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327th Engineer Combat Battalion, 102nd Infantry Division
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327th Engineers interred in cemeteries overseas...
- from American Battle Monuments Commission WWII Honor Roll -
http://www.abmc.gov/home.php
[I have added the Company when known]

George W. Allen
Private First Class, U.S. Army
Service # 6891882
Company B, 327th Engineer Combat Bn, 102nd Infantry Division
Entered the Service from: District of Columbia
Died: 22-Jan-45
Buried at: Plot A Row 7 Grave 17
Netherlands American Cemetery
Margraten, Netherlands

Robert C. Brown
Private First Class, U.S. Army
Service # 33384724
Company C, 327th Engineer Combat Bn, 102nd Infantry Division
Entered the Service from: Ohio
Died: 22-Oct-44
Buried at: Plot B Row 37 Grave 21
Epinal American Cemetery
Epinal, France
Awards:

Frederick G. Bushee
Private First Class, U.S. Army
Service # 31114330
327th Engineer Combat Bn, 102nd Infantry Division
Entered the Service from: Vermont
Died: 4-Jun-45
Buried at: Plot L Row 7 Grave 15
Netherlands American Cemetery
Margraten, Netherlands
Awards:

James C. Comerford
Private First Class, U.S. Army
Service # 32361008
Company A, 327th Engineer Combat Bn, 102nd Infantry Division
Entered the Service from: New Jersey
Died: 7-Jan-45
Buried at: Plot F Row 10 Grave 21
Netherlands American Cemetery
Margraten, Netherlands
Awards: Purple Heart

Ralph J. Elledge
Private, U.S. Army
Service # 34300032
Company B, 327th Engineer Combat Bn, 102nd Infantry Division
Entered the Service from: North Carolina
Died: 17-Mar-45
Buried at: Plot F Row 7 Grave 12
Netherlands American Cemetery
Margraten, Netherlands
Awards: Purple Heart

Roy B. Etzin
Private, U.S. Army
Service # 32774698
Company C, 327th Engineer Combat Bn, 102nd Infantry Division
Entered the Service from: New Jersey
Died: 13-Dec-44
Missing in Action or Buried at Sea
Tablets of the Missing at Netherlands American Cemetery
Margraten, Netherlands
Awards: Bronze Star, Purple Heart

John A. Ford
Sergeant, U.S. Army
Service # 38297808
Company A, 327th Engineer Combat Bn, 102nd Infantry Division
Entered the Service from: Arkansas
Died: 6-May-45
Buried at: Plot G Row 13 Grave 16
Netherlands American Cemetery
Margraten, Netherlands
Awards: Bronze Star, Purple Heart

Daniel H. Green
Private, U.S. Army
Service # 32848710
Company C, 327th Engineer Combat Bn, 102nd Infantry Division
Entered the Service from: New York
Died: 12-Dec-44
Missing in Action or Buried at Sea
Tablets of the Missing at Netherlands American Cemetery
Margraten, Netherlands
Awards: Bronze Star, Purple Heart

David Edgar Grubbs
Private, U.S. Army
Service # 18059612
Company A, 327th Engineer Combat Bn, 102nd Infantry Division
Entered the Service from: Arizona
Died: 16-Dec-44
Buried at: Plot C Row 14 Grave 5
Netherlands American Cemetery
Margraten, Netherlands
Awards: Bronze Star, Purple Heart

Charles E. Isoldi
Technician Fourth Class, U.S. Army
Service # 32639210
Company B, 327th Engineer Combat Bn, 102nd Infantry Division
Entered the Service from: New York
Died: 9-Oct-44
Buried at: Plot A Row 5 Grave 29
Normandy American Cemetery
St. Laurent-sur-Mer, at Colleville-sur-Mer, France
Awards:
Photos from the cemetery

H. T. Kennedy
Sergeant, U.S. Army
Service # 36543827
Company C, 327th Engineer Combat Bn, 102nd Infantry Division
Entered the Service from: Michigan
Died: 12-Dec-44
Buried at: Plot B Row 20 Grave 17
Netherlands American Cemetery
Margraten, Netherlands
Awards: Bronze Star, Purple Heart

James L. Kissack
Second Lieutenant, U.S. Army
Service # O1114195
HQ, 327th Engineer Combat Bn, 102nd Infantry Division
Entered the Service from: Missouri
Died: 26-Dec-44
Buried at: Plot F Row 10 Grave 5
Netherlands American Cemetery
Margraten, Netherlands
Awards: Purple Heart

Ernest C. Lacy, Jr.
Captain, U.S. Army
Service # O-025464
Company B -also HQ, 327th Engineer Combat Bn, 102nd Infantry Division
Entered the Service from: Virginia
Died: 28-Apr-45
Buried at: Plot D Row 11 Grave 23
Netherlands American Cemetery
Margraten, Netherlands
Awards: Bronze Star, Purple Heart
    Memorial Article about Ernest Crews Lacy Jr.
    from Association of Graduates
    United States Military Academy at West Point

