(courtesy of Stephen C. Petit, Sr)

Grave marker for Troy C. Newman in Zoar Community Cemetery (Sumter county), South Carolina.

Troy enlisted at Ft Jackson, Columbia, SC on 4 December 1942 and was assigned to Company "I", 508th PIR.

It is ironic that his death fell on June 6th, 46 years after the D-Day invasion of Normandy.  Pvt Newman was wounded in action there on 3 July 1944 and was awarded the Purple Heart as well as the Bronze Service Arrowhead device for his participation in the Normandy assault.

See poem written in his honor