PFC
George S Callahan
Aged 21, fallen January 8, 1945
- Unit
- Medical Detachment, 242nd Infantry Regiment
- Serial number
- 36765523
- Hometown
- Cook, Illinois
- Date of death
- January 8, 1945
- Classification
- Killed in action
- Burial
- Epinal American Cemetery, Tablets of the Missing, Epinal, France
Private First Class George S Callahan, serial number 36765523, of Cook, Illinois, served with the Medical Detachment of the 242nd Infantry Regiment in the 42nd Infantry Division, the Rainbow Division. He was killed in action on January 8, 1945, at the age of 21. His name is carved on the Tablets of the Missing at Epinal American Cemetery, Epinal, France.
Further reading: The Battle of Hatten-Rittershoffen and the Men Who Held the Line.
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