The Daily Herald, Biloxi, MS 3/15/1945:
PFC. CLYDE BALIUS KILLED IN ACTION
Pfc. Clyde E. Balius, son of Mrs. J. T. Jernigan, 648 Lameuse Street, Biloxi, and Floyd A. Balius, was killed in action March 1 in France, according to information received by his grandmother, Mrs. J. C. Morris. Following his induction April 26, 1944, Pfc. Balius received basic training at Ft McClellan, Ala., where he was stationed for 17 weeks. He received special machine gun training at Camp Rucker, Ala., and was sent overseas in November. After spending a month in England he was sent to France. Pfc. Balius held the combat infantryman's badge. In addition to his parents and grandmother, he is survived by a brother, J. W. Balius, and a sister, Beverly Ann Jernigan.
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Private First-Class Clyde Eugene Balius, born 16 Feb 1926, was the son of Floyd A Balius and Lillian A (Morris) Balius Jernigan of Biloxi, Harrison County, Mississippi.
In the 1930 census 4-year-old Clyde is living with his parents and brother Joseph 3, in the household of his maternal grandparents John and Olivia Morris at 648 Lameuse street in Biloxi. His father is a machinist. His grandfather is an engineer for the power company. Clyde's parents must have divorced sometime in the early 1930s. By the 1940 census they were both remarried and had 6 year old children from their second marriages.
Clyde enlisted 27 Apr 1944 at Camp Shelby in Harrison County, MS. He’d had two years of high school and was single without dependents. He was assigned to the 262nd Infantry Regiment of the 66th Infantry Division.
After arriving at Cherbourg, the 66th Division regrouped (from the SS Leopoldville Christmas Eve sinking disaster) and headed for the L’Orient and St. Nazaire sectors in Brittany to relieve the 94th Division which had been guarding the German submarine base pockets that were left after the D-Day invasion. Estimates of the number of German forces left behind in these pockets ran from fifty to one hundred thousand. The 94th division was sent to the Battle of the Bulge. While in Brittany the 66th Division carried out daily reconnaissance patrols along the one hundred-and-twelve-mile front and conducted periodical artillery fire on the pockets of resistance. The artillery fire disabled a number of big German guns and sank numerous re-supply boats.
The NARA WWII casualty listings by state and county show Balius, Clyde E, Pfc from Harrison County as killed in action 1 Mar 1945. From the description of his wounds on his US WWII Hospital Admission Card File he must have been killed by artillery fire.
PFC. CLYDE BALIUS KILLED IN ACTION
Pfc. Clyde E. Balius, son of Mrs. J. T. Jernigan, 648 Lameuse Street, Biloxi, and Floyd A. Balius, was killed in action March 1 in France, according to information received by his grandmother, Mrs. J. C. Morris. Following his induction April 26, 1944, Pfc. Balius received basic training at Ft McClellan, Ala., where he was stationed for 17 weeks. He received special machine gun training at Camp Rucker, Ala., and was sent overseas in November. After spending a month in England he was sent to France. Pfc. Balius held the combat infantryman's badge. In addition to his parents and grandmother, he is survived by a brother, J. W. Balius, and a sister, Beverly Ann Jernigan.
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Private First-Class Clyde Eugene Balius, born 16 Feb 1926, was the son of Floyd A Balius and Lillian A (Morris) Balius Jernigan of Biloxi, Harrison County, Mississippi.
In the 1930 census 4-year-old Clyde is living with his parents and brother Joseph 3, in the household of his maternal grandparents John and Olivia Morris at 648 Lameuse street in Biloxi. His father is a machinist. His grandfather is an engineer for the power company. Clyde's parents must have divorced sometime in the early 1930s. By the 1940 census they were both remarried and had 6 year old children from their second marriages.
Clyde enlisted 27 Apr 1944 at Camp Shelby in Harrison County, MS. He’d had two years of high school and was single without dependents. He was assigned to the 262nd Infantry Regiment of the 66th Infantry Division.
After arriving at Cherbourg, the 66th Division regrouped (from the SS Leopoldville Christmas Eve sinking disaster) and headed for the L’Orient and St. Nazaire sectors in Brittany to relieve the 94th Division which had been guarding the German submarine base pockets that were left after the D-Day invasion. Estimates of the number of German forces left behind in these pockets ran from fifty to one hundred thousand. The 94th division was sent to the Battle of the Bulge. While in Brittany the 66th Division carried out daily reconnaissance patrols along the one hundred-and-twelve-mile front and conducted periodical artillery fire on the pockets of resistance. The artillery fire disabled a number of big German guns and sank numerous re-supply boats.
The NARA WWII casualty listings by state and county show Balius, Clyde E, Pfc from Harrison County as killed in action 1 Mar 1945. From the description of his wounds on his US WWII Hospital Admission Card File he must have been killed by artillery fire.
