434th Armored Field Artillery Battalion Deaths in Europe

In Memoriam

434th Armored Field Artillery Battalion
Deaths in Europe
Photographs

Bookmark this page as http://www.7thArmdDiv.org/434deapho.htm
Last updated: September 26, 2022 - What's New?

This page contains the photographs of members of 434th Armored Field Artillery Bn who died overseas in World War II.
For the complete list of all 434th Armored Field Artillery Bn overseas deaths, click here.

Spare a minute
to think
of the young who didn't grow up,
and how young they looked when they died,
and how no one will ever remember them looking tired and middle-aged
or even be bored by tiresome recitals of the time of their youth.
- - - - Russell Baker "How to Observe Dec. 7" (NY Times, Dec. 1965)

Please Help to Tell These Men's Stories and Preserve Their Memory!

PLEASE contact Wesley Johnston at the address below if you have any information on any man of the unit who died overseas, such as:

photos
information on any of these men's deaths
information on what platoon and squad they were in
know of any men who died but are not on the list

Wesley Johnston
Send e-mail to wwjohnston@aol.com.
For ALL other e-mail matters, please click here for information about contacting me.

So they will not be “Forgot”

There is a word
Which bears a sword
It hurls its barbed syllables,-
At once is mute again.
But where it fell
The saved will tell
On patriotic day,
Some epauletted brother
Gave his breath away.

Wherever runs the breathless sun,
Wherever roams the day,
There is its noiseless onset,
There is its victory!
Behold the keenest marksman!
The most accomplished shot!
Time’s sublimest target
Is a soul “forgot”!
----- Emily Dickinson

A Note for the Children of these Men

The American World War II Orphans Network (AWON) is an organization created by and for those who lost their father in World War II. AWON has an annual conference and a newsletter filled with useful information. Click here to go to the AWON web page and find those who share your experience.

If you have a better quality photo of any of these men, please contact me.

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
This page contains only those men for whom I have photographs.
For the complete list of all 434th Armored Field Artillery Bn overseas deaths, click here.

Capt. Beryle Bennett Bossman (O-454 573) - Battery C Commanding Officer
KIA August 28, 1944 on Ave. Jean Jarues (Place dit "La Cascade"), Épernay, France (IDPF PDF p 141 & 143) - Age: 27y 9m 21d
MOS: 1197 (Artillery Officer?) - Home Town: Minneapolis, MN - Buried at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery; St. Louis, MO - Section 84, Graves 168-170 (co-mingled burial)
FindAGrave
7th Armored Division Deaths at Épernay, France 28 August 1944
Photo from Minneapolis "Star Tribune" 9 Jul 1944 p. 2, col. 3

Tec 4 James F. "Frank" Hyden (7 040 975) - Battery A Motor NCO
KIA October 29, 1944 just north of Heitrak, Netherlands (687120 - see map on web page about his death) - Age: 31y 2m 23d
MOS: 645 (Fire Control Instrument Operator, Field Artillery) - Home Town: Whigham, GA - Buried at Spring Hill United Methodist Church Cemetery; Whigham, GA
Web page about his death
Photo thanks to his grand-nephew Claude Napier (and to Richard Schoutissen for alerting me to the photo)
FindAGrave (with erroneous date and location)

Pvt Donald L. Nazworth (34 576 107) - Battery A
KIA August 27, 1944 about 1 mile east of Vulaines, France - Age: 30y 0m 7d
MOS: 645 (Fire Control Instrument Operator, Field Artillery) - Home Town: Whigham, GA - Buried at Spring Hill United Methodist Church Cemetery; Whigham, GA
FindAGrave
Photo thanks to his grand-daughter Melanie Ezell

2nd Lt Ray W. Shively (O-1 182 001) - Battery A, Recon Officer
KIA December 22, 1944 observing "for tank destroyers and dismounted elements then south of the railroad at NEUNDORF", Belgium - Remains recovered from vicinity of Crombach, Belgium 814868 (Charles Brown IDPF PDF p 39) which is just north of the railroad cut due north of Crombach crossroads but also reported (Brown IDPF PDF p 47) as 820871 which is "about .6 miles northwest of Neundorf, Belgium in a wooded area" (See web page on Crombach recoveries.) - Age: 30y 2m 14d
MOS: Specific MOS Not Yet Known (Reconnaissance Officer) - Home Town: Hollywood, CA - Buried at: Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery; San Diego, CA H-440
Also with a stone in the family lot of Trinity-Bergen Cemetery in Starkweather, ND
Photo thanks to his first cousin Eugene Garske's widow, Doris, via their son Ross (Click on photo to see full image)

Main 434th Armored Field Artillery Bn Overseas Deaths Page
Main 434th Armored Field Artillery Battalion Page
Active overview of all pages at the 7th Armored Division web site