William H Creech - 298th Engineer Combat Battalion, WWII, WW2
William H Creech
Source: Find A Grave
Pvt William H. Creech
BIRTH 11 Dec 1922 Broken Bow, McCurtain County, Oklahoma
DEATH 21 Jul 1944 (aged 21), France
BURIAL Holly Creek Cemetery, Broken Bow, McCurtain County, Oklahoma
MEMORIAL ID 9697100
The Paris News Fri. Oct. 20, 1944 Pg. 3
Reburial services for Pvt. William H. Cheech, who was killed July 21, 1944, in France, in the invasion of Normandy, will be held at 4 p.m. Thursday, July 8, 1948, at Holly Creek Cemetery. He was 21 years old. The Idabel National Guard unit will direct military service and provide pallbearers.
Source: US Army in World War 2, Technical Services, the Corps of
Engineers by Alfred M Beck - pg. 377
"It's raining very hard." noted the 1106th Group's journal on 21 July;
next day it was "still pouring." Mud made the construction of bypasses
for infantry troops difficult, and gravel had to be brought up and
stockpiled at strategic points to keep the four main supply routes
firm enough for tanks. The work went on under increasingly heavy enemy
artillery fire. For example, on the evening of 21 July at an engineer
bivouac near Tribehou, German shells exploded a demolition dump,
killing two men of the 298th Engineer Combat Battalion and wounding
fourteen.
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