RANGERS Sweezy, Roy Frank

[John Robertson]

• SURNAME

Sweezy ​

• FORENAME

Roy Frank​

• UNIT

6 Ranger Bn (C Company) ​

• RANK

Corporal ​

• NUMBER

36159754 ​

• DATE OF DEATH

30th January 1945 ​

• AGE

28​

• GRAVESITE

Manila American Cemetery, Philippines Plot A Row 4 Grave 155 ​

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

from Allegan County, Michigan​

born 23.04.1916, Hopkins, Allegan County, Michigan, USA​

father George Leroy Sweezy (1886-1955)​

mother Carrie C. (nee Smith) Sweezy (1897-1962)​

grammar school education​

civil occupation semiskilled welders and flame cutters​

employed by McInerney Spring and Wire Co.​

single without dependents upon enlistment​

16.10.1940 draft card Allegan, Michigan​

15.09.1941 entered service Kalamazoo, Michigan​

Next of kin - Mrs. Carrie C. Sweezy, R.R. #4, Allegan, Michigan​

award Bronze Star​

DOW Cabanatuan, Philippines (accidentally shot by own men) ​

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"Six men from Company F were the last Americans to withdraw from the objective, and as they did so, the Japanese brought them under fire. The six were trotting along the outside of the compound fence toward the highway when they began receiving scattered rifle shots. Some of the Rangers fired back, while others dashed through the moonlight toward the drainage ditch they had come through during their approach. When Corporal Roy Sweezy turned to fire his M-l at the Japanese, he was shot through the chest with an automatic weapon and died several minutes later. He and the fatally wounded Captain Fisher were the only Rangers to die in the operation." Source: Rangers: Selected Combat Operations in World War II by Dr. Michael J. King June 1985, page 69​