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Grave marker for JR
Apple in the Garden of Christus, Mount Olivet Cemetery, Fort Worth
(Tarrant county), Texas.
JR enlisted in the
Army at Dallas, TX on 12 December 1942. Following the completion
of jump school was transferred to the medical Detachment, 508th PIR on
28 April 1943. JR
made the jump into Normandy with Company H on D-Day and was briefly
reported as missing in action. Following the Normandy campaign he
was appointed to the grade of Tec 5 on 23 July 1944.
T5 Apple was wounded in action in Belgium on 26 January
1945 and was evacuated to a field hospital and did not return to the
regiment. He was discharged on 3 November 1945.
His military decorations include the Purple Heart and the
Bronze Service arrowhead device awarded for participation in Normandy
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