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T/5 Lynn W. Webster enlisted in Buffalo, New York on 17 September 1943.

He graduated from the Batavia High School in January, 1943. He then tried to enlist in the Army Air Forces with hopes of becoming a bombardier. He did not qualify for air training and on October 8, 1943, after he became 18 years old, was called to training and inducted at Camp Union, L. L; From there he was sent to Fort Knox, Ky., and trained for the Armored Force. His unit then went to Fort George Meade, Md., and after a furlough here in March, 1944 he went to England in preparation for the invasion of the Continent. He landed in France on June 13th, 1944, just a week after the invasion began and swept across France before the First Army joined in the battle for Germany. He was in action continuously for 35 days with his Armored Force unit of the First Army all through October and into November. His last letter told of his promotion to corporal. Reports from the First Army front at the time of Cpl Webster's death listed armor and infantry of General Courtney H. Hodges' forces as driving forward two miles in bitter fighting east of Aachen to a point 14 miles inside Germany and only 28 miles short of the Rhine. At the time, its infantry and tanks were near Düren, a German strongpoint on the edge of the Cologne plain. Cpl Webster had evidently fought through the severe fighting in the Aachen sector.