PFC Harman Francis Vaughn

courtesy of Kris

PFC Harman Francis Vaughn was born 25 Jan 1913 in Fancy Gap, Virginia. He was the 4th of 9 children born to Washington and Donie Bell (Jones) Vaughn. The family farmed on land that they owned off what is now CR 782 in Carroll County, Virginia. Harman's education didn't go further than grammar school and after that he went to work farming for or with his father. 

Harman was drafted in May 1941. He was likely sent to Fort George Meade, Maryland where he was assigned to H Company 116th Infantry. With that unit he would have trained at Fort Bragg, North Carolina and Camp Blanding, Florida before being sent to England in September 1942. Training continued there as the entire 29th Infantry Division prepared for the amphibious landing that was planned to be an element in the liberation of Nazi occupied France. His father contracted pneumonia and died in December 1942 at the age of 58. PFC Vaughn took part in that amphibious assault and fought with his unit all through France and into Germany. PFC Vaughn was struck by fragments from enemy artillery fire and killed in action on 14 Oct 1944 near Würselen, Germany.

PFC Vaughn was repatriated in 1947 and re-interred in the Oak Ridge Baptist Church Cemetery in Cana, Virginia.