Story Posted May 10, 2019 Share #1 Posted May 10, 2019 This portrait was obviously taken before D-Day, but I'm looking for a by-name casualty 2nd Ranger Battalion casualty list for June 6th 1944. " Following their actions Pointe du Hoc on 6-8 June 1944, Rudder’s Rangers suffered a seventy percent casualty rate. Less than seventy-five of the original 225 who came ashore on 6 June were fit for duty. Of those who served in the 2d Ranger Battalion on D-Day, seventy-seven were killed and 152 wounded. Another thirty-eight were listed as missing."This is Jack. Jack made it to the top of the cliff, but stood up too high and caught a bullet - probably from one of the German tripod machineguns set to sweep the plain. The aide station was down on the shingle beach, the stretcher cases laid out in a row waiting for the landing craft to come back in and take them off. The Germans walked mortar shells up and down the beach. Jack died on June 6th, 1944. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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