ASN 32983608
290th Infantry Regiment, 75th Infantry Division
County Residence Merrimack
Entered the service from New Hampshire
Purple Heart
"He was a quiet, friendly boy, industrious and competent, thoroughly respected and liked.
"Six weeks after his graduation he was inducted into the Army, August 3, 1943. After his basic training at Fort Benning, he was sent to Brooklyn College in the A.S.T.P. Then he was put in the Infantry and sent to Shreveport, Louisiana.
"After further training at Camp Breckinridge, Kentucky, he went overseas in the middle of last October. He took part in the fighting on the Western Front, and there, in Belgium, he was killed in action, at the age of nineteen, January 17, 1945.
"Daniel Carroll Payson was the son of Charles Shipman Payson and Joan Whitney Payson, who survive him, as do his sisters, Sandra, Payne and Lorinda, and his brother, John Whitney Payson."
Courtesy Albuquerque Firefly
KIA Salm river ► Grand Bois area
ASN 32983608
290th Infantry Regiment, 75th Infantry Division
County Residence Merrimack
Entered the service from New Hampshire
Purple Heart
"He was a quiet, friendly boy, industrious and competent, thoroughly respected and liked.
"Six weeks after his graduation he was inducted into the Army, August 3, 1943. After his basic training at Fort Benning, he was sent to Brooklyn College in the A.S.T.P. Then he was put in the Infantry and sent to Shreveport, Louisiana.
"After further training at Camp Breckinridge, Kentucky, he went overseas in the middle of last October. He took part in the fighting on the Western Front, and there, in Belgium, he was killed in action, at the age of nineteen, January 17, 1945.
"Daniel Carroll Payson was the son of Charles Shipman Payson and Joan Whitney Payson, who survive him, as do his sisters, Sandra, Payne and Lorinda, and his brother, John Whitney Payson."
Courtesy Albuquerque Firefly
KIA Salm river ► Grand Bois area
Inscription
PFC 290 INF 75 DIV NEW HAMPSHIRE
Gravesite Details
Entered the service from New York.
Family Members
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