SSG Daniel Paul Womack

 

SSG Daniel Paul Womack was born 30 Jun 1922 in Carter County, Kentucky. He was the 3rd child and eldest surviving son of Howard Earl and Anna Catherine (Tilghman) Womack. His father first farmed in Carter County and then moved his family to Lynchburg, Virginia where he worked in the paper mill and they lived in a house at 414 Ninth Street. Howard bought a home at 412 Walnut Street before 1935 which was valued at $1200 in 1940. Daniel had only completed 2-years of high school before he entered the work force, first in a shoe factory and in 1940 was working as manager of the local Western Union office. 

Daniel probably enlisted in B Company 116th Infantry because membership in the local national guard unit brought in added income. He was still a PVT when the unit was federalized in February 1941. He then trained with the unit at Fort George Meade, Maryland, in the Carolina Maneuvers near Fort Bragg and at Camp Blanding, Florida before going to England with the unit in September 1942. Once in England he then trained with the unit for the planned amphibious assault that was to be a part of the effort to liberate Nazi occupied France. In that time, PVT Womack was promoted to SSG and that was the rank he held on 6 Jun 1944 when he was killed in action in the amphibious assault at Omaha Beach. 

SSG Womack rests forever in the Normandy American Cemetery. 

Daniel's brothers, William Douglas Womack and Clarence Estill Womack both served in the U.S. Navy during WW2. William as a EM1c aboard the USS Sciota (ATA-205) and Clarence as a GM3c aboard the USS Westmoreland (APA-104).