WWII · Battle Death Record
Preston T. Niland
Second Lieutenant, U.S. Army · New York
Personnel File — Core Information
- Name
- Preston T. Niland
- Entered the Service From
- New York
- Rank
- Second Lieutenant
- Service
- U.S. Army
- Unit / Regiment
- 22nd Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Division
- War
- WWII
- Date of Death
- June 7, 1944
- Awards
- Purple Heart
- Burial / Memorial
- Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial, Colleville-sur-Mer, France
Their story
One of the Niland brothers whose family story helped inspire the film Saving Private Ryan. He fell in Normandy a day after his brother Robert; the two rest side by side here.
Compiled from American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) and National Archives (NARA) records and public sources.
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