Mack Bryant

Company A 1st Battalion 22nd Infantry

4th Infantry Division

KIA 11/22/1944

Mack Bryant was born in Marion County, South Carolina on June 28, 1915.

He was drafted into the Army on May 23, 1941. His home of residence was listed as Dillon County, South Carolina
and his civilian occupation was listed as farm hands, general farms. He had completed grammar school
and was single with no dependents. His religion was listed as Protestant.

Mack Bryant as a Private
in Company A 22nd Infantry

Photo taken at Camp Gordon, Georgia
circa 1941-1942

Photo courtesy of John Gervasio,
son of William Gervasio, who served in
Company A 22nd Infantry 1941-1945

He was awarded the Good Conduct Medal as a Private in Company A,
in Headquarters 22nd Infantry General Orders No. 14 dated December 31, 1943
at Fort Jackson, South Carolina.

He was promoted from Private First Class to Sergeant on the battlefield
in Normandy on June 16, 1944.

He was seriously wounded in action on June 21, 1944 and returned to duty
on August 15, 1944.

He was a non-battle casualty in France on August 26, 1944 and returned to duty
on October 2, 1944.

Sergeant Bryant was killed in action in Germany on November 22, 1944 during the Battle of the Hürtgen Forest.

On November 22, 1944 the 22nd Infantry continued its attack toward Grosshau, Germany in the Hürtgen Forest.
Bryant and 1st Battalion feinted an attack toward the east, while 3rd Battalion swung around their flank
and attacked a vital road junction to the south.

The 1st Battalion feint was successful, and the Germans, believing this was the main attack, concentrated their small arms
against 1st Battalion, and fired a violent artillery barrage upon the Battalion, a response that hit Company A especially hard.
Mack Bryant was one of five soldiers killed in Company A that day.

The listing for Mack Bryant in the South Carolina World War II Young American Patriots book.
The date of his entry into the service is incorrect.

From Ancestry.com

Decorations of Mack Bryant

Mack Bryant 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 South Carolina.

Burial:
Union Baptist Church Cemetery
Temperance Hill
Marion County
South Carolina, USA

Grave monument for Mack Bryant

Photo by My Ancestors Are Hiding from the Find A Grave website

Grave marker for Mack Bryant

Photo by My Ancestors Are Hiding from the Find A Grave website

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