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Columbarium niche for Robert J.
Weaver in the Parklawn Memorial Park, Hampton
(Hampton City), Virginia.
Robert was a commissioned officer
and served as a platoon leader with the 508th
Parachute Infantry Regiment. He jumped
into Normandy on D-Day, June 6, 1944 and into
Holland for Operation Market Garden on September
17, 1944 where he was wounded on the second
day of combat.
In December 1944 he trained as
a Pathfinder but that skill was never put to the
test as the regiment was trucked into the Battle
of the Bulge just one week later.
Robert was also awarded the
French Croix de Guerre with Bronze Star "for
exceptional wartime services during operations
in the Liberation of France"
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