -
Age
21 - Place of
birth
Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio -
Hometown
Rawson, Hancock County, Ohio
Personal info
Military service
- Service
number
35293786 -
Rank
Sergeant -
Function
Squad Leader -
Unit
C Company,
1st Battalion,
12th Infantry Regiment,
4th Infantry Division,
Mortar Squad
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Awards
Bronze Star,
Purple Heart
Death
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Status
Missing in Action - Date of
death
20 September 1945 - Place of
death
Forest near Schlausenbach, Germany
Grave
-
Cemetery
American War Cemetery Henri-Chapelle - Tablets of the Missing
Immediate family
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Members
Clark W. Frazier (father)
Treva Frazier (mother)
Clark K. Frazier (brother)
Ferrall Frazier (brother)
More information
Sgt Billy Frazier enlisted on 5 November 1943. He took basic infantry training at Camp Wheeler in Macon, Georgia, and shipped out to England in April 1944. His fiancée was Naomi Henry.His unit landed on Utah Beach on 13 June, one week after D-Day. He was in the battle for Cherborgh, St. Lo, the Liberation of Paris, and then went all the way to the Schnee Eifel Forest.
On 19 September 1944, a counterattack by two companies of the SS Regiment Deutschland with tanks and artillery hit the under-strength C Company, East of Schlausenbach just within the German Border. Pinned down by enemy gunfire, 20 year-old Billy Frazier held his ground in a foxhole that day. After the enemy retreated, C Company counted survivors and tallied the number of wounded. Sgt Frazier wasn't in either group.
He was declared offcially dead one day and one year after he was reported missing in action.
Source of information: Clark Frazier, Peter Schouteten, Danny van der Groen, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.fold3.com, www.ancestry.com - Ohio Grave Index, Toledo Magazine April 8-14, 1990
Photo source: Astrid van Erp, Danny van der Groen, Toledo Magazine April 8-14, 1990, Rawson High School Yearbook, 1942, page 11