James P. Leahy
Sergeant, U.S. Army
Service # 32466260
Company B, 327th Engineer Combat Bn, 102nd Infantry Division
Entered the Service from: New Jersey
Died: 17-Mar-45
Missing in Action or Buried at Sea
Tablets of the Missing at Netherlands American Cemetery
Margraten, Netherlands
Awards: Bronze Star with Oak Leaf Cluster, Purple Heart

Bernard E. Marzaill
Private, U.S. Army
Service # 33671264
Company B, 327th Engineer Combat Bn, 102nd Infantry Division
Entered the Service from: Pennsylvania
Died: 22-Jan-45
Buried at: Plot F Row 12 Grave 23
Netherlands American Cemetery
Margraten, Netherlands
Awards:

Elliton N. McGill
Private First Class, U.S. Army
Service # 39266071
327th Medical Battalion, 102nd Infantry Division
Entered the Service from: California
Died: 2-Dec-44
Buried at: Plot I Row 5 Grave 9
Netherlands American Cemetery
Margraten, Netherlands
Awards: Bronze Star, Purple Heart

Alonzo P. Mobley, Jr.
Staff Sergeant, U.S. Army
Service # 34398887
Company A, 327th Engineer Combat Bn, 102nd Infantry Division
Entered the Service from: Alabama
Died: 27-Dec-44
Buried at: Plot H Row 27 Grave 25
Normandy American Cemetery
St. Laurent-sur-Mer, at Colleville-sur-Mer, France
Awards: Bronze Star, Purple Heart
Photos from the cemetery

Alfonso Morrone
CORPORAL, U.S. Army
Service # 32634689
Company B, 327th Engineer Combat Bn, 102nd Infantry Division
Entered the Service from: New York
Died: 22-Jan-45
Buried at: Plot F Row 11 Grave 6
Netherlands American Cemetery
Margraten, Netherlands
Awards: Soldier's Medal

Albert H. Raposky
CORPORAL, U.S. Army
Service # 33399295
Company A, 327th Engineer Combat Bn, 102nd Infantry Division
Entered the Service from: Pennsylvania
Died: 7-May-45
Buried at: Plot C Row 9 Grave 30
Netherlands American Cemetery
Margraten, Netherlands
Awards: Bronze Star

Robert D. Schindler
Staff Sergeant, U.S. Army
Service # 16088240
Company C, 327th Engineer Combat Bn, 102nd Infantry Division
Entered the Service from: Michigan
Died: 10-Jan-45
Buried at: Plot F Row 9 Grave 4
Netherlands American Cemetery
Margraten, Netherlands
Awards: Bronze Star, Purple Heart

Howard C. Spor
Private, U.S. Army
Service # 33319065
Company A, 327th Engineer Combat Bn, 102nd Infantry Division
Entered the Service from: Pennsylvania
Died: 6-Dec-44
Buried at: Plot H Row 2 Grave 13
Netherlands American Cemetery
Margraten, Netherlands
Awards: Purple Heart

Wilfred L. Starr
Private, U.S. Army
Service # 39473073
Company A, 327th Engineer Combat Bn, 102nd Infantry Division
Entered the Service from: Idaho
Died: 23-Feb-45
Buried at: Plot N Row 7 Grave 15
Netherlands American Cemetery
Margraten, Netherlands
Awards: Purple Heart

Robert Torres
Private First Class, U.S. Army
Service # 39545226
Company B, 327th Engineer Combat Bn, 102nd Infantry Division
Entered the Service from: California
Died: 22-Jan-45
Buried at: Plot F Row 12 Grave 15
Netherlands American Cemetery
Margraten, Netherlands
Awards:

George W. Wilkerson
Private, U.S. Army
Service # 38697639
Company B, 327th Engineer Combat Bn, 102nd Infantry Division
Entered the Service from: Oklahoma
Died: 17-Mar-45
Buried at: Plot O Row 16 Grave 16
Netherlands American Cemetery
Margraten, Netherlands
Awards: Purple Heart

Why is the inscribed date of death of the missing in action frequently different than the date on
which the decedent was declared missing?

Without confirmed information to the contrary, a War Department Review Board established the
official date of death of those missing as one year and a day from the date on which the
individual was placed in missing status.
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The American Battle Monuments Commission, established by the Congress in 1923, is an
agency of the Executive Branch of the Federal Government. The Commission administers,
operates, and maintains twenty-four permanent American burial grounds on foreign soil.
Presently there are 124,917 U.S. War Dead interred at these cemeteries, 30,921 of World War I,
93,246 of World War II and 750 of the Mexican War. Additionally 6,033 American veterans and
others are interred in the Mexico City and Corozal American Cemeteries.

Following World War I and II, the interment of the remains of War Dead was carried out by the
American Graves Registration Service, Quartermaster General of the War Department. At that
time, the next of kin authorized to make the decision regarding their loved one’s interment was
given the option of having the remains returned to the U.S. for permanent interment at a national
or private cemetery or permanently interment at the overseas American military cemetery in the
region where death occurred.