The Daily Herald, Biloxi, MS 3/15/1945:
PFC. CLYDE BALIUS KILLED IN ACTION
Pfc. Clyde E. Balius, son of Mrs. J. T. Jernigan, 648 Lameuse Street, Biloxi, and Floyd A. Balius, was killed in action March 1 in France, according to information received by his grandmother, Mrs. J. C. Morris. Following his induction April 26, 1944, Pfc. Balius received basic training at Ft McClellan, Ala., where he was stationed for 17 weeks. He received special machine gun training at Camp Rucker, Ala., and was sent overseas in November. After spending a month in England he was sent to France. Pfc. Balius held the combat infantryman's badge. In addition to his parents and grandmother, he is survived by a brother, J. W. Balius, and a sister, Beverly Ann Jernigan.
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Private First-Class Clyde Eugene Balius, born 16 Feb 1926, was the son of Floyd A Balius and Lillian A (Morris) Balius Jernigan of Biloxi, Harrison County, Mississippi.
In the 1930 census 4-year-old Clyde is living with his parents and brother Joseph 3, in the household of his maternal grandparents John and Olivia Morris at 648 Lameuse street in Biloxi. His father is a machinist. His grandfather is an engineer for the power company. Clyde's parents must have divorced sometime in the early 1930s. By the 1940 census they were both remarried and had 6 year old children from their second marriages.
Clyde enlisted 27 Apr 1944 at Camp Shelby in Harrison County, MS. He’d had two years of high school and was single without dependents. He was assigned to the 262nd Infantry Regiment of the 66th Infantry Division.
After arriving at Cherbourg, the 66th Division regrouped (from the SS Leopoldville Christmas Eve sinking disaster) and headed for the L’Orient and St. Nazaire sectors in Brittany to relieve the 94th Division which had been guarding the German submarine base pockets that were left after the D-Day invasion. Estimates of the number of German forces left behind in these pockets ran from fifty to one hundred thousand. The 94th division was sent to the Battle of the Bulge. While in Brittany the 66th Division carried out daily reconnaissance patrols along the one hundred-and-twelve-mile front and conducted periodical artillery fire on the pockets of resistance. The artillery fire disabled a number of big German guns and sank numerous re-supply boats.
The NARA WWII casualty listings by state and county show Balius, Clyde E, Pfc from Harrison County as killed in action 1 Mar 1945. From the description of his wounds on his US WWII Hospital Admission Card File he must have been killed by artillery fire.
PFC. CLYDE BALIUS KILLED IN ACTION
Pfc. Clyde E. Balius, son of Mrs. J. T. Jernigan, 648 Lameuse Street, Biloxi, and Floyd A. Balius, was killed in action March 1 in France, according to information received by his grandmother, Mrs. J. C. Morris. Following his induction April 26, 1944, Pfc. Balius received basic training at Ft McClellan, Ala., where he was stationed for 17 weeks. He received special machine gun training at Camp Rucker, Ala., and was sent overseas in November. After spending a month in England he was sent to France. Pfc. Balius held the combat infantryman's badge. In addition to his parents and grandmother, he is survived by a brother, J. W. Balius, and a sister, Beverly Ann Jernigan.
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Private First-Class Clyde Eugene Balius, born 16 Feb 1926, was the son of Floyd A Balius and Lillian A (Morris) Balius Jernigan of Biloxi, Harrison County, Mississippi.
In the 1930 census 4-year-old Clyde is living with his parents and brother Joseph 3, in the household of his maternal grandparents John and Olivia Morris at 648 Lameuse street in Biloxi. His father is a machinist. His grandfather is an engineer for the power company. Clyde's parents must have divorced sometime in the early 1930s. By the 1940 census they were both remarried and had 6 year old children from their second marriages.
Clyde enlisted 27 Apr 1944 at Camp Shelby in Harrison County, MS. He’d had two years of high school and was single without dependents. He was assigned to the 262nd Infantry Regiment of the 66th Infantry Division.
After arriving at Cherbourg, the 66th Division regrouped (from the SS Leopoldville Christmas Eve sinking disaster) and headed for the L’Orient and St. Nazaire sectors in Brittany to relieve the 94th Division which had been guarding the German submarine base pockets that were left after the D-Day invasion. Estimates of the number of German forces left behind in these pockets ran from fifty to one hundred thousand. The 94th division was sent to the Battle of the Bulge. While in Brittany the 66th Division carried out daily reconnaissance patrols along the one hundred-and-twelve-mile front and conducted periodical artillery fire on the pockets of resistance. The artillery fire disabled a number of big German guns and sank numerous re-supply boats.
The NARA WWII casualty listings by state and county show Balius, Clyde E, Pfc from Harrison County as killed in action 1 Mar 1945. From the description of his wounds on his US WWII Hospital Admission Card File he must have been killed by artillery fire.
Inscription
PVT 115 INF 29 DIV MINNESOTA
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Entered the service from Mississippi
