A Currahee lost in battle, remembered in our hearts
SSgt. Murray Roberts was killed in action on June 6, 1944 in the D Day invasion of France. SSgt. Roberts was killed with 16 other Currahees when the aircraft they were in was hit and exploded over Ste. Mere-Eglise, Normandy, France.
SSgt. Roberts was buried with 22 others in Ste. Mere-Eglise. The remains were brought back to the United States in 1952 and reburied in a mass grave at Jefferson Barracks, St. Louis, MO.
A Memorial was dedicated in France on June 3, 2000 commemorating this D-Day crash.
Remembered by; his son Harry, his brother John, and his sisters Grace Sible, Dorothy Cooper, Evelyn Galbraith, Ruth Toenes, and Josephine Weaver.
