27 Dec 1943: enlisted in the Army at Camp Croft near Spartanburg, South Carolina.
Jan 1944: began basic military training at an Infantry Replacement Training Center, then assigned to Company K, 141st Infantry Regiment, 36th Infantry Division, VI Corps.
15 Aug 1944: the 141st Infantry Regiment entered combat during Operation Dragoon (initially Operation Anvil) which was the code name for the Allied invasion of Southern France. The 36th Infantry Division landed at Camel Beach (Saint-Raphaël) along the French Riviera. The landing caused the German Army Group G to abandon southern France, and to retreat Northward, under constant Allied attacks to the Vosges Mountains (approximately 900 kilometers to the German border) .
4 Oct 1944: KIA during the Rhineland Campaign in the Vosges Mountain Range in eastern France; near its border with Germany.
Surviving 36th ID Infantryman: "If ever the Germans and the forest seemed allied, it was never more noticeable than when enemy artillery shells burst in the Vosges Mountains tree-tops; spraying metal and tree shards down on us like rain falling from an evil sky. "
Contributor: Sam Pennartz (47381848)
27 Dec 1943: enlisted in the Army at Camp Croft near Spartanburg, South Carolina.
Jan 1944: began basic military training at an Infantry Replacement Training Center, then assigned to Company K, 141st Infantry Regiment, 36th Infantry Division, VI Corps.
15 Aug 1944: the 141st Infantry Regiment entered combat during Operation Dragoon (initially Operation Anvil) which was the code name for the Allied invasion of Southern France. The 36th Infantry Division landed at Camel Beach (Saint-Raphaël) along the French Riviera. The landing caused the German Army Group G to abandon southern France, and to retreat Northward, under constant Allied attacks to the Vosges Mountains (approximately 900 kilometers to the German border) .
4 Oct 1944: KIA during the Rhineland Campaign in the Vosges Mountain Range in eastern France; near its border with Germany.
Surviving 36th ID Infantryman: "If ever the Germans and the forest seemed allied, it was never more noticeable than when enemy artillery shells burst in the Vosges Mountains tree-tops; spraying metal and tree shards down on us like rain falling from an evil sky. "
Contributor: Sam Pennartz (47381848)
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Earl Marion Abernethy
1918–1977
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Sgt Everette Luther Abernathy
1920–1944
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1920–1944
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1922–1989
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Paul William Abernathy
1925–2007
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1930–2000
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1936–2015
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