Fleming Alton Neil

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Alton Neil Fleming is honored on the following 1 monument(s) in our database:

740th ''Daredevil'' Tank Battalion Monument

Name:

Alton Neil Fleming

Rank:

Staff Sergeant

Serial Number:

38371532

Unit:

740th Tank Battalion

Date of Death:

1945-04-13

State:

Texas

Cemetery:

Pioneer Cemetery, Pioneer, Eastland County, Texas, USA

Plot:

East Side

Row:

Grave:

Space 22

Decoration:

American Campaign Medal, World War II Victory Medal, Purple Heart

Comments:

Alton Neil �Buster� Fleming was born on December 27, 1922, in Cross Plains, Callahan County, Texas. He was the son of Callie Alexander Fleming and Lora Mabel Crass Fleming. He entered the army in 1943. SSgt Fleming served in the United States Army with the 740th Tank Battalion in World War II. Known as the �Daredevil Tankers�, the 740th was a separate battalion that fought from Utah Beach all the way to the Baltic Sea in support of various divisions of the US war effort.

SSgt Fleming was Killed in Action on April 13, 1945, in Kassel, Germany. He is now buried in the Pioneer Cemetery, Pioneer, Eastland County, Texas, USA.

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