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This page contains the photographs of members of 17th Tank Bn who died overseas in World War II.
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Cpl. Louis Henry Brodman (35 274 235) - Company A
KIA April 6, 1944 in or enroute from Brunskappel to Assinghausen, Germany - Age: 27y 8m 15d
MOS: 616 (gunner) - Home Town: Salem Township, Wyandot County, OH - Buried at Netherlands USMC (Margraten, Netherlands) B-19-19
Photo from Bishop-Schultz tree on Ancestry
Find A Grave information
Fields of Honor
T/5 Bertram S. Butz (36 053 766) - Headquarters Company, Assault Gun Platoon
KIA October 28, 1944 in vicinity of Neerkant, Netherlands - Age: 27y 4m 26d
MOS: 736 (tank driver) - Home Town: Belleville, IL - Buried at Greenmount Catholic Cemetery in Belleville, IL
Photos thanks to Niece Pat's husband Joe Merriman
Sgt. William Wayne Crutcher (37 076 085) - Company A
KIA April 4, 1945 in vicinity of Gröaut;bach, Germany - Age: 25y 6m 21d
MOS: 651 (tank commander) - Home Town: Middletown, MO - Buried at Fairmount Cemetery in Middletown, MO
See headstone at FindAGrave web site
Photos thanks to nephew Steven Stegen
Pvt. Ernest Eckard (33 179 797) - Company A
DOW 1 October 1944 at 98th General Hospital at Newbury, Berkshire, Enland, of wounds suffered 19 September 1944 at Sillegny, France - Age: 34y 6m 1d
MOS: 531 (Cannoner) - Home Town: Cumberland, MD - Buried at Cambride, England, USMC E-6-79
Photo thanks to nephew Ronald Eckard
2d Lt Charles E. Fairweather (O-1 019 188; entered service 25 Nov 1940 as 20 620 662) - Company D
KIA August 18, 1944 at Ramobuillet, France - Age: 24y 4m 14d
MOS: 1203 (Tank Officer) - Home Town: Waverly, IL - Buried at Normandy USMC (Coourville-sur-Mer, France) B-12-17; also has commemorative head stone at the Waverly East Cemetery in Waverly, IL
Photo thanks to brother Delbert Fairweather via Francoise Winieska (author of "August 1944: The Liberation of Rambouillet, France")
Tec 5 Charles Wendall Fisher (36 313 580) - Company C
KIA March 29, 1945 at Wermertshausen, Germany - Age: 29y c9m ??d (need his birthdate)
MOS: ??? - Home Town: (Jefferson County, IL) - Buried at Mount Catherine Christian Cemetery; Woodlawn, IL
Photo thanks to buddy James Robert Fischer's son Robert Fischer
See web page about action in which he was killed
See headstone at FindAGrave web site
Tec 4 Leo Walter Goers (37 174 737) - Company C
KIA October 29, 1944 2 miles S of Heusden, Netherlands (west of the Asten-Meijel road) QE 6308 - 400 yards south 400 yards west of Infantry CP - VE 635098 Maeseyck - Age: 27y 5m 5d
MOS: 736 (tank driver) - Home Town: Mendota, MN - Has never been recovered and identified: Memorialized on Wall of Missing at Margraten, Netherlands, US Military Cemetery - BUT almost certainly is Unknown Solers X-43 buried at Epinal, France, US Military Cemetery B-47-21
Photo thanks to HonorStates.org
Sgt. Raymond T. Loyd (36 312 940) - Company C
KIA March 29, 1945 along Wermertshausen-Rossberg road just north-west of Wermertshausen, Germany - Age: 21y 9m 24d
MOS: not yet known (probably tank commander) - Home Town: IL - Has never been recovered and identified: Memorialized on Tablets of Missing at Hamm, Luxembourg, US Military Cemetery
Photo thanks to buddy James Robert Fischer's son Robert Fischer
See web page about action in which he was killed
Pvt. Aloysius James McLean, Jr. (36 042 935) - Company A
Died as POW January 31, 1945 1-2 miles west of Stalag III-C, nearing what is now Szumilowo, Poland, after capture October 4, 1944 between two woods west of Kijkuit and north of Castle Hattert, east of Overloon, Netherlands - Age: 25y 6m 20d
MOS: 604 (Light Machine Gunner) - Home Town: Morrisonville, IL - Has never been recovered and identified: Memorialized on Tablets of Missing at Netherlands US Military Cemetery (Margraten)
Photo provided by Nephew Peter Millburg
1st Lt. Elmo T. Olson (O-1 019 166) - Company C
Died December 28, 1944 of wounds suffered on December 23, 1944 in vicinity of Crombach, Belgium - Age: 27y 7m 4d
MOS: 1203 (?Tank Officer?) - Home Town: Bartlesville, OK - Buried at Memorial Park Cemetery; Bartlesville, OK
Photo from FindAGrave web site
Click here for his entry in the Oklahoma War Memorial.
Pvt. Eulys Francis Slate (39 417 088) - Headquarters Company, Assualt Gun Platoon
KIA December 20, 1944 at Samrée, Belgium - Age: 19y 11m 9d
MOS: 504 (Ammunition Handler) - Home Town: Lindsay, CA - Has never been recovered and identified: Memorialized at Ardennes USMC (Neupré-en-Condroz, Belgium) Wall of the Missing
Photo provided by Nephew Michael Haynes
Pvt. Charles E. Wawrzyniak (35 111 736) - Company A
Died October 4, 1944 as POW of wounds suffered October 4, 1944 at Overloon, Netherlands - Age: ??y ??m ??d
MOS: (Cannoneer) - Home Town: Whiting, IN - Buried at Ardennes USMC (Neupré-en-Condroz, Belgium) D-9-11
Photo provided by Joost Evertson of Utrecht, Netherlands
S/Sgt. Robert Dukes West (6 345 808) - Company A
KIA September 18, 1944 at Sillegny, France - Age: 35y 7m 3d
MOS: (Tank Commander) - Home Town: Muscogee County, GA - Has never been recovered and identified: Memorialized at the Lorraine USMC (St. Avold, France)
Photo provided by daughter Anne Anthony. Click here for her web page about him.