Grave
marker for Pvt Alexander B, Badt in Section D, Site 99 of the Custer
National Cemetery, Crow Agency (Big Horn county), Montana.
Alexander enlisted in the Army at Butte, MT on 14 August
1942 and was assigned to Hq/2nd, 508th PIR on 6 August 1943. He
was subsequently transferred to the 350th Infantry Regiment, 88th
Infantry Division (Blue Devils) on 2 September 1943.
Pvt Badt was killed in action in Italy on 5 October 1943
and was awarded the Purple Heart.
Pvt
Badt's name is inscribed on Panel 8, Row 14 of the Montana Purple Heart
Memorial erected on the Courthouse Lawn in Billings, MT. |