| Name | Rank | ASN | Unit | Campaign | Butler, Richard E. | | | 531 AAA/Btry C | |
Butler, Robert H. | Pvt | | 117/H | |
Butler, William P. | Cpl | 31179?? | 113 FA/Hq | |
Butt, Allen C. | | | 120/G 2d Plt | |
Buttermore, J. | | | 120/Unk Co | |
Butti, Felix | T/5 | 32518592 | 119/C | |
Buttleman, Everett L. | Pvt | | 117/AT | |
Buttler, William P. | Capt | O-1291410 | 117/3rd | |
Butts, Jack I. | | | Unk | |
Butts, John A. | T/5 | | 117/CN,113/A | |
Butts, Raymond O. | Pfc | 33908093 | 119/G | |
Buvacker, Richard S. | | | 117 | |
Buzzard, Clifford W. | Pfc | | 117/D | NF,R,A,CE |
By RON SIMON, News Journal. MANSFIELD -- Of the 200 men in Curtis Hazlett's infantry company who landed at Omaha Beach, only nine survived the long, dark and bloody road to Pilsen, Czechoslovakia. Hazlett, 91, survived. "I lost a lot of friends. Every day it seemed a new guy would show up as a replacement, and then he was gone. It scares me to think about it even to this day," Hazlett said. "There were so many close calls, mostly from artillery. I was in an outpost by myself when I heard a shell coming. I ducked and it landed close by but never went off. It was a dud." Darkness is a wartime memory for Hazlett. "The Hurtgen Forest was the darkest place I've ever been. It was a scary place," he said. When the war ended, Hazlett's main memory is of light. Suddenly lights came on. The long darkness of war was over. Hazlett was one of four brothers to go into the service during World War II. He was drafted in 1940 and remembers the "Day that will live in Infamy." "I was at the PX at Fort Sam Houston on a Sunday wh | | 2 | | |
Byce, Deforest H., Jr. | Sgt | 34011746 | 30 MP Plat | |
Byerly, David J. | 1st Lt | | 118 Inf/H | |
Byers, Donald E. | 1st Lt | O-130589 | 120/Unk Co | |
Byers, Dougan W. | WOJG | W | Div Arty | |
Byers, Henry | Pfc | 33392768 | 119/3rd | |
Byers, Thomas R. | Pfc | 31249229 | 119/K | |
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