The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.

Tuesday, September 29, 2020

Private Darrell Tranbarger


From HonorStates site.

Born Pike County, Missouri.  Private , U.S. Army.   1128th Engineer Combat Group.  Killed in Action.

Service Number:  20540311

Joined Regular Army at Camp Shelby, Mississippi, on December 1, 1941.

Buried and memorialized at Plot K Row 13 Grave 13.  Netherlands American Cemetery, Margraten, Netherlands.  This is an American Battle Monuments Commission location.

One of 9,880 American Gold Star casualties associated with Missouri with this group.

This covers World War I through the Vietnam War.

Private Tranbarger was one of 338 American servicemen to die on April 14, 1945, during World War II.

--GreGen

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