Grave marker for Daniel L. Dillon in Mount Comfort
Cemetery, Fairfax County, Virginia.
Daniel registered for the draft in Mt. Pleasant, PA
and was inducted into the Army enlisted at Greensburg, PA on 19 March
1943
Three
days later the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Pittsburgh, pa listed hundreds
of recent inductees from the Greenwood area.
Pvt Dillon was transferred from the 3rd Replacement Depot to Company
C, 508th PIR on 9 February 1945.
On 3 January 1946, Pfc Dillon arrived in New York city aboard the Queen
Mary after sailing from Southampton, England
He was discharged on 25 January 1946. |