11 - C/38

1. Baker, Pvt. Willis L.
2. Carpenter, 1st Lt. Robert E.
   • First US Mil Cem burial 9 Apr 1946 at St. Avold, showing surmised cause as "Multiple wounds ...Believed to be mines."
   • Condition of Remains at 8 Jul 1949 disinterment: "R/Clavicle and L/Pelvis Body in skeleton form - Final stage of decomposition - Disarticulated"
   • Recovered from mine field west of Sillegny after post-war demining, more than a year after death
3. Costanzo, Pfc. Vincent J. -- UNCERTAIN, RECOVERED 26 NOV 44
   • First US Mil Cem burial 28 Nov 1944 at Limey -- 2 months after death -- showing surmised cause as "GSW lt side jaw"
   • Condition of Remains at 14 May 1948 disinterment: "Remains disarticulated. Fractured left femur & right radius."
   • Recovered 26 Nov 1944 with Willis R. Schwartz (A/38 KIA 22 Sep) and Walter R. Gouak (C/33 KIA 19 Sep)
4. Crosby, Pvt. William H.
5. Davis, Pvt. James I.
6. Faircloth, Pvt. Stephen Preston -EVACUATED
   • First US Mil Cem burial 21 Nov 1944 at Andilly, showing surmised cause as "KIA"
   • Condition of Remains at 29 Jun 1948 disinterment: "Disarticulated. Small amount of decomposed tissue. Missing right clavicle. Fractured right tibia."
   • C/38 Morning Report 23 Sep 1944 (2 days after burial) shows him MIA as of 19 Sep 1944, so that C/38 did not know what had happened to him. He was probably wounded by artillery and evacuated and either died at the aid station or arrived there already dead.
7. Hennessey, Pfc. William F. - COMBAT DEATH, RECOVERED 1946
   • C/38 Veteran Hugh F. Hays to 7th Armored Division Association Historian Wesley Johnston 28 Mar 2004 via e-mail from daughter Sherry Hays: "... Hennessey [was] helping someone who was wounded. ... The enemy dropped one artillery shell behind [him], killing [him]. I saw it happen."
   • Map of recovery (PDF p 8 and legend on p 3): recovered with Elias Santillanes (Med/38 KIA 19 Sep by same shell as killed Hennessey) and Louis E. Kay (C/38 KIA 19 Sep) in mined area, not cleared until 1946
   • First US Mil Cem burial 9 Apr 1946 at St. Avold, showing surmised cause as "Multiple wounds"
   • Condition of Remains at 6 Jul 1948 disinterment: "Missing: R/&L/Ulna, R/Tibia, Fibula, Radius. Fractured L/Tibia. Disarticulated."
8. Kay, Pfc. Louis E. - COMBAT DEATH, RECOVERED 1946
   • Map of recovery (Hennessey PDF p 8 and legend on p 3): recovered with Elias Santillanes (Med/38 KIA 19 Sep by same shell as killed Hennessey) and William F. Hennessey (C/38 KIA 19 Sep) in mined area, not cleared until 1946
   • First US Mil Cem burial 9 Apr 1946 at St. Avold, showing surmised cause as "Multiple wounds"
   • Condition of Remains at 6 Jul 1948 disinterment: "Body consists of fragments of R Humerus, Ulna, L/Femur, L/ &R/Fibula & Tibia. Disarticulated. Final stage of decomposition."
9. Keller, Pfc. Keith K.
10. Klosin, Pvt. Harry - recovered as St. Avold X-6020
    • First US Mil Cem burial 9 Apr 1946 at St. Avold, as X-6020, showing surmised cause as "Multiple wounds"
    • Condition of Remains at 6 Jul 1948 disinterment: "Fractured mandible. Body in skeleton form. Body complete."
    • Recovered 1946 -- more than a year after death -- from mine field west of Sillegny during 1946 demining
11. Scarborough, Pvt. John Henry

6 or possibly 9 - A/38

1. Bennett, Pvt. Oliver Ralph
2. Brennan, S/Sgt. Joseph F.
3. UNCERTAIN DATE OF DEATH - Cochran, Pfc. Johnnie
4. Crow, S/Sgt. William H. Jr.
5. Flores, Pfc. Fidel
6. Gire, Pfc. Oscar E.
7. UNCERTAIN DATE OF DEATH - Morey, Pvt. Max E.
8. UNCERTAIN DATE OF DEATH - Steele, Pvt. Roy D.
9. West, Pvt. Morley James

3 - Bn HQ/38

1. Rankin, Maj. Curtice Hayden
2. Rosebro, Lt. Col. William Walter Jr.
3. Wells, Maj. Thomas Henry - COMBAT DEATH - STILL UNACCOUNTED
   • See his posthumous Silver Star Citation in award citations for specifics of his death

2 - HQ Co/38

1. Sadler, Pvt. Louis J. - see Carl Mattocks statement in personal accounts
2. Shenk, S/Sgt. Charles W. DOW 20 Sep as POW - STILL UNACCOUNTED
   • See his IDPF for survivor accounts. He was seriously wounded with the group captured in Sillegny, and the other prisoners carried him on a door about 9 miles east to a German field hospital, where he was treated but passed away. He is presumably buried at the site where the field hospital was then located.

