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Personal info

Full name
FISHER, Donald Desmond
Date of birth
26 September 1921
Age
23
Place of birth
Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio
Hometown
Greensboro, Caroline County, Maryland

Military service

Service number
33203551
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
309th Engineer Combat Battalion,
84th Infantry Division
Awards
Bronze Star

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
23 February 1945
Place of death
The road from Linnich to Korrenzig, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
K 18 10

Immediate family

Members
Cassius C. Fisher (father)
Emma (Bates) Fisher (mother)
Kenneth Fisher (brother)
Cassius Fisher (brother)
Forrest Fisher (brother)
Whitford Fisher (brother)
Robert Fisher (brother)
Charlotte M. (Horan) Fisher (wife)

More information

Pfc Donald D. Fisher enlisted in Baltimore, Maryland on 1 July 1942 and went overseas in August 1944.

"Greensboro boy is killed by Germans. A telegram received recently by Mr. and Mrs. Cassius C. Fisher, of Greensboro, announced the death of their son, Pfc. Donald Desmond Fisher, on the 23rd of February, in Germany. Private Fisher entered the service in July 1943 and was sent overseas last September. He was born in Dayton, Ohio on 26th of September 1921 and removed to Caroline with his parents 16 years ago. He leaves five brothers, 3 of whom are in the U.S. Army, and a young wife, Charlotte May Fisher, of Richmond, Indiana.
Pfc Fisher was killed by mortar shell shrapnel on a road from Linnich, to Korrenzig in Germany."

Source of information: Astrid van Erp, André Koch, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov -
WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - 1940 Census / Gwisdale Family Tree, www.newspapers.com - Denton Journal

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Des Philippet, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.newspapers.com - Denton Journal, Nicole Sproncken - www.ancestry.com