Max Croy

Company A 1st Battalion 22nd Infantry

4th Infantry Division

KIA 06/08/1944

Max Croy was born in Idaho on September 5, 1920.

His home of residence was listed in 22nd Infantry records as Toledo, Illinois.
His religion was listed as Protestant.

His Army serial number indicates he enlisted in the Regular Army prior to the Selective Service Act of 1940.

The application for his grave marker indicates he entered the Army on May 31, 1940.

He had been with the 22nd Infantry since its days at Fort Gordon, Georgia
where he was a Sergeant with Company A.

He was awarded the Good Conduct Medal as a Staff Sergeant in Company A, in Headquarters 22nd Infantry Motorized
General Orders No. 5, dated June 8, 1943 at Fort Dix, New Jersey.

Technical Sergeant Croy was killed in action in Normandy, France, two days after the D-Day landing,
during the attacks by 1st Battalion against the German fortified battery of Crisbecq.

Decorations of Max Croy

Max Croy was buried in the temporary U.S. Military Cemetery,
Sainte Mere-Eglise #1 at Carentan, France and some time later
his remains were returned to the United States where he was
reinterred in Illinois.

Burial:
Drummond Cemetery
Neoga
Cumberland County
Illinois, USA

Grave marker for Max Croy

Photo by Cheryl Behrend from the Find A Grave website

Top photo by Rev. Dale Sims from the Find A Grave website

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