NCDUs Dillon, Thomas Justin

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  • SURNAME
Dillon
  • FORENAME
Thomas Justin
  • UNIT
U.S.N.R. NCDU
  • RANK
Seaman Second Class
  • NUMBER
  • DATE OF DEATH
6th June 1944
  • AGE
30
  • GRAVESITE
Long Island National Cemetery,Farmingdale,Suffolk County,New York Section H Site 11653
  • ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
from New York,New York
born 13.07.1913
Evander Childs High School, Class of 1931
employed by Hartford Accident and Indemnity Insurance Company as a claim adjuster
wife, 3 children
inducted in the US Navy on 29.01.1944
late addition to NCDU #141
KIA Normandy (On D-Day, at 0635 hours, NCDU #141 landed in the first wave at the Fox Green Sector of Omaha Beach via rubber boat. As the team was unloading their explosives/equipment, they were cut down by machine gun fire. It was in this moment that Dillon was killed in action. Most of the men were either killed or wounded in his team.Though successful in their mission, the NCDU teams suffered 52% casualties that day, including 37 dead, resulting in the largest loss of life in a single action for Naval Special Warfare. Dillon, one of the 37 NCDU members killed on D-Day, would leave behind a wife and 3 children.Dillon was initially buried in Normandy, but after the war was re-interred in New York. He would be awarded, posthumously, the Purple Heart, EAME w/ 1 Bronze Star, WWII Victory Medal, and Presidential Unit Citation.)
 
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