WWII

Eugene Harrell "Gene" Barwick

Rate / Rank
PFC

Birthdate
December 13 1922

Date of Death
December 24 1944

Branch
US Army

Active Duty Service
June 15 1943 - December 24 1944

Conflicts & Campaigns

European Theater of Operations

Significant Duty Stations

Browning Automatic Rifleman, Company B, 264 Infantry Regiment, 66th Infantry Division

Decorations & Citations

Soldier's Medal; Bronze Star Medal; Purple Heart; (Lost at sea on December 24, 1944 when crossing the English Channel the SS Leopoldville was sunk by German submarine U-486).

Notes

Born; Grady County, Georgia. Graduate of Cairo High School Class of 1941 and was Class Valedictorian. Tablets of the Missing, Normandy American Cemetery, Normandy, France, Cenotaph; Barnett's Creek Baptist Church Cemetery, Ochlocknee, Thomas County, Georgia.