WWII · Battle Death Record
Frederick C. Murphy
Private First Class, U.S. Army · Massachusetts
Medal of Honor
Personnel File — Core Information
- Name
- Frederick C. Murphy
- Entered the Service From
- Massachusetts
- Rank
- Private First Class
- Service
- U.S. Army
- Unit / Regiment
- Medical Detachment, 259th Infantry Regiment, 65th Infantry Division
- War
- WWII
- Date of Death
- March 18, 1945
- Awards
- Medal of Honor
- Burial / Memorial
- Lorraine American Cemetery and Memorial, Saint-Avold, France
Their story
An aid man who, himself wounded, kept treating casualties in a minefield at the Siegfried Line until he was killed by a mine. Awarded the Medal of Honor.
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