courtesy of Nolan |
Calvin was drafted in November 1943. After his basic military training he was sent to the European theater and England where he was assigned to K Company 116th Infantry. PVT Shealy was promoted to PFC on 7 Sep 1944. He had fought with the unit from D-Day through Saint-Lo, Vire, Brest, and Aachen. It was as the regiment was engaged in clearing the west bank of the Roer River that PFC Shealy was killed in action on 5 Dec 1944.
PFC Shealy was repatriated and re-interred in the Rehoboth United Methodist Church Cemetery in Saluda County, South Carolina.
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