2 - Med/38

1. Malamud, Pvt. Harvey E.
   • First US Mil Cem burial 19 Nov 1944 at Limey -- 2 months after death -- showing surmised cause as "GSW Rt Chest KIA"
   • Condition of Remains at 14 May 1948 disinterment: "Skeletal state. Small amount of decomposed flesh."
2. Santillanes, Pvt. Elias A.

10 - C/33
The 19 Sep 1944 Morning Report has this Record of Events entry: "2nd and 3rd Platoon had mission of knocking out enemy machine gun nests at inter-section of roads at Sillegny, Fr. 17 EM wounded, 1 officer killed, 1 Off wounded, 28 men missing."

1. Barber. Pvt. Howard E. - UNCERTAIN: CONFLICTING EVIDENCE, RECOVERED NOV 1944
   • Howard H. Gregory of C/33 letter to his sister states he (Gregory) was wounded by the same grenade that killed Barber, during the same firefight that killed Stoesser
   • First US Mil Cem burial 19 Nov 1944 at Limey -- 2 months after death -- showing surmised cause as "KIA Sv. Burns Face and Body"
   • Condition of Remains at 13 May 1948 disinterment: "Badly decomposed; disarticulated; fractured lt. tibia & rt. Fibula, rt. Foot missing"
   • Barber's widow Annie V. Barber wrote to his (Barber's) sister Ethel Little "Had another letter from Earl Straight before I wrote him that he heard Howard was taken a prisoner with some more of the boys from the same company.", quoted in Ethel's 21 Apr 1945 letter to US Representative D. Lane Powers (PDF p 56) where she added "This Earl Straight was a friend of my brother and was wounded. Later he was sent to an English hospital ... This is the second letter my brother's wife has received containing similar information. The first letter came shortly after he was reported missing. ... why the persistent rumor among his buddies that he was taken a prisoner?"
   • Acting AG Maj Gen Edward F. Witsell letter to Congressman Powers (10 Jul 1945-PDF pp 42-43): ""... Technician Straight has been interviewed in connection with the information he furnished Private Barber's wife that her husband was a prisoner of war. Technician Straight stated that in his letter to Mrs. Barber he told her not to worry as there was a possibility that her husband might have been captured. At the time this letter was written, Technician Straight had no knowledge that Private Barber had been reported killed in action and it is indeed most unfortunate that the communication in question has caused the family so much confusion and added distress." [WJ NOTE: fails to address first letter from Straight "shortly after he was reported missing" before his remains were found.]
2. Borkowski, Tec 5 Benjamin P. - COMBAT DEATH - RECOVERED SAME OR NEXT DAY
   • First US Mil Cem burial 21 Sep 1944 at Andilly per Report of Burial (PDF p 23)
   • Condition of Remains at 29 Jun 1948 disinterment (PDF p 4): "Disarticulated. Skull fractured."
3. Bufkin, Pvt. Charles H. - COMBAT DEATH - RECOVERED 13 NOV 1944
   • Wesley Johnston notes from 2/C/33 veteran William Mitchell (7 Sep 2005): "Bufkin was hit in back by mortar or artillery shell."
   • Recovered by 5th Infantry Division as Unknown 13 Nov 1944 at same location at Sillegny (844-440 just west of main road junction - see map PDF p 14) as C/77 Antonino Taormina (KIA 20 Sep) and Med/38 Alfred Seidman (KIA 21 Sep)
   • First US Mil Cem burial 14 Nov 1944 at Limey as Unknown X-1 - "KIA Decapitated" - No dog tags; Identified from markings on trousers and shoe size 11EE
   • Condition of Remains at 30 Apr 1948 disinterment (PDF p 3): "Advanced stage of decompostion; partly disarticulated; fractured rt. femur, tibia & fibula; skull, mandible, maxilla, rt. ulna & radius missing."
4. Byrd, Cpl. Henry O. - EVACUATED: DIED OF WOUNDS
   • C/33 Morning Report 19 Sep 1944 shows him seriously wounded in action and transferred to 104th Evacuation Hospital; died of wounds 20 Sep 1944
   • First US Mil Cem burial 21 Sep 1944 at Andilly
5. Civita, Tec 4 Canio Joseph - UNCERTAIN: RECOVERED FEB 1945
   • First US Mil Cem burial 14 Feb 1945 at Hamm, next to Dulaney - no cause of death conjectured
   • Condition of Remains at 6 Apr 1948 disinterment: "Advanced stage decomposition. Skull crushed. Otherwise body intact."
6. Cravens, Pfc. Stanley G. - GSW HEAD: RECOVERED NOV 1944
   • First US Mil Cem burial 21 Nov 1944 at Limey - cause: "KIA GSW head" [Killed in Action-Gunshot wound to head]
   • Condition of Remains at 3 May 1948 disinterment: "Complete; disarticulated; fractured skull, manla [sic] & rt. Humerus."
7. Dulaney, Cpl. Justice Call - UNCERTAIN: RECOVERED FEB 1945
   • First US Mil Cem burial 14 Feb 1945 at Hamm, next to Civita
   • Condition of Remains at 6 Apr 1948 disinterment: "Remains complete- Advanced Decomposition"
8. Gouak, Cpl. Walter R. - COMBAT DEATH - RECOVERED NOV 1944
   • Wesley Johnston notes from 2/C/33 veteran William Mitchell (7 Sep 2005): "killed by machine gun fire first thing in the morning - not quite daylight - Gouak was on Mitchells's left - did not see him but heard him holler in pain; one bullet in neck and several in chest -- mg tore him apart"
   • Recovered by 5th Infantry Division as Unknown 26 Nov 1944 at same location at Sillegny (NW of main road junction) as C/38 Vincent Costanzo (KIA 19 Sep) and A/38 Willis Schwartz (KIA 22 Sep)
   • First US Mil Cem burial 30 Nov 1944 at Limey - "H. E. Shell Blast" - No dog tags; Identified from markings on 4 pieces of clothing
9. King, 1st Lt. Thomas S., Jr - COMBAT DEATH - RECOVERED SAME OR NEXT DAY
   • First US Mil Cem burial 21 Sep 1944 at Andilly per Report of Burial (PDF p 15)
   • Condition of Remains at 29 Jun 1948 disinterment: "Complete. Skeletal State."
10. Stoesser, Sgt. Eugene E. - COMBAT DEATH?
    • Howard H. Gregory of C/33 letter to his sister states he (Gregory) was wounded by the same grenade that killed Barber, during the same firefight that killed Stoesser

