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Personal info

Full name
BUCHANAN, Bobby R
Date of birth
1926
Age
unknown
Place of birth
Kentucky
Hometown
Hopkins County, Kentucky

Military service

Service number
35834400
Rank
Private
Function
Assistant Automatic Rifleman
Unit
A Company,
1st Battalion,
273rd Infantry Regiment,
69th Infantry Division,
2nd Platoon
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
22 February 1945
Place of death
Lindenweg
Miescheid, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Henri-Chapelle
Plot Row Grave
D 10 7

Immediate family

Members
Ed A. Buchanan (father)
Laura Buchanan (mother)
Bessie M. Buchanan (sister)
Waneta Buchanan (sister)
Edgar Buchanan (brother)
James Buchanan (brother)
Raymond Buchanan (brother)
Harlon Buchanan (brother)
George L. Buchanan (brother)

More information

On the evening of 22 February 1945 the farm where the 3rd Platoon of B Company had found shelter, blew up, due to the detonation of a shaped charge, called a "Beehive". At that moment, 58 people were in the building. 51 of them were killed.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Raf Dyckmans, Terry Hirsch, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov, www.ancestry.com - U.S., Headstone and Interment Records for U.S. Military Cemeteries on Foreign Soil, http://www.shoreweb.com/cindy/miescheid.htm

Photo source: www.findagrave.com Des Philippet