Claude A Malone - 298th Engineer Combat Battalion, WWII, WW2

Claude A Malone

Source: World War II: 1941/46 US Army Dead & Missing State Of Michigan (URL Defunct)
HONOR LIST - US Army Dead & Missing State Of Michigan

MALONE, CLAUDE A, 36588750, TEC5, KIA, County: OAK

Source: Find A Grave
Claude A. Malone
BIRTH 27 Nov 1924
DEATH 6 Mar 1945 (aged 20)
BURIAL White Chapel Memorial Park Cemetery, Troy, Oakland County, Michigan
INSCRIPTION Michigan WW2 - TEC 5 298 ENGR COMBAT BN
MEMORIAL ID 15267993

Listed in After Action Report March 1945
Entry #255 - March 6, 1945 Co C: CP located near Roggendorf, Germany, (Approximately two miles from the Rhine River) suffered a direct hit by a heavy caliber German Artillery Shell. T/5 Malone was killed, 1st Sgt Russell, Pfc Whitney and T/5 Steidl were seriously injured and evacuated through medical channels. Capt Sewell escaped with cuts and bruises caused by the second story of the building collapsing.

Listed in the 298th Journal March 1945
Date 5 March 1945 Place Birkesdorf, Germant [sic] F 103478
Direct hit by shell on C.P. Malone killed, Capt Sewell, Sgt Russell Steidel, & Whitney injured.

After/After Action Reports Jan-May 1945
KILLED IN ACTION
Claud A. Malone Tec 5 36588750 6 Mar 45

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