T/5 Herbert Harry Lemm
Born: 27 September 1921 – Oak Park, Illinois
Parents: William Lemm & Florence Lengert-Lemm
Siblings: 1 sister, 1 brother
Hometown:
– 442 Thomas Avenue – Forest Park, Illinois
Education:
– Proviso Township High School
– Class of 1940
Employment: Campbell Soup Company – Chicago, Illinois
Selective Service Registration: 16 February 1942
Contact Person: William Lemm – father
Inducted:
– U.S. Army
– 7 October 1942 – Chicago, Illinois
Serial Number: 36373622
Training:
– Fort Knox, Kentucky
– Camp Bowie, Texas
– left camp on 14 April 1943
– Camp Polk, Louisiana
– took part in maneuvers – then returned to Camp Bowie
– Camp Bowie
– left camp on 14 August 1943 – train took Lemm and other members of the battalion through Chicago
– Camp Shanks, New York
Unit: Company A, 745th Tank Battalion, 1st Infantry Division
Ship:
– Queen Elizabeth – boarded: 18 & 19 August 1943
– sailed – 20 August 1943
– arrived – 26 August 1943 – Firth of Clyde, Scotland – took a train to Camp Ogbourne St. George -Swindon
– left this camp – 3 April 1943
Engagements:
– Normandy Invasion
– landed at Omaha Beach
Killed in Action:
– 28 July 1944 – west of Cambernon near La Chapelle
– A Company fought German 2nd Panzer – Germans used artillery and mortars
Memorial: Tablets of the Missing – Normandy American Cemetery – Colleville-Sur-Mer, France
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