Connolly Francis Joseph

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Francis Joseph Connolly is honored on the following 1 monument(s) in our database:

Ranger Names Plaque - Pointe du Hoc

Name:

Francis Joseph Connolly

Rank:

Private First Class

Serial Number:

31300634

Unit:

2nd Ranger Battalion

Date of Death:

1944-06-06

State:

Massachusetts

Cemetery:

Normandy American Cemetery, Colleville-Sur-Mer, France

Plot:

Tablets of the Missing

Row:

Grave:

Decoration:

Bronze Star, Purple Heart

Comments:

Francis Joseph Connolly was born on March 2, 1924, in Lowell, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. He had one year of high school and a civil occupation as a semiskilled occupation in the manufacture of textiles. He was single without dependents upon enlistment. He enlisted in Boston, Massachusetts, on March 2, 1943.

Francis served in Company E, 2nd Ranger Battalion, as a Private First Class during World War II. He was Missing in Action on June 6, 1944, during the American assault on Omaha beach in France. He is memorialized on the Tablets of the Missing, Normandy American Cemetery, Colleville-Sur-Mer, France.