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Grave marker for Earl L.
Groh in the Mt Hope Cemetery, Rochester (Monroe county), New York.
Earl enlisted at
Rochester, NY on 28 January 1943 and served in the 508th's Medical
detachment. He was attached to Company A when the regiment jumped
into Normandy on D-Day, 6 June 1944.
Pvt Groh was awarded the
Bronze Star Medal for his actions on the battlefield in France and was
promoted to Pf shortly after the unit retuned to Nottingham.
The jump into Holld,
however, didn't go as well. Earl was initially reported as MIA on
the day of the assault, 17 September 1944. It was later determined
that he had been captured. He was held as a Prisoner of War until he was
liberated from Stalag 12A on 25 May 1945.
Pfc Groh's military
decorations include the Bronze Star Medal, as well as the Combat Medic
Badge and Bronze Service Arrowhead device, bot awarded for the assault
on Normandy. |
