=====================
KIA France
70th Infantry Division, Company A 276TH Infantry Regiment
Name: GROCE, ROBERT E.
Home of Record City/County: Indianapolis, Marion County
Home of Record State: Indiana
Service Branch: ARMY
Enlistment Date: 2 July 1943
Rank: Private First Class
Landed at Omaha Beach in Normandy Invasion 6 JUN 1944
Date of Death: 5 JAN 1945
Hostile: KIA - at the Battle of Wingen-sur-Moder in Les Vosges Mountains of Alsace, France
Conflict: WWII
=====================
Robert was the older brother of my mother, Agnes "Belle" Groce Coop. He went by the name Robert (not Bob) and was the 2nd of four children of Emmett Leslie Groce & Hattie Mae Hughes Groce. He was born in Cumberland County, Kentucky and later moved with family to Indianapolis, Indiana, where his father died when Robert was 14 years old.
Robert was married and had two children, when he went to war during World War II. I still remember my mother crying when the family received the telegram that her brother, Robert, had been killed in action in France.
I have a memory that either my mother or my father said that Robert was in the Signal Corp of the United States Army, but I have found no records proving this.
During action at Wingen-sur-Moder in Les Vosges mountains of Alsace, Robert was found dead in a foxhole the next morning after his encampment was attacked by German soldiers in France during World War II. (This information with my uncle's name included was printed in a publication that my sister's son-in-law found when he was researching the particular battle that our uncle was killed in.)
~by niece, Bonnie Coop Meier~
======================
COMPANY A, 276TH INFANTRY IN WORLD WAR II
~by FRANK H. LOWRY~
Library of Congress Catalogue Card Number 94-072226
Copyright © 1991, 1994,1995 by Frank H Lowry
Modesto, California
All rights reserved
"All night long the enemy probed at the Company A positions in repeated attempts to get through the lines and to the high ground in the forest behind. Sometime after midnight while Jury was making the rounds of the Third Platoon
positions, discovered two of his men dead in their foxhole. Pfc Robert E Groce and Pfc John E Lackey were both killed by small arms fire. "Chief" was sick when he saw the two frozen bodies in that foxhole."
"More than fifty men of Company A were casualties in the warfare in and around Wingen and for many of those the war was over. They would not fight again and some would wear their battle scars for the rest of their lives. One officer and twelve enlisted men were dead. Killed in the action at Wingen-sur-Moder in Les Vosges mountains of Alsace were:
Pfc Calvin Corbell,
Pfc Robert Elam,
Pfc Robert Groce,
Pfc John Lackey,
Pvt. Pablo Martinez,
2nd Lt. Richard McClintock,
Pfc Walter McDaniel,
Pfc William Moore,
Pfc Arthur Peterson,
S/Sgt. Wilburn Powers,
Pfc Robert Shooter,
Pfc Gerald Stonehouse,
Pvt. Steven Valenzuela,
and Pvt. Eugene Wilson."
http://www.trailblazersww2.org/Docs/CoA276Infantry.pdf
(pages 106, 107, 114)
http://www.trailblazersww2.org/rosters/A_276.pdf
http://www.trailblazersww2.org/casualties_G_I.htm
~added by niece, Bonnie Coop Meier~
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KIA France
70th Infantry Division, Company A 276TH Infantry Regiment
Name: GROCE, ROBERT E.
Home of Record City/County: Indianapolis, Marion County
Home of Record State: Indiana
Service Branch: ARMY
Enlistment Date: 2 July 1943
Rank: Private First Class
Landed at Omaha Beach in Normandy Invasion 6 JUN 1944
Date of Death: 5 JAN 1945
Hostile: KIA - at the Battle of Wingen-sur-Moder in Les Vosges Mountains of Alsace, France
Conflict: WWII
=====================
Robert was the older brother of my mother, Agnes "Belle" Groce Coop. He went by the name Robert (not Bob) and was the 2nd of four children of Emmett Leslie Groce & Hattie Mae Hughes Groce. He was born in Cumberland County, Kentucky and later moved with family to Indianapolis, Indiana, where his father died when Robert was 14 years old.
Robert was married and had two children, when he went to war during World War II. I still remember my mother crying when the family received the telegram that her brother, Robert, had been killed in action in France.
