Name:
Ollie Dee Richardson
Rank:
Private First Class
Serial Number:
34185579
Unit:
2nd Ranger Battalion
Date of Death:
1944-06-06
State:
Tennessee
Cemetery:
Harder Cemetery #02, Perry County, Tennessee, USA
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Ollie Dee Richardson was born on April 28, 1920, in Linden, Perry County, Tennessee. He was the son of William Alvin Richardson and Mary Belle Inman Richardson.
Ollie had a grammar school education, had a civil occupation as a farmhand, and was single with dependents upon enlistment. He entered military service at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia. He served in Company B, 2nd Ranger Battalion, as a Private First Class during World War II. He was Killed in Action on June 6, 1944, at the age of 24, in Vierville-sur-Mer, during the American assault on Omaha Beach in France. PFC Richardson is now buried in the Harder Cemetery #02, Perry County, Tennessee, USA.