SSGT
Graydon E Waters
Aged 25, fallen January 9, 1945
- Unit
- Company B, 242nd Infantry Regiment
- Serial number
- 32287207
- Hometown
- Jefferson, New York
- Date of death
- January 9, 1945
- Classification
- Killed in action
- Burial
- Epinal American Cemetery, Epinal, France, Tablets of the Missing
Staff Sergeant Graydon E Waters, serial number 32287207, of Jefferson, New York, served with Company B of the 242nd Infantry Regiment in the 42nd Infantry Division, the Rainbow Division. He was killed in action on January 9, 1945, at the age of 25. 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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