2 - HQ Co/33
The 20 Sep 1944 Morning Report has this Record of Events entry for the prior day: "2 EM KIA 1/2 Mi E of Sillegny, Fr on Seille River 19 Sept 44 while on Rcn mission." and lists Panion and Worthington as KIA as of 19 Sep 1944. So they were both known to have been killed at the time and thus almost certainly not captured and executed.

1. Panion, S/Sgt. Charles C.
2. Worthington, S/Sgt.Leo R. - STILL UNACCOUNTED - COMBAT DEATH
   • 31 Dec 1944 HQ 33 AEB to CG 7AD: "Soldier was killed by enemy small arms fire while on an engineer reconnaissance mission in the vicinity of Selligny [sic], France, since that area remained under enemy control for some time after this action the soldiers body was not recovered at the time. ... A certificate signed by 1st Lt DONALD R. VARNER ... who saw the remains of the deceased, was used as the basis for submitting the casualty report."
   • 27 Jul 1945 Chaplain Capt. Clair F. Yohe to Mother: "We had a river crossing to make. It is always easier to use the bridge that is already in place than to make one of our own. We knew that there had been a bridge. But we did not know if the bridge was intact. We sent out a reconnaissance patrol to discover the condition of the bridge. We found that the bridge was still there and-- the enemy was there, too. He had with him a supply of rifles and machine guns. Our men were able to get quite close to the bridge without being discovered but as soon as they were discovered, the enemy cut loose with everything that he had. Leo was killed almost instantly; I am sure that he did not suffer."
   • [WJ NOTE: IDPFs of the C/38 AIB men recovered in 1946 from the mine field west of the north part of town include a notation that the trench just SE of the junction of the main roads (and thus just east of where the trench is currently believed to have been where the executed GIs were buried -- could this really have been the same trench?) contained the remains of 37 Germans and 1 American. At this point, I do not yet know who that American was.]

1. George, Capt. Jacob A., Jr.
   • First US Mil Cem burial (14 Nov 1944-PDF 35) 14 Nov 1944 at Limey, next to Seidman (Med/33 KIA 21 Sep) - Probably recovered by 5th Infantry Division same day as recovery of Seidman, Taormina and Gouak - Surmised Cause: "S. head wound KIA"
   • 17th Tank Battalion After Action Report for Sep 1944, p11: "At 0800 19 Sept 44, Capt GEORGE, the company commander of Co "C" of the 17th was killed by enemy small arms fire. He was standing up in his tank turret throwing a hand grenade at some dug-in enemy infantrymen to his front at the time he was killed."
   • Condition of Remains at 29 Jun 1948 disinterment: "Disarticulated. Fractured skull."
2. Westhafer, Cpl. Paul M.
3. Williams, S/Sgt. Evan - STILL UNACCOUNTED
   • Inventory of Personal Effects (23 Sep 1944-PDF 26-27), signed by 1st Lt. William Binder (C/17): "Duffel bag stored at Chateru Thiery [sic]. Other effects destroyed in fire of tank or with individual."

1. Eckard, Pvt. Ernest - EVACUATED: DIED OF WOUNDS
   • A/17 Morning Report 19 Sep 1944 shows him seriously wounded in action and transferred to 59th Field Hospital
   • Died of wounds 1 Oct 1944 at 98th General Hospital at Newbury, Berkshire, England
   • First US Mil Cem burial 3 Oct 1944 at Cambridge - Cause of death: "WIA. Pen W abdominal wall, severe."

1. Payne, Pvt. James T.