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S/Sgt Euel J. Langlinais enlisted in Jackson, Mississippi on 28 August 1940.

He was killed by a sniper:
"In the middle of the afternoon an order came from regiment to the 3rd Battalion to disengage and go back to Eerde. Another German force was attacking Veghel from the northwest and the 2nd Battalion holding the corridor there would need reinforcements. We weren't actually in a fire fight now, so we simply turned our backs and marched down the road toward St. Oedenrode and then turned off and came into Eerde from the south. While we had been away a German patrol had come into the village. There weren't many of them but they were shooting at us when we approached the village.
'H' Company spread out in skirmish line to clean them out. We worked our way up to the houses and were moving from building to building when a sniper killed Sgt. Langlinais. Our men spotted the house that the shot came from and it was soon riddled. All the patrol were either killed or captured and we let our friends in the shelters know that we were back. We moved through the village and dug in for the night in our old area beyond the windmill. This was the beginning to seem like home; we kept time again by the clock in the church tower."