PFC Junior Benson Hamrick was born 8 Jun 1924 in Webster Springs, West Virginia to Lorenzo Benson and Ora Ann (Pritt) Hamrick. His father was a coal miner. Junior was able to complete 3-years of high school.
Junior was drafted in January 1944. After completing his military training he was sent to the European theater and transferred from the replacement depot to E Company 116th Infantry on 9 Aug 1944. He fought with the unit in the campaign to take Brest and was still with the unit when he was killed in action at Aachen, Germany on 16 Oct 1944.
PFC Hamrick is buried in Henri-Chapelle American Cemetery.
His brother, SSG Victor L. Hamrick, was a waist gunner on B-17 "Short Snorter III" (#42-5337), 401st Bomber Squadron, 91st Bomber Group, U.S. Army Air Force and was lost when his plane was shot down on a mission to Schweinfurt, Germany. He is remembered on the wall of the missing at the Netherlands American Cemetery.
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