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S-Sgt. Loran Wilson Garnes


Bayard


Staff Sergeant Loran Wilson Garnes perished Jan 12, 1945, after some of the fiercest fighting occured as his 62nd Armored InfantryBattalion, 14th Division, battled its way into Germany in the last months of WWII. Wilson 23 was awarded a Purple Heart. His battalion was ordered into combat to retake two Alsace villages on Jan. 11, 1945, during the Germans' desperate last-ditch offense, the 40-day Battle of the Bulge, according to a history of the 62nd AIB. "The battalion lost the biggest percentage of men that it was to lose at any one time in Europe", the online report said.

Garnes was born Nov. 24, 1921, the son of Joseph Wilson Garnes 1885-1949, and Anna Catharina Schwartz Garnes. He is buried in Highland Cemetery in Bayard according to Find a Grave.

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