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PVT. Brown, Melvin Fred

Service number: 36270328

Age: 36

Born: May 20, 1908, Oshkosh, Winnebago County, Wisconsin, USA

Hometown: Oshkosh, Wisconsin

Family:

William Brown (father)

Anna Matilda (nee Manke) Brown (mother)

Roy Otto Brown (brother)

Harry William Brown (brother)

Benedict F Brown (brother)

Darling Brown/Schultz (sister)

Oscar L Brown (brother)

Pearl Edna Brown/Lemke (sister)

Wesley George Brown (brother)

Gordon Clarence Brown (brother)

Bernice E Brown (sister)

Eleanor Shirley (nee Hurtley) Brown (wife) married July 1, 1943

Rank: Private

Function: Rifleman

Battalion: 48th Armored Infantry Battalion

Division: 7th Armored Division

Company: A

Date of death: October 1, 1944

Status: Killed In Action

Place of death: Overloon, Boxmeer Municipality, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands

Spot: vicinity of Oplooseweg, just west of Overloon, Netherlands

Awards / Commendations:

★ Purple Heart                                                                     

★ World War II Victory Medal

★ Combat Infantryman Badge                                              

★ Marksmanship Badge

★ American Campaign Medal

★ Army Good Conduct Medal

★ European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign              

Grave number: Section G, Row 4

Cemetery:

Peace Lutheran Cemetery

Oshkosh, Winnebago County, Wisconsin, USA

Date of enlistment: Sept. 29, 1942 in Kalamazoo, Michigan

Other information:

First assigned to Headquarters 1st Battalion, 198th Regiment, 206th Infantry of the Alaskan Defense Command and attached to the AAA Costal Artillery Searchlight Unit during The Battle of Attu and Dutch Harbor engagement.

After serving in the Alaskan Defense Command he was assigned to the 53rd Replacement Battalion, he sailed to England is June 1944. Went to France in September 1944. Transferred as a rifleman to A Company, 48th Armored Infantry Battalion, 7th Armored Division. During Operation Garden Market.

Melvin was returned to the United States for burial on November 13, 1947 to his home town of Oshkosh, Wisconsin at Peace Lutheran Cemetery.