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Rohrbaugh Tracy V.

Name:
Tracy V. Rohrbaugh
Rank:
Private First Class
Serial Number:
35746995
Unit:
625th Ordnance Ammunition Company
Date of Death:
1944-04-28
State:
West Virginia
Cemetery:
Cambridge American Cemetery, United Kingdom
Plot:
Tablets of the Missing
Row:
Grave:
Decoration:
Purple Heart
Comments:

Tracy V. Rohrbaugh was born on October 27, 1922. He was the son of Victor Adam Rohrbaugh and Dovie C. Rohrbaugh. He was drafted from Grant county and entered the service on December 30, 1942 and received his basic training at Camp Hood and Camp Maxey, Texas, and left for overseas duty on January 1, 1944. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II as a Private First Class in the 625th Ordnance Ammunition Company. He was killed during the Exercise Tiger--one of the large-scale rehearsals for the D-Day invasion of Normandy. This took place in April 1944 in Slapton Sands, Devon in the UK. An Allied naval convoy involved in the exercise was attacked by German submarines, and coordination and communication problems resulted in friendly fire deaths. At least 749 American servicemen were killed. Because of the impending invasion of Normandy, the incident was highly classified and the full story did not come out until years later after the war. Tracy was declared "Missing in Action" on April 28, 1944 and is commemorated on Tablets of the Missing, Cambridge American Cemetery, Cambridge, United Kingdom. He also has a cenotaph located in Knobley Memorial Gardens, Martin, Grant County, West Virginia, USA.