I have a memory that either my mother or my father said that Robert was in the Signal Corp of the United States Army, but I have found no records proving this.
During action at Wingen-sur-Moder in Les Vosges mountains of Alsace, Robert was found dead in a foxhole the next morning after his encampment was attacked by German soldiers in France during World War II. (This information with my uncle's name included was printed in a publication that my sister's son-in-law found when he was researching the particular battle that our uncle was killed in.)
~by niece, Bonnie Coop Meier~
======================
COMPANY A, 276TH INFANTRY IN WORLD WAR II
~by FRANK H. LOWRY~
Library of Congress Catalogue Card Number 94-072226
Copyright © 1991, 1994,1995 by Frank H Lowry
Modesto, California
All rights reserved
"All night long the enemy probed at the Company A positions in repeated attempts to get through the lines and to the high ground in the forest behind. Sometime after midnight while Jury was making the rounds of the Third Platoon
positions, discovered two of his men dead in their foxhole. Pfc Robert E Groce and Pfc John E Lackey were both killed by small arms fire. "Chief" was sick when he saw the two frozen bodies in that foxhole."
"More than fifty men of Company A were casualties in the warfare in and around Wingen and for many of those the war was over. They would not fight again and some would wear their battle scars for the rest of their lives. One officer and twelve enlisted men were dead. Killed in the action at Wingen-sur-Moder in Les Vosges mountains of Alsace were:
Pfc Calvin Corbell,
Pfc Robert Elam,
Pfc Robert Groce,
Pfc John Lackey,
Pvt. Pablo Martinez,
2nd Lt. Richard McClintock,
Pfc Walter McDaniel,
Pfc William Moore,
Pfc Arthur Peterson,
S/Sgt. Wilburn Powers,
Pfc Robert Shooter,
Pfc Gerald Stonehouse,
Pvt. Steven Valenzuela,
and Pvt. Eugene Wilson."
http://www.trailblazersww2.org/Docs/CoA276Infantry.pdf
(pages 106, 107, 114)
http://www.trailblazersww2.org/rosters/A_276.pdf
http://www.trailblazersww2.org/casualties_G_I.htm
~added by niece, Bonnie Coop Meier~
===================
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KIA France
70th Infantry Division, Company A 276TH Infantry Regiment
Name: GROCE, ROBERT E.
Home of Record City/County: Indianapolis, Marion County
Home of Record State: Indiana
Service Branch: ARMY
Enlistment Date: 2 July 1943
Rank: Private First Class
Landed at Omaha Beach in Normandy Invasion 6 JUN 1944
Date of Death: 5 JAN 1945
Hostile: KIA - at the Battle of Wingen-sur-Moder in Les Vosges Mountains of Alsace, France
Conflict: WWII
=====================
Robert was the older brother of my mother, Agnes "Belle" Groce Coop. He went by the name Robert (not Bob) and was the 2nd of four children of Emmett Leslie Groce & Hattie Mae Hughes Groce. He was born in Cumberland County, Kentucky and later moved with family to Indianapolis, Indiana, where his father died when Robert was 14 years old.
Robert was married and had two children, when he went to war during World War II. I still remember my mother crying when the family received the telegram that her brother, Robert, had been killed in action in France.
I have a memory that either my mother or my father said that Robert was in the Signal Corp of the United States Army, but I have found no records proving this.
During action at Wingen-sur-Moder in Les Vosges mountains of Alsace, Robert was found dead in a foxhole the next morning after his encampment was attacked by German soldiers in France during World War II. (This information with my uncle's name included was printed in a publication that my sister's son-in-law found when he was researching the particular battle that our uncle was killed in.)
~by niece, Bonnie Coop Meier~
======================
COMPANY A, 276TH INFANTRY IN WORLD WAR II
~by FRANK H. LOWRY~
Library of Congress Catalogue Card Number 94-072226
Copyright © 1991, 1994,1995 by Frank H Lowry
Modesto, California
All rights reserved
"All night long the enemy probed at the Company A positions in repeated attempts to get through the lines and to the high ground in the forest behind. Sometime after midnight while Jury was making the rounds of the Third Platoon
positions, discovered two of his men dead in their foxhole. Pfc Robert E Groce and Pfc John E Lackey were both killed by small arms fire. "Chief" was sick when he saw the two frozen bodies in that foxhole."
