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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