Lyle Dean Blackman

Lyle D. Blackman

Company D 1st Battalion 22nd Infantry

4th Infantry Division

KIA 12/02/1944

Lyle Dean Blackman was born in Kansas City, Missouri on September 12, 1923.

Prior to entering military service he was employed by Crown Drug Company
in Kansas City, Missouri.

He was drafted into the Army on January 20, 1944 at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. His home of residence
was listed as Lyon County, Kansas, and his civilian occupation was listed as Checkers.
He had completed four years of High School and was single with no dependents.
His religion was listed as Protestant.

He was assigned to Company A 22nd Infantry from the 92nd Replacement Battalion on November 25, 1944.

He was transferred to Company D on November 28, 1944.

Private Blackman was killed in action in Germany during the Battle of the Hürtgen Forest
on December 2, 1944.

Decorations of Lyle D. Blackman

Lyle D. Blackman was buried in the temporary U.S. Military Cemetery,
Henri-Chapelle Cemetery, Eupen, Belgium and some time later
his remains were returned to the United States where he was
reinterred in Kansas.

Burial:
Pleasanton Cemetery
Pleasanton
Linn County
Kansas
Plot: lot 41

Grave marker for Lyle D. Blackman
(Note the marker designates Company "A".
Lyle D. Blackman was actually transferred to Company D
four days before he was killed in action.)

Photo by DK Paddock from the Find A Grave website

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