"More than fifty men of Company A were casualties in the warfare in and around Wingen and for many of those the war was over. They would not fight again and some would wear their battle scars for the rest of their lives. One officer and twelve enlisted men were dead. Killed in the action at Wingen-sur-Moder in Les Vosges mountains of Alsace were:
Pfc Calvin Corbell,
Pfc Robert Elam,
Pfc Robert Groce,
Pfc John Lackey,
Pvt. Pablo Martinez,
2nd Lt. Richard McClintock,
Pfc Walter McDaniel,
Pfc William Moore,
Pfc Arthur Peterson,
S/Sgt. Wilburn Powers,
Pfc Robert Shooter,
Pfc Gerald Stonehouse,
Pvt. Steven Valenzuela,
and Pvt. Eugene Wilson."
http://www.trailblazersww2.org/Docs/CoA276Infantry.pdf
(pages 106, 107, 114)
http://www.trailblazersww2.org/rosters/A_276.pdf
http://www.trailblazersww2.org/casualties_G_I.htm
~added by niece, Bonnie Coop Meier~
===================
KIA France
70th Infantry Division, Company A 276TH Infantry Regiment
Name: GROCE, ROBERT E.
Home of Record City/County: Indianapolis, Marion County
Home of Record State: Indiana
Service Branch: ARMY
Enlistment Date: 2 July 1943
Rank: Private First Class
Landed at Omaha Beach in Normandy Invasion 6 JUN 1944
Date of Death: 5 JAN 1945
Hostile: KIA - at the Battle of Wingen-sur-Moder in Les Vosges Mountains of Alsace, France
Conflict: WWII
=====================
Robert was the older brother of my mother, Agnes "Belle" Groce Coop. He went by the name Robert (not Bob) and was the 2nd of four children of Emmett Leslie Groce & Hattie Mae Hughes Groce. He was born in Cumberland County, Kentucky and later moved with family to Indianapolis, Indiana, where his father died when Robert was 14 years old.
Robert was married and had two children, when he went to war during World War II. I still remember my mother crying when the family received the telegram that her brother, Robert, had been killed in action in France.
I have a memory that either my mother or my father said that Robert was in the Signal Corp of the United States Army, but I have found no records proving this.
During action at Wingen-sur-Moder in Les Vosges mountains of Alsace, Robert was found dead in a foxhole the next morning after his encampment was attacked by German soldiers in France during World War II. (This information with my uncle's name included was printed in a publication that my sister's son-in-law found when he was researching the particular battle that our uncle was killed in.)
~by niece, Bonnie Coop Meier~
======================
COMPANY A, 276TH INFANTRY IN WORLD WAR II
~by FRANK H. LOWRY~
Library of Congress Catalogue Card Number 94-072226
Copyright © 1991, 1994,1995 by Frank H Lowry
Modesto, California
All rights reserved
"All night long the enemy probed at the Company A positions in repeated attempts to get through the lines and to the high ground in the forest behind. Sometime after midnight while Jury was making the rounds of the Third Platoon
positions, discovered two of his men dead in their foxhole. Pfc Robert E Groce and Pfc John E Lackey were both killed by small arms fire. "Chief" was sick when he saw the two frozen bodies in that foxhole."
"More than fifty men of Company A were casualties in the warfare in and around Wingen and for many of those the war was over. They would not fight again and some would wear their battle scars for the rest of their lives. One officer and twelve enlisted men were dead. Killed in the action at Wingen-sur-Moder in Les Vosges mountains of Alsace were:
Pfc Calvin Corbell,
Pfc Robert Elam,
Pfc Robert Groce,
Pfc John Lackey,
Pvt. Pablo Martinez,
2nd Lt. Richard McClintock,
Pfc Walter McDaniel,
Pfc William Moore,
Pfc Arthur Peterson,
S/Sgt. Wilburn Powers,
Pfc Robert Shooter,
Pfc Gerald Stonehouse,
Pvt. Steven Valenzuela,
and Pvt. Eugene Wilson."
http://www.trailblazersww2.org/Docs/CoA276Infantry.pdf
(pages 106, 107, 114)
http://www.trailblazersww2.org/rosters/A_276.pdf
http://www.trailblazersww2.org/casualties_G_I.htm
~added by niece, Bonnie Coop Meier~
===================
