Saturday, March 11, 2017

TSGT William C. Black

TSGT William C. Black is one of those men about whom we know very little. We believe he was born 16 Sep 1922 in Butler County, Ohio and was drafted on 11 Feb 1941 while residing in Jackson County, Ohio. We think he is the same William C. Black who married Miss Bernadine Current in Texas City, Texas on 5 Mar 1942 and that the couple had a son, William Roy Black in August 1943. The boy would died in February 1944. 

Black was assigned from the replacement depot to I Company 116th Infantry on 29 Oct 1944 as a SSG, William was promoted to TSGT on 3 Dec 1944 at which time he became a platoon sergeant. He was wounded by artillery fire sometime in December 1944 but quickly returned to his unit. Wounded again on 1 Mar 1945, TSGT Black was evacuated to hospital in Cambridge, England where he died of his wound(s) on 11 Mar 1945. He was awarded the Bronze Star but we do not know for what action this award was made.

Initially interred at Cambridge, we do not know if he was repatriated and reinterred in Ohio. 

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