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<blockquote data-quote="John Robertson" data-source="post: 15069" data-attributes="member: 1"><p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>SURNAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Wirtz </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>FORENAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Benjamin Harold</em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>UNIT</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>2 Ranger Bn (Company D) </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>RANK</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Staff Sergeant </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>NUMBER</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>35434827 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>DATE OF DEATH</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>6th June 1944 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>AGE</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>26</em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>GRAVESITE</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Athens Cemetery, Athens, West Virginia, USA</em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>ADDITIONAL INFORMATION</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>from Athens, Mercer County, West Virginia</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>born 17.08.1917 Athens, West Virginia, USA</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>father Ben Wirtz</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>mother Florence (nee Barber)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>2 years high school</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>civil occupation semiskilled miners, and mining machine operators</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>employed by Turkey Gap Coal and Coak Company, Dott, Mercer County, West Virginia</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>16.09.1939 married Beula May (nee Newkirk) in Pearisburg, West Virginia</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>1 son Benjamin Harold Wirtz, Jr. (1940-1993)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>16.10.1940 draft card Athens, West Virigina</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>separated without dependents upon enlistment</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>03.07.1942 entered service Huntington, West Virginia</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>to England October 1943</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>awarded Silver Star (posthumously)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>KIA Point du Hoc, Normandy </em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em><a href="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/b-wirtz.39310/" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/39/39310-a3eb309e471fe48123cfcea1b4bbd745.jpg?1697217181" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 300px; height: 300px" /></a></em></p></blockquote><p></p>
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