FLOYD E. BEAL
PFC, 115 INF, 29 INF DIV WORLD WAR II
Berlin Boy One of First to Die on D Day in France
Pfc. Floyd E. Beal Killed on Normandy Beachhead, June 6th
A message from the War Department notified relatives last Friday that Pfc. Floyd E. Beal of Berlin was killed in action in France on June 6. He was the son of Simon Beal of Berlin. His mother, Margaret Wyant Beal, died about five years ago. The young man was 20 years old.
Floyd Beal was inducted into the U.S. Army on March 5, 1943. He received his basic training at Fort McClellan, Ala., and in June, 1943, was sent to Shenango Personnel Replacement Depot at Greenville, Pa. From there he was sent to New York and last July he was sent to England and was there 10 months, up until the start of the invasion of France, June 6. It was in the struggle to get a foothold on the coast of Normandy on D-day that young Beal sacrificed his life. He was serving with the Infantry. He had not been home since he entered the Army. Besides his father he is survived by two sisters, Mrs. Catherine Reynolds, Garrett, and Mrs. Eugene Will, Meyersdale, and one brother, George A. Beal, Berlin. He attended Berlin-Brothersvalley High School and before induction was doing farming and truck driving.
A memorial service in his honor will be conducted on Sunday, July 16, at 2 o'clock in the Methodist Church, Berlin, of which he was a member. Rev. Trimpey, pastor of the Berlin church, and Rev. Richard, pastor of the Shanksville Lutheran parish, will conduct the memorial service.
Meyersdale Republican, July 13, 1944
sister: Catherine M Beal Reynolds
#108700313
PFC, 115 INF, 29 INF DIV WORLD WAR II
Berlin Boy One of First to Die on D Day in France
Pfc. Floyd E. Beal Killed on Normandy Beachhead, June 6th
A message from the War Department notified relatives last Friday that Pfc. Floyd E. Beal of Berlin was killed in action in France on June 6. He was the son of Simon Beal of Berlin. His mother, Margaret Wyant Beal, died about five years ago. The young man was 20 years old.
Floyd Beal was inducted into the U.S. Army on March 5, 1943. He received his basic training at Fort McClellan, Ala., and in June, 1943, was sent to Shenango Personnel Replacement Depot at Greenville, Pa. From there he was sent to New York and last July he was sent to England and was there 10 months, up until the start of the invasion of France, June 6. It was in the struggle to get a foothold on the coast of Normandy on D-day that young Beal sacrificed his life. He was serving with the Infantry. He had not been home since he entered the Army. Besides his father he is survived by two sisters, Mrs. Catherine Reynolds, Garrett, and Mrs. Eugene Will, Meyersdale, and one brother, George A. Beal, Berlin. He attended Berlin-Brothersvalley High School and before induction was doing farming and truck driving.
A memorial service in his honor will be conducted on Sunday, July 16, at 2 o'clock in the Methodist Church, Berlin, of which he was a member. Rev. Trimpey, pastor of the Berlin church, and Rev. Richard, pastor of the Shanksville Lutheran parish, will conduct the memorial service.
Meyersdale Republican, July 13, 1944
sister: Catherine M Beal Reynolds
#108700313
FLOYD E. BEAL
PFC, 115 INF, 29 INF DIV WORLD WAR II
Berlin Boy One of First to Die on D Day in France
Pfc. Floyd E. Beal Killed on Normandy Beachhead, June 6th
A message from the War Department notified relatives last Friday that Pfc. Floyd E. Beal of Berlin was killed in action in France on June 6. He was the son of Simon Beal of Berlin. His mother, Margaret Wyant Beal, died about five years ago. The young man was 20 years old.
Floyd Beal was inducted into the U.S. Army on March 5, 1943. He received his basic training at Fort McClellan, Ala., and in June, 1943, was sent to Shenango Personnel Replacement Depot at Greenville, Pa. From there he was sent to New York and last July he was sent to England and was there 10 months, up until the start of the invasion of France, June 6. It was in the struggle to get a foothold on the coast of Normandy on D-day that young Beal sacrificed his life. He was serving with the Infantry. He had not been home since he entered the Army. Besides his father he is survived by two sisters, Mrs. Catherine Reynolds, Garrett, and Mrs. Eugene Will, Meyersdale, and one brother, George A. Beal, Berlin. He attended Berlin-Brothersvalley High School and before induction was doing farming and truck driving.
A memorial service in his honor will be conducted on Sunday, July 16, at 2 o'clock in the Methodist Church, Berlin, of which he was a member. Rev. Trimpey, pastor of the Berlin church, and Rev. Richard, pastor of the Shanksville Lutheran parish, will conduct the memorial service.
Meyersdale Republican, July 13, 1944
sister: Catherine M Beal Reynolds
#108700313
PFC, 115 INF, 29 INF DIV WORLD WAR II
Berlin Boy One of First to Die on D Day in France
Pfc. Floyd E. Beal Killed on Normandy Beachhead, June 6th
A message from the War Department notified relatives last Friday that Pfc. Floyd E. Beal of Berlin was killed in action in France on June 6. He was the son of Simon Beal of Berlin. His mother, Margaret Wyant Beal, died about five years ago. The young man was 20 years old.
Floyd Beal was inducted into the U.S. Army on March 5, 1943. He received his basic training at Fort McClellan, Ala., and in June, 1943, was sent to Shenango Personnel Replacement Depot at Greenville, Pa. From there he was sent to New York and last July he was sent to England and was there 10 months, up until the start of the invasion of France, June 6. It was in the struggle to get a foothold on the coast of Normandy on D-day that young Beal sacrificed his life. He was serving with the Infantry. He had not been home since he entered the Army. Besides his father he is survived by two sisters, Mrs. Catherine Reynolds, Garrett, and Mrs. Eugene Will, Meyersdale, and one brother, George A. Beal, Berlin. He attended Berlin-Brothersvalley High School and before induction was doing farming and truck driving.
A memorial service in his honor will be conducted on Sunday, July 16, at 2 o'clock in the Methodist Church, Berlin, of which he was a member. Rev. Trimpey, pastor of the Berlin church, and Rev. Richard, pastor of the Shanksville Lutheran parish, will conduct the memorial service.
Meyersdale Republican, July 13, 1944
sister: Catherine M Beal Reynolds
